Posts Tagged ‘Substance dependence’

Amethyst’s 2012 Walk for Recovery – Saturday, September 15th was Amethyst, Inc.’s 2nd annual ‘Walk for Recovery’ at Wolf Park. While women participate in the alcohol and drug treatment program,…

Saving lives through rehab
Jim Hoover, a retired drug and alcohol therapist at the Genesis Treatment Center, as well as James Hoover's father, said that his biggest heartache was knowing addicts who wanted to recover but didn't have the resources. “I knew they desperately wanted …
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Lindsay Lohan plans to transfer to another rehab facility, possibly to Long Island
A California judge has approved the troubled starlet's bid to leave Cliffside in Malibu and enter Seafield Center in Westhampton Beach, N.Y., which focuses mainly on alcohol and substance-abuse treatment. She will head there in early July. PHOTOS …
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THE TRUTH ABOUT SUBOXONE! – talking to folks about the drug suboxone and the truth about it!

Heroin's grip hard to overcome
Horsley said some medication-assisted treatments, such as methadone and Suboxone regimens, also could be considered harm reduction techniques because the patient remains dependent on opiates but avoids the risk of overdose by getting regular, …
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Workshop offers different perspectives on drug abuse
Suboxone, which is prescribed by doctors, is an opiate blocker and is often abused. Signs of abuse of Suboxone, McDonough said, include constipation, depression, low blood pressure, decreased respiration, confusion, increased risk of choking and loss …
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Coming Soon? Roadside Drug Testing – Watch List News (press release)

Coming Soon? Roadside Drug Testing Watch List News (press release) Those with a drug addiction should contact a professional detox center like Harbor Village and get the 24/7 medically supervised assistance needed for recovery. Miami, FL (PRWEB) June 18, 2013. According to a HealthDay News article (4/26), a roadside … and more »

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Florida Substance Abuse Treatment Facilities 1-800-839-1682 – While there are many addicts who cannot recognize they have a problem, there are others who believe they can deal with their addictions alone. Call and visit…

by Eric Fischer

Pregnant Pottstown woman detained after she fails drug tests
Gaudenzia operates more than 130 drug and alcohol treatment programs for men and women at more than 75 facilities in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware. “Gaudenzia shall report to court the results of said assessment and place defendant in an …
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States vary widely on success rates for minorities in drug treatment programs
The study, which was published in May in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence, analyzed data from 940,058 patients from outpatient substance abuse treatment centers across the United States for whom there were admissions/discharge information, …
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Categorising methadone: Addiction and analgesia.

Int J Drug Policy. 2013 Jun 11;
Keane H

While methadone was first developed as an analgesic, and used for this purpose before it was adopted as a therapy for drug dependence, it is this latter use which has saturated its identity. Most of the literature and commentary on methadone discusses it in the context of methadone maintenance therapy (MMT). But one of the effects of the liberalization of opiate prescription for chronic pain which took place in the 1990s was the re-emergence of methadone as a painkiller. This article examines the relationship between methadone the painkiller and methadone the addiction treatment as it is constituted in recent medical research literature and treatment guidelines. It highlights the way medical discourse separates methadone into two substances with different effects depending on the problem that is being treated. Central to this separation is the classification of patients into addicts and non-addicts; and pain sufferers and non-pain sufferers. The article argues that despite this work of making and maintaining distinctions, the similarities in the way methadone is used and acts in these different medical contexts complicates these categories. The difficulties of keeping the ‘two methadones’ separate becomes most apparent in cases of MMT patients also being treated for chronic pain.
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Wayne Paul – God Ain’t Ready – A true renaissance. The only way to describe Wayne Paul’s return. Lost in alcohol and drugs, drifting from incarceration bids to detox clinics, the British a…

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Brooke Mueller leaves Betty Ford for a THIRD rehab center . . . as she focuses …
But according to TMZ the 35-year-old skipped out on the facility this week after her 30-day treatment as she is satisfied with the detoxing phase of her recovery. Sources told the website that she has now made her way to a centre in Orange County that …
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New Book Shows How Our Fixation On Neuroscience Is Making Us Crazy
In the chapter on addiction, Satel, who has treated addicts in methadone clinics, stakes out a controversial, convincing position challenging the popular model of addiction and alcoholism as brain diseases Case in point: In the 1970s, some 25% of U.S …
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