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Drug Rehab Centers Allentown | Intervention Centers in Allentown PA | Detox Centers Allentown – http://www.rehabsinpa.com/drug-rehab-centers-allentown/ Intervention in Allentown is a great way to start helping them into recovery. Address : 3440 Lehigh S…

 

Project lifts those torn by addiction

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She was inspired by another mother who lost her son to a heroin addiction. Tracy Lawrence-Felton, of Hanover, Pa., is giving bags filled with similar gifts to a center in York, Pa. this year. “A lot of times, an addict will go into treatment or detox …
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Is Alcoholism a Disease?

Question by Leah K: Is alcoholism a disease?
Some say it is a disease. It’s the only disease where all you need to do is stop putting a specific substance into your body! My father had a real disease, cancer. Boy I sure wish he could have cured his disease by going to AA meetings and simply not putting a substance into his body.

Hey Alcoholics: SIMPLY DON’T PUT THE STUFF INTO YOUR MOUTH! Don’t claim you have a disease. There are plenty of people out there with REAL diseases. All the people with cancer and AIDS would love to trade diseases.

What Is the Best Way to Get Off Opioid Drugs?

Question by fran g: What is the best way to get off opioid drugs?
I have a relative who after 15 years of drug addiction is still unable to kick the habit. He began by using heroin, then got into methadone treatment, then into methadose treatment and is currently taking anti-anxiety medication.

Best answer:

Answer by Doc
You should ask a doctor, we are ordinary people. So… methadone maintenance, a little morphine, to narcotics, then taper off, then none.

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Russell Brand v Peter Hitchens on Drug Addiction (10/08/2012)


 

Russell Brand V Peter Hitchens on Drug Addiction (10/08/2012) – Russell Brand, Chip Somers, Peter Hitchens and David Burrowes MP debate approaches to the treatment of drug addition with Stephanie Flanders on Newsnight (br…

 

Drugaddicted babies focus of new U.P. health campaign

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MARQUETTE – According to a recent University of Michigan study, one baby is born addicted to prescription and non-prescription drugs every hour in the United States. Many of these newborns are diagnosed with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS), …
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Larcene G. Al-Anon Speaker 12-Step “Alcoholism Recovery” for Families


 

Larcene G. Al-Anon Speaker 12-Step “Alcoholism Recovery” for families – Al-Anon / Alateen, known as Al-Anon Family Groups, is an international “fellowship of relatives and friends of alcoholics who share their experience, strengt…

 

Prescription Drug Overdose On the Rise

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Memorial Medical Center's Dr. Scott Boston says he sees about 7-to=8 deaths related to drug overdoses each year, which is why local health officials are urging those who struggle with prescription drug addiction to seek help. "About 3/4 of overdose …
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Fitness Book Review: Buzzed: The Straight Facts About the Most Used and Abused Drugs From Alcohol…


 

Fitness Book Review: Buzzed: The Straight Facts About the Most Used and Abused Drugs from Alcohol… – http://www.FitnessBookMix.com This is the summary of Buzzed: The Straight Facts About the Most Used and Abused Drugs from Alcohol to Ecstasy (Third Edition) …

 

VA's opiate overload feeds addictions, overdoses

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Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, charged with helping veterans recover from war, instead masks their pain with potent drugs, feeding addictions and contributing to a fatal overdose rate among VA patients that …
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