Let me say it straight out, so there won’t be any confusion as to what it is I’m trying to say: In my experience you can’t stay clean based solely on the knowledge of why you used drugs so abnormally and had such an abnormal need for drugs in the first place. I’m not saying [...]
What’s done is done. Events, actions, confrontations, cannot simply be undone, because you’re sorry. While it’s difficult to accept, and most addicts don’t want to even think about it at all, some things simply can’t be made right, right away. If you want to begin a life in recovery, it’s one of the first things [...]
Do you think people with cancer wake up in the morning and the disease tells them they don’t have cancer? Not likely. Do you think people with heart disease wake up in the morning and the disease tells them they don’t have heart disease? I don’t think so. Do you think people with diabetes wake [...]
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.—Combining medications and behavioral interventions for treating alcohol-dependent patients reduces social costs of health care, arrests and motor vehicle accidents, according to a new study by researchers at RTI International, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Pennsylvania and Yale University. The study, published in the May [...]
How’s this for the insidious nature of prescription opiate addiction: Many young people (and others for that mater) get involved with opiates pain pills ( Vicodin , OxyContin) because they like the way the pills make them feel, and they get some consolation in the fact that the pills are pharmaceuticals, pure, not street adulterated, [...]
May 10, 2010 // Announcement From: The Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH) Prescription drug abuse means taking a prescription medication that is not prescribed for you, or taking it for reasons or in dosages other than as prescribed. Abuse of prescription drugs can produce serious health effects, including addiction. In 2008, according to the National [...]
May 5, 2010 // // Research Summary Women who misused the drugs also were more likely to tell investigators that they had been abused sexually or physically, and that they had a past history of psychiatric or psychological problems. HealthDay News reported April 30 that researcher Robert N. Jamison of Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital and colleagues [...]
The number of American soldiers seeking treatment for opiate abuse has skyrocketed over the past five years, at a time when the U.S. military has been surging forces into the heart of the world’s leading opium producer. Pentagon statistics obtained by FoxNews.com show that the number of Army soldiers enrolled in Substance Abuse Program counseling [...]
about 71,000 people were admitted to U.S. hospitals for prescription-drug overdoses in 2006, up from approximately 43,000 in 1999, according to a new report. Reuters reported April 6 that researcher Jeffrey H. Coben of the West Virginia University School of Medicine and colleagues found that accidental poisonings involving opioids, sedatives, and tranquilizers increased 37 percent, [...]
This is a wonderful, anonymously written piece. Enjoy it. jerry When you rise up out of your stupor or take a brief hiatus from your compulsive behavior long enough to look at your face in the mirror, what do you see? At some point, it is likely that you will have to choke back your [...]
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Jerry Bayer has a master’s degree in Public Policy from California State University, Sonoma, including a year as a Research Associate at the University of California, Berkeley. He started working in the addiction treatment field in 1970 in the Bronx, New York, and has worked at treatment centers across the country designing, developing and evaluating a wide variety of treatment services and programs... - Read More
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