Produce to People
@ Butler City Farmer’s Market
205 S. Chestnut St. Butler, PA 16001

During inclement weather, the Salvation Army will provide shelter. There will most likely be a line, and a wait.

Bring your own bags, box or basket.
ADA Accessible

When:
January 24
February 28
March 27
April 24
May 22
June 26

Distribution begins at 4:00pm and will resume until 6:00pm. First come, first serve. When you arrive, you will be given a number, groups of numbers will be called to pick up your food/produce.

For more information about Produce to People in Butler County or if you or your organization would like to volunteer, contact Dave Miller at the Lighthouse Foundation (724) 898-4673 extensi0n 34.
Or email davemiller@thelighthouseonline.net

For more information on the location of other food pantries located in Butler County, please call Butler County Community Action at (724) 283-5125.

This can be that there is to much trash in or close to your yard, or that the wild life is just that wild.  WE CAN HELP. Is the paint on you porch and house pealing.  WE CAN HELP.

Do you want to repaint your home or have engravings in your home that have just been painted the same color.  Add value to you home by having landscapes go from trashed to beautiful or repainting inside. There are hundreds of different was to increase the value of your home and WE CAN DO IT CHEAP.

As an added bonus you can get discount for many things, from referrals to multiple jobs.

Contact us to set up a meeting and receive a FREE  appraisal

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Methadone clinics were one of the best things that have been done to actually start to resolve this drug epidemic; but even with all the effort put into recovery, those active in methadone maintenance are still put down and called addicts for seeking help.

Methadone is in fact a narcotic medication used to assist those dependent on narcotics (heroin, morphine, OxyContin, dilaudid, Opana and others. Methadone is dispensed by certified nurses daily until clients can build trust and abstain from illicit drug use.

Methadone doses vary by person. Due to it’s range of metabolization, one person could be symptom free at 50mg, while another person needs 150mg to deter all withdrawal symptoms. Once the client is at a “stable dose”,  methadone begins blocking other opiate/opioid medication from being effective. At this point, the client is no longer having withdrawal symptoms and is unable to use their drug of choice (DOC) to get high any more.

Although methadone is a full agonist narcotic, the body builds a tolerance to it within a week. When starting a methadone program, a client may have side effects like slight euphoria and drowsiness. The public claims that those who are active in methadone therapy are just getting a free high provided by a crooked doctor, though in reality, methadone is not even chemically similar to heroin or other opiates that are abused.

Commonly, doctors start patients off at a dose of about 30mg of methadone, which is enough to kill a person who is non-tolerant to opiates. Like I mentioned before, the body quickly becomes tolerant to the drug, and increases in dosages are needed until the patient gets to a level of comfort. This is a long and tough process as the person will experience withdrawal until they reach the amount of medication needed to function. Due to state regulations, patients can only increase doses in 2-5mg every 3 days. At this rate, a person may be fine at this dose, or they may be struggling to not use illicit drugs.

Until the stable dose is reached, it is not uncommon for people to still require drugs from the street, which proves that people do not go to methadone clinics to get high.

Addiction is a vicious cycle and is very hard to break free from. Along with being dosed daily by a nurse, persons in MMT also have to attend 2.5 hours of counseling related to their problems with dependency. On top of struggling daily with life’s issues, those seeking help for addiction are criticized from many angles including the legal system, family, general public and the world of employment.

Methadone is not a free ride. Maybe if half the people in this country would be supportive instead of offensive, we would be able to assist those with drug dependency issues. People do not just wake up one day and decide that they want to be drug addicts, it’s the last thing on your mind. Once the drug pulls you in, it is not as easy as people think to just walk away.

People sit and point the finger at those who need drugs to live their lives, in reality, we are a bunch of hipocrits. The United States is the largest prescription drug consumer in the world, we wake up and drink pots and pots of coffee, then we light up our cigarettes and pretend to live a normal life.

What is the difference between a person addicted to nicotine and a person addicted to heroin? The person addicted to nicotine does not have to break the law to get their fix. If tobacco was illegal, smokers would be junkies as well.

For the City and Butler and Butler Township Residents

[twocol_one]Salvation Army
313 W, Cunningham Street[/twocol_one] [twocol_one_last]Tuesday & Wednesday
1:30 to 3:30 pm[/twocol_one_last]

[twocol_one]St. Vincent DePaul
146 North Monroe Street   [/twocol_one] [twocol_one_last]Monday, Thursday, Friday
9.00 to 10:00 am[/twocol_one_last]

[twocol_one]Covenant UP Church
230 East Jefferson Street[/twocol_one] [twocol_one_last] Last 2 full weeks of month
9.00 to 11:00 am[/twocol_one_last]

If your last name begins with A-K, go the next-to-last full week of the month.

If your last name begins with L-Z, go the last full week of month.
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 Free Local Meals (Served Weekly)

[twocol_one]Salvation Army
Cunningham St.[/twocol_one]

[twocol_one_last]Monday – Friday @ 11:30 – 12:30[/twocol_one_last]

[twocol_one]First English Lutheran Church
Corner or Main & Brady[/twocol_one] [twocol_one_last]Monday @ 5-6pm[/twocol_one_last]

[twocol_one]St. Paul’s
128 N. McKean St.[/twocol_one] [twocol_one_last]Tuesday @ 5-6pm[/twocol_one_last]

[twocol_one]St. Andrew’s
201 East Jefferson St. (Use Cliff st. door)[/twocol_one] [twocol_one_last]Wednesday @ 5-6pm[/twocol_one_last]

[twocol_one]St. Mark’s
201 West Jefferson St.[/twocol_one] [twocol_one_last]Thursday @ 5-6pm[/twocol_one_last]

[twocol_one]First United Methodist
200 East North Street[/twocol_one] [twocol_one_last]Friday @ 5-6pm[/twocol_one_last]

SafeLink is a company that helps provide a free cellphone with free minutes (meant for emergencies for families that qualify), but SafeLink doesn’t actually provide the phone service. You sign up through them, but they work with TracFone.

If you have a SafeLink phone, but you don’t use it for a while, they will automatically deactivate themselves. When you try to make a call, it will tell you that the phone is not active and you need to purchase an airtime card or use a credit card to purchase more minutes, this does not have to be done.

1. Visit the TracFone website by clicking here.
2. Select the first option (activate/reactivate), scroll down and select the phone you have then click submit.
3. If you have an account, login. If not, click register.
4. From this screen, you can create an account, or scroll to the bottom of the page and click “skip this step”.
5. It will be asking for you phone’s serial number. (In your phone go to menu>prepaid, depending on your phone, it will be inside a menu there.
6. It should tell you that your phone is deactive, continue with the screen.
7. When the airtime selection is shown, scroll to the bottom and click “skip”.
8. You now need to power cycle your phone (turn it off then on again), then try to make a call.
9. Finish the last few steps to make sure there are no other issues. You’re done!

If you cannot make calls, try the process again, or you may need to contact customer support at 1-800-378-1684.

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There has been talk about out partner site (HeadChange) shutting down. In the case of this happening, we will gather all the knowledge of HeadChange (which is huge may I say). Along with this integration, you will also be seeing many other changes and additions that have been a part of our plan for a while now.

One of the major changes is a local newspaper called Better Butler, which will be focused on the community of Butler, PA and created by the community.

Within the next few days you will be seeing these changes, if you are interested in being a writer or editor, please contact us.

Write each letter on a flash card one at at a time.

When in the high chair, or in the car, sing the ABC’s slowly while flipping through each card. The more you do it the  better.

then begin to say it then have them repeat while looking at the card. doing this each day will making you child remember the letter and name faster. Sooner or later try to let them tell you the letters in order one by one. then later mix them up.

I started this with my son when he was one and with in 4 months he knew them all.  once they know the letter they can move on to the sound each make.

good luck

When a person become addicted to opiates it stops the brain from producing important chemicals to relieve pain naturally. Many other methods of opiate recovery do not help the brain recover from the damage done to the brain. Though methadone has help many patients brain begin to make these chemical that the drugs have replaced and stopped.

Methadone treatment is done in a clinic environment where patients are watched to ensure that they are using the service as a for of recovery. Each patient is started at a low dose and is slowly raised till the client is at the dose that is the dose that they need to be at to not have withdraw symptoms any longer.  When the client is at the this dose the Methadone works in the brain at 75%  making the brain work to make the chemical to cover the other 25% over time.  as the patients dose is lowered the brain begins to take over more and more of the chemical production.

Most believe that Methadone is easily abused at these clinics, which is not the case at all. The methadone is given each day at the clinic until they have had so many clean random urine tests.  When a patient comes into the clinic appearing high in any way they are tested and many time refused to be dose that day.  after so long of the clean tests and not missing any days of being dosed they are trusted with weekend take homes. If these privileges are abuse they are quickly taken.

Methadone treatment is just that treatment, a way to stop doing illegal drugs and to recover from addition most clinics require every patient to go to counseling with a drug and alcohol counselor monthly as well as meeting to talk about ways to help in recovery.

If you know or have some one with an opiate addiction that is using methadone treatment do not look on it badly. You should support them and be happy that they are working on a way to recover or at least get off the street drugs and work a recovery program.  You should learn about what they are going through and learn about the clinic that they are going to. make sure that they know that you support them. Many relapses are due to lake of support. Addicts need a support group that is important in recovery. Not only do they need support from family and friend but they need others that know what they are going through.

If a loved one of your is using or think of using methadone as recovery or if you your self is make sure that it is right for you. loved ones remember to forgive, be supportive, and encourage them to talk to you about everything, about their use. It is also important to know what to look for to know if they are starting down the path to relapsing. Please if you have any question please feel free to write to us. We know from experience about both sides of this life.

Unfortunately, there is way too much misinformation about Buprenorphine on the internet and in general. It seems as if the doctors who prescribe it do not know what they should about the drug. I have heard doctors tell people that they will not become dependent on the drug, meaning it will not cause withdrawal symptoms whatsoever. This, is a big load of shit.

You have to keep in mind that the reason you got on Suboxone/Subutex is because you had an opiate addiction which is a disease. This addiction caused your brain to stop creating chemicals it needed, resulting in withdrawal. Switching to Bupe isn’t going to fix this issue, it’s doing the same thing as the dope, oxy or whatever you were using. What some people don’t know is that even know Bupe is a partial agonist opioid, it is derived from the opium poppy.

If you are planning on stopping using Buprenorphine for maintenance, I strongly suggest that you come up with a taper plan. Talk to your doctor about it, if you have to, come up with the plan yourself. If your doctor won’t help, do the taper yourself. Those who sniff Bupe will have an easier time getting smaller doses, I highly discourage sniffing Suboxone/Subutex. It is not good for your nose/sinuses/lungs at all.

A good way of getting small doses is by crushing a pill and adding it to 8ml of water. If you have a syringe without a needle, those work great. You can also use liquid medicine dose things, you can get them from any pharmacy. If you want to go even lower than 1mg, which I recommend, add 1 8mg tablet to 16ml water, or 4mg to 8ml water so on and so forth.

Basically, the point of this post is to encourage you to taper, not to just stop taking your dose, wherever you are. By tapering, you allow your brain to learn how to create the chemicals it needs, making it easier on yourself. If you do not taper, you will be sick, for a very long time. You must understand, that still after tapering, even if you taper down to like 0.25 mg, you still may experience some withdrawal. I can almost guarantee that it will be much more milder than just stopping without a taper.

Good luck!