15 About C.E.P.T.A., its Mission and Founders

C.E.P.T.A.

The CAMPAIGN for EFFECTIVE PREVENTION and TREATMENT of ADDICTION.

ABOUT US

15. About C.E.P.T.A., Its Mission and its Founders.

The Campaign for Effective Prevention and Treatment of Addiction exists for the purpose of contradicting and exposing vested interest political lobbying and P.R. campaigns which DELIBERATELY HIDE THE FAILURE TO CURE of current psycho-pharmaceutical “treatments”, and which promote drug liberalisation via so-called ‘harm-reduction’ based “drugs education” instead of real prevention training.

C.E.P.T.A. believes that the public and our politicians need and deserve to be informed of the stealthy movement towards liberalisation, legalisation and increased drug use which is being covertly pushed forward by vested interests – who don’t want prevention and cure - because effective prevention and real cures inhibit the sale of profitable psychiatric services and pharmaceutical drugs.

Some individuals mistakenly think that CEPTA is campaigning for research into finding workable Prevention and Cure systems. But this is just not true, simply because there already exist extremely effective drug Prevention and Cure programmes – available at least since 1966 - which are now delivered by a variety of organisations and by more than 150 public access centres, plus prison units, in 40 countries, and which are all suppressed by vested interests.

Furthermore, during the last 50 years (in order to divert attention away from the truth) failure to reduce drug usage has been unjustifiably blamed by vested interests:

* on the (pretended) lack of a workable system of Prevention,

* on the (pretended) non-availability of a real lifelong Cure for addiction,.

* on drug addiction being an incurable mental illness (which it isn’t) and on

* insufficient enforcement of drug laws by the police & customs - when the truth

is that it is the laws and the scant resources for enforcement which are at fault.

Because the take-over of our anti drug strategies and U.K. treatment services by vested interests has been going on for well over half a century their tentacles now reach well into all sectors of our society and, because this includes government departments and policy decision-makers, the goals of the vested interests are increasingly capable of being falsely portrayed as the wishes of the people.

In fact, the image of the U.K. drugs scene which is projected to the public and our politicians is essentially one big lie.

A lie so huge that its maintenance is only possible because of the huge multinational resources behind it, because of the infiltration over many years of psycho-pharm sympathetic moles into our society, because of the control over users which drugs place in the hands of drug suppliers, and,

because (whilst Hitler, Stalin and other obvious control freaks have gone) there still remain power junkies (the WFMH? George Soros? Ely Lilley?) who consider democratic societies like ours as the best governmental systems for their brand of covert mass manipulation, because our citizens enjoy more freedom of choice than many others and so can more easily be bio-chemically hypnotised.

“Covert” means secret, clandestine, underground, stealthy, concealed, hidden, disguised, camouflaged and generally discreet, unobtrusive and unrecognisable as the source of threat and suppression it really is.

For this reason the content of this website reveals only the tip of the iceberg. A tip which sits on nearly immeasurable evidence of increasing direct and indirect psycho-pharmaceutical intervention into, and control of, more and more aspects of our lives.

However, when you know what to look for, there soon comes to light more and more proof of the above. Therefore, after visiting the various parts of our site, CEPTA invites you to let us know of any examples of similar sorts of vested interest manip-ulation of your life, or the lives of your family and friends, which you might spot.

Just e-mail your observations to: cepta@solutionstodrugs.org

On our Home Page you will find ‘links’ to a wide range of prevention and cure headings, with many of them also listing related sub-headings.

The nature of what we reveal is such that it prompted an individual who was initially critical of our position to say that we were likely promoting one of the most controversial web-sites on the Internet. More recently however, after a fuller study of our data, he came back and suggested that, in his opinion, C.E.P.T.A. should be translated as meaning “Controversial Examples of Positive Truths Available” !

CEPTA arose out of a number of discussions between its eventual Founder and various knowledgeable individuals who, whether they realised it or not at the time, included: Lord McNair, Peter and Ann Stoker, Dr Ian Oliver, Keith Hellawell, Superintendent David Williams Ret’d., Professor Heather Ashton, Lord Mancroft, Met. Superintendent Chris Brightmore Ret’d, Phillip Day, Mike Trace, Dr Brian Iddon MP, Paul Flynn MP, and various other politicians, civil servants and commentators including those with both like-minded and opposing viewpoints.

Out of these discussions it was recognised that whilst it was obvious that both Effective Prevention and Effective Cure of Addiction were essential to any improvement in the U.K. drug scene, as a pre-requisite there had to be Culture Change in order to permit Effective Prevention and Cure to be recognised, adopted and developed without their current suppression by profit orientated vested interests.

Ken Eckersley was born in 1927, and after a distinguished wartime educational career during which he served 3 years in the Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm, he was 2 years a Scoutmaster, followed by 3 consecutive terms as a local Councillor and Chairman of the Bingley Urban District Council (in the Shipley West Yorks Constituency), which he left only because of promotion to European Director of Textiles Merchandising for the multinational chemical and pharmaceutical giant Monsanto, based in Dusseldorf.

He is a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute (FCMI), a Fellow of the Institute of Directors (FIOD), an Honorary Member of the Professional Housing Management Association (International) (HonMPHMA(Int), a qualified Drugs Counsellor (HSDC), a Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (MCIM), a Member of the Federation of Drug and Alcohol Professionals (MFDAP) and a Member of the Advisory Board to the Foundation for a Drug Free Europe (MABFDFE) based in Brussels .

He was until recently non-executive Chairman of Capital Reversions PLC and Managing Director of EDMS (Glasgow) Limited (Employee Detoxification & Monitoring Services), and is currently voluntarily working for two not-for-profit organisations: as CEO of Addiction Recovery Training Services (ARTS), and as Founder of the Campaign for Effective Prevention & Treatment of Addiction (CEPTA). He is also an author, lecturer, radio and TV broadcaster on drugs and crime. He has worked part-time on an unpaid voluntary basis in the drug prevention and rehabilitation fields since 1979 and full-time since 1992, and advises on the problems of drugs in the workplace, training in self-cure drug treatment, and the development of effective political and community policies for drug prevention and cure.

He defines a cure of addiction as “comfortable abstinence for life” and holds that no-one can withdraw another individual from drug use. The addict himself is the only person capable of withdrawing himself. As a result the only truly viable route is to train that individual in a workable method of withdrawal which he may then - of his own volition - apply to himself and his condition.

On this basis, there are numerous international rehabilitation centres which offer users:

1) training in how to comfortably withdraw themselves from drugs, along with

2) education in those modes of rehabilitation and living necessary to aid them in their abandonment of drug use, and

3) training in how to recover from the residual effects on their lives and livelihood of their earlier addiction, plus

4) training in the avoidance and prevention of future drug use by themselves and others, with the goal of becoming contributing and productive members of society.

Such programmes stand completely outside the fields of treatment, care, counselling, use-advice, habit management, therapy, needle-exchange, substitution prescribing, nursing, medical detoxification and other interventions, etc., and stand solely and only in those fields of training and education which supports the drug user’s own abstinence intentions and goals. This is, adult learning, self-improvement and development with a view to achieving knowledge about, responsibility for and control of themselves and their own lives, plus responsibility and respect for the lives of others in their environment.

All communications to CEPTA should kindly be addressed to:

ARTS House, Plaw Hatch Lane, SHARPTHORNE, West Sussex, RH19 4JL, England.

Phone and Fax: (+44) (0) (1342) 811099

e-mail: CEPTA@solutionstodrugs.com

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