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Prescription Drug Abuse Destroys Millions of Lives

Monday, May 17th, 2010

More and more drug users are turning away from street drugs and using prescription drugs to get high. This has contributed to a high street value for pain pills and many individuals are selling their pills for big profit. According to the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, prescription drugs are second to [...]

Violence and Alcohol 101

Tuesday, May 11th, 2010

The tragic death of University of Virginia student Yeardley Love last Monday ought to be a wake-up call to the nation’s colleges and universities not only of the peril of violence on campus but of the alcohol abuse that helps fuel it. George Huguely, the former boyfriend charged with her murder, has a history of [...]

Drug Addiction Treatment and Drugs

Thursday, May 6th, 2010

Drug addiction treatments include structured, supportive inpatient  or outpatient treatment programs, counseling and attending self-help groups to help you resist using the addictive drug again. Depending on your level of addiction, you may need steps to help you withdraw from using the drug (detoxification). Therapies such as counseling, addiction treatment programs and self-help group meetings [...]

Local or Distant Drug and Alcohol Treatment

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

How far away from home should one travel for drug and alcohol treatment. Many families like to send their loved ones to a local drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers but there are many individuals who have chosen to travel long distances to remove themselves from local influence to use drugs and alcohol. It appears that [...]

Addiction Disease: A Neurological Disorder

Friday, June 26th, 2009

For those who have trouble calling addiction a disease. Addiction is a neurologically based disease. For many years recovery specialists have compared alcoholism or addictions to a physical disease: like diabetes. In reality addictions are more closely related to a neurological disorder like Tourette’s Syndrome* than they are to diabetes. If the problems you suffer [...]

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