Drug Ecstacy Tested As Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Treatment

The test results are being called promising.

MOUNT PLEASANT, SC — The drug Ecstasy or MDMA is being tested as a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder.
The small study, which appears in the Journal of Psychopharmacology, included 20 people with PTSD stemming from traumas such as sexual assault and combat stress.

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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-ecstacy-post-traumatic-stress-disorder,0,3162430.story

“FINALLY now I feel safe.”

These were the words of 84-year-old Roland Smith’s rape victim after he was jailed for eight years – more than 40 years after committing his monstrous crimes. He was found guilty by a jury of twice raping the child in 1970, when she was 12 or 13-years-old. Smith had denied the charges, claiming she consented – which is an old defence in law because of the date of the offences, but no longer applies to new offences.

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http://www.thisisgrimsby.co.uk/news/Child-rape-victim-offers-hope-finding-courage-report-sex-fiend/article-2428612-detail/article.html

OKLAHOMA CITY — Thursday’s arrest of a 69-year-old Payne County man for sex crimes against his own family brought to light the disturbing reality that has destroyed thousands of children and their families’ lives. That’s why experts say it is so important to recognize early warning signs.

Many children who have been molested by a family member keep their abuse a secret because they are ashamed or afraid to break up the family, and when it is revealed, it is often by accident.

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http://www.newson6.com/Global/story.asp?S=12821985

THE GUIDE TO SELF-HELP RECOVERY BOOKS:

Many adults face the difficult task of healing from physical, emotional, spiritual, or sexual abuse suffered in childhood. This is often made more difficult by isolation and feelings of shame and self-blame. Survivors may feel they must protect or shield those who abused, particularly if the perpetrators were family members.

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ARTICLES/INFORMATION/RESEARCH

Dissociation and the Fragmentary Nature of Traumatic Memories: Overview and Exploratory Study
Study of trauma and memory from Dr. Bessel van der Kolk of Harvard Medical School, Journal of Traumatic Stress, Volume 8, Number 4 October 1995.

Guidelines for Psychologists Addressing Recovered Memories
From the Canadian Psychological Association.

If We Really Want to Protect Children
by Andrew Vachss, Parade, November 3, 1996

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http://www.vachss.com/help_text/memory.html

Using the situation that led to the recent firing of Hooker Principal Andrew Cimmino as one example, the offices of the state attorney general and child advocate issued a report Thursday suggesting child abuse allegations are often mishandled by school employees.

The report, the result of a two-year investigation, also cites cases in Westport, New Haven and Southington. It recommends a series of changes to the Connecticut General Statutes that would make the state Department of Education, local school districts and the Department of Children and Families work more closely to ensure teachers know their responsibilities as mandatory reporters of suspected abuse and require school officials to check the abuse and neglect registry before a teacher is hired.

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http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Study-Child-abuse-reports-often-mishandled-570351.php

Attorney General Richard Blumenthal and the state’s child advocate, Jeanne Milstein, say child abuse and neglect cases are slipping through the bureaucratic cracks at the state’s schools. Their proof: hundreds of examples in a 66-page report they released Thursday.

One case outlines a teacher and women’s basketball coach at Southington High School allegedly having inappropriate behavior with female athletes. Another: a teacher accused of slapping her disabled student’s hands and making another stand in the rain with no coat.

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http://www.ctmirror.org/story/6709/report-schools-failing-report-abuse-and-neglect

‘Hidden obscenity’: Older men grooming teens for sex

The public’s image of a predatory paedophile typically involves a middle-aged man, glued to the internet or walking the streets, intent on finding victims.

But the work of Barnardo’s with more than 1,000 young people who have suffered sexual exploitation reveals a more complicated threat, and one that closely reflects the society in which we live.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/education/10508392.stm

Jon Mark Beilue asked an important question in a column he wrote for this paper last Friday: When does child discipline become child abuse?

The question arises from an incident in which a local police officer apparently struck his own child and then came under investigation by the state’s Child Protective Services.

Beilue mentioned that he had had his hide tanned more than once when he was young, and I accept at face value his conclusions that he both deserved it and learned from it. He went on to say that the majority of comments on the topic lamented the fact that parents could get in trouble for “disciplining” a child.

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http://www.amarillo.com/stories/070610/opi_opin2.shtml

Of all the ways that child abuse impacts society – from dysfunctional individuals; to families falling apart – it goes without question that child abuse impacts our legislation. As primitive cultures evolve and recognize that the well-being of children is important, they come to create laws concerning children. Above and beyond all the harm that children endure, it is these laws that somehow impact us the most.

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http://www.helium.com/items/1881374-child-abuse-society-legislation-laws

A sexual predator may be close by. “People who abuse look and act just like anyone else,” said Paula Sellars, narrator of Stewards of Children, a video component for the Darkness to Light Workshop, presented June 28 by Georgia Center for Child Advocacy at the DeKalb County Crime Prevention Tour at Charles Drew Charter School in East Lake.

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http://www.championnewspaper.com/news/articles/475workshop-targets-reducing-sexual-abuse-of-children-475.html

Most detectives get into the industry to solve burglaries, homicides and other major crimes, but recently, Benson Police Detective Brian Williams’ caseload has been filled with sexual assault crimes against children.

Some of these crimes involve a parent or grandparent having sex with their daughters and granddaughters. Others are even more alarming, as social networking and texting allows predators to find young victims and manipulate them into having sex.

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http://m.bensonnews-sun.com/articles/2010/06/28/news/news1.txt

These days, all we have to do is pick up a newspaper or turn on the television and we are instantly invited into people’s lives surfacing around bad marriages, cheating and abusive spouses, alcohol and drug addiction. But what happens when these addictions are the reality of your own life?

Seven months ago, I was introduced to an amazing woman named Laurie Ann Smith. Laurie was different than any other woman I have ever met. For such a quiet, small framed woman, she had this will, drive and determination that could move mountains.

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http://www.examiner.com/x-54012-Detroit-Domestic-Violence–Abuse-Examiner~y2010m6d29-Laurie-Ann-Smith-releases-memoir