The Project: A Need for Help
Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff first heard about the Hubbard detoxification method while attending a meeting of the Conference of Western Attorneys General. Later, results of the Ground Zero Rescue Workers Detoxification Project were brought to his attention. Concerned about the health problems suffered by Utah police officers and firefighters who had been exposed to chemicals while busting methamphetamine labs, General Shurtleff did some further research into the program.
The success of the New York Project was well documented. Since the implementation of the program in 2002, close to 1,000 Ground Zero workers have recovered quality of life and job fitness through the project's unique detoxification.
In December of 2006, Mr. Shurtleff held a meeting to determine if Utah's first responders would be interested in participating in such a program. Over 80 law enforcement personnel and firefighters attended and expressed a strong desire for the program.
The following month, the Attorney General traveled to New York and visited the project. He spoke with individuals who had completed the program and others who were currently detoxifying. What he heard and saw was very impressive.
He found that Rescue workers who had completed the program were now able to sleep through the night for the first time since 9/11. They found they could breathe comfortably without inhalers or other medication.
Aside from the subjective sense that their bodies were being cleansed, the tangible evidence was dramatic.
Some patients had black paste coming out of their pores in the sauna. Their sweat had stained towels purple, blue, orange, yellow and black. They reported bowel movements that were blue, or green, or that smelled like smoke —despite the fact that they had not been at a fire scene for months.
From the first cases, the results from detoxification were remarkable.
A non-profit organization, the American Detoxification Foundation, was created and it subsequently established the Utah Meth Cops Project with the purpose of raising funds to train a local team to deliver the program in Utah to those Law Enforcement personnel who had been poisoned by contact with toxins from meth labs encountered in the line of duty, on a humanitarian basis, at no cost to them.
With a grant from the Commission on Crime and Juvenile Justice obtained through the help of Senator Buttars and General Shurtleff, the Utah Meth Cops Project opened its door on September 26, 2007, with seven officers starting the program.
Those officers noticed immediate changes in their conditions. The results experienced by the participants were definite and without exception all reported improvements in their health, some very dramatic.
By early 2010, 68 officers had completed the program with great success.
The American Detoxification Foundation and Mr. Shurtleff turned their attention to the rest of the nation and started reaching out to police officers from other states. It also became apparent that soldiers exposed at the burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan and firefighters exposed to the same meth labs that had affected police officers could benefit from the program.
So the Heroes Health Project was implemented in January of 2010 and is now ready to provide help.
