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Choosing the Right Treatment Program

What’s the Right Treatment Program For Substance Abuse?

The first step in substance abuse recovery is a decision to seek help. If you are an addict or an alcoholic, you may struggle to recover on your own. Addicts and alcoholics have three options when it comes to treatment. They can enter a residential treatment facility, attend an outpatient program, or join a 12 Step group like Alcoholics Anonymous. Choosing the right treatment program can give you a strong foundation upon which to build a lasting recovery.
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Doctor Shopping: The New Drug Dealer

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New-Age Phenomenon

‘Doctor Shopping’ is a phenomenon that is on the rise across the nation. While law enforcement used to be concerned about “street drugs” such as marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamine, etc., they are now turning their attention to prescription drug abuse. Prescription drug abuse is defined as using the medication in ways or amounts that are not approved by a physician or taken by someone other than the patient to whom medication is prescribed.

Prescription Drug Abuse Statistics

Every day in the United States it is estimated that there is approximately 2,500 youth between the ages of 12 and 17 abuse a prescription drug for the first time. Depressants, opioids, and antidepressants are now more responsible for overdose deaths than heroin, methamphetamine, amphetamine, and cocaine combined.

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What Entails an Alcoholic Blackout?

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What Is An Alcoholic Blackout?

An alcoholic blackout is temporary amnesia caused by excessive drinking. During a blackout, a person is engaged with and experiencing life. However, that person’s brain is severely impaired, and he or she has temporarily lost the ability to make a memory about what they are experiencing. After the person “comes to,” he or she is unable to remember exactly what happened during the blackout. There may be partial and/or vague memories of what happened (fragmentary blackout), or there may be no recollection of events whatsoever regardless of what occurred (en bloc blackout).
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What Is Antabuse?

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What Is Antabuse And Does It Help Alcoholics To Stop Drinking?

Antabuse, the brand name for disulfiram, is used to help alcoholics quit drinking. Disulfiram blocks an enzyme that metabolizes alcohol. When an alcoholic on disulfiram takes a drink, he or she will experience a highly unpleasant state that’s similar to the worst imaginable hangover times ten. Disulfiram treatment is generally reserved for chronic alcoholics, and it can be augmented with 12-step programs, therapy, counseling and/or behavior modification.
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Am I an Alcoholic?

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Am I an Alcoholic? Walking the Fine Line of Alcoholism

Have you ever woken up from a late night of parting and ask yourself, â€œAm I an alcoholic?â€ Many people find themselves in this same situation everyday. Does partying on Friday nights and having a hangover Saturday morning make you an alcoholic? It is a fine line to between partying and being an alcoholic and some do not know where the line begins and ends, that even includes people related to the alcoholic in question.
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Why Are More Women Binge Drinking?

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Studies Show That Women Binge Drinking Is Increasing

Binge drinking is a tricky subject to figure out. Most people think binge drinking is when someone consumes a large amount of alcohol in one night, on maybe a weekly basis, but that is not true. With the number of women binge drinking increasing, it is time society knows what binge drinking is and get it under control.
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