For severe alcoholics, alcohol detox can be a difficult and even dangerous stage of recovery. That’s why many addicts choose to undergo treatment in a care facility. some of the withdrawal side effects can cause serious health complications, and it’s helpful to have immediate access to a doctor. plus, getting treatment at a rehab facility gives you access to medical aids that can minimize the pain and discomfort associated with alcohol withdrawal. whether you recover in a facility or anywhere else, here is what to expect during that first week.

Day one for some time after quitting, it may be hard to tell if you’re really going through withdrawal or if it’s all in your mind. Within a day of your last drink, your mind may become more and more dominated by thoughts of drinking, and you may begin to feel an overwhelming urge to give up on your recovery and continue your old habits. this is where it generally becomes clear that medical help will be needed.

We should go on with this brief article. Days 2 to 3 Once you get through the first twenty-four hours, the physical symptoms will begin to kick in. many recovering alcoholics report headache as the most obvious symptom during alcohol detox. Virtually everyone has this symptom. beyond that, you may begin to experience shaking, nausea, sweats, and rapid heartbeat. These outward symptoms are often accompanied by internal issues such as high blood pressure, so medical intervention is crucial.

Meanwhile, many people during this stage of alcohol detox suffer mentally. you may feel an overwhelming sense of anxiety, and you may have trouble thinking of anything other than drinking. Meanwhile, don’t be surprised if you experience mild to moderate hallucinations.

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Days 4 to 7 many quitting alcoholics begin to feel a little better somewhere around the four-day mark. for some people it’s longer, for some it’s shorter. in any event, the physical symptoms begin to lessen, and you may begin to feel a new clarity. You’re not completely out of the woods, though, so make sure you still have access to a doctor during these days. If you’re going through alcohol detox in an inpatient recovery facility, you’ll continue to receive regular checkups, and you may even continue to take medication to lessen your symptoms.

Unfortunately, the urge to drink is not going to magically go away once you get through alcohol detox. sure, the physical withdrawal may be gone, but most alcoholics also have psychological attachments to drinking, and these are hard to break. That’s why, as soon as you’re finished with detox, it’s important to get active in the aftercare stage of recovery. begin treatment therapy, meet with a support group, and start thinking about how you are going to avoid alcohol in the long run.

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October 16

BY JOHN RICHARDSON

Maine Sunday Telegram

First of six parts

Ten years ago, Maine’s former U.S. attorney called prescription pain-pill abuse “the greatest criminal problem and possibly the greatest social problem facing Maine.”

The problem, as it turns out, was just getting started.

Maine was one of the first states to witness the explosion of prescription painkiller addiction, and its pill habit, still out of control, is among the worst in the nation. The damage continues to pile up.

Nearly 1,400 Mainers have died from pharmaceutical drug overdoses in the past decade. and all residents bear the costs of the abuse. they pay for the pills, police the crime and care for and treat the addicts.

Substance abuse in Maine is now estimated to cost $1.18 billion a year, or $900 for every man, woman and child, and much of that comes from misuse of prescription drugs.

“It’s extraordinary how deep this epidemic has gone,” said Dr. Mark Publicker, an addiction specialist in Westbrook. “It was eating its way through the culture, and it was diagnosed too late.”

Now human and social costs are at historic highs, leading to a renewed urgency to fight back.

— Overdose deaths from pharmaceuticals in Maine set a record in 2009 — 165 — and for the first time exceeded the number of Mainers killed in motor vehicle accidents. One hundred and sixty-two Mainers died from the drugs in 2010, the second-highest year on record.

– Pill abuse continues to rise among teens, according to experts. nearly one in four high school seniors in 2009 — 23.6 percent — said they have used prescription drugs that were not prescribed to them.

– a record number of Maine babies — 572 — were born last year to mothers who were known to have used painkillers or other drugs during pregnancy, more than triple the number in 2005. Most of the babies experienced painful opiate withdrawal and spent their first two weeks in the hospital.

– Crimes driven by pill addiction — especially pharmacy robberies and home invasions — are becoming more common and more dangerous, according to police statewide. These crimes have turned county jails into busy detox centers.

– Prescription pain pill addicts are seeking treatment in record numbers — nearly 4,000 last year. Maine has more people per capita in state-funded treatment than any other state, eight times the national average, according to federal and state data.

After a decade of efforts to contain the abuse, Maine’s Legislature and the Attorney General’s Office are among those calling for a more aggressive, coordinated response. a 7-year-old effort to track opiate prescriptions statewide, for example, has never been put to full use because of limited resources and participation.

“I think there’s enough fault to go around for everybody,” said Jay McCloskey, who sounded the alarm as Maine’s U.S. attorney a decade ago and is now in private practice.

Fertile ground

The 10-year toll and Maine’s inability to contain the epidemic come as little surprise to those who have experienced addiction.

“It just really quickly takes control. and then it takes and takes,” said Daryl Blums, a 27-year-old recovering addict from the Sanford area.

Painkiller abuse is the side effect of powerful new pain relievers introduced more than a decade ago.

Drug makers targeted Maine physicians with promises that the pills were safe and effective. and doctors who took an oath to relieve suffering felt they could no longer allow pain to go untreated, at least not without violating their oath and losing patients.

Maine’s fishermen, loggers and other physical laborers provided plenty of demand for the new pain medications, and the prescriptions flowed. Maine has been a consistent leader in the prescribing of narcotic painkillers such as oxycodone.

Teens and others quickly figured out how to crush the pills and snort the powder to get the full euphoric rush of the synthetic opiates, which are as powerful and addictive as heroin and morphine.

As a rural state at the end of the distribution network, Maine didn’t have a lot of experience with hard drugs such as heroin and cocaine.

But now, here was a drug delivered to every community in pure, pharmaceutical-grade, precisely measured doses.

Experienced drug users loved the pills because they could trust them to work. The inexperienced considered them safer than street drugs.

And there was a ready appetite for the pills, especially among teens and among adults wanting to wash away depression or escape the stress of unemployment and financial insecurity.

Police, meanwhile, were all but powerless to keep the pills out of the wrong hands.

“Drugs used to come from foreign countries and people would smuggle them in,” said Penobscot County Sheriff Glenn Ross. “Today, they are in the medicine cabinets of our homes.”

Highly addictive

At first, prescription opiates — also called opioids — give a warm, on-top-of-the world feeling, users say. Pretty soon you need larger amounts to get high.

Then one day you feel like you have a horrible flu — pain, vomiting, sweats and chills — and you realize it’s because you missed a dose.

Opiate receptors in your brain, spine and intestines have gone into a kind of shock.

Opiate withdrawal doesn’t kill you, but addicts say you wish it would.

“You don’t have a care in the world when you’re on it. and when you can’t get it, it’s the worst experience in the world,” said Chuck Lawson, a recovering addict in Portland.

Some addicts say it took them as little as two weeks of regular use to get hooked.

The extreme highs and lows physically change an addict’s brain. Getting the next dose becomes the first thing — and sometimes the only thing — on an addict’s mind.

Some addicts, chasing the high and trying to avoid withdrawal, mix painkillers with Xanax or other anti-anxiety pills or dissolve the pills and inject them directly into their veins. Both push addicts closer to a potentially fatal overdose.

“Once you got past a certain point, there is no going back,” said 31-year-old Nicole Martin, a recovering addict who injected the drugs and used heroin when she couldn’t get pills. “Anything you say you haven’t done yet, you will do eventually.”

Widely available

Finding the drugs is rarely a problem, addicts say.

Users share them, buy them, steal them, forge prescriptions for them and, if desperate enough, trade sex for them. Some go out of state to get the drugs, including to Florida’s so-called “pill mills” — clinics that offer painkiller prescriptions for cash.

Many addicts get prescriptions from their local doctors – sometimes for real pain and often not.

Some are even bold enough to file false police reports of pill theft so they can convince their doctors to give them more.

Those with their own prescriptions get their pills on the cheap — MaineCare and private insurance cover most of the cost.

And they quickly learn they can sell their pills for as much as $30 to $100 apiece depending on the type and strength. Addicts buying their pills on the street can spend $100 to $400 a day to feed their habits.

That gets very expensive, said Blake Carver of Portland.

Carver, now 27, was a teenager when he started breaking into houses looking for money to buy “Oxys,” he said. and he always cleaned out the medicine cabinets in the homes he robbed.

“Even if there wasn’t something I wanted, I knew somebody who would,” he said.

‘No family is immune’

The epidemic has affected Mainers of all ages and backgrounds — middle schoolers and senior citizens, clam diggers and doctors.

“No family is immune from this particular issue,” said Troy Morton, chief deputy of the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office. “They are the youngest of kids, in their early teens, and people in their 70s. they are the poorest of the poor and the richest. There are no boundaries.”

Abuse often starts among teens, who don’t understand the danger and are more vulnerable to addiction. Addiction, meanwhile, is most common among young adults who were in their teens when the pills first flooded into Maine communities.

Thirteen percent of Mainers age 18 to 25 said they abused painkillers in the past year, according to the 2009 National Survey on Drug use and Health, the most recent available. The rate is 6 percent of 12- to 17-year-olds and 4.7 percent of all Mainers over 12 — a total of 52,000 people.

The overall cost of painkiller abuse in Maine is not known. Through taxes, health insurance premiums and higher medical costs, Mainers are helping to supply the pills, pay for emergency room visits, investigate crimes, lock addicts in jails and provide the treatments to help them get sober.

Opiate addiction treatment alone costs Maine taxpayers millions of dollars a year. The state spends about $12 million a year on substance abuse treatment programs, not including its share of MaineCare coverage for treatment services. Painkiller addiction accounts for about one-third of substance abuse treatment admissions.

However, every dollar spent on treatment saves as much as $12 in medical care and crime-related costs, according to Maine’s Office of Substance Abuse.

Opiate abuse, including both heroin and prescription painkillers, was responsible for 30,451 emergency and outpatient hospital visits in Maine in 2008, a 28 percent increase from the year before, according to a May report.

Pharmacies have bank-like security, with surveillance cameras and tracking devices, and still get robbed repeatedly in some cases.

County jails and state prisons are straining financially to hold and care for all the addicts arrested for drug-related crimes.

Renewed urgency

State government, the medical community, law enforcement, drug makers and others have all taken action to try to contain the problem. There are new prescribing guidelines, tamper-proof prescription sheets, overdose prevention campaigns and collection drives for unused drugs.

Experts say many of the efforts have helped keep the abuse from doing even more damage.

But frustration is clearly peaking after a decade of watching the problem steadily worsen.

“It just seems that if we’re leading the way with this problem, we ought to show some leadership in dealing with it,” said Rep. Jon Hinck, D-Portland.

Hinck proposed a bill in the Legislature earlier this year that would have established new rules for doctors, including a requirement that they check patients’ medication records before prescribing them painkillers. The proposal failed, but lawmakers instead created a study group that is due to propose policy changes by Dec. 1.

McCloskey, the former U.S. attorney, said the state and federal governments have not devoted enough resources to educating kids about the dangers of abuse. “It hasn’t been a priority,” he said.

McCloskey, meanwhile, took criticism himself after leaving the federal government in 2001 and working as a consultant for the maker of OxyContin. McCloskey still maintains the pharmaceutical industry is not to blame for the abuse. “If we don’t reduce the demand for drugs we’ll never be successful.”

Most now agree that pill abuse is so entrenched in Maine’s culture it will take more than doctors or state agencies or police alone to control it.

“People want to point a finger. Let’s blame the pharmaceutical companies. Let’s blame the physicians. Let’s blame the druggies. (Some) people still think it’s a problem of will power,” said Marcella Sorg, a forensic anthropologist at the University of Maine’s Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center. “The reason we haven’t been able to tackle it is because it’s so darn complicated.”

Maine Attorney General William Schneider has invited leaders in government, law enforcement, medicine, education and addiction treatment to attend a one-day summit Oct. 25 and come up with a coordinated action plan.

“It’s staggering,” Schneider said. “I don’t think it’s going to be solved by any one particular tactic, but I think if we choose several different tactics we can make a difference.”

Those who have experienced addiction first-hand have no easy answers, either.

The pills are too easy to get and too powerful, said James Cox, a 31-year-old recovering addict in Jonesboro.

“I don’t think they’ll ever get rid of it,” he said. Tweet

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Stage of all this is Amy is in a better location now. just like Kurt Cobain, Jimmy Hendrix, and any other man or woman who is ridden with drug addiction. the soreness is above. She is no extended a specticle like junkies become. that is much more respectible than her crappy daily life she still left at the rear of. Which is all that actually issues.

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"FOOTLOOSE" (PG-13) (1:53) Stars Kenny Wormald, Julianne Hough and Dennis Quaid. Directed by Craig Brewer. City kid Ren McCormack moves to a small town where rock ‘n’ roll and dancing have been banned, and his rebellious spirit shakes up the populace. some teen drug and alcohol use, sexual content, violence and language.

Showing at: Nickelodeon (Portland) Today 1:20, 4:30, 7:10, 9:40 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:30, 7:10, 9:45; Brunswick 10 Today 1:20, 1:50, 4:10, 7, 7:30, 9:40 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:15, 7:05, 9:40; Cinemagic Westbrook Today 12:30, 3:30, 7, 9:40 Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:30, 7, 9:50; Cinemagic Saco Today-Wed 12, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40; Cinemagic Grand (South Portland) Today-Wed 12:30, 4:20, 7:10, 9:45; Falmouth 10 Today 4:40, 7:30, 10:10 Fri 4:30, 7:10, 9:45 Sat 1:20, 4:30, 7:10, 9:45 Sun 1:20, 4:30, 7:10 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:10

"GHOST BUSTERS" (PG) (1:47) Stars bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Sigourney Weaver. Directed by Ivan Reitman. three unemployed parapsychology professors set up shop as a unique ghost removal service in this 1986 classic. Mild supernatural violence, language and sexual references.

Showing at: Cinemagic Westbrook Today 7

"THE GUARD" (R) (1:36) Stars Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle and Mark Strong. Directed by John Michael McDonagh. An unorthodox Irish policeman with a confrontational personality is teamed up with an uptight FBI agent to investigate an international drug-smuggling ring. Pervasive language, some violence, drug material and sexual content.

Showing at: Nickelodeon (Portland) Today-Sun 2, 6:30 Mon 2 Tue 2, 6:30 Wed 2

"THE HELP" (PG-13) (2:26) Stars Emma Stone, Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer. Directed by Tate Taylor. Jackson, Mississippi, 1962: Aspiring writer Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan returns home after college, where unexpected friendships with African-American maids Aibileen Clark and Minny Jackson result in a book that gives a previously unheard voice to a community’s suffering.

Showing at: Cinemagic Westbrook Today 11:50 a.m., 3:10, 6:30, 9:30 Fri-Wed 12, 3:10, 6:30, 9:30; Cinemagic Saco Today-Wed 12:30, 4, 7:30; Falmouth 10 Today 4:30, 7:35 Fri 6:40 Sat-Sun 1:05, 6:40 Mon-Wed 6:40; Nickelodeon (Portland) Today 1:10, 6:20

"THE IDES OF MARCH" (R) (1:41) Stars Paul Giamatti, George Clooney and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Directed by George Clooney. An idealistic staff member for a presidential hopeful gets a crash course on dirty politics during his stint on the campaign trail. Pervasive language.

Showing at: Nickelodeon (Portland) Today-Wed 1:30, 4:40, 7:20, 9:40; Cinemagic Saco Today-Wed 12:05, 2:20, 4:35, 7:05, 9:25; Cinemagic Grand (South Portland) Today-Wed 12:10, 2:40, 5, 7:30, 9:50; Cinemagic Westbrook Today 11:50 a.m., 2:10, 4:40, 7:20, 10 Fri-Wed 12, 2:20, 4:40, 7:20, 10; Brunswick 10 Today 1:45, 4:25, 6:55, 9:25 Fri-Wed 1:45, 4:25, 6:55, 9:30

"KILLER ELITE" (R) (1:40) Stars Jason Statham, Clive Owen and Robert de Niro. Directed by Gary McKendry. A retired member of Britain’s Elite Special Air Service is forced into action when his mentor is taken captive. His mission: kill three assassins dispatched by their cunning leader. Strong violence, language and some sexuality/nudity.

Showing at: Brunswick 10 Today 7:15, 9:55 Fri-Wed 9:25; Cinemagic Saco Today 6:45, 9:15; Falmouth 10 Today 7:25

"THE LION KING" (G) (1:29) Animated with the voices of Matthew Broderick, Jeremy Irons and James Earl Jones. Directed by Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff. Tricked into thinking he killed his father, a guilt-ridden lion cub flees into exile and abandons his identity as the future king. First released in 1994.

Showing at: Cinemagic Grand (South Portland) Today 12, 2:30, 7; Cinemagic Westbrook Today (3D) 12, 2:10, 4:30, 6:50, 9:20 Fri-Wed 11:50 a.m., 2:10, 4:30, 6:50, 9:20; Cinemagic Saco Today (3D) 2:30, 4:30, 7, 9; Brunswick 10 Today (3D) 1:15, 3:35; Falmouth (3D) Today 4:35, 7, 9:25 Fri 4:35, 7:05, 9:20 Sat 1:45, 4:35, 7:05, 9:20 Sun 1:45, 4:35, 7:05 Mon-Wed 4:35, 7:05

"MIDNIGHT IN PARIS" (PG-13) (1:40) Stars Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams and Kathy Bates. Directed by Woody Allen. A romantic comedy about a family traveling to the French capital for business. The party includes a young engaged couple forced to confront the illusion that a life different from their own is better. some sexual references and smoking.

Showing at: Nickelodeon (Portland) Today 4:10, 8:30

"MONEYBALL" (PG-13) (2:13) Stars Brad Pitt, Robin Wright and Jonah Hill. Directed by Bennett Miller. Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane works to put together a baseball club on a budget by employing computer-generated analysis to draft his players. Strong language.

Showing at: Nickelodeon (Portland) Today-Wed 1, 3:45, 6:40, 9:30; Brunswick 10 Today-Wed 1, 3:55, 6:50, 9:45; Cinemagic Grand (South Portland) Today-Wed 12, 3:30, 6:30, 9:20; Cinemagic Westbrook Today-Wed 12:10, 3:20, 6:40, 9:40; Cinemagic Saco Today-Wed 12:25, 3:20, 6:30, 9:20; Falmouth 10 Today 4, 6:55, 9:50 Fri 4, 6:55, 9:50 Sat 1, 4, 6:55, 9:50 Sun 1, 4, 6:55 Mon-Wed 4, 6:55

"PINE SOL DETOX" (NR) Stars Megan Towle, Justin Roig and Grittany Goldych. Directed by Jessica Charle. An all-girl hardcore band whose members dress up as ’50s housewives on stage, just lost their badass drummer, Georgia. An MTV/VH1 type program wishes to document their search for a replacement. Through the journey, the show’s narrator develops an unhealthy fascination with one of the band member’s unusual habits in this short mockumentary.

Showing at: Nickelodeon (Portland) Wed 7

"REAL STEEL" (PG-13) (2:07) Stars Hugh Jackman and Evangeline Lilly. Directed by Shawn Levy. A future-set story in which robot boxing is a popular sport centers on a struggling promoter who thinks he’s found a champion in a discarded robot. During his hopeful rise to the top, he also discovers he has an 11-year-old son who wants to know his father. some violence, intense action and brief language.

Showing at: Cinemagic Saco Today-Wed (IMAX) 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:15; Cinemagic Grand (South Portland) Today-Wed 12:20, 3:30, 6:30, 9:20; Cinemagic Westbrook Today 12:10, 12:30, 3:10, 3:30, 6:40, 6:50, 9:30, 9:40 Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:30, 6:50, 9:40; Brunswick 10 Today 1, 4:15, 7:05, 10 Fri-Wed 1, 4, 7, 9:50; Falmouth 10 Today 4:20, 7:10, 9:55 Fri 4:10, 7, 9:55 Sat 1:10, 4:10, 7, 9:55 Sun 1:10, 4:10, 7 Mon-Wed 4:10, 7 

"THE THING" (R) (1:43) Stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton and Ulrich Thomsen. Directed by Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. at an Antarctica research site, the discovery of an alien craft leads to a confrontation between graduate student Kate Lloyd and scientist Dr. Sander Halvorson. while Halvorson keeps to his research, Kate partners with Sam Carter, a helicopter pilot, to pursue the alien life form. Strong creature violence and gore, disturbing images, and language.

Showing at: Brunswick 10 Today 1:40, 4:20, 7:20, 9:50 Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:05, 7:20, 9:55 Mon 1:30, 4:05 Tue-Wed 1:30, 4:05, 7:20, 9:55; Cinemagic Westbrook Today-Wed 12:20, 3, 7, 9:50; Cinemagic Saco Today-Wed 12:10, 2:30, 4:45, 7:10, 9:30; Cinemagic Grand (South Portland) Today-Wed 12, 2:30, 5, 7:30, 10; Falmouth 10 Today 4:15, 7:05, 9:30 Fri 4:40, 7:15, 9:40 Sat 1:25, 4:40, 7:15, 9:40 Sun 1:25, 4:40, 7:15 Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:15 

"WHAT’S YOUR NUMBER" (R) (1:46) Stars Anna Faris, Chris Pratt and Ryan Phillippe. Directed by Mark Mylod. A woman looks back at the past 20 men she’s had relationships with in her life and wonders if one of them might be her one true love. Sexual content and language.

Showing at: Cinemagic Westbrook Today 12:20, 3, 7, 9:20

– from news services; subject to change

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tired Episcopal priest Tansy Chapman to a Mendocino Village Council meeting, a grassroots group modeled on a program in Boston.

Dan Bosch, a homeless man, had helped to establish the council under the umbrella of the Mendocino Presbyterian Church to create a bridge between the sheltered and the unsheltered. The council offered a monthly potluck for the unsheltered and paid them for work in the community garden and trash pick up.

The Rev. Osborne contacted Susan Holli, who had been involved with the Community Thanksgiving Dinner. Holli researched services for the homeless offered by the faith community. she learned that each faith community was doing its own thing — providing meals, clothing, a food pantry or counseling; she felt more agencies needed to be involved.

Task force organizes

Osborne gathered Pastor Debbie Allen, pastor of the Lighthouse Foursquare Gospel Church in Fort Bragg, Roy Falk and Holli to meet monthly to explore the formation of a Fort Bragg council for the homeless. Initially, they focused on food — how to provide free meals daily — and bathroom facilities.

Pastor Allen’s church had served a Sunday breakfast since 2004, assisted by the Presbyterian Church and Safeway, which supplied food. Eventually, she expanded the program to include twice-weekly lunches, and other churches served lunch on alternate days. Falk met with officials in Fort Bragg and worked to extend restroom hours and provide more porta-potties.

Holli suggested the name “Love in Action” (LIA) for the new group.

Winter shelter galvanizes action

A turning point occurred in November 2007 when Mendocino County Health and Human Services, in Ukiah, held its annual meeting with coastal agencies to discuss plans for winter shelter. Members of LIA attended and were energized to form a shelter coalition.

They established Extreme Weather Shelter (EWS) guidelines, modeled on a behavior-based program developed in Arcata; the county provided funding and insurance. four faith communities participated separately, each offering shelter for one week at a time.

The Coast Community Center had been the primary agency providing services to the homeless. Hospitality House Director Anna Shaw began attending EWS meetings. as various groups cooperated on EWS, improved communication and working relationships developed.

By February 2008, the county Homeless Services Planning Group (HSPG) began meeting monthly at St. Michael’s. Previously they only met occasionally on the coast. With the infusion of energy from LIA and volunteers, attendance grew.

HSPG, designated as the County Continuum of Care for the Homeless and LIA, brought together the county, nonprofits, clinics, the faith community and volunteers. It shared information and tackled problems to avoid duplication of services.

Attendees include county staff, clergy, Police Chief Scott Mayberry, an employment agency, social workers, nurses, volunteers, and several members of the homeless community. Topics included future application for a federal grant for emergency shelter, an idea for a clean-up work program, and the availability of food in Fort Bragg.

Mayberry discussed aggressive panhandling, and his focus on educating officers and where to direct the homeless to services.

Hospitality House

Hospitality House, on McPherson Street, is a nonprofit that provides emergency shelter; it has 24 beds, serves breakfast for 30 and dinner for up to 80. Several family apartments, as well as men’s and women’s dorm-style rooms, offer housing for up to six months; many residents work or attend school, and all have chores. Funding comes from a county contract, which includes federal grant money (about 35 percent) and fundraising provides the remainder.

Chairman of the Board Bill Gibson said, “The city of Fort Bragg really helped us out; they assisted in getting grants to remodel the main house and to build the family shelter.”

Local architects, engineers and electricians donated over $150,000 in in-kind services.

Scott, a former homeless man, commented, “Hospitality House is a Ritz Carlton compared to other shelters. It’s a home, not a jail block. It feels safe.”

After difficult years struggling with drug abuse and mental illness, Scott now receives partial rent payment and case management through the Shelter Plus Care program, available to homeless clients with a permanent disability, and managed by the Community Development Commission in Ukiah.

Scott lives with his cat in an apartment on a quiet street, stays on his meds and sees a therapist. He has friends, exercises at the C.V. Starr Center and visits the public library.

When Hospitality House learned the Coast Community Center would close in December 2010, they worked with the county to develop a new resource center to fill the gap in the continuum of care. Hospitality Center offers access to social services and case management for 50 clients, who receive Shelter Plus Care or transitional housing.

A pocket-sized flyer produced is available at Hospitality House.

The Center is now in its new location at 468 S. Franklin St., near the DMV.

Critical impact of volunteers

Frank Stanley, longtime member of the Deacons Ministry at the Mendocino Presbyterian Church and a retired athletic coach, helps serve a weekly brunch to homeless clients.

“For me, it started with a sense of guilt. I have so much and they have so little,” he said. Stanley felt called upon by his faith to take care of the poor. “We serve people who have been knocked about, who are physically and mentally disabled.”

Stanley speaks with pride about Andy, “one of our success stories.”

Formerly homeless, Andy was offered housing by an elderly woman in Mendocino; he trades work for shelter. Both a recipient and a volunteer at the Tuesday brunches, Andy and his cat Screw have become “regulars.”

Brad Stephens, church custodian and volunteer, recalls that Charles Walls started the Tuesday program by offering hot showers and clean clothing. later, others came forward, taking turns preparing brunch.

“My greatest satisfaction is getting to know the people,” said Stephens. “Many never had a stable home life. It takes a while for them to trust, and a lot have issues and need meds, but they’re people. our role is to love them like our own family.”

Roy Falk finds an appealing authenticity in people who are down and out. “I’ve always been comfortable talking to people who are different,’” Falk said. “I was raised to have a compassionate side. if there’s an injustice, I’m inclined toward action.”

At Lighthouse Church, where Pastor Allen used to do all the cooking, other volunteers now prepare meals. a mother and daughter took over the kitchen some years ago, and others, including recipients also cook. a man named Joseph makes flan every Sunday. The church feeds up to 120 people on Sundays. Pastor Allen understands the importance of pets — “for many clients, their dog is family” — and provides dog food.

Mental health and substance abuse

Perennial issues, in addition to shelter and food, include mental health and substance abuse. Mary Lou Leonard, deputy director of Adult and Aging Services described the “At Home” program.

“We’re in our third year of a five-year federal grant — a perfect grant — directed at clients with a dual diagnosis of substance abuse and mental health problems,” said Leonard.

Many homeless fall into this category.

Mendocino Coast Clinic receives referrals from social services and Hospitality House. Behavioral Medicine Case Manager Susana Lopez, and Homeless Services Coordinator Callie Dailey attend monthly HSPG meetings.

Lopez said, “We’re open Monday to Friday from 8 to 5; people can walk in and get help. some may be candidates for the At Home program. if it’s a medical problem, we can refer them to a provider.”

Walk-ins without insurance can be seen and referred to social services they may be eligible for.

Approximately 24 percent of the 600 homeless on the coast have problems with substance abuse, and the rules vary regarding sheltering them. as in many counties, detox centers are scarce; a private one in Albion is expensive. Ford Street in Ukiah is the only nonprofit detox center in the county. a free rehab facility for clients who have completed detox is located near Eureka.

Homelessness is a complicated issue, compounded by lack of affordable housing, unemployment, substance abuse and mental health problems. Yet, Holli commented that “things are better” because of greater coordination, improved communication and the involvement of volunteers.

Pastor Allen has noticed “heart changes” in her congregation. “Fear is the number one issue to overcome for people who’d like to help.”

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