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Today is International Drug Overdose Awareness Day
There is a nice trend in growing activism and awareness of the dangers of overdose.
We like to focus on the threat that prescription drugs in particular have brought about but the Salvation Army has created this day for awareness about the dangers of all drug overdoses.
For a tribute, you might want to [...]
Painkillers Like Percocet Can Lead to Addiction
Many people are unfamiliar with the potential dangers of prescription drugs such as Percocet or Vicodin.
Don’t Pass Your Alcohol Addiction onto Your Kids: Get Help
You may think your alcohol addiction is only harming yourself – but you’re wrong. Your addiction to alcohol may be increasing the risk that your children will develop their own alcohol addiction as adults.
According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, children of alcoholics (COAs) are between four and 10 times more likely [...]
Part 5 Opioids: Managing the Medical Complications of Addictive Drugs
In our final segment about managing the medical complications of addictive drugs we are going to discuss the drug that has displaced methamphetamine as the biggest development in drug addiction in the last decade – opioids.
If this article were written at any other time in the last 100 years, opiate based content would be relevant [...]
Part 4 Methamphetamine: Managing the Medical Complications of Addictive Drugs
Part 4 Methamphetamine: Managing the Medical Complications of Addictive Drugs
Methamphetamine is easy to manufacture and highly addictive. This drug was one that we only had limited exposure to for the early years of our treatment center (in the mid 1980s) but throughout the 1990s and new millennium this drug has become an incredible destroyer [...]
Suppressing Anger Can Result in Violence
Violence and excessive drinking are often thought to go hand-in-hand. A new study shows that a person’s tendency to become violent while drunk is more likely when the person makes a habit of suppressing their anger.
“Only a tiny fraction of all drinking events involve violence and whether intoxicated aggression is likely to occur seems to [...]
Part 3 Cocaine: Managing the Medical Complications of Addictive Drugs
Substance 3: Cocaine
Cocaine is the drug that skyrocketed in popularity during the 1980s due to the prevalence of crack cocaine. The smokable “crack” form of cocaine was inexpensive and easily available. The irony of crack’s inexpensive price tag is that it costed so many tens of thousands of people everything they had. This [...]
Part 2 Marijuana: Managing Medical Complications of 5 Addictive Drugs
Managing Medical Complications of 5 Commonly Abused Substances:
Part 2: Marijuana
In our last blog entry, we discussed the side effects of heavy drinking and how it made our job in treating men for alcoholism all the more difficult.
If we’ve learned anything in this recent era of progressive marijuana legalization we’ve learned that marijuana [...]
Part 1 Alcohol: Managing Medical Complications of 5 Addictive Drugs
There are always many layers to the addictive behaviors and every man brings with him a unique set of experiences and medical history to the treatment process.
Helping Your Parents Enter Substance Abuse Treatment
A recent study by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration found that admissions to substance abuse treatment by adults older than 50 nearly doubled between 1992 and 2008. That points to a growing trend among older adults to both admitting they have a problem with drug or alcohol abuse and a willingness to [...]