Prescription drug addiction is an increasing problem. The non-medical use of prescription drugs has increased dramatically with frightening results in individual’s lives and statistics to prove it. The people caught up in prescription addiction come from all subcultures and age groups and they can easily hide their addiction in what looks like reasonable pill popping. […]
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Methods of Treatment
Drug addiction and alcoholism are complex diseases. Most thought on the matter agrees that they can be treated but never completely cured. This means that after drug rehab clients are advised not to start drinking or using drugs again as there is an extremely high risk that full blown addiction will occur again. Addiction damages […]
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Drug Use During Pregnancy
If a pregnant mother uses drugs it impacts directly on the fetus. Mothers who are addicted to a chemical can cause great damage to their unborn child. Every effort should be made to apply a treatment intervention in drug rehab to help the mother quit drugs. Drug addicts are at a much higher risk than […]
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Spotting Cocaine Addiction
Cocaine addiction is an illness that affects many people around the world. Cocaine is a stimulant that leaves users feeling energized and confident. This makes it popular with people who feel that they need an edge to cope with life. There is not a way to definitively spot somebody who has a cocaine addiction that might […]
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Understanding Treatment of Drug Addiction
It has mistakenly believed that a drug addict needs to desire recovery in order to be treated for drug addiction; however recent findings suggest that pressure from friends, family, employers or the legal system on the addict to obtain treatment, improves their treatment outcomes. This is a critical point as most family members wait around […]
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4 Facts You Didn’t Know About Addiction Treatment
Getting into addiction treatment is not as bad as it what it may seem. Let’s use an example. You’ve just been in a car accident and you’ve broken a leg. I’m pretty sure that the only place where you’d like to be now is inside a hospital, where doctors can give you medical care to […]
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Acceptance of an Addiction Problem
12/09/2013 It’s so easy to say things like “it will never happen to me”. You might have thought that your loved one could never become an addict or alcoholic, yet here you are reading this. Addiction is a chronic, incurable brain disease that will get worse the longer it’s left untreated. It’s like a balloon […]
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Is Your Child a Drug Addict?
26/09/2013 As a parent, you want what’s best for your child. The best education, the best lifestyle, the best household, anything & everything that will help them make success out of their lives. You hope & pray that the way you raised them is good enough but realistically, you can only control so much. What […]
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‘Am I A Drug Abuser?’ Quiz
If you are wondering if you could be addicted to drugs, here’s a simple way to check. All you have to do is to grab a piece of paper and a pen and calculate your score as you go along. The Drug Abuse Screening Test (DAST) The Drug Abuse Screening Test (DAST) was developed in […]
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