Top 10 Most Popular Mental Health Hospitals In The U.S.

10 Most Popular Mental Health Hospitals In The U.S.

In terms of the most popular mental health hospitals in the U.S., there’s a long list, but some stand out. The one that jumps out is New Jersey’s Morristown Medical Center, the nation’s No. 1 mental health hospital for seven years in a row. Whether you’re looking to get help for yourself or for someone you care about, there are many mental health hospitals in the United States. Mental health is something many people try to avoid thinking about. And yet, a lot of Americans struggle with mental illness every day. It’s important to know where to go for help if you or someone you love is suffering.’



Some of them are large and well-known, while others are small and relatively unknown. This post aims to give you a better idea of which mental health hospitals are the most popular in the U.S. So, read on for the top 10. Mental Health facilities across the United States provide care to patients with various mental disorders and behavioral problems. Although most mental health facilities offer psychiatric services, some also provide medical services, such as psychopharmacology. Some facilities have specialized units to treat different kinds of disorders. Others may provide various types of treatment services to patients, depending on their needs. As per the latest data, 1,250 mental health facilities provide psychiatric and behavioral services across the United States in 2015. These facilities had a total of 13,900 beds.

What are mental health hospitals?

Mental health hospitals are a type of hospital that specializes in treating mental health disorders. There are many types of mental health hospitals, but some are more common than others. Some examples include psychiatric hospitals, psychiatric units in regular hospitals, and psychiatric emergency rooms. Mental health hospitals have many different departments, each focusing on specific treatments. Some of these departments include medication, therapy, and behavioral therapy. These disorders, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or depression, can be severe. Some of these hospitals also treat patients diagnosed with other medical issues. For example, a psychiatric hospital may treat a patient diagnosed with cancer or heart disease. Inpatient psychiatric units in regular hospitals are not usually called “psychiatric hospitals,” but they provide psychiatric care.

Types of mental health hospitals

Whether you’re looking to get help for yourself or for someone you care about, there are many mental health hospitals in the United States. Some of them are large and well-known, while others are small and relatively unknown. Some of the most common types include:

General hospitals: General hospitals are generally small and provide a wide range of services. They are also the most affordable option for many people.

Psychiatric hospitals: Psychiatric hospitals are similar to general hospitals but specialize in treating mental illnesses. They also tend to be large and well-known.

Rehabilitation hospitals: Rehabilitation hospitals are often used to treat addiction, physical disabilities, and more. They’re also the largest type of mental health hospital in the country.

How do you find a mental health hospital?

There are several ways to find mental health hospitals, and here’s the most effective way. First, start by typing “mental health hospital” into Google. If you’re looking for “psychiatric” or “mental health,” you can also narrow your search results to include only those pages that are relevant to your search term. Second, you can check your search results only to show you the mental health hospitals near you. This can be helpful because many mental health hospitals are located in big cities or states. Third, you can narrow your search results by location. For example, if you’re looking for a mental health hospital in California, you can check your search results only to show you those in California. Last, you can narrow your search results by state. This will help you locate the nearest mental health hospital near you.

What to expect at a mental health hospital?

There are different levels of mental health care at various hospitals. While some offer outpatient treatment, others are designed for inpatient treatment. While some mental health hospitals are open 24/7, most operate between 8:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. You should know that many mental health hospitals are open-door institutions. This means that you are free to come and go as you please. In addition, some mental health hospitals are short-term facilities. They provide medical care for patients recovering from a specific condition or illness. You should also know that most mental health hospitals are not affiliated with a particular religion.

What happens if you are admitted to a mental health hospital?

When you’re admitted to a mental health hospital, you’ll likely undergo a battery of tests. These include bloodwork and other lab tests. You’ll likely undergo a battery of tests when may also ask you about your family history ing to your illness. Once you’re diagnosed, your doctors will make a treatment plan based on your condition. Your doctors may recommend medications, therapies, or alternative treatments. While some medications can help treat bipolar disorder, it can be difficult to find the right one for you. This is because each person with bipolar disorder responds differently to medications, and the right drug can be life-changing. If you’re considering taking medication, it’s important to talk with your doctor about what might work best for you. Mental health professionals use various methods to assess mental health and well-being. These include assessments of symptoms and functioning and subjective reports of mood, behavior, and life events.

Frequently asked questions about mental health hospitals

Q: Do you think all mental hospitals are equal?

A: They are not. The one in the Philippines is like a spa! Other ones are not as nice, but I wouldn’t say that all mental hospitals are the same.

Q: How can we help those in mental hospitals?

A: Many people in mental hospitals don’t know how to help themselves. They are locked up with no way to communicate or express themselves. Many would like to help themselves, but they have no idea how to do it.

Myths about mental health hospitals

1. Patients with mental illness have no rights.

2. Mental hospitals are the best place to heal mentally ill patients.

3. Mental hospitals are only for people who have committed a crime.
Conclusion

When someone is going through a difficult time, they can sometimes feel like they don’t know where to turn. It can be tough to ask for help or admit that you need help. That’s why there are so many different kinds of mental health hospitals out there. They’re designed to help people who are struggling. So, if you’re dealing with a major mental health problem, finding a hospital that can help is a great place to start.

Cannabis Tabacco and Psychosis

"The cigarette industry did this a century ago, funding “independent” experts who sought to blur or discredit evidence that smoking caused cancer"



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It's interesting to find this sentence in this article, a couple of years ago I questioned Bath University as to why they were part funding a course with Cancer Research UK to study the links between cannabis, tobacco and psychosis. It was a 2 year PhD research program that I was initially interested in applying for, but when a CRUK logo appeared in the reply email from my initial enquiry, I held back just long enough to ask myself if it was appropriate for CRUK to be part of such a project that has no focus on cancer whatsoever.


When I replied, I didn't mess about. I asked straight away why CRUK would be part of a PhD program that focuses on psychosis... I had nothing back.


I won't lie, my thought pattern from this was: THC seems to have a positive effect on some cancers, that's not good news for CRUK, CRUK devise a PhD program to further stigmatise THC, then CRUK could argue that cannabis isn't safe and use that to push for more funding for the never ending search for a cure for cancer. But then I'm a part time conspiracy theorist and my tinfoil hat is shiny...


Far be it for me to say cannabis can't make you crazy, work in the industry for 5 minutes and you'll see that for yourself.


Joking aside, psychosis is no laughing matter. but It's also not something that 'just happens' either. According to my non-professional knowledge, it tends to be triggered when someone is in a poor state of mental health.


What this article fails to mention is that ANYTHING can be that trigger, or that there are higher rate of psychosis from 'legal drugs' such as alcohol and tobacco. It also doesn't mention any cannabinoid other than THC, and as such I feel that this article completely misrepresents the whole plant by focusing on the negatives of one molecule.


Don't get me wrong, this COULD be a genuine article that has solid science behind it, but as this omits key information about cannabis as a whole and doesn't mention the anti-psychotic qualities of CBD, this article may well be focusing on the type of research from “independent” experts that the author warns us of.

Tolerance of cannabis is growing just as scientists show that it can cause insanity

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Supporters of cannabis legalisation are like the tobacco companies denying the link between smoking and cancer


The singer Justin Bieber is promoting pre-rolled cannabis joints that he calls “Peaches”, the name of a song from an album. He is doing so in association with a Los Angeles-based company, Palms Partners, that specialises in selling seven-joint packs for $32 (£24) in California and Nevada. “I’m a fan of Palms and what they are doing by making cannabis approachable and helping to destigmatise it – especially for the many people who find it helpful for their mental health,” he says.


Bieber is one of a strange coalition seeking to legitimise cannabis (marijuana) for its health-giving properties or because they believe that criminalisation has failed and proved counter-productive. Online advertising for recreational cannabis in the US claims that it is an antidote for depression. Amazon, the largest delivery company in the world, is reportedly lobbying in Washington for marijuana’s legalisation at the federal level.


In Britain, the former Conservative Party leader William Hague argues in a newspaper column for a move “from seeing drug use as a criminal issue to a health issue, achieving a crucial change in culture”. He praises Portugal for reclassifying as a misdemeanour the possession and purchase of drugs for individual consumption.


Legalising and commercialising cannabis is well under way from Uruguay to Canada and in at least 10 states in the US. Paradoxically, this shift towards the toleration of cannabis as more or less harmless is taking place just as scientists conclusively prove the link between cannabis and psychosis (a less shocking word than “madness” or “insanity”, but the meaning is the same). Cause and effect is today as well established as it is between cigarette smoking and lung cancer.


“Numerous prospective studies have shown that cannabis use carries an increased risk of later schizophrenic-like psychosis,” says an article by Sir Robin Murray of the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London and Wayne Hall of the National Centre for Youth Substance Use Research at the University of Queensland. They cite a study showing that, though Portugal is held up as a pioneer in dealing with drugs, the rate of hospitalisation for psychotic disorders has increased 29-fold since decriminalisation 15 years ago. Another study calculates that between 30 per cent and 50 per cent of new cases of psychosis in London and Amsterdam would not have occurred if the individual affected had not been smoking high-potency cannabis.


Personal observation confirms this: doctors in mental hospitals have told me that they scarcely bother anymore to ask patients if they have taken cannabis, but simply assume it is the case. The situation has deteriorated as the proportion of THC, the psychoactive substance in cannabis producing the “high”, has risen precipitately. Once as low as 3 per cent, it has risen to 10 to 15 per cent in Europe and North America, though in Colorado, the first state to legalise recreational use, the THC can reach as high as 70 per cent. Those taking cannabis daily, particularly if they are young, face an escalating risk of permanent mental breakdown.


But if cannabis has already had its “tobacco moment”, when the damage it does is scientifically proven, why do celebrities like Justin Bieber want to destigmatise it and persuade consumers that it will improve their mental health?


Part of the boosterism in favour of cannabis plugs into its old association with a bohemian lifestyle and “the swinging Sixties”. But it is commercial pressure that is becoming far more important in lobbying for its legalisation. Businesses see they can make money out of it: projected legal sales of cannabis will be worth $66.3bn by 2025, according to a report. Big profits will pay for advertising and lobbying campaigns lauding the drug’s virtues and seeking to put in doubt or divert attention from the harm it causes.


The cigarette industry did this a century ago, funding “independent” experts who sought to blur or discredit evidence that smoking caused cancer. Governments were seduced by high tax revenues from tobacco sales and reluctant to do anything to curtail them. Hollywood stars such as John Wayne, Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy happily – and profitably – glamourised cigarettes, much as is happening to cannabis now.


Businesses seeking to emulate the tobacco companies at the height of their profitability have formed a bizarre de facto alliance with liberals and progressives, who are appalled by the disastrous mess created by government drug policy. The so-called “war on drugs” has demonstrably inflicted more misery in the US, certainly on the black community, than real military conflicts.


But an overreaction to government failure, provoking a dash in the opposite direction, has equal dangers. Those in favour of greater tolerance towards drugs are almost invariably thinking of cannabis as much less nasty than heroin and cocaine. But I have met psychiatrists, with long experience of dealing with drug victims of all sorts, who believe that cannabis is more dangerous than the other drugs because it has the potential to damage many more people.


About 3 million people take illicit drugs in England and Wales, of whom about 2.5 million consume cannabis, some 10 per cent on a daily basis in 2017-18, according to the review of drugs report by Dame Carol Black. Much of the cannabis is produced in the UK, sometimes by Vietnamese organised crime groups using slave labour. Most of the violence provoked by drugs is between the gangs who control the heroin and crack cocaine markets, which are worth about £5bn a year. Decriminalising drugs, notably cannabis, will not affect this sort of battle for territory and market share. Supply lines are very different between the different drug markets, with the heroin from Afghanistan wholesaled by Turkish and Pakistani gangs, and cocaine from Latin America controlled by Albanians.


The legalisation of cannabis will do nothing to hurt organised crime groups, but it will make the drug much more widely available. The idea by proponents of legalisation that the government will tightly regulate its quality and sale is naive. If the authorities cannot control it when it is illegal, they will be even less able to do so when it is legal. But legalisation – and even limited decriminalisation – will send a message that taking cannabis is a benign activity and does not do you or anybody else much harm. The deterrent effect of illegality will evaporate and the drug becomes no different than alcohol and tobacco.


Once commercially available, all the old persuasive tools formerly used by the cigarette industry swing into action as is happening unstoppably in the US. Celebrities like Justin Bieber will “destigmatise” the drug and give it the gloss of youth and fashion. Once, the victims of the tobacco companies coughed up their lungs unnoticed by the wider community, and this time round the victims of cannabis will disappear into mental hospitals without anybody taking much notice.


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A Narcissist’s Behaviour!

A Narcissist behaves in the worst possible case scenario ever and takes the bad option always because he has some serious problems with his own fate.

A Narcissist torments, A Narcissist misbehaves and all Narcissists are the same when it comes to this.

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A Narcissist misbehaves in an utterly offensive way, this is where all of them are alike. Overt, Covert and Malignant.

They are all about offending you.

Even the quite Lovable and Charming Coverts.

So beware.

What you can’t readily see can hurt you.

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All Narcissists torment spiritually and this how they destroys you.

Not all Narcissists are physically abusive.
Not all Narcissists are verbally abusive.
Narcissistic Abuse is not mental.
It’s purely and utterly spiritual and emotional.

The only word that sums up the whole Narcissistic Behaviour is the slow murder of your will.

All Narcissists Are at War With Reality. They refuse to recognise or subordinate themselves to any higher power or authority because in their mind they are always right.

Reality sometimes clashes with that distorted self-perception and that can prompt A Narcissist’s Rage.

All Narcissists Are Deceptive
Deceit is a hallmark of disturbed personalities but some Narcissists are more skilled in subtle forms of Deception ,, these are The Covert Narcissists.

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I call them Covert Demons and they have raised it to an art form.

All Narcissists have a toxic sense of shame that is not self-directed.

All Narcissists are ego-centric.

All Narcissists are Manipulative.

They engage in a tactic to resist standards and avoid the responsibility.

The primarily conscious is planned and aimed to block internalising social standards.

To externalise blame, enabling others and scapegoating them besides being a weapon to make a good impression.

All Narcissists demean, degrade, triangulate, manipulate, lie, cheat, deceive, discard, hoover and discard again.

Narcissists never feel guilt or remorse.

All Aggressive personalities are Narcissistic Personality Variants.

Some of them score more on the malignancy spectrum and go more physically abusive.

Some others are just into tearing you down verbally and emotionally.

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Time after time, the cuts and bruises will heal or insults will be forgotten but the spiritual torture will hunt you long after The Narcissist is gone because this is what it’s all about.

A Narcissist behaves in a way to bend your soul, feed on it and your vulnerability exposes his empty heart made of hate.

A Narcissist’s behaviour is a way to give you pain and torment you spiritually because simply you are being compassionate.

A Narcissist’s behaviour is an ugly way and you will hear him talking about his helplessness and powerlessness.

No one is helpless and no one is powerless.
For Narcissists your vulnerability and your open wounds stirs their thirst for blood.

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This is why they are so cruel at discarding.

They say it’s a childhood trauma.

They say they are Victims.


Why Do Narcissists Turn Ugly And Cruel So Quickly?

The cause of this is because A Narcissist has persistent brewing rage, self esteem issues, grudges and an easily slighted ego.

Often when you see A Narcissist has a rapid mood swing over something minor it’s because you offended him accidentally with something you did or said and it has caused Narcissistic Injury.

The cruel ugly behaviour and personality you see is the underlying rage that fuels A Narcissist, this in essence is who he really is.

He often masks his personality to get along with people and use them for whatever he has in mind but this will crack if he is offended by something that triggers an Original wound to The Narcissist.

A Narcissistic Injury is caused by a reminder of the original abuse, bullying and insults that made The Narcissist go down this path when he was young.

Sometimes partners or people in general accidentally remind The Narcissist of these Narcissistic Wounds that he endured.

His defences then goes into full blown attack and you get to witness the rage he holds inside over these persistent ego attacks that sustained long ago but never truly been dealt with or healed.

Similar to Sociopathic Triggers and Abandonment Triggers in Borderlines, A Narcissist is set off by rejection, perceived acts of dominance, attempts of bullying or perceived arrogance towards him most of the time because these are all the things that he himself endured and has held grudges over.

This is why you see the rapid mood swings it’s because you threatened him at his very core and his true hostility and rage from his childhood is projected on you.

This is why some insults or reactions from you have caused massive over the top rages but other times he had no reaction to other types of insults or behaviours from others because specific behaviours attack him at his core and serves as a constant reminder of what he had endured long ago.
Say These Three Powerful Words To Dispel Narcissists – Not My Reality

I know you may scream from the rooftops that narcissists are NOT your Reality.

You don’t WANT them in your life.

You can’t stand them and you’re firmly OVER them.

But why is THAT particular narcissist still making your life a living hell?

Or, if you did get free of that one, why can’t you seem to shake other narcissists off and have a life completely FREE of them?

And HOW to once and for all, start living your life narcissist free. A life where you can honestly say and know ‘You are Not My Reality’.

What it really is and does with regard to narcissistic abuse, and how to finally say, embody and mean ‘Not My Reality’ – and effectively dispel narcissists forever.

When You Think You Are Saying ‘No’ but Aren’t

When you are trying to create an abuse-free life from a logical perspective, it’s very limited.

Your real-life experience will show you that what I am saying is true.

You may logically be saying ‘Not My Reality’ with intense passion and conviction, yet the narcissist’s antics, nastiness, and poison still continue in your life.

And no matter how much you declare you don’t want it and haven’t chosen it as your reality, it continues to be so.

Why is this your experience?

Because what is in your life experience is not being chosen by you logically. It is being called forth by you emotionally.

Much of this is unconscious. It is all to do with your almighty subconscious programs that not only control the billions of biochemical processes that define you as a living, breathing human being but also control, to the letter, your participation, application and connections in your life – both positive and negative.

Our painful inner traumas and beliefs are felt as fear, pain, righteousness and adamant ‘Nos’. These are the things we are most passionate about eliminating in our life.

Yet, the incredible irony is … these are the things that continue to enter our life experience over and over again.

I adored listening to an Ester Hicks message about making a pie in a kitchen many years ago, where a person was paranoid about the possibility of getting garlic in their pie.

Sure enough, garlic got in the pie.

The reason it got in the pie is because the ‘No’ that was being passionately declared was in fact a whooping great ‘Yes’. The subconscious program, with intense emotional energy of ‘garlic horrifies me’ connected to it, generated the reality of that subconscious program to the letter.

How the garlic got there is irrelevant. The almighty subconscious has unlimited permutations and ways available in The Field to unfold itself. Your subconscious fulfilling the subconscious program is as absolute as the Law of Gravity – and WILL always find a way!

Can you understand now that you vehemently declaring that the narcissist is not your reality, can make him or her even more so?

Should You Ignore What the Narcissist Does?

Okay, so does this mean that you are meant to ignore what the narcissist is doing so that you are not emotionally affected by their behaviour?

In my experience, it is a very rare individual who just decides to let it all go and actually manages to do so.

And this is where I am totally NOT a fan of the stock-standard Law of Attraction processes that are generally this: ‘Take your focus off what you don’t want and put it onto what you do want.’

When subconscious programs are entrenched in trauma energy, they activate survival programs. These survival programs mess significantly with our nervous and limbic systems and hijack not just our emotions but also our minds.

These inner programs, such as ‘The people who are supposed to love and care for me hurt me, abandon me, and even annihilate me’, have incredible power driving them. The cognitive mind is only responsible for 5% of our life, and it is the servant of the almighty subconscious not the master of it.

By trying to choose a new path that simply has a different ‘focus’, only makes the subconscious program reinforce itself more firmly.

This is why, in regard to trauma recovery, if we try to think ourselves into indifference, positivity and relief, it is a gruelling uphill battle that invariably leads to you sliding back into even more pain, helplessness and feelings of failure and being defective.

By trying to do this, when trauma is involved, we don’t get better, and we don’t do better or experience better.

Addressing the Horrible Reality In A Way That Works

Okay, so if we wish ‘Not My Reality’ to work for real with a narcissist, we know that adamantly declaring the statement doesn’t work. We know also that ignoring what is happening in your reality doesn’t work either.

The truth is: presently the trauma of the narcissist IS your reality.

How do we get the switch to ‘NOT my reality’?

By understanding where our reality REALLY comes from, which is from inside of ourselves. It unfolds from our all-powerful, subconscious programs that are interconnected with everything and everyone in The Field within our personal life experience.

Therefore, nothing that you do OUTSIDE of yourself – no pushing back or ignoring it – is going to work.

What is going to work, however, is changing your subconscious programs that are matching what is taking place with the narcissist.

How do we do that?

Much more simply than you can ever imagine. In fact, it requires no cognitive effort. All it takes is for you to take your focus off the outside world, which you have no control over, and move it onto your inner emotional world.

The ‘what hurts’ right now, in regard to what the narcissist is triggering off inside of you, IS the reality creating the reality.

Our subconscious programs appear in our consciousness, letting us know what they are via our emotions.

By using an effective Quantum Tool to reach your subconscious, emotional energy, you can load up and release this energy directly from inside of you.

This means you can LET IT GO.

And when you do this for real, it means the original belief systems that were underpinning the trauma energy, wrapped up in your Inner Being, leaves too.

This means the subconscious program no longer exists inside you.

This means it is no longer creating the validity of the painful belief in your life.

How do we know when we have effectively let go and eradicated a limiting, painful inner subconscious belief?

We know, because when we think about the thing that previously was hurting us, there is no painful energy on it anymore.

Let me explain…

Previously when we thought about what the narcissist was doing to us, it triggered pain, fear, dread and anxiety. The thoughts we had connected to this were of helplessness and powerlessness, no matter how much rage and righteousness we had onboard as defences.

After such a subconscious shift, when we think about what the narcissist did or is doing, those feelings of fear and pain are no longer there. We have completely different thoughts. We see it for what it is. We no longer have the internal match to personalise and internalise the behaviour, making it about us.

Now there is a separation – a distinctly different feeling.

Which goes like this: That is YOU, but this is ME!

Meaning: I am no longer sucked in, sucker-punched, triggered or handing power over. RATHER I am deciding and taking action regarding what IS my reality.

In certain cases, this may be doing nothing because there is no need to – you deeply know with your newfound wisdom inside that there is no point doing anything, responding or acting in any way.

Just starve it of energy.

This is not a logical decision. It is a solid, anchored inner knowing of the thoughts and feelings connected with your True Self state on the topic of this person in your life now.

Or, you may know deeply inside you that without the previous emotional derailment of your triggers, you can now factually, calmly and in a concise documented way, take action to create boundaries and accountability with this person.

And you have ZERO fear about their reaction to this.

And you know if fear does comes up – meaning that there is another inner subconscious program to be addressed – that you will turn inwards, go to it, and release it.

When you become the true inner subconscious programs of ‘Not My Reality’, and you say it as a calm, untriggered, solid inner state, you will feel, think and do in alignment with ‘Not My Reality’.

You will line up with all the ideas, inspirations, support, people, synchronicities, and even miracles, that unfold ‘more of that’.

Remember how your subconscious has unlimited access and availability to all the permutations of The Field in your reality, to help unfold the reality of the subconscious beliefs?

I promise you, with all my heart, that when you release the trauma that the narcissist is triggering within you – and all the painful beliefs that were connected with it organically leave your being as well – you will be able to say authentically ‘Not My Reality’. And you’ll be able to say this because that is the absolute truth of Your True Self and your True Life.

False selves and abuse are Not Your Reality.

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THREE INGREDIENT PINK PARTY PUNCH

This Three Ingredient Pink Party Punch comes together in less than five minutes and is CRAZY delicious!! It is the best party punch recipe that will become your ultimate summer party cocktail!

I’m SO giddy about today’s recipe, guys!

Anyway! This recipe comes to you courtesy of one of my new neighbors. You guys might remember that we moved last year. And at our old house we never really hung out with our neighbors, but we are lucky enough to be surrounded by some seriously cool people in this house. So my neighbor, upon hearing about my second blog, told me that I HAD to make this punch recipe that she had before a Pink concert because it is the BEST party punch.

She is not wrong.

I am such a fan of frozen cocktails. Two of my favorites are my Strawberry Daiquiri Sangria (yup! It’s a thing!) and my Frozen Sangria Slush!

HOW DO YOU MAKE THIS PARTY PUNCH

Mix together the three ingredients in a large bowl or tupperware.

Cover and freeze overnight.
Take it out of the freezer and let thaw for about 20 minutes.

Scoop into cups and serve!




WHAT IS IN PINK PARTY PUNCH?

You could make this party punch with vodka, my neighbor told me that she’s made it that way too, but the original was made with gin.

Guys, I really love gin.

Either way you make it, you only need three ingredients:
pink lemonade concentrate
diet squirt (of course you could use regular)
gin (or vodka)

Three Ingredient Pink Party Punch

This Three Ingredient Pink Party Punch comes together in less than five minutes and is CRAZY delicious!! It is the best party punch recipe that will become your ultimate summer party cocktail!

Prep Time5 mins

Servings: 15 cocktails

Ingredients

12 ounces frozen pink lemonade concentrate (just the concentrate)
2 liters diet squirt soda
2 cups gin (or vodka)
lemon wedges for serving (optional)

Instructions

Combine all of the ingredients in a large bowl or tupperware. Stir until the lemonade is dissolved.
Cover and freeze overnight.
Before serving allow to thaw for 20 minutes. Then scoop into cups and serve!

Man Charged With Drug Offenses Because of $324K Smelt Like Cocaine

A 46-year-old man was arrested and charged on drug offenses because his stash of $324,000 smelt like cocaine. 



Gerald Flores was pulled over by police in Bergen, New Jersey in June and when officers searched his SUV they discovered seven bundles of cash wrapped in plastic and placed in a hidden compartment of his vehicle, Bergen County prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal in the case claimed.

After counting the money the authorities not only realised it was over a quarter of a million dollars, it also smelled strongly of cocaine.

Explaining the odor in the civil forfeiture complaint, which was filed this month Grewal wrote: “While counting the currency, it gave off a distinct odor of cocaine.”



No drugs were found during the search, but despite this Flores was still charged with transporting or possessing property believed to be derived from criminal activity. This isn’t believed to have been a completely random stop.

Flores was reportedly known to police, with detectives receiving “tips” that he was allegedly distributing drugs as long ago as April, nj.com reports. He was pulled over in Hackensack for an alleged traffic violation and told officers he was visiting his daughter.

Despite this, he “appeared nervous” when approached by the officers, who claimed “his hands began to tremble and he struggled to maintain eye contact,” as they questioned him.

When a search of his SUV took place a sniffer dog, aka a K-9, discovered the cash and provided a “positive reaction to the odor of narcotics”.

In addition to the $324,000, another $4,040 was found in other bundles around the vehicle with prosecutors claiming the cash were used to commit drug crimes.

According to a 2009 report, traces of cocaine can be found on 90% of bank notes in the US.

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KKK Leaders Started Stabbing Each Other Over Argument About Who’s The Most Racist

KKK Leaders Started Stabbing Each Other Over Argument About Who’s The Most Racist

It makes sense that at some point, a bunch of Ku Klux Klan members would be so angry, violent, and out of their minds that they couldn’t even remember who they hate.






The New York Times reported that two KKK leaders stabbed a third KKK leader. Everyone survived the altercation, surprisingly.


William Hagen is the grand dragon of the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, which covers a lot of the western United States, though he is based in California. Hagen and a man named Chris Barker got into a fight early Saturday morning with a guy named Richard Dillon, stabbing him several times in the chest at a Klan meeting in East Yanceyville, North Carolina. Both Barker and Dillon are KKK leaders in their communities. Despite his wounds, Dillon made it to a police department, where he collapsed. He was treated at a nearby medical center, then released.


Why were these KKK guys so hype? The meeting took place the night before a march celebrating the election of Donald Trump and extended into the wee hours. I don’t want to besmirch the characters of vile racist creeps, but I suspect there may have been some drinking going on. Both Barker and Hagen were arrested at different points in the parade and charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill. They’re being held in lieu of a secure bond.