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Types Of Rehab Centers

What is a rehab center?  Well, it is a place or institution that provides facilities that can be used in giving therapy and training for people who are in need.  Thinking about that definition, rehabilitation now enters your mind. Rehabilitation means the process of re-establishment of a skill to an individual.  This skill is considered [...]

Drug Addiction Treatment Center

Drug Addiction Treatment Center In the past, when a person found themselves struggling with drug addiction and they wanted to find a treatment center where they could get help with that addiction, they were met with discerning looks, judgmental people, and cold, stark facilities.  A lot has changed over the year when it comes to [...]

Intervention And Drug Addiction

Intervention and Drug Addiction When you have a friend or a family member who is struggling with drug addiction, often staging an intervention can be an effective way to help them face their addiction and get help.  Intervention involves getting a variety of people together who have been affected by the user’s addiction in a [...]

Drug Addiction And The Family

Drug Addiction and the Family When a family is dealing with drug addiction, everyone is affected.  Having an addict in the family can put stress and strain on all relationships as well as the family dynamics.  The addiction causes pain, frustration, and anger in all members involved.  Because it does affect everyone, the need for [...]

Increased Demand for Free Drug Rehab

As the recession grows deeper, the demand for low cost solutions for drug and alcohol rehab grows even at a more rapid pace.  The decrease in job security and cuts in employee assistance programs add to the already overworked rehabs offering free services.  Throw into this mix the loss of consumer credit for a large majority of homes [...]

Going to Pot (or Let’s Talk about Medical Marijuana)

Our state is considering legalizing medical marijuana.As a psychiatrist, my first thought is : NO! We treat addictions, and we try hard not to cause them. Marijuana (and many other illegal substances) may help mood and anxiety in the moment, but they don’t seem to fix things for the long haul. And chronic pot smoking [...]

Medical Marijuana on KevinMD

Lockup doc gave us the head’s up that KevinMD is also talking about the legalization of marijuana for medical uses. He has good discussion of the issues up, do check it out: Medical Marijuana has Doctors Asking Questions. How’d he know I was asking about this?The summary comes from HCPLive:In January, New Jersey became the [...]

Overdose Memorials in an Epidemic

I sometimes get the sense that there is a parallel universe besides this one, and I am not sure which one is real.  In one, the kids grow up safely, and every premature death is cause for alarm that generates immediate effective action by the community.  In the other universe, kids in their teens are [...]

Overdose Memorials during an Epidemic

I sometimes get the sense that there is a parallel universe besides this one, and I am not sure which one is real.  In one, the kids grow up safely, and every premature death is cause for alarm that generates immediate effective action by the community.  In the other universe, kids in their teens are [...]

Addiction is Sometimes about learning the same mistakes over and over Again!

How many times do we have to learn some lessons?  Why do we continue to follow a behaviour until it crashes around us and we are forced to do something different?  Addiction is repetitive and non-productive.  It has great cost to self esteem and physical health.  A simple answer is that people will change when [...]

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