Approximately three million young Americans will graduate high school this summer, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, a division of the U.S. Department of Education. These young people are on the threshold of an often uncertain future. What will happen to them? Many already have problems with drugs or drinking, with study and with relationships. Only a minority have not tried at least some form of street drugs. Many consume alcohol on a regular basis; and a proportion are regular drug-takers. Along with reducing ability to think clearly and study well, drugs cause many other unwanted and often long-lasting side-effects, including physical and emotional problems.
According to figures released at the 2005 National Education Summit on High Schools in Washington, D.C. last February, nearly a third of high school graduates who go on to college require immediate placement in remedial education courses. And one-half of the students entering college never earn a degree.
Our graduates deserve our congratulations. Many others have not made this milestone; one-third of American students never graduate high school. But many grads also need help for the future.
The Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention, an organization funded by the U.S. Department of Education, maintains a log of drug- and alcohol-related incidents in colleges across America. New incidents are reported almost daily. In one single recent incident alone, in Radford, VA, police made 26 arrests and issued more than 400 citations, mainly for underage drinking, after a campus festival at Radford University. There is no doubt that drug and alcohol abuse are commonplace in colleges, with resulting study difficulties and other side effects. And when life is not going so well drugs and alcohol seem attractive as an escape route; it is a dwindling spiral.
According to the New York Times bestseller Clear Body, Clear Mind by writer and humanitarian L. Ron Hubbard, there is something that can be done to remove the residual effects of drugs, which are stored in the fatty tissues. The book offers a structured program that is a careful balance of several elements, including exercise to increase circulation, specific vitamin and mineral supplements, and daily sauna sweat out. This program targets the build-up of toxins in the body as a key barrier to the individual's ability to think clearly and lead a happy and successful life.
One of the many benefits reported by many who have completed this program is increased mental acuteness. One program graduate says, "It is much easier to concentrate on the study materials. My ability to understand what I've read is much increased." Another reports, "Before doing the program, I was a medium student. I would study and get something out of it, but sometimes it was hard to understand a subject easily. It's easy for me to understand anything I have become one of the best students on my courses."
Many young people who have already made the mistake of taking street drugs, or have been exposed to heavy medical drugs or severe toxins of any type, could benefit from this program to help clear these toxins and drugs from their bodies, leaving an open path for them to think clearly, study well, and be happy and successful citizens.
For more information about this program, visit www.clearbodyclearmind.com .
Louis Steiner is a freelance author in the field of health.