http://www.number12foundation.com/ Number 12 Foundation is a non-profit foundation, started by Jeff Christian, with the mission of saving lives and families from the disease of alcoholism and addiction by building bridges to lasting recovery. Thu, 23 May 2013 20:46:09 -0600 alex@alexjewell.com (Alex Jewell) en-us Number 12 Foundation Founder and Executive Director, Jeff Christian, was interviewed on a radio show entitled, "Where the Jobs Are." Click here to listen to the show: http://number12foundation.org/blog.php?entry=21 http://number12foundation.org/blog.php?entry=21 Wed, 25 May 2011 12:00:00 EST Number 12 Foundation Founder and Executive Director, Jeff Christian was interviewed on a radio show entitled, "Where the Jobs Are."  Click here to listen to it. http://number12foundation.org/blog.php?entry=22 http://number12foundation.org/blog.php?entry=22 Wed, 25 May 2011 12:00:00 EST Number 12 Foundation founder, Jeff Christian, speaks at the Cleveland and Cuyahoga County Drug Court graduation. http://number12foundation.org/blog.php?entry=19 http://number12foundation.org/blog.php?entry=19 Sun, 20 Feb 2011 12:00:00 EST Following his keynote address at the Cleveland and Cuyahoga County Drug Court Graduation, Number 12 Foundation founder, Jeff Christian, center, with Judge Anita Laster Mays on the left and Judge David Matia on the right. http://number12foundation.org/blog.php?entry=20 http://number12foundation.org/blog.php?entry=20 Sun, 20 Feb 2011 12:00:00 EST Read about Number 12 Foundation Founder and Chairman, Jeff Christian's, keynote address at the Milestone Cleveland and Cuyahoga County Drug Court Graduation http://number12foundation.org/blog.php?entry=18 http://number12foundation.org/blog.php?entry=18 Fri, 18 Feb 2011 12:00:00 EST Number 12 Foundation founder, Jeff Christian, is honored to be addressing the graduates of the Greater Cleveland Drug Court.  You can read more here:   http://number12foundation.org/blog.php?entry=17 http://number12foundation.org/blog.php?entry=17 Tue, 08 Feb 2011 12:00:00 EST Read about our latest survey regarding underage drinkers. http://number12foundation.org/blog.php?entry=16 http://number12foundation.org/blog.php?entry=16 Tue, 11 Jan 2011 12:00:00 EST Read about our latest survey regarding underage drinkers on New Year's Eve.   http://number12foundation.org/blog.php?entry=15 http://number12foundation.org/blog.php?entry=15 Thu, 30 Dec 2010 12:00:00 EST 20% of Police Departments Surveyed by the Number 12 Foundation Report an Increase in DUI's this Holiday Season http://number12foundation.org/blog.php?entry=14 http://number12foundation.org/blog.php?entry=14 Thu, 23 Dec 2010 12:00:00 EST Check Out the Article about the Number 12 Foundation Study on Male Addict Convicts and Homelessness http://number12foundation.org/blog.php?entry=13 http://number12foundation.org/blog.php?entry=13 Wed, 22 Dec 2010 12:00:00 EST Read Jeff Christian's Holiday Party Alert Before You Celebrate this Holiday Season http://number12foundation.org/blog.php?entry=12 http://number12foundation.org/blog.php?entry=12 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 12:00:00 EST Check out this article about DUI Prisoners and Their Chances for Successful Treatment http://number12foundation.org/blog.php?entry=11 http://number12foundation.org/blog.php?entry=11 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 12:00:00 EST Charlie Sheen Will Go To Prison Charlie Sheen will go to prison if he doesn’t find recovery from his drug addiction and alcoholism. In fact, he could be charged with everything from indecent exposure to the unlawful restraint of Capri Anderson. I know this from experience. I had my crazy nights. One such night I was taken from my hotel room at the Palm Beach Breakers Hotel to the hospital, by stretcher, and returned. A couple hours later the Palm Beach Hotel manager and Palm Beach Police asked me to leave—my guess is so I wouldn’t die in the hotel. Events like these, and there were many of them, didn’t push me towards recovery. Rather, they made me continue to believe that I was bulletproof. My thinking was that if I went on a binge, I didn’t die, didn’t end up in jail (at least for very long), I could do it all over again without any consequences. I went from a top, high profile corporate executive to being unemployable, without my family, without my home, and even that didn’t stop me. I didn’t stop until I reached my bottom of landing in prison. Charlie Sheen can go the same route as I did. He is a high-profile celebrity, his money and popularity, and the fact that he keeps getting out of all of his scrapes, will continue to tell him that he can use drugs and alcohol with impunity. For people like Charlie and myself, the party ended long ago. The only companionship he appears to be able to get is paid escorts and hookers, and even they don’t want to be around him. And like with Capri Anderson, end up locking themselves in bathrooms fearing for their lives. A 5-day cocaine binge is about as close to hell as you can get on this planet. Charlie Sheen doesn’t need treatment, he needs recovery.  —Jeff Christian   http://number12foundation.org/blog.php?entry=10 http://number12foundation.org/blog.php?entry=10 Thu, 28 Oct 2010 12:00:00 EST Jeff Christian on Today’s Tijuana Drug Bust Today’s media announcement of a Tijuana drug bust has more of a ceremonial purpose than any real impact on our “War on Drugs.” Don’t be misled! This is a real war replete with guns, FBI agents, CIA, armed forces, police; in short, every possible Mexican and U.S. department or organization that would be commonly used in tactical warfare against another country. Right now, the U.S. is being killed. We’re in full retreat. The Mexican cartels are running over 50% of Mexico according to recent news reports. With there being no doubt that if we can’t stem demand—since we are out-gunned and out-funded—cartels will run the rest of Mexico in 5 to 10 years. That means that if something unbelievable doesn’t happen, we will have a Mexican cartel government with an army significantly larger than ours, at our border.  http://number12foundation.org/blog.php?entry=9 http://number12foundation.org/blog.php?entry=9 Fri, 22 Oct 2010 12:00:00 EST “Keith Richards Calls Mick Jagger ‘Unbearable’ in New Book” For me, Keith Richards was the poster child for extreme drug use. I knew a lot of people who died as a result of an overdose—that at least according to legend—didn’t do anywhere near the amount of drugs for which Keith Richards was notorious. Keith was always on the short list of those celebrities we talked about who went to extremes to continue to use heroin with supposedly few consequences. Yet we heard about Miles Davis, Keith Richards, and even Mick Jagger, who went to Mexico to be put into a coma for the time it took to detox. Detox and withdrawal without pain or discomfort—just come-to, and you are renewed. After all, the physical and mental toll of detoxing and withdrawal would have been “unbearable!” They also were supposed to have gone to Paris for complete blood cleansing. Allegedly, all of their blood was removed, cleansed, and replaced. Mick Jagger was Keith Richards’ Keith Richards. I always thought that I could keep partying because I wasn’t as bad as Keith Richards. Seems Keith thought he could party-on as long as he wasn’t as “unbearable” as Mick Jagger. Growing up in the 1970s, Keith Richards was kind of our hero. I ran with a group of others that used drugs like I did. We all thought it was cool and was some kind of warped path to enlightenment. It was all about “bucking” society and living in a drug culture that we thought would bring freedom and escape from the hardships of life. Some of us died. Some of us, somehow, moved into mainstream society; had families, kids, and middle-class lives. The rest of us—the alcoholics and addicts—those of us that survived, soon found our lifestyle anything but nirvana. For me, I created my own personal hell that I thought I could never escape from. I discovered that I wasn’t Keith Richards. I couldn’t get new blood and expect to start afresh. My withdrawals were painful and seemed like death. In fact, death wasn’t very far away many, many times. Today I’m in recovery. I believe that I’m one of those that must live and work in the world of recovery to stay clean and sober. It’s a gift that I never imagined. Maybe Keith Richards can just stop doing cocaine. I could stop; I just could never stay stopped. For me, it was prescription drugs; but no matter, the only way I can escape the “unbearable” is to live in the solution of 12-Step recovery.  —Jeff Christian   http://number12foundation.org/blog.php?entry=8 http://number12foundation.org/blog.php?entry=8 Fri, 15 Oct 2010 12:00:00 EST