Posts Tagged ‘Addiction’

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

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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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Internet addiction: how to fight it
Filed under: cocaine addiction signs

A new study suggests internet users who become dependent on being online have showed signs of changes in the brain similar to alcoholics and cocaine addicts. Professor Mark Griffiths says psychotherapy or drugs may be the solution: "It is very …
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Program: Parents matter in battle against teen drug use
Filed under: cocaine addiction signs

A recovered heroin addict explained how she began experimenting with drugs at age 12. “I was a cheerleader and a straight A student with low self esteem,” said Carrie Brummel of Batavia. “I got caught up in the wrong crowd. I was introduced to cocaine …
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Internet addiction changes teen brain like drugs, study shows
Filed under: addiction treatment

"Recent studies have shown that physical or pharmacological treatments may improve white matter integrity," the authors state. Internet addiction is a fairly new and loose name for a set of symptoms that include using the Internet for many hours at a …
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Alcohol-dependent Americans more likely to seek treatment than South Koreans
Filed under: addiction treatment

However, the human process of addiction is much more complex than dopamine release in the reward pathways of the brain or the binding occupancy of the endogenous opiate receptors. Cross-cultural studies like this one reveal that we should also …
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Op-Ed: Mobile meth labs and meth addiction out of control in U.S.
Filed under: addiction to meth

Approximately 12 million Americans over the age of 12 have tried meth, at least once, according to the Office of National Drug Control. Called crystal meth, crank, meth and speed, people who have become addicted to it often need professional help to …
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Meth addicts face long wait for treatment
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Why Is alcohol addictive? Study offers clues
Filed under: alcohol addiction program

Raymond F. Anton, MD, who directs the Center for Drug and Alcohol Programs at the Medical University of South Carolina, says it is likely that there are other, as-yet-unidentified regions of the brain associated with addiction. …
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Holistic Drug Rehab for the New Year is Made Available at Mountainside Drug …
Filed under: alcohol addiction program

In addition, the staff includes a Nurse Practitioner, as well as a Registered Nurse, both of whom also have specializations and experience within the field of addiction treatment and alcohol rehab. Mountainside also provides services for those …
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Bangor addiction treatment center provides safe outlet for Lehigh Valley residents
Filed under: addiction center

"We're finding that people that had been in recovery for many years, maybe sober from alcohol for 10 years or more, are going to casinos and ending up either relapsing on alcohol, because they provide it for free, or getting an addiction to gambling," …
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Christian addiction center sees first-year success
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Last year, Brunswick Christian Recovery Center opened, helping those struggling with addiction to drugs and alcohol at no cost. The results have been remarkable. More than 50 people have entered the program this year alone. Twenty-seven were baptized …
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VIDEO: East Bridgewater mother writes holiday poem about son's drug addiction
Filed under: opiate detox

Her son has been in detox programs a half-dozen times, she said. To fuel his addiction, he has stolen items from her home including a DVD player, a Xbox, her bracelets, rings and jewelry belonging to her grandmother. In November 2009, while rearranging …
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Most heroin users in early 20s, drug counselors say
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Townshend to discuss addiction clinic tonight at Town Hall
Filed under: opiate addiction treatment

"They are concerned he will be essentially attracting addicts to the neighborhood," she said. Suboxone is used to treat opiate addiction, which include heroin, morphine, Oxycodone and OxyContin. Harris said Hasaj appears to be a very pleasant, …
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Public Health England: Out of the 'bonfire' rises a grotesque new super quango
Filed under: opiate addiction treatment

It had also secured generous salaries, pension pots and bonuses for its senior staff (for reaching treatment target numbers – hardly difficult if you are offering free opiate substitutes to addicts) ones that would make anyone in the private sector …
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SPECIAL REPORT: Sarnia awash in painkillers; one woman's struggle with addiction
Filed under: crystal meth detox

How can a drug prescribed in a pharmacy rival lethal street drugs like crystal meth, crack and cocaine? "It's a useful drug when it's used appropriately," said Paul Stebbins senior counsellor at Lambton County Addiction Services, Bluewater Health. …
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Drugs turned city upside down: retiring officer
Filed under: crystal meth detox

Drugs such as crystal meth, and bath salts – a new designer drug causing a rash of problems in Bangor – have yet to land in the hands of addicts here. And an increase in guns on the streets has raised safety concerns for both police and the public. …
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