Gang Speaker - Fabian Debora

 

Fabian Debora 

from

December 15, 2010

                                         9:00 - 12:00 PM 

                                   Tierra Nueva, Burlington

Fabian "Spade" Debora from Homeboy Industries, the largest most successful gang rehabiliation organization in American, is coming to the Skagit Valley.

Fabian was a gang member, graffiti artist, and drug addict.  Now he is the lead drug and alcohol counselor at Homeboy.  Come hear his story, connect with others in our community, and have an opportunity for questions and answers.

This is the first in a series of events around gangs in the valley.  Join us in making a change.

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Drug experts say alcohol worse than crack or heroin

By Kate Kelland, Reuters

LONDON — Alcohol is a more dangerous drug than both crack and heroin when the combined harms to the user and to others are assessed, British scientists said Monday.

Presenting a new scale of drug harm that rates the damage to users themselves and to wider society, the scientists rated alcohol the most harmful overall and almost three times as harmful as cocaine or tobacco.

According to the scale, devised by a group of scientists including Britain's Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs (ISCD) and an expert adviser to the European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), heroin and crack cocaine rank as the second and third most harmful drugs.

Ecstasy is only an eighth as harmful as alcohol, according to the scientists' analysis.

Professor David Nutt, chairman of the ISCD, whose work was published in the Lancet medical journal, said the findings showed that "aggressively targeting alcohol harms is a valid and necessary public health strategy."   READ MORE