Drug Abuse

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Question by Henry S: How come questions about sobriety only get 12-step answers, never SMART Recovery or CRAFT?
CRAFT (Community Reinforcement Approach Family Training) as described in Meyers and Wolfe’s book One Sober: Alternatives to nagging, pleading and threatening – from Hazelden Press! – describes a non-confrontational approach to helping others get sober that works. In research it did 6 X better than Alannon (which doesn’t actually aim to help but rather helps people let go) and 2X better than the Johnson Institute “intervention” (which makes people angry and feel they’ve been attacked). Also, SMART (Self-Management And Recovery Training) at www.smartrecovery.org offers a similar science-based and secular approach that is much more appealing to folks who don’t beleive in a Higher Power who will fix it if properly prayed to and appeased, and SMART Recovery is based on approachs proven to work. So why are all the answers to such questions always AA, 12-step, anonymous group oriented?    Read more...

Report: Heroin epidemic in South Florida
A newly issued report sponsored by the National Institute on Drug Abuse has determined that a heroin epidemic is underway in South Florida. “The key issue identified in 2013 is the outbreak of a heroin epidemic in South Florida and particularly in …
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Editorial | Drug addiction is national, not personal, failure
The chronic nature of drug addiction is exemplified by Hoffman's case — the actor had reportedly been clean for 23 years before relapsing and checking himself into a drug rehab facility last year. Indeed, the National Institute on Drug Abuse reports …
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Sources: Philip Seymour Hoffman dead of apparent drug overdose
Last year Hoffman revealed that he had entered rehab to deal with a drug problem, telling TMZ that he'd kicked a substance abuse habit for 23 years but recently relapsed. In a 2011 interview with "60 Minutes," he discussed his past struggles with drug …
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Sources: Nearly 50 envelopes of suspected heroin in Hoffman's apartment
Prescription drugs, including the blood-pressure medication clonidine hydrochloride; the addiction-treatment drug buprenorphine; Vyvanse, a drug used to treat attention-deficit (hyperactivity) disorder; hydroxyzine, which can be used to treat anxiety …
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Anti-Addiction Drugs Found In Philip Seymour Hoffman's Apartment
New York City detectives confirmed that, along with the 50 bags of heroin found in Philip Seymour Hoffman's apartment at the time of his death, they also found a variety of prescription drugs including the addiction-treatment drug buprenorphine …
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Hoffman among thousands of addiction victims
His death, which came after a long period of sobriety that ended last year, "epitomizes the tragedy of drug addiction in our society," said Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. "Here you have an extraordinarily talented …
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Holiday Roadblocks Used to Raise Drug Awareness
LDACs members and Maurithus Meiring, the Foundation for a Drug-Free World's South African coordinator, also handed out drug awareness materials to drivers and nearby residents. Drivers were also offered a chance to sign an anti-drug pledge, which …
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Why Heroin Is Becoming Deadlier
The number of heroin users almost doubled between 2007 and 2012, from 373,000 to 669,000, according to a 2012 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration survey. It's reached epidemic proportions, said Nancy Knott, an interventionist …
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Teen Prescription Drug Abuse – As a Public Health Promotion Grad Student, I created this Public Service Announcement to reach out to teens and add one more video that can raise awareness o…

Former cop is 'linchpin' of campaign to legalize marijuana
Four years ago, he took a $ 40,000 pay cut, he says, to become executive director of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, an international organization of former police officers, judges, prosecutors and corrections officers who now advocate legalizing …
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Methadone or Buprenorphine for Maintenance Therapy of Opioid Addiction …
One confounding factor is the comparison of treatment methods with those for other substance use disorders. National organizations, such as the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and the National Institute on Drug Abuse, along …
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Hospital, police see increase in overdoses
Cohen said he has seen a strong increase in the number of people with psychological problems who sometimes use over-the-counter drugs in an attempt to end their lives, but he believed most of the illegal drug-related overdoses were accidental. “They …
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House bill limits cough medicine sales to adults
Braley added that in 2013, the National Institute on Drug Abuse found that 1 in 20 teens in high school are trying to get high off of OTC cough medicines, and need to take excessive doses to reach that high. Under the bill, retailers who sell these …
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Fla law agency chemist may have stolen evidence
"This has the potential of impacting hundreds of drug cases across our state," Bailey told reporters. … sheriff's departments and police departments around the state and actually physically looking _ especially at the prescription meds _ to see if …
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