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Dec
23
When is it Time to Get Help?
Drug and alcohol addiction is a dangerous and progressive disease, but at what point in the progression is it time to get help from drug rehabilitation professionals? When someone drinks alcohol every day, but never gets drunk, or parties and does cocaine or ecstasy every weekend, but never during the week days, are they addicts in need of drug ...
Dec
13
The Harshest Reality of “Crack Kills”
For a long time, I used to think that people don't die from crack addiction. I used to think that only drugs like heroin and prescription meds could kill addicts. You don't hear about crack overdoses like heroin, but just recently a member of our recovery community at treatment-centers.net told us that her husband, who had been a crack ...
Dec
12
Heroin Addiction Running Wild
There have been numerous articles recently about the spread of heroin and perscription drug abuse among young people from 13-25 years of age. These disturbing develpments have indicated that a majority of these young people are beginning with abuse of prescription pan medications stolen from parents and grandparents who are ill or recovering from surgery. Despite the serious dangers of ...
Jul
23
Opiate Addiction Trumps Meth Addiction
Drug abuse and drug addiction have been plaguing our society for decades and the most disturbing trend was the rapid and deadly spread methamphetamine from the mid-west throughout the country. But more recently, even the heavily methamphetamine saturated states throughout the west and mid-west have been struggling with an addiction monster no one saw coming. Prescription opiate pain ...
Jul
03
Rise in Afghanistan Poppy Leads to Iranian Drug Addiction
A recent article discussed the society of Iran and it's addiction to opium, heroin, and other opium based drugs. Although opium is a very commonly used pain killer and is also used socially in Iran, addiction that has turned users to heroin and other opium based drugs has plagued the nation and the government has leaped into action to ...
Jul
03
Opium Addicts in Iran, Compliments of Afghanistan
A recent article covered a rather disturbing story out of the middle east. The story reported that as many as 1 in 7 Iranians are addicted to opium or heroin, all coming from the poppy fields of Afghanistan. According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 93% of the world's illicit opium market comes from Afghanistan. ...
Apr
22
Alcoholism and the Functional Alcoholic
Everyone probably knows someone who knows someone or heard of someone who is an alcoholic and down on his or her luck, but alcoholism effects many more people that we may know. It's not the bums on the corner and those who have literally lost everything who have problems with alcohol, but also those who drink every single day ...
Apr
22
What is Addiction?
Addiction is characterized as uncontrollable compulsive behavior, often that results in life becoming unmanageable and needing change. Most commonly, drug and alcohol addictions are treated through attending a drug and alcohol rehabilitation program. Proven to be highly successful and powerful tools in the struggle to find recovery from addiction, these programs have helped countless drug and alcohol addicts ...
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