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Methamphetamine Addiction

dena@treatmentsolutionsnow.com — Sat, 23 May 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Methamphetamine Addiction
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The number of persons who used methamphetamine for the first time in the prior 12 months did not differ significantly between 2002 (299,000 persons) and 2004 (318,000 persons) but did decrease significantly between 2004 and 2005. In 2004, an estimated 318,000 persons aged 12 or older first tried methamphetamine in the year prior to the survey compared with 192,000 persons in 200 [...]

Prescription Painkiler Addiction

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Prescription Painkiller Addiction
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National Surveys on Drug Use and Health indicate that the nonmedical use of prescription pain relievers (analgesics) among persons aged 12 or older did not differ significantly among the years between 2002 and 2005. The number of persons who used prescription pain relievers nonmedically for the first time in the past year of the survey also did not differ signi [...]

Marijuana Addiction

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Marijuana Addiction
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Contrary to some popular belief, marijuana can be addictive and does have a very definite set of dependency and withdrawal characteristics. It is the most widely used illicit drug in the nation, and its use is somtimes promoted in certain pop sub-cultures.

Based on SAMHSA's 2005 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 6.8% (1.7 million) youth aged 12 to 17 used marijuana in the past m [...]

Heroin Addiction

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Heroin Addiction
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Based on theTreatment Episode Data Set (TEDS), annual admissions to substance abuse treatment for primary heroin abuse increased from 228,000 in 1995 to 254,000 in 2005. However, the proportion of primary heroin admissions remained steady at about 14% to 15% of all substance abuse treatment admissions.

The proportion of primary heroin admissions who injected heroin declined from 69% in 1995 t [...]

Cocaine & Crack Addiction

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Cocaine and Crack Addiction
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Based on the Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS), admission rates for primary cocaine treatment decreased nationally by 24% between 1992 and 2002 from133 admissions to 101 admissions per 100,000 persons aged 12 or older.

The number of States with cocaine treatment admission rates of 139 or more per 100,000 persons aged 12 or older decreased from 15 States in 1992 to nine St [...]

Benzodiazepine Addiction

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Benzodiazepines (Benzos) are one of the most commonly abused and addictive prescription drugs. Benzodiazepines are a class of central nervous system depressant drugs commonly prescribed for short-term treatment of anxiety or insomnia. Proprietary names [...]

Ecstasy

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Ecstasy Addiction
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According to SAMHSA's 2003 National Survey on Drug Use & Health, about 2.1 million persons aged 12 or older (0.9%) reported using Ecstasy at least once in the past year.

Almost all (97.5%) of the persons age 12 or older who used Ecstasy in the past year also reported past year use of alcohol compared with 65.2% of those who had not used Ecstasy in the past year.

Over 90% of past [...]

Drug Treatment Methods

dena@treatmentsolutionsnow.com — Sat, 23 May 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Drug Treatment Methods
Not sure where to go for drug addiction rehab advice?
There are millions of pages on the Internet about drug addiction and rehabilitation centers. A quick search feels like this picture with all the different directions. How do you know which drug rehab works? How do you know what type of addiction treatment is the most successful? Where do you find these programs?

Did you know there are more than 13,000 drug rehabs in the country? Most of the 2 million [...]

Drug Rehab Success Rates

dena@treatmentsolutionsnow.com — Sat, 23 May 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Drug Rehab Success RatesHow is it determined if a program is successful?

Looking at Google Adwords ads, you can see that there is competition among drug rehab programs to tout who has the best success rates. The truth is, these published success rates are relative. What one group deems a success is different for another. Some people count their success based on the reduction in overall drug use, so even if someone uses drugs twice per week instead of every day they would still call that succe [...]

What is Drug Addiction???

dena@treatmentsolutionsnow.com — Sat, 23 May 2009 00:00:00 +0100

What is Drug Addiction?
Don't let theory be mistaken as truth
For the past five decades certain individuals and groups have tried to convince us that drug addiction and alcoholism is an incurable brain disease. They're still trying. In fact, they're trying so hard that they're spending millions of dollars on ad campaigns in an attempt to sell us on the idea. The problem is that there has yet to be one study that can prove it and most Americans still know that people can and do perma [...]

Causes of Relapse

dena@treatmentsolutionsnow.com — Sat, 23 May 2009 00:00:00 +0100

The Cause of Relapse

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Why Addicts Cannot Stop Using Drugs or Alcohol
This section contains vital information that you need to know in order to fully understand drug and alcohol addiction. Once you understand addiction, you will see how simply it can be overcome. It would be best if you could read this section several times to get a full understanding of the cause of relapse. There are two basic ca [...]

How do I get started???

dena@treatmentsolutionsnow.com — Sat, 23 May 2009 00:00:00 +0100

How to Get Started

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1.� Stop searching endlessly for a treatment program and take the time to read through this web site and learn the facts about drug addiction and our treatment program.

Regardless of what program you choose, by reading this web-site you will gain valuable information about addiction and gain an education on drug rehabilitation. With this knowledge, you can make the right choic [...]

Bio-Physical Programs????

dena@treatmentsolutionsnow.com — Sat, 23 May 2009 00:00:00 +0100

This process produces spectacular results by removing the root causes of future physical drug restimulation. Research has established that many types of drugs, such as cocaine, heroin, Valium, PCP, amphetamines (crank, crystal, meth, ecstasy, etc.) alcohol and medicinal drugs such as narcotic painkillers, tranquilizers and sleeping pills, can remain in the body for years. Over time, these residues can become stored in the fatty tissues of the body. When this happens, these stored residues can [...]

How Do I Choose A Rehab???

dena@treatmentsolutionsnow.com — Sat, 23 May 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Drug rehabs are facilities that treat addictions in a structured setting. There are many types of drug rehabs which use varying methods of treatment. Which approach is best? That depends on the specific individual problems and issues that are presented by the person needing alcohol or drug treatment. Generally no specific type of treatment is thought of as the best. The best approach is a combination of treatment types. Some of these are as follows
Medical model
12-Step model
S [...]

What Is Alcohol Abuse?

dena@treatmentsolutionsnow.com — Fri, 15 May 2009 00:00:00 +0100

What Is Alcohol Abuse?
Alcohol abuse differs from alcoholism in that it does not include an extremely strong craving for alcohol, loss of control over drinking, or physical dependence. Alcohol abuse is defined as a pattern of drinking that results in one or more of the following situations within a 12-month period:

Failure to fulfill major work, school, or home responsibilities;

Drinking in situations that are physically dangerous, such as while driving a car or operating ma [...]

What is Alcoholism?

dena@treatmentsolutionsnow.com — Fri, 15 May 2009 00:00:00 +0100

What Is Alcoholism?
Alcoholism, also known as "alcohol dependence," is a disease that includes four symptoms:

Craving: A strong need, or compulsion, to drink.
Loss of control: The inability to limit one's drinking on any given occasion.
Physical dependence: Withdrawal symptoms, such as nausea, sweating, shakiness, and anxiety, occur when alcohol use is stopped after a period of heavy drinking.
Tolerance: The need to drink greater amounts of alcohol i [...]

How Does Cocaine Produce It's Effects?

dena@treatmentsolutionsnow.com — Fri, 15 May 2009 00:00:00 +0100

How does cocaine produce its effects?

A great amount of research has been devoted to understanding the way cocaine produces its pleasurable effects, and the reasons it is so addictive. One mechanism is through its effects on structures deep in the brain. Scientists have discovered regions within the brain that, when stimulated, produce feelings of pleasure. One neural system that appears to be most affected by cocaine originates in a region, located deep within the brain, called t [...]

How is Cocaine Used?

dena@treatmentsolutionsnow.com — Fri, 15 May 2009 00:00:00 +0100

How is cocaine used?

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The principal routes of cocaine administration are oral, intranasal, intravenous, and inhalation. The slang terms for these routes are, respectively, "chewing," "snorting," "mainlining," "injecting," and "smoking" (including freebase and crack cocaine). Snorting is the process of inhaling cocaine powder through the nostrils, [...]

Crack

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What is Cocaine?

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Pure cocaine was first extracted from the leaf of the Erythroxylon coca bush, which grows primarily in Peru and Bolivia, in the mid-19th century. In the early 1900s, it became the main stimulant drug used in most of the tonics/elixirs that were developed to treat a wide variety of illnesses. Today, cocaine is a Schedule II drug, meaning that it has high potential for abuse, but [...]

Cocaine

dena@treatmentsolutionsnow.com — Fri, 15 May 2009 00:00:00 +0100

What is Cocaine?

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