Archive for the ‘Cocaine Addiction’ Category

More Newborns Suffering Drug Withdrawal at Birth

Filed under: drug detox

30 (HealthDay News) — A dramatic rise in newborns experiencing drug withdrawal after being exposed in the womb poses challenges for clinicians on how to detox these tiny victims, a new report indicates. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has …
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Detox plan gives addicts a second chance

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By Mpume Madlala Heroin is rated the worst drug in the world, with only a 5 percent chance of full recovery. This is according to Sam Pillay, the director of the Last Resort Wellness Centre in Chatsworth, which helps drug users to overcome their …
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Former Phillie Pitches for Drug & Alcohol Treatment Center

Filed under: private alcohol treatment

Patch File Photo Former Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Dickie Noles and the principal of a Penn Ridge School District elementary school spoke Wednesday in favor of a proposed inpatient drug and alcohol treatment facility adjacent to Bethlehem Catholic …
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Spotlighting Importance of 30-90 Day Drug Treatment Programs; 449Recovery …

Filed under: private alcohol treatment

The video, spotlighting the need for 30-90 day programs for proper drug and alcohol treatment, stresses the heightened importance of an elongated, realistic, time frame to help increase the success rate for those suffering from addiction and looking to …
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Woman traded sex with child for pills, police say

Filed under: marijuana addiction signs

The report states the child agreed to the arrangement sometime in December, because Blackmon was addicted to pills and suffering from withdrawal symptoms. Police say Hammond provided the girl marijuana to "help [the victim] complete the sex act.
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Cannabis mouth spray may help marijuana addicts

Filed under: marijuana addiction signs

A cannabis-based mouth spray prescribed to multiple sclerosis sufferers may be adapted for use by marijuana addicts who want to quit. A man walks past a medicinal marijuana dispensary in Los Angeles,CA on November 2, 2010. (MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty …
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NJ Dems advance bills lifting parole requirements, job restrictions for …

Filed under: addiction rehabilitation

"The choice is release them without the treatment needed to address their addiction or divert them from prison and provide treatment, which will enable them to participate in their community in a productive manner." ray – lesniak . JPG.
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SRS official Pedro Moreno who oversaw mental health facilities and KNI resigns

Filed under: addiction rehabilitation

An executive with the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services has resigned. The SRS confirmed Tuesday that Pedro Morena, deputy secretary for disability and behavioral health services, resigned Monday. It offered no explanation for the …
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Bolivia Inks Anti-Drug Accord with Brazil and the United States

Filed under: pictures of cocaine addicts

But in Brazil, cocaine seizures tripled from 2004 to 2009, increasing from 8 to 24 tons. It also became the largest transit country in the Americas for cocaine seizures in Europe. Brazil has one of the largest bases of cocaine users in the world, …
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Street drug dealers may avoid jail

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Does Illicit Drug Use Harm Cognition in Midlife?

Filed under: long term effects of crack cocaine

The illicit drug categories were cannabis, ecstasy, cocaine, crack cocaine, heroin, amphetamines, hallucinogenic mushrooms, LSD, temazepam, methadone, amyl nitrates (poppers), ketamine, and "other drugs." When the participants were 50 years old, …
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UPI NewsTrack TopNews

Filed under: long term effects of crack cocaine

The study also found young men who have tried crack cocaine are 10 to 18 points more likely to fall out of the middle class; the effect is even greater for heroin, with users 19 to 26 percentage points more likely to experience downward mobility.
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On crime in Cape Town – Helen Zille

Filed under: alcohol rehabilitation

… increased the number of patients receiving aftercare and recovery services from 500 (in 2009/2010) to 2460 (including subsidised NGOs), introduced courses in drug and alcohol treatment intervention services in conjunction with three Western Cape …
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Uninsured patients costing taxpayers

Filed under: alcohol rehabilitation

The indigent program pays health care bills for patients without insurance after they have received treatment, Gomez said. Half of the indigent program's money spent last year went to treat patients without insurance at alcohol and drug rehabilitation …
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'Headless Body in Topless Bar' killer seeks parole

Filed under: quitting cocaine

Dingle was just 23 when he went on his bizarre rampage, entering Herbie's Bar in Queens one April day and shooting owner Herbert Cummings to death while high on cocaine and alcohol. Dingle robbed some customers and took four women hostage, …
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Keeping the momentum going with high-yield workouts

Filed under: quitting cocaine

In 2007 French researchers gave rats the choice between intravenous cocaine and sweet water. They were shocked to discover that 94 percent of the rats chose sweet over cocaine. So, sweets might literally be more addictive than cocaine.
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Medically-induced opioid addiction reaching alarming levels

Filed under: addictions treatment

As many as 200 000 Canadians are currently addicted to painkillers, Rehm estimates, adding that he's equally discouraged that evidence‐based best practices for treatment of medically-induced addiction do not exist. The doubling in the number of …
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Breaking the mother of all addictions

Filed under: addictions treatment

The provincial government announced today that it will work with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) to assist nearly 23000 tobacco users undergoing addiction treatment in Ontario to quit smoking over the next three years. …
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Meth Hype Could Undermine Good Medicine

Filed under: short term effects of crack cocaine

During the crack cocaine epidemic in the 1980s and 1990s, pronouncements about lasting prenatal harm to children whose mothers used the drug turned out to be overblown: long-term effects on brain development and behavior were fairly small, and children …
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Legal Scholar: Jim Crow Still Exists In America

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