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The Problem It starts innocently enough, a prescription to pain meds because of an accident or dental surgery, whatever. Or a doctor prescribes a powerful pain killer, maybe more powerful than needed, but without any warning about the addictive ... More...
Drug and alcohol rehabilitation counselors are never surprised to be working with someone who has previously attended multiple other treatment centers. Stories of ten and even twenty rehab programs which were all followed by relapse and reversion ... More...
Mothers and fathers, husbands and wives seeking help for their addicted family members ask this question every day. Why did the programs they previously attended not work; why is the addict back out there doing the same things, or worse? The answer ... More...
Drug rehabilitation is sometimes thought to be an unsuccessful venture. This is because the usual success rate of a rehab program runs around 25%. As dismal as that number seems, it explains why so many people go through the rehabilitation process ... More...
Janette wakes up every day with a splitting headache that won't get better until she vomits, goes into the kitchen and pours a tumbler full of vodka. Somehow, just pouring the alcohol into the glass gives her a little relief. The living room is a ... More...
Pamela, a 43 year old housewife is waiting in a cell at the local sheriff's department for her husband to bail her out. Her 4 year old daughter and 6 year old son are in the waiting room playing with toys a deputy gave them. Pamela was caught ... More...
People who are dependent on drugs or alcohol often ask this question, even if it's only privately. And the asking of the question is a danger sign in itself. When the situation is enough of a concern for the person to wonder, there's reason to ... More...
The drug commonly known in the West as KRATOM is far from new. From the leaves of an evergreen tree native to Thailand, mitragyna speciosa, it has long been known and used in Southeast Asia and Africa. But it has only recently come on the scene in ... More...
Times are changing. Drugs on the street today bear little resemblance to those of 40 or fifty years ago. Potency and purity are not the same. Prices are also all changed; this probably truer with Heroin than any other illegal drug. Refined from a ... More...
The Drug Addict's Worst Enemy Addicted people do not want to be addicts. Given a chance to choose sobriety, they will choose to be clean and dry for life. So what is it that keeps an addict using drugs. What keeps the alcoholic drinking week after ... More...
There is a plethora of news about a new substance that is touted as a legal alternative to heroin. Some claim it is a non-addictive solution to opioid problems, others say their cravings to use it are just as strong as their heroin urges. The ... More...
It's been said many time that getting an addicted person to agree to accept help can be as hard as or harder than actually treating them. This is often the case. But it is always the case that unless they can be gotten into care, they're not going ... More...
The non-medical use and abuse of prescription pain relievers in the US has over the years become an increasingly serious problem. Never before have we seen numbers such as these. Even when heroin and laudanum were available over the counter for ... More...
Too often addiction treatment programs concentrate almost solely on the eradication of drug use without attacking the reasons the addiction existed in the first place. Simply stopping the use of drugs is not a complete solution to the problems and ... More...