The Group: A Documentary – Tangent Mind Introduction
The Group: A Documentary – Tangent Mind Introduction
For more info visit www.indiegogo.com The Group is a A feature-length documentary retracing a young man’s five year journey through the world of adolescent drug abuse programs. Across the country there exists a network of adolescent drug abuse programs known, collectively, as The Group. This organization, while claiming to have rescued thousands of teens from the horrors of drug addiction, has been repeatedly accused of using cult-like practices to control its teenage followers and their concerned families. In 1990, at the age of thirteen, filmmaker Jacob Brady entered The Group and would remain a member for the next five years. During this time he was twice admitted to month-long in-patient hospital stays at group-affiliated facilities, forced to cut ties with family and friends, sent to live across the country with fellow group members and encouraged to drop out of high school. Also, during this time, Jacob became a rising star in the organization. Serving as a Group leader in St. Louis and Atlanta, helping to recruit new members, establishing a new chapter in the Atlanta suburbs, organizing Group-sponsored events and preparing to become a Group counselor. All before he turned eighteen. All without having a drug addiction. The Group is a feature-length documentary that retraces Jacob’s five year journey through the world of adolescent drug abuse programs. Through interviews with former members, archival photographs and expert witnesses, The Group tells the often …
Fight against prescription drug abuse
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Doctors are asked to have more training before renewing their license and they must look at the medical records from the past year of all new patients through the state's prescription drug monitoring program before prescribing certain painkillers. The …
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Unified drug offenders database to be launched in Russia
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The unified database will be launched within a draft program of drug abuse treatment and rehabilitation which FSKN is expected to put in place by the end of March 2013. According to Yevgeny Bryun, the chief drug abuse expert at the Healthcare and …
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Schools, county must find dollars to combat teen drug abuse
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There are excellent, evidence-based programs in Montgomery County for adolescent substance abuse, provided by hospitals, private clinicians and nonprofit providers. Regrettably, the reality is the number of treatment slots and even beds available are …
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