Happy Thursday, how are ya?

Hi how are you? so whats new?

Today I am planning the production of a video about Naloxone, which I will share later.

Tomorrow I have a meeting about going into a local Rehab to do a Q n A session and help the guys in there

Next week aswell as my birthday I have a training course, so lots going on I guess

MY NEW BOOK!! ITS OUT!!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1530868122/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_4opdxb105ZBZ0

Its out, my new book is out!

Please allow me to introduce ‘Casting Stones’, My NEW Book This book is a rally call for reform from the front line of addiction and recovery. I am a recoverist, who has been abstinent since February 2015.

Having already published a book called ‘Get that Monkey off my Back’ which was charted my recovery, commentated on the finding of studies I did and offered self help guides to other, I have written ‘Casting Stones’ as a book calling for reform.

Casting Stones offers my opinions and views, as well as lobbying and campaigning for reform on issues including;

• The legal status of Cannabis

• The War on Drugs

• Naloxone

• The Education System

• MP’s and Taxes

• Recovery Communities

• Homelessness

Casting Stones is available to order now on Amazon, just search ‘Casting Stones Karl Newton’.

I am also on the following social media sites

Blogger : http://karlsrecoveryblog.blogspot.co.uk

Twitter: kwn1804

Facebook: search ‘Karl Newton Addiction’

New Meme Quote for the NEW book

New Meme Quotes from the 2nd book 'Casting Stones' and an update

Hello all, see above new Meme quotes for the 2nd book, 'Casting Stones'

Im just finsihing the first draft so it should be out soon!

Im also starting to write a play centered about mental health and addiction

Update 21st March 2016

Hi all how are you?

So we published the book 'Get that Monkey off my Back' and we have been doing bits and pieces associated to it, the book is on amazon in paper book form : http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1523857056/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_Eog8wb0FVMFRQ

and

Kindle Form Digital format http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01BYKMGC4/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_epg8wb05PN26N

It is now with much joy that I can confirm I am currently writing my second book ' Casting Stones' which is a book debating and calling for reform, a mini book which is a spin off from part of the first book.

Stay tuned for updates :)

We Need to Reform issues

1. 1)      We need to look at the idea of following Americas lead and making the minimum drinking age 21, so as to burden Crime and NHS less
2. 2)      We need to supply schools and youth organisations with Naloxone and the relevant training.  I would hope and pray that it would never need to be used, but if doing this saves 1 life then it is fully worth doing.  Furthermore we need to be realistic about the fact that peer pressure leads to younger and heavier drug use in the world we live in today.
3. 3)      We need to reform our education around the subject of drink and drugs, as early as year 6 or 7.
4. 4)      We need to re-debate minimum unit pricing of alcohol
5. 5)      We need to address how alcohol is advertised and where in Supermarkets, for example in one set aisle not as soon as you walk in the door, besides food or at till points
6. 6)      We need to label alcohol the same way we label boxes of cigarettes
7. 7)      I want to see new technology attempt to reduce drink driving.  My suggestion is that on a car key fob we introduce a tiny breathalyser.  To open the car you blow a sample and if it is under safe limit the car opens.  If you are over the limit the car does not open.  If then the car is opened via another sample that is not in sync with the amount of time for the drink level to come back down to a safe level a GPS signal is sent to local traffic Police who can track the vehicle and carry out checks.
8. 8)      We need to establish and fund Recovery Communities, 1 in at least each region of the United Kingdom if not every town or city, to build a solid backbone of recovery within the United Kingdom.
9. 9)      Instead of cutting funding for services, we need to re-distribute taxes made via addictive manners, such as prescriptions, gambling and drinking, into  not only the recovery sector but also into mental health services.