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		<title>What Exactly is Alcohol Addiction Treatment?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many drug and alcohol addiction treatment are available to help individuals that are dependent such as methadone maintenance, drug-free programs and psychological treatments. Several public and private sectors offer various treatment facilities especially for struggling teenagers. These programs aim to provide support and maintenance for many struggling individuals to fully recover from their addiction. They [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Many drug and alcohol addiction treatment are available to help individuals that are dependent such as methadone maintenance, drug-free programs and psychological treatments. Several public and private sectors offer various treatment facilities especially for struggling teenagers. These programs aim to provide support and maintenance for many struggling individuals to fully recover from their addiction. They are generally classified into three steps such as intervention, detoxification and rehabilitation. The first step is to confront the drinkers or the alcohol dependent about their abnormal habit.</p>
<p>Health and alcohol addiction treatment specialists provide a higher approach for each individual based on the initial analysis in case they were not threatened in the intervention part. It is very important that the individual would be honest with the specialist in order for the latter to suggest the right treatment available for his case.</p>
<p><span id="more-45"></span>Most centers provide activities to further enhance the process such as boarding programs, day programs, individual support, good playgrounds, clinical facilities that bring a new change in the individual. Friends and relatives should be able to exhibit full support to the dependent because in this phase they need the most assurance that someone or a group of people still needs and wants them to recover. It usually takes about 4 days up to a week depending on the severity of a person&#8217;s addiction to the alcohol or drug.</p>
<p>Rehabilitation is the last approach that most experts use in order to support the drinker once the detoxification phase is completed to help maintain abstinence. One of the forms of rehabilitation is, counseling, it is very helpful to the health experts so they can provide all the necessary treatment and take a more specific approach. There are alcohol addiction treatments available and each needs to be carefully planned so they can effectively help the person involved into a more productive and healthy, drug or alcohol-free life.</p>
<p>Alcoholism is very serious problem that once taken lightly might ruin the lives of those who are involved. It therefore is important that once the first sign of addiction is observed, <a href="http://www.alcoholismandyou.com/Alcohol_Addiction.html" target="_blank">alcohol addiction treatment</a> techniques should be implemented to help keep the dependents from a more complicated situation that they might not be able to escape.</p>
<p>Alcoholism is a disease that has been around as long as there has been alcohol. Our site provides information related to <a href="http://www.alcoholismandyou.com/Treating_Alcoholism.html">treating alcoholism</a> and other aspects of this disease. Visit our site today for more information!<br />
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		<title>When Young People Take Prescription Drugs, They Don&#8217;t Stop at One Or Two</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:07:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>morgan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently interviewed an administrator in an addiction treatment center and found out that when clients come to them for help with a prescription drug addiction or abuse problem, they&#8217;re not just taking one or two drugs; it&#8217;s closer to 15.
The term &#8216;drug of choice&#8217; has been around for a long time. But when it [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I recently interviewed an administrator in an addiction treatment center and found out that when clients come to them for help with a prescription drug addiction or abuse problem, they&#8217;re not just taking one or two drugs; it&#8217;s closer to 15.</p>
<p>The term &#8216;drug of choice&#8217; has been around for a long time. But when it comes to the way young people are taking prescription drugs, the term has become obsolete. They take whatever&#8217;s going.</p>
<p>They often get them from parents&#8217; and friends&#8217; medicine cabinets, take the pills themselves, offer them to friends, and dump them in bowls at parties where anyone can take whatever strikes their fancy.</p>
<p><span id="more-38"></span>They generally have no knowledge of what they&#8217;re taking, what the consequences are, whether or not the drugs are addictive, what conditions the drugs are meant to treat, when they are dangerous, how much is safe, or how they interact with other drugs or with alcohol.</p>
<p>They just take them. It&#8217;s like a bowl of nuts &#8211; you just grab a handful and keep eating them.</p>
<p>Winding up in an addiction treatment center isn&#8217;t the worst consequence of this practice. They also wind up in the local emergency room or the morgue. In fact, many of the prescription drug overdose deaths don&#8217;t happen after years of abuse, they happen the very first time the person takes the drugs.</p>
<p>No one ever explained to them that taking opiates, for example, slows down your heart rate and breathing. That if you take more than you should, which is very easy to do, especially in a &#8216;party&#8217; setting, there would be no warning of trouble: You just get tired, fall asleep, and never wake up. The ones who make it into treatment are the lucky ones.</p>
<p>There are literally millions of people abusing prescription drugs. If you know one of them, or have suspicions, do them a favor and get them into an <a href="http://www.drugrehabreferral.com/drug-rehab-and-addiction-treatment-information.php">addiction treatment center</a> fast. When someone&#8217;s taking 15 drugs, you never know what&#8217;s going to happen.</p>
<p>Gloria MacTaggart is a freelance writer that contributes articles on health.</p>
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		<title>Modern Approaches to Opioid Detox</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:06:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There have been many modern advances in the world of health care, and research has unlocked many mysteries when it comes to medicine. One of the areas that has seen some advances is the treatment of substance abuse, where professionals are learning how best to treat individuals addicted to drugs or alcohol. But still today, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There have been many modern advances in the world of health care, and research has unlocked many mysteries when it comes to medicine. One of the areas that has seen some advances is the treatment of substance abuse, where professionals are learning how best to treat individuals addicted to drugs or alcohol. But still today, the number of lives affected by drug abuse and alcoholism is increasing, and many people have turned to prescription opiate such as hydrocodone or oxycodone, and it really hasn&#8217;t gotten much easier to help those people get sober. It is still a long, hard process that often lasts a lifetime.</p>
<p>Drug detox, and particularly opiate detox, can be a very scary and difficult thing. The reality is that no matter what method they choose, drug addicts still have to go through it if they are going to be sober. A few modern techniques have been designed to make the process easier, however.</p>
<p><span id="more-13"></span>Naltrexone</p>
<p>First of all, there is Naltrexone. This drug is an opiate antagonist, which means it blocks the drug user from feeling any effects from heroin or oxycodone or other opiate, so that they become unappealing to them. With this method the patient is given a Naltrexone implant by injection, and then the person is forced to withdraw. Some medicines can help a little with the pain of withdrawal, but since the implant lasts 6 months, the person will not find any relief from going back to opiate.</p>
<p>Anesthesia-assisted Rapid Detox</p>
<p>Another method that has been developed more recently is the anesthesia-assisted rapid detox, where the patient is put under general anesthesia while given Naltrexone. The idea is that when they wake up, the patient will have been through the most difficult part of detox and can feel well enough to stay away from the drugs. Some people have found with anesthesia-assisted rapid detox that the benefits aren&#8217;t that great, that the person still has symptoms of withdrawal after they wake up, and that there are some serious side effects to using anesthesia, including pulmonary and psychiatric complications.</p>
<p>Buprenorphine</p>
<p>Another way people are making it through detox is to take buprenorphine, which regulates the clearing of opiate from the brain. This drug is a replacement drug for the opiate, and while it is supposed to be used to wean a person more slowly from drugs, the truth is that many people become stuck using buprenorphine for the rest of their lives.</p>
<p>Acupuncture</p>
<p>Other modern methods that are sometimes used are things like acupuncture and electrostimulation to manage the pain. While some people firmly believe these methods help to alleviate withdrawal symptoms, there have been few studies that actually show this works.</p>
<p>All of these methods are actually just the beginning of a drug addict&#8217;s journey to become sober. Following the physical <a href="http://www.poincianaatpalmbeach.com/opiatedetox.aspx">opiate detox</a> will be weeks, months, or years of therapy to keep from turning back to drugs. But with the right help, it certainly can be done.</p>
<p>Sources</p>
<p>Whitten, Lori Study Finds Withdrawal No Easier With Ultrarapid Opiate October 2006</p>
<p>Desperation to Overcome Addiction Leads to Unusual Solutions 4/14/2009</p>
<p>This article was written by Jared More for Poinciana at Palm Beach. Poinciana at Palm Beach is a high end <a href="http://www.poincianaatpalmbeach.com/opiatedetox.aspx">opiate detox center in Florida</a> if you would like more information give us a call at (561) 818-2922.</p>
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		<title>Drug Abuse Prevention</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:06:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As with so many of today&#8217;s social ills, the use of mind altering drugs and hallucinogenic substances became popular back in the sixties, along with the rise in sexual promiscuity, gang violence, teenage rebellion and many other social anomalies. This is also the time when we would begin seeing the beginnings of the dismantling of [...]]]></description>
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<p>As with so many of today&#8217;s social ills, the use of mind altering drugs and hallucinogenic substances became popular back in the sixties, along with the rise in sexual promiscuity, gang violence, teenage rebellion and many other social anomalies. This is also the time when we would begin seeing the beginnings of the dismantling of the traditional family structure, a key element in any drug abuse prevention effort. So the task of dealing with this menacing element of today&#8217;s society is more challenging. This is not to say however that drug abuse prevention is not doable it only makes it tougher when there is little to no strong family support.</p>
<p><strong>So How Do We Tackle This 50-Year-Old Problem?</strong></p>
<p><span id="more-23"></span>Two words: &#8220;Early education.&#8221; We can no longer afford to wait until a child is beyond his/her formidable years and on into the teenage and adolescence stages of their lives before we begin talking about the dangers of getting involved with drugs. We live in a very corrupt society and our kids are exposed to the ills and ugliness almost from conception. They watch violence and drug use on TV. Drugs and gang violence has even made it into the video games kids are playing. Children in the inner cities across America are all too familiar with the local neighborhood dealers. And on and on it goes.</p>
<p>Therefore a truly effective drug abuse prevention program must start at an early age in the child&#8217;s life. After all we are talking about prevention, which by definition means to &#8220;not allow&#8221;. Once a person becomes involved with drugs, you&#8217;re beyond the prevention stages and into the curing and rehabilitating stage.</p>
<p>Early education about the consequences of drug use can take on, and frankly should, take on many different forms, and involve several segments of the society. First and foremost the child needs parental guidance. Unfortunately today&#8217;s family structure as mentioned above may not always be ideal or as strong as it should be for a number of different reasons. Nevertheless some form of structured leadership within the home is vital to the success of a drug abuse prevention for children and adolescence.</p>
<p>Teachers and educators in our school system have a huge role to play in convincing kids of the dangers awaiting them with that first puff of Pot. Our education system must take a stronger stand in this endeavor, as more often than not, young kids have certain teachers they see as role models, and these are the people who can truly make a difference in this fight. Clergy and other religious organizations can and should step up as well. As leaders in the communities, they own as much of this problem as anyone.</p>
<p>And what about the rest of us? Should we stand by and wait for the government to come up with effective drug abuse prevention laws and measures? If that&#8217;s what you&#8217;re waiting for&#8230;Good Luck! And if you are of the belief that there&#8217;s nothing you can do to help resolve this issue, you&#8217;re dreadfully mistaking, for there&#8217;s lots you can do:</p>
<ul>
<li>Start an after-school mentoring program</li>
<li>Become a softball, flag football, soccer coach</li>
<li>Become a tutor. Help kids with their homework</li>
<li>Give a child an after-school job</li>
<li>Join a &#8220;Big Brother/Big Sister&#8221; organization</li>
<li>Etc., etc., etc.</li>
</ul>
<p>If enough of us can find ways to somehow place ourselves smack dab in the middle of a kid&#8217;s leisure time, we can become part of the most effective drug abuse prevention program ever. Hillary Clinton once said, &#8220;It takes a village to raise a child.&#8221; And she was right.</p>
<p><strong>Drug Abuse Prevention In The Sports World:</strong></p>
<p>One of the most unfortunate trends in the whole arena of drug abuse is the recent rise in abuse found among our major athletes. These men and women are our heroes. Our kids look up to them and want to be just like them. Developing a drug abuse prevention program for athletes is absolutely crucial. This is especially true when we consider the number of body-builders, wrestlers, football players, and other athletes whose lives were cut short because of substance abuse.</p>
<p>The world of sports thrives on competition. Being the best you can be. Getting that competitive edge over the other guy. And too often our bright young men and women risk their lives pursuing that &#8220;one little something&#8221; that will give them the edge and make them faster, bigger, stronger. Clearly finding the answer to drug abuse prevention for our young athletes will be a daunting task. But it can, and must be done.</p>
<p>One approach might be to consider using the drug-abusing athletes themselves.</p>
<p><em>&#8220;I&#8217;m sick, and I&#8217;m scared. Ninety percent of the athletes I know are on the stuff. We&#8217;re not born to be 300 pounds or jump 30 feet. But all the time I was taking steroids&#8230;My hair&#8217;s gone, I wobble when I walk and have to hold onto someone for support, and I have trouble remembering things. My last wish? That no one else ever dies this way.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>These are the words of professional football player, Lyle Alzado, before he died as a result of his steroids use. Who knows how many youngsters could be saved if we implemented a program that required athletes found guilty of drug abuse, to spend time with young high school and college hopefuls, warning them of the dangers of using performance enhancing drugs.</p>
<p><strong>Legal Drug Abuse Prevention: </strong></p>
<p>Lastly let&#8217;s talk a bit about the &#8220;pill poppers&#8221;. You know those people who think they cannot live without their, painkillers, sleeping pills, tranquilizers, muscle relaxants, etc. This group of individuals might just be the easiest group to help with a drug abuse prevention program. I say this because these people by and large have made themselves sick primarily by way of inadequate, nutrient-deficient diets. The old adage, &#8220;You are what you eat&#8221; is so true. Eating chemically processed foods and trans fatty fast foods is beginning to take its toll on the American society and many other cultures around the world.</p>
<p>The lack of readily available good wholesome nutritional foods is what causes many of the ailments that lead to loss of sleep, muscle tension, hyper activity, and other conditions that have individuals seeking drug relief from their physicians to fight these ills.</p>
<p>Fix the food nutrition problem in this country and you just may find another answer to effective drug abuse prevention for a number of pill poppers.</p></div>
<p>Ed Barkum is an MLM Network Marketer and Wellness Coach. Much of his business is conducted online, but Ed has a deep passion for his offline activities as well. His offline business includes, freelance writing, and educating parents in the fight against childhood obesity. Ed shares his opinion on the <a id="link_83" href="http://www.omitobesity.com/processed-foods.html">processed foods</a> industry on his Omitobesity.com Website.</p>
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		<title>Just Say NO to a Psychedelic Mind</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What produces the psychedelic experience? What is it based on that the experience of the existence changes when one is under the influence of a psychoactive agent? Why is it that the psychedelic experience causes the sense that they enhance creativity? Why do the psychoactive substances make an individual feel that it is a learning [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What produces the psychedelic experience? What is it based on that the experience of the existence changes when one is under the influence of a psychoactive agent? Why is it that the psychedelic experience causes the sense that they enhance creativity? Why do the psychoactive substances make an individual feel that it is a learning experience? These are the main questions that are related to value-relative support on the use of psycho-active substances, these are the issues that support the existence of a psychedelic mind.</p>
<p>My analysis concerning the psychedelic experience won&#8217;t be prejudged, although the heading itself contains a sense of the presence of a prejudgment. The heading is the conclusion of my analysis, based on the fact that the experiences and knowledge received through the psychedelic experiences are useless for the society as well as for the individual. If you feel hearted for the use of the psychedelic substances, this may come to you as an insult, but truths expressed in this paper will manifest why the psychedelic mind contains no deeper purposes, no deeper meanings, not any secrets of the existence revealing properties, but sensations that have no value for the non-altered dynamics of the sub-consciousness, and produce knowledge that are even harmful for the information driven continuum of mankind in the collective level.</p>
<p><span id="more-25"></span>The experience of life is more than just the molecular basis of our existence, and we can gain higher value of existence through for example ethics, heroism, existentialism, and actions that manifest love. As our experience of life is information-relative, and representational, if I for example perceive myself in fantasane Faustian context saying myself that &#8220;With the power of my words, I conquered the Universe&#8221;, I may perceive myself in a fantasized collective purpose par excellence, perceive how my words could alter the information driven continuum of mankind, how my ways of thought could become a permanent part of the collective consciousness, experiencing the memic combinatory evolution, wherein I myself would exist as the logical connector, although my body through which I receive my awareness would have seized to exist, I myself as a soul existing unaware, but not in nothingness.</p>
<p>The representational context in our awareness is again based on the dynamics of our sub-consciousness, the logical connections made naturally by the collective of my neurons, whose interrelations produce the contents of the environment in the form I will perceive it after the content generative cycle, of which entities I can thereafter consciously valuate, define and determine their causes and purposes. And as I haven&#8217;t altered the dynamics of my sub-consciousness by the use of psychedelic substances, changing the chemical balance in my brains, if you have enough units of information to decode my thoughts from the words and the logic uniting the representations of the words to another representation, higher in the information space hierarchy, then you may understand what I&#8217;m talking about in the fantasane example above and continue from there on the valuation cycle we may collectively produce.</p>
<p>But let us now consider the dynamics of the sub-consciousness and the neurology of our brains through as simple word as internal complexity, and continue the analysis of the psychedelic mind through simple logic. The internal complexity IC of entity A produces representation B, when its internal complexity IC has not been altered by the agent P. But if the internal complexity IC of entity A is altered by the agent P, and as the representations that emerge to the consciousness of entity A are in direct relativity with its internal complexity IC, entity A is unable to receive the representation B, since the agent P alters the combination of the internal complexity to IC + P, and as IC produces the representation B, the internal complexity IC + P will produce representation C. IC -&gt; B and IC + P -&gt; C.</p>
<p>Thus, the logical connections made by the internal complexity IC to produce the representation B are impossible for the entity A to receive, since the internal complexity has been altered to the state of IC + P. And because the interrelations of every functional part in the internal complexity IC are the functional basis to produce representations, when adding agent P that can only be added through exochemical sources to the IC, IC as an entity is transformed into entity ICP. And as agent P is from an exochemical source of neurotransmitters, the internal complexity IC cannot create the entity P without obtaining it through exosomatic sources. And without obtaining it, IC cannot create representation C, nor is the representation C from the ICP from natural dynamics of the IC.</p>
<p>I will now apply the logic above to produce conclusions why we do not have any use for the knowledge, i.e. representations produced by the psychedelic mind ICP. One is able to fully understand knowledge produced by the psychedelic mind only if one&#8217;s own internal complexity has also been altered. Representations (C) have only value for the altered internal complexity for an individual and for others. The societies have not been created under the influence of agent P, but through natural dynamics of the sub-consciousness and the developmental state of the information reality. The marijuana induced sense of peace is a marijuana induced sense of peace, and has nothing to do with the natural sense of peace and how things should be. Instead of expanding the awareness, psychedelic agents narrow the awareness in relativity with representations that can only be produced under the influence of the agent P.</p>
<p>- Why does the psychedelic mind produce different kind of knowledge:<br />
Because the dynamics of the sub-consciousness has been altered by psychedelic substances, and because the interpretational cycle of the environment and reality in general alters inevitably when the dynamics of the sub-consciousness has been changed, the psychedelic mind is bound to produce different kind of knowledge.</p>
<p>- Why does it seem that psychedelic mind is a creative state of mind:<br />
The through psychedelic substances altered dynamics of the sub-consciousness cannot produce representations that the natural dynamics would produce, since the content generative cycle is based on the interconnectivity of the neurons in the brains. Because the altered dynamics of the sub-consciousness are bound to produce different kind of knowledge, it may seem that the psychedelic state of mind is a creative state of mind, although it has nothing to do with creativity, but only to do with changing the natural dynamics of the constructive mind.</p>
<p>- Why won&#8217;t the psychedelic experiences expand your mind:<br />
The psychedelic substances narrow the mind to representations that can only be received from the sub-consciousness that has been altered. Without the alteration, the representations (IC + P -&gt; C) have no value for the natural dynamics.</p>
<p>- Why is the knowledge produced through the psychedelic experience harmful for the information driven continuum of mankind:<br />
In the collective level, knowledge produced by the psychedelic mind can be considered as a distortion of reality, as can lies be also considered, and the more the collective capacity of mankind contains psychedelic knowledge, i.e. the more knowledge that has been produced through the ICP has entropy, the more it distorts the continuum to a path that has no value for the natural dynamics.</p>
<p>- Why the knowledge obtained through and from the psychedelic mind has no value:<br />
This can be understood best in the context of semantics. As I write this text down, I encode the representations in my consciousness to the form of language, which your sub-consciousness and you through your conscious valuations decode. If I had altered my sub-conscious brain functions with the agent P, I would definitively encode my representations differently and the contents of my representational reality would also be different. If the emotional experiences related to the ICP can be experienced only under the influence of the agent P, you would have no chance at all to obtain the same experience, and you could only faintly relate to the matters I expressed in semantic terms under the influence of the agent P. The rest is easy to deduce.</p>
<p>- Why won&#8217;t the psychedelic experiences give you valuable experiences:<br />
The psychedelic experiences can be obtained only through ICP, but what good is that for? You will experience something that has only value one&#8217;s being in the state of ICP, but it won&#8217;t go any further than that. You cannot make that the basis of your life, since if you would, you would need the agent P all the time in order to maintain such a reality for yourself. Ones in the natural IC, you cannot even relate yourself to the experiences in the state of ICP. So what good is that for? You cannot make it to be a stable continuum. The society systems are not driven by the psychedelic values, nor aren&#8217;t the most of the people that exist.</p>
<p>- Why will the psychedelic mind harm your future life:<br />
The more you adapt your behavior in relativity with the value-relative behavior of ICP, the harder it becomes to you to live in relativity with the value-relative behavior of the natural IC. The more your awareness is composed of knowledge that has been obtained through ICP, the more your awareness contains knowledge that has little if not at all value for the natural IC. And if you consider that your behavior is in direct relativity with the representations that come to your consciousness, the more you have knowledge that is composed in the ICP, the continuum of your own life is directed by such content. And as you are a part of the collective existence of humanity, that part of the superorganism of mankind functions in relativity with the ICP. And it is NOT a richness of diversity, since the knowledge produced in relativity with ICP can be related with only in relativity with ICP.</p>
<p>Henry M. Piironen was born in 1982 in Jyvaskyla, Finland, and has studied complex adaptive systems, systems theory, information theory, memetics, cosmology, the human brain neuroanatomy, theories of consciousness, self-organization, co-adaptation, emergence and religions. He experienced scientific enlightenment in 2007, leading to the creation of the model of information reality, which is addressed in his first book, &#8220;The Art of Perception: An Introduction to Information Reality&#8221; (2008). His current studies are on the information-driven continuum of super organisms and how information extends the mind.</p>
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		<title>What Do Alcohol Rehab Centers Do?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:06:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Millions of people are suffering from alcohol and drug addiction. Every year, the number of dependent individuals to these destructive elements increases drastically. Results of the addiction do not only affection the person who suffers it but most gravely those people who are around him. Sometimes, vulnerable people are even influenced by the person who [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Millions of people are suffering from alcohol and drug addiction. Every year, the number of dependent individuals to these destructive elements increases drastically. Results of the addiction do not only affection the person who suffers it but most gravely those people who are around him. Sometimes, vulnerable people are even influenced by the person who is already suffering from the dependence to drugs or alcohol. It is so imminent that it is already necessary for them to be admitted and given more focus and medications they badly need on alcohol rehab centers.</p>
<p>There are plenty of alcohol rehab centers across the country that assists addicts and their families in the process of recovery. Each center may have approaches, but the message is always the same, it abuses your body more than you do to it. For some it may feel hopeless but as long as there is great support and coordination in both parts, the recovery will be faster and more effective.</p>
<p><span id="more-27"></span>Different alcohol rehab centers take unique approaches in dealing with this problem. Some use medications to help an addict cope from full dependence to drug or alcohol. Others take a psychological approach using therapy and counselors in private and group sessions. There are also cases wherein a combination of both methods is being applied.</p>
<p>While the idea of going to an alcohol rehab center may not be pleasing to the individual concerned, it should be made known that agencies like this are always lobbying to help and assist the dependents to recover or in most cases, gradually withdraw from the habit-forming activity.</p>
<p>It is very important that people around an alcohol dependent should let him understand the benefits of going to <a href="http://www.alcoholismandyou.com/Alcohol_Rehab_Center.html">alcohol rehab centers</a> by showing them the many positive impacts of these agencies of former dependents&#8217; lives. These agencies help a person regain himself, get a better vision of his purpose in life, and eventually gain courage to live it.</p>
<p>Alcoholism is a disease that has been around as long as there has been alcohol. Our site provides information related to <a href="http://www.alcoholismandyou.com/Alcoholism_Signs.html">alcoholism signs</a> and other aspects of this disease. Visit our site today for more information!<br />
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		<title>How Do You Define Drug Addiction?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:08:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We accept nowadays that drug addiction is in fact a disease, and a complicated one at that. Having said that, it is really quite simple to define drug addiction. It is the involuntary, continuous use of illegal substances with no regard for the consequences.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We accept nowadays that drug addiction is in fact a disease, and a complicated one at that. Having said that, it is really quite simple to define drug addiction. It is the involuntary, continuous use of illegal substances with no regard for the consequences.</p>
<p>Of course that is necessarily a simplistic definition, it does the job, but does not take into account the many factors involved. It also needs to include high dependence on a specific substance. There is a physical dependence, proven by the altered state of various brain chemicals whilst under the influence.</p>
<p><span id="more-29"></span>However it is more complicated than that in as much as there is also a psychological factor involved, as a compulsive behaviour issue. Very often the initial use of drugs is done as a reaction to certain situations in the persons life that they feel they cannot control. The drugs make them feel good about themselves, it is something that they have initiated, so they feel in control.</p>
<p>It becomes a vicious circle as the body gets used to the drug and actually needs it after a while to function &#8220;normally&#8221;. The user is then dependent and a recognisable addict.</p>
<p>At this point we can say that there is, or certainly can be, a difference between drug use and drug addiction. There are many people using drugs for various medical conditions on a long term basis. I myself am a habitual drug user, in as much as I suffer from high blood pressure and am prescribed two drugs that I have to take on a daily basis for the rest of my life.</p>
<p>Does that make me a drug addict? Of course not. I sometimes forget to take them, even after many years. I would never forget if I was addicted to them. That is the case with many prescription drugs. They control a specific condition and make the users life better.</p>
<p>There are of course prescription drugs that are abused, pain killers, sleeping tablets etc. These usually, as well as controlling a certain condition, also as a side effect have another effect of making the person feel good in some way, and they become addicted.</p>
<p>To say that a person is a drug addict, or if you like drug dependent, they have to be taking the substance on a regular basis, and if they stop taking it they will feel very unwell with bad withdrawal symptoms. A true addict will continue with their habit despite knowing what damage they are causing to themselves, i.e. no regard for the consequences. Drug addiction is a fact when a person is using frequent, excessive amounts of a substance, and they are unable to consider stopping.</p>
<p>We should not underestimate the psychological process at work here. When the persons mind has become so used to operating under the influence of the effects of a substance.</p>
<p>The definition of drug abuse/addiction is of course not as important as the individual reasons that someone becomes that way. When that persons life has been taken over by drugs then the definition doesn&#8217;t matter, only so much that those of us that care can recognise the signs early and try to help if we are allowed.</p>
<p>Chris Haycock has had his own problems with drugs and alcohol, and over the years has beaten them. He is now an entrepreneur and information publisher who tries to use what he has learnt personally to help others. If you would like to know more, just go to <a href="http://www.stopyourdrugabuse.com/">http://www.stopyourdrugabuse.com</a></p>
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		<title>The Signs of Alcoholism Withdrawal</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many people who have been addicted to something could attest than withdrawing from it is no joke. Take for example a woman who could not sleep at night without getting a can of soda or a man who needs to get a few cigarettes before going to work. Alcoholism withdrawal is the symptoms that one [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Many people who have been addicted to something could attest than withdrawing from it is no joke. Take for example a woman who could not sleep at night without getting a can of soda or a man who needs to get a few cigarettes before going to work. Alcoholism withdrawal is the symptoms that one may experience after abruptly quitting their addiction or prolonged use of drinking alcohol. Most people who just suddenly decide to quit drinking suffer more than other addicts in other habits do. Therefore, it is very advisable to seek out a physician&#8217;s advice before deciding to quit from your addiction. For most people, it can be severe and unmanageable. Some are lucky enough to be able to survive and recover from the many after-effects of refraining from their old addiction.</p>
<p>There are many symptoms from alcoholism withdrawal and it varies due to many factors but here are some of the most common and it usually happens to everyone that suffers it. First, to be triggered is an individual&#8217;s anxiety. This is the most common reaction to all who have just recently quit a long-term habit. Others include being irritable, feeling nervous, tired, depressed, difficulty in sleeping. It is also common for most people to experience sudden mood swings, constant nightmares, loss of appetite, and loss of sense of balance, vomiting and sweating excessively. For some people, severe symptoms may occur such as convulsions, mental blackouts, hysteria and confusion. The effect varies from person to person and it is very important to seek out medical help from experts to prevent further damages.</p>
<p><span id="more-6"></span>To alleviate alcoholism withdrawal symptoms and prevent it from worsening, maintain a balanced diet, take vitamins and supplements that are advised by your physician. Before going cold turkey, you need to be prepared for the aforementioned symptoms and willing to fight the urge to go back to addiction or to give in to the temptation of quenching the cravings for drink. This is the most difficult phase in quitting, but once you have overcome this stage, you will have a better chance of surviving the whole process.</p>
<p>If you are experiencing the <a href="http://www.alcoholismandyou.com/Alcoholism_Withdrawal.html">alcoholism withdrawal</a> symptoms, do not give up on your goal of getting a better life. Stay close with your family, as they are as eager as you are to succeed in quitting your addiction.</p>
<p>Alcoholism is a disease that has been around as long as there has been alcohol. We provide information on <a href="http://www.alcoholismandyou.com/Alcoholism_Withdrawal.html">alcoholism withdrawal signs</a>. Visit our site today for more information!<br />
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		<title>Drug Abuse Can Kill</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:06:24 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Everyone knows that the trade in hard drugs is big business. Few are aware that the business involved in prescription drugs is even bigger. The pharmaceutical industry is one of the fastest growing in the world. Millions of pounds are spent on advertising, and the promotion of brand names to doctors has a great influence on what product will be eventually prescribed to patients. The pharmaceutical industry spends on average over twice as much on advertising as it does on research and development of new products. In many Western countries there is one drug company representative for every eight doctors.</p>
<p><span id="more-296"></span>Twenty-nine million prescriptions for tranquillizers were issued in England alone in 1991. &#8216;Minor&#8217; tranquillizers, such as Valium and sleeping pills are the most common drugs on repeat prescription and taken in prolonged use. They will control the initial symptoms of anxiety, but simply used on their own they cannot control an emotional or spiritual problem. Used over a long period these drugs can hinder rather than help because they prevent the patient from discovering the root of the problem and coming to terms with the real issue. It has been estimated that between one third and one half of all those who take these &#8216;minor&#8217; tranquillizers regularly each day for three months or more are likely to become psychologically dependent on them.</p>
<p>The modern belief in pills as a panacea for every complaint has created a huge market from vitamin pills to tranquillizers. Vastly increased profits have resulted for the pharmaceutical industry.</p>
<p>For more articles and resources on drug abuse, visit <a href="http://cigarest.org/">CigArest</a> and Stop Smoking Weed and learn how to quit smoking effectively.</p>
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		<title>Drug Misuse: What You Need to Know</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 21:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the coming years, the effect of drug use, abuse, misuse and dependency will continue to be felt. To get rid of misconception, we need to be informed about scientific info regarding drugs as they can pose serious problems.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the coming years, the effect of drug use, abuse, misuse and dependency will continue to be felt. To get rid of misconception, we need to be informed about scientific info regarding drugs as they can pose serious problems.</p>
<p>Physicians currently note that the greatest gift to man are disease fighting drugs. Such substances are responsibly used by people-from pain relievers such as aspirin to physician administered morphine injection. Truly drug prevents and cures sickness and prolongs and saves countless lives. Nonetheless the drug-oriented society has a tendency for drug misuse. This leads to psychological or physical dependency, conflict with law, moving away from reality and personality defect aggravation. Drug use also prevents confrontation of challenges in life or the avoidance of reality.<span id="more-1265"></span></p>
<p>Society has stated that the use of illegal substances is harmful and has consequently placed prohibitions by way of law. This is to protect individuals as well as the society from healthcare resource wastage, productivity loss, disease spread, homelessness and crime.</p>
<p>The demand for drugs which result in periodic or continuous drug used is called drug dependency. Physical and/or cognitive changes typify such needs and make it difficult for the user to restrain or stop drug use. Users reason out that they can only feel good or normal if the drug is present. This is referred to as the psychological dependency aspect of drug use.</p>
<p>Substances such as barbiturates alter the body so much so that it becomes dependent on them for its function. Withdrawal symptoms such as tremors, insomnia, vomiting, convulsion or sweating occur when the drugs are not taken. To avoid this, the individual uses the drugs again. This is referred to as the physical dependence aspect of substance use.</p>
<p>Use of drugs other than the purpose they where intended for is called drug abuse. This affects a user physically, mentally, emotionally as well as socially. Depressants, stimulants, euphoriants and hallucinogens are usually the drugs which are abused. All these affect the user emotionally, mentally and physically. Mind-altering characteristics are the reason why drugs are abused.</p>
<p>Most people in general refer to illegal drug use when talking about substance abuse. Drug abuse prevention professionals however differ that all use of illegal use is drug abuse. On first look, drugs are labeled illegal since they can be addictive and affect health negatively. Illegal substance use is thus hazardous as well as abusive.</p>
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