Posts Tagged ‘alcohol abuse’
Addiction Treatment Forums
Treatment forums mainly report on substance abuse and addiction therapies, research, news, and events of interest to both healthcare professionals and patients. They operate with the aim of helping people addicted to alcohol and drugs curb their cravings. Self-help groups, support groups, individuals, and several other corporations are a part of this effort. These forums are formed to extend the reach of a proven effective program and help more people who need their services through funding treatment research, spreading awareness, and potentially providing scholarships.
Many such forums maintained online feature extensive resources such as current and past issues of AT Forum newsletters, special research reports, FAQs, notices of upcoming treatment techniques, and much more. Few such forums are Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (SAMHSA), Addiction Treatment Forum, The Stanton Peele Addiction Website, or JoinTogether.org.
Prescription Drug Abuse: Addiction Treatment Forums
Treatment forums mainly report on substance abuse and addiction therapies, research, news, and events of interest to both healthcare professionals and patients. They operate with the aim of helping people addicted to alcohol and drugs curb their cravings. Self-help groups, support groups, individuals, and several other corporations are a part of this effort. These forums are formed to extend the reach of a proven effective program and help more people who need their services through funding treatment research, spreading awareness, and potentially providing scholarships.
Many such forums maintained online feature extensive resources such as current and past issues of AT Forum newsletters, special research reports, FAQs, notices of upcoming treatment techniques, and much more. Few such forums are Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (SAMHSA), Addiction Treatment Forum, The Stanton Peele Addiction Website, or JoinTogether.org.
Drug Abuse: Prescription Drug Abuse Drives Huge Spike in Poisoning Deaths Among Children: Report – Huffington Post
Drug Abuse: Prescription Drug Abuse Drives Huge Spike In Poisoning Deaths Among Children: Report – Huffington Post
An uptick in teenagers overdosing on prescription drugs drove the almost doubling of fatal poisonings among American children, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports Monday. From 2000 to 2009, the number of children aged 15 to 19 …
Drug Abuse – Bing News
Drug Abuse: Increased drug abuse prevention efforts also needed – Burlington County Times
The efforts of some New Jersey lawmakers to introduce legislation that would automatically expunge the criminal records of first-time, nonviolent drug offenders is a sensible idea that should earn strong bipartisan support. But in my role as a …
Drug Abuse – Bing News
Drug Abuse: Drug, alcohol abuse increases risk for suicide – Centre Daily
What are the greatest risk factors for suicide? Depression and other mood disorders put people at the highest risk. This is closely followed by drug and alcohol abuse, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
Drug Abuse – Bing News
Drug Abuse: Prescription drug abuse takes center stage in Fla. – Bluefield Daily Telegraph
ORLANDO, Fla. — Education and prevention on the local level as well as improved communication with other states are West Virginia’s best bets in the war against prescription drug abuse, officials said Tuesday. “We are finding in southern West …
Drug Abuse – Bing News
Drug Abuse and Alcohol Abuse – the 9 Underlying Causes and 2 Major Reasons They Abuse Drugs
What are the underlying causes of drug and alcohol abuse? And why do you need to know? If you’re trying to solve a drug or alcohol abuse problem, wouldn’t it be a good idea to find out first what’s causing it? Obvious question right, well maybe not so. Perhaps knowing about the cause to drug abuse is the first step to solving the problem.
Drug and alcohol abusers were all born with various degrees of abilities and inabilities. The less able drug or alcohol abuser are the more dependent they became.
An easy example to show is with children. In their early age, they’re unable to cook, or work for a living. Therefore they depend on their parents to survive.
As children grow, they learn new skills, and as a result, become less dependent on their parents.
Drug Abuse: Women and Drug Abuse
According to the National Institute of Drug Abuse, more than 4 million women use drugs today in America. In the past year alone, 9 million women used drugs illegally and another 50% of all women between the ages of 15 to 44 will try drugs at least once in their lifetime. These troubling numbers are compounded by the fact that many instances of women and drug abuse go unreported. Many women suffer from their drug abuse and addictions silently, secretly hiding their problem from friends and family.
Finding help, therefore, can be a difficult task for women who abuse drugs. Admitting that they have a problem is often difficult particularly when friends and family are unaware of the drug use. Women may deny drug abuse out of fear and shame that their family will be taken away from them if they appear to be unfit caretakers, a stigma associated with women and drug abuse.
Adopted Kids’ Drug Abuse Risk Affected by Biological Family – CNN
Drug Abuse: Adopted kids’ drug abuse risk affected by biological family – CNN
(Health.com)– Adopted children are twice as likely to abuse drugs if their biological parents did too, suggesting that genetics do indeed play a role in the development of substance abuse problems. However, trouble or substance abuse in the …
Drug Abuse – Bing News
Drug Abuse: Our View: Drug abuse not easily thwarted by a snapshot – Watauga Democrat
A N.C. Senate bill that became law a week ago may complicate your world, but it also has the potential to save lives by slowing a death spiral of fatalities due to prescription drug abuse. Yet even so, this is a measure that must be taken with a …
Drug Abuse – Bing News
Drug Abuse: Nellis widens drug testing net – AF.mil
3/7/2012 – NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. — The Department of Defense is taking a new stand against prescription drug abuse with an expansion of the drug urinalysis testing system, and Nellis Air Force Base will ramp up its testing efforts to support it.
Drug Abuse – Bing News