Posts Tagged ‘drug addiction treatment’
Fast Facts About Some Obstacles to Heroin Sobriety
Fast facts about some obstacles to heroin sobriety
As the number of heroin users in the U.S. rises, more addicts are seeking help but running into barriers that block them from treatment, including lack of beds in packed facilities, high costs for care and unwillingness on the part of insurance …
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Rx Pills Treating Common-Day Ills: Novus Medical Detox Addresses Prescription …
Novus Medical Detox, one of the only Florida-based detox centers serving high-dosage drug abuse patients, says that the statistics further evidence America's reliance on prescription drugs as a cure-all for common ailments, a likely influence on the …
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Walker signs bills aimed at quicker response to heroin scourge
It also provides legal immunity for anyone who reports an overdose, creates regional opiate treatment centers and allows municipal prescription drug collection drives. The new laws also require identification to obtain opiate prescriptions and create …
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Health, Government Officials Seek Solutions on Drug Addiction – WMUR Manchester
Health, government officials seek solutions on drug addiction – WMUR Manchester
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Health, government officials seek solutions on drug addiction
WMUR Manchester TWO SEPARATE EVENTS FOCUSING ON DRUG ABUSE WERE HELD TODAY. IT IS HARD TO BELIEVE, BUT NEW HAMPSHIRE HAS SOME OF THE HIGHEST RATES OF ADDICTION IN THE UNITED STATES. THOSE CLOSE TO THE ISSUE SAY THERE … Heroin use remains a scourge in New Jersey Heroin use in Tennessee |
South Jersey short on treatment sites for drug addicts – Press of Atlantic City
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South Jersey short on treatment sites for drug addicts
Press of Atlantic City The battle against South Jersey's surging heroin epidemic is one the local addiction treatment infrastructure is ill-equipped to fight. Even as state agencies, advocacy groups and individuals band together to address opiate addiction, many factors … |
Y Cant I End My Nonstop 12yr Drug Habit?
Question by killurkellbell: y cant i end my nonstop 12yr drug habit?
at 5am this morning,a week and1/2 shy of my 26th birthday,i sit and wonder for the god-only-knows-how-many-times…why?i finally have found the only closest thing ive ever known to a consistant,stable,somewhat peaceful by comparison life,i have family love and support ive never known before,brand new car,a house ive lived in long enuf to see a tree grow{over a year}4 cats,a dog,faith in god and some self esteem.why do i still feel the unending desire to self-sabatage the life ive worked so hard to achieve with a bag of white stuff that will eventually render me toothless by 30,brainless by 35,ugly and looking 60 by only 40,a 2time loser by 45,and finally{peacefully no doubt}DEAD by fifty,if im lucky enuf for the personal hell to ever end.my luck i’ll live to be 113…does anyone feel me?can anyone be as real with me,i’ll take anything…
Brain Difference Found Among Occasional Drug Users – UPI.com
Brain difference found among occasional drug users – UPI.com
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Brain difference found among occasional drug users
UPI.com Dr. Martin Paulus, a professor of psychiatry and colleagues, say the brain differences are believed to represent an internal hard wiring that may make some people more prone to drug addiction later in life. “If you show me 100 college students and tell … Brain Differences in College-aged Occasional Drug Users Occasional Drug Use Shows In The Brain |
North Korea’s new drug addiction – GlobalPost
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North Korea's new drug addiction
GlobalPost A North Korean guard post, seen from a South Korean observation tower in Paju near the Demilitarized Zone dividing the two Koreas, on December 23, 2011. Reports of rampant recreational drug use of amidon are trickling out of the country. (Prakash … |
Brain Difference Found Among Occasional Drug Users – UPI.com
Brain difference found among occasional drug users – UPI.com
UPI.com |
Brain difference found among occasional drug users
UPI.com Dr. Martin Paulus, a professor of psychiatry and colleagues, say the brain differences are believed to represent an internal hard wiring that may make some people more prone to drug addiction later in life. “If you show me 100 college students and tell … Brain Differences in College-aged Occasional Drug Users |
Bill touts criminal penalties for prenatal drug use – WBIR-TV
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Bill touts criminal penalties for prenatal drug use
WBIR-TV SHARE 768 CONNECT 36 TWEET 9 COMMENTEMAILMORE. A year after a tense legislative battle, a proposal to allow Tennessee authorities to arrest women for damage done to their infants by drug use during pregnancy has moved closer to passage. |
Bill Touts Criminal Penalties for Prenatal Drug Use – the Tennessean
Bill touts criminal penalties for prenatal drug use – The Tennessean
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Bill touts criminal penalties for prenatal drug use
The Tennessean SHARECONNECTTWEETCOMMENTEMAILMORE. A year after a tense legislative battle, a proposal to allow Tennessee authorities to arrest women for damage done to their infants by drug use during pregnancy has moved closer to passage. Women have … |
Doctors give advice on breaking the cycle of drug addiction – WATE-TV
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Doctors give advice on breaking the cycle of drug addiction
WATE-TV "The problem is, once your body is adapted to these medicines they don't really work anymore," said Dr. John Kupfner. "Every second feels like you're on the verge of death and the only thing that's going to make it better is that drug," said former … |
Plans for large Calverton drug addiction treatment center move ahead – Newsday