Serenity Ranch Blog

Am I losing my mind?

Bill Barrett is one of our newest additions to the team at Serenity Ranch and is well versed in first nations culture and traditions. Lets find out a bit more about the man himself.

Danica Westgard is our in house University of Lethbridge graduate. Lets find out a bit more about the person beyond the counseling room.

Patty Bothner is the glue that keeps us all together. She is always on the move and she is our single point of contact for new participants and their families. We finally caught up with her to ask her a few questions.

Deon Smit is our latest import from abroad. Firstly born in South Africa and later he lived and worked in England in the addiction field. Time to find out what  makes him tick.

Jim MacLean is affectionately known by Ranch staff and participants as “Jim”, “Jimmy” or “Hippie Jim”. He has touched many people’s lives in a positive way and its time you learn a little about him.

Its time to get to know the Ranch staff a little better and who better to start with than our own IT guru Darwyn Young.

Working in the UK, I remember how practitioners would refer to Canadian drug treatment as being on the cutting edge and being very effective in comparison to other countries.  So why does Canadian treatment systems work?

“Special K” or Ketamine is a rapid acting anesthetic drug used mainly by veterinarians and sometimes in human surgery. It is also known as a dissociative anesthetic because it can make a person feel a sense of detachment, as if their mind is separated from their body.

So many people, especially young people coming into treatment believe that marijuana is a “soft drug” and refuse to acknowledge the actual dangers it poses. It is not the same drug popularized during revolutionary times in the 60’s where free love and free drugs were the order of the day. Today it is a dangerous and harmful drug that connects people with a lifestyle that surrounds drug use. Mental health implications are far reaching and could easily turn into chronic disorders.