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1973 Rehabilitation Act By Dave Kettner Section 504 of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act was a piece of American legislation that guaranteed particular rights to people with disabilities. While Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 was only the last sentence of the Act, it is the most often cited and questioned portion of the Act.
No implementing rules has been outlined or issued by Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and this spurred
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action by the American Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities to make completion of Section 504 a top priority. A nationwide demonstration was launched by Frank Bowe who was at the time the American Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities leader.
Regulations regarding Section 504 were issued in April 1977 and over the following several years Section 504 became somewhat controversial. Opponents thought it extreme that the Rehabilitation Act had then come to emulate many of the rights afforded to larger minority groups in the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
During the Reagan administration there were efforts made to weaken Section 504. These efforts failed and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 extended Section 504 so that private employers, stores, restaurants and hotels were also held to the standards of the revised Rehabilitation Act. This extension included no weakening or amendments to the original Act.
Section 504 covers after school programs and extracurricular activities like music lessons, sports practice and after school care programs. It has been determined that the Act applies to band programs, playgrounds, field trips, graduation, late bus transportation and other special on and off site programs.
Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act covers accessibility of computer technology and was added in 1986, but not fully implemented until 1998.
For more information of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 or any of its sections, you may wish to visit the United States government website about Section 508 found at http://www.section508.gov.
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SHOCKING REPORT!
Below are excerpts from a recent CASA (National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse) report. The facts speak for themselves. NEW CASA REPORT FINDS HALF OF COLLEGE STUDENTS BINGE DRINK, ABUSE PRESCRIPTION AND ILLEGAL DRUGS NEARLY ONE IN FOUR MEET MEDICAL CRITERIA FOR ALCOHOL, DRUG ABUSE AND DEPENDENCE WASHINGTON, D. C., March 15, 2007 – Forty-nine percent (3.8 million) of full time college students binge drink and/or abuse prescription and illegal drugs, according to Wasting the Best and the Brightest: Substance Abuse at America’s Colleges and Universities, a new report by The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. “It’s time to get the ‘high’ out of higher education,” said Joseph A. Califano, Jr., CASA’s chairman and president and former U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. “Under any circumstances acceptance by administrators, trustees, professors and parents of this college culture of alcohol and other drug abuse is inexcusable. In this world of fierce global competition, we are losing thousands of our nation’s best and brightest to alcohol and drugs, and in the process robbing them and our nation of their promising futures.” Between 1993 and 2005 the proportion of students abusing prescription drugs increased: 343 percent for opioids like Percocet, Vicodin and OxyContin 93 percent for abuse of stimulants like Ritalin and Adderall 450 percent for tranquilizers like Xanax and Valium 225 percent for sedatives like Nembutal and Seconal Between 1993 and 2005, the proportion of students who: Use marijuana daily more than doubled to 310,000 Use cocaine, heroin, and other illegal drugs (except marijuana) is up 52 percent to 636,000. In this age where popping a pill is seen as the solution to so many problems, both physical and mental, what will it take to get college students to say no to drug abuse--all drug abuse?We at Narconon International know that the best solution for the problem is effective drug education done early and done well! And that's why Narconon® drug education--booklets, videos, live presenters--continues in heavy demand worldwide. Want to help? Do the Drug Prevention Specialist Course at the International Training Center in McAlester, Oklahoma! The First Step Program
• The person tries to escape some physical or emotional pain by taking drugs.• The person finds that drugs offer temporary relief so continues to use them.• Cells in the body become accustomed to large amounts of drug metabolites (a broken down form of the drug).• When one tries to quit, cells in the body that have become accustomed to such large amounts of metabolites are now forced to deal with much decreased amounts.• The body perceives that it needs the drug to function and demands the drug through physical cravings.• With continued use of the drug, the body's inability to completely eliminate all traces of the drug metabolites diminishes. The metabolites that remain are stored in the fatty tissues and these, released, cause cravings.• Cravings become so severe that the addict will do almost anything (in many cases abandoning all previous moral teachings) to get more of the drug.• The addict commits misdeeds against family, friends and self to satisfy these unrelenting cravings.• Because of these misdeeds, the addicts cannot face themselves and dive deeper into drugs.• They are now entrapped in full blown addiction, with two aspects of the condition. The biophysical condition and the biochemical personality. NARCONON addresses The Biochemical Side and the reasons why a person became addicted in the first place.Handling The Biochemical Side Of Addiction
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