Posts Tagged ‘the addiction’

by Brookhaven National Laboratory

Question by Seeker Of Painful Truths 2: Do people use the term “addiction” as a way to control people to do as they desire?
I ask because it would seem to me that based on what experts say, “addiction” is bad for you. Yet when ever the word “addiction” pops up, people usually use it like this below:

– PORN addition is bad
– DRUG addiction is bad
– ALCOHOL addiction is bad

None of that make any sense to me because I thought it is “ADDICTION” itself that’s bad. If thats true then why the need to specifically point out what kind of addiction it is? It should matter what the addiction is because the problem is “addiction” itself.

I think that people have clouded the term addiction so much that it’s meaningless. I think when people have a real problem like alcohol addiction or what ever, the core problem isn’t that they are heavily into alcohol, but that they are seriously UNBALANCED.

Addiction ~ Mooji – “Rather than running, say ‘ok come.. I want to see you clearly’… use the addiction to go beyond it.” (Mooji) http://www.mooji.org.

by Cea.

Painkiller abuse needs attention, too
“How do people become addicted to this awful stuff?” I remember … According to the Centers for Disease Control, overdoses of prescription painkillers have more than tripled in the past 20 years, killing more than 15,500 people in the United States in …
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Inslee seeks more mental-health privatization
Inslee's plan as outlined by Quigley calls for legislation in the legislative session starting next month to begin the process of combining mental health and addiction treatment while allowing the details of the bidding process to be worked out by a …
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Question by Megan: How can I slowly detox from opiates without horrible withdrawls?
Mostly tramadol, codiene, oxy, and vicodin.

Best answer:

Answer by Heretohallp
I don’t know the best way to put this, but to slowly detox without having horrible withdrawals may be something that won’t work. Now from what I know to detox slowly from opiates without getting medical help is to slowly cut down on the amount you intake daily. Eventually you get to the point where you’re not taking anything at all. That’s the only way I can see detox not having “horrible withdrawls”. But you’ll still have some. In my honest opinion if you really want to get clean, you must go through the horrible withdrawals. Yes it may be rough, but its what it takes. Cold turkey it, rough it out, beat the addiction. The hours of being sick, and not knowing what to do with your life will all be worth it in the end.

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War on drugs shifts: Health care law expands coverage for substance abuse …
Nationally, one in 10 people addicted to drugs or alcohol, or 20.7 million people, do not receive treatment, according to a report from the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse. America's current health care system does "little to …
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Atypical Antipsychotics New Drugs of Abuse
They found that of 429 patients from the detox and rehab units of the Addiction Institute of New York who were screened, 73 (17%) reported illegal or "nonmedical" use of prescribed atypical antipsychotics in combination with alcohol, opioids, cocaine …
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Where to find help for Ativan addiction – http://prescription-drug.addictionblog.org/help-for-ativan-addiction/ Where to find help for Ativan addiction | Addiction Blog Once you have realized that yo…

by NYS OASAS

Broward doctor talks chronic pain in Discovery Channel documentary
South Florida's prescription drug problem isn't just with pill mills, it's with the addiction that often comes hand in hand with treating pain, according to a Broward County doctor featured in a new Discovery Channel documentary. "We can't look at pain …
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Question by smaceroni: Dealing with a family members addiction to Ambien PLease help?
OK my sister has been addicted to Ambien for about 4 years now. She has through detox and rehab twice and hasnt gotten better. She is still very much addicted and supoosed to be going into another detox/rehab. She has been supposed to go nor for 2 weeks but everyday comes up with new excuse or chickens out. I have been supportive or encouraging but now its getting hard for me to be that way cause it hard for me to believe that she is actually going to go. She gets mad when I try to give her “tough love”. She gets mad that my parents and I never went to some type of counseling to learn about her problem. She says that since I have never been addicted I dont know what its like. I understand that, but it doesnt take a rocket scientist to know that its going to be pure hell to go through detox and rehab and stay clean. I just dont know what to do or say to her anymore. Has anyone been in this situation? What should I say or do? She is 34 and Im 26