ADDICTION TREATMENT

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Why Holistic Approaches Work in Addiction Recovery

Holistic recovery programs address far more than a single narrow aspect of addiction. They encompass the physical, mental, and social effects of addiction, offering tools like counseling, life skills training, and nutrition as methods of achieving lasting sobriety and restored relationships.

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Fentanyl: An Addiction to Be Treated Immediately

Illicit fentanyl presents a radically different level of risk when compared to many other substances that can be abused. Its potency (50 to 100 times more than other opiates) means that very quickly use can spiral out of anyone's control.

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Counterfeit Pills: A Continuing Threat to American Lives

Counterfeit pills typically contain powerful synthetic drugs like fentanyl or other illicit drugs. Many thousands lose their lives to these pills every year. Narconon explains how this problem came about and helps those addicted to these substances get...

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What Is the Opioid Vaccine?

The term “opioid vaccine” has been in widespread use since at least 2019. However, many still do not understand what the medicine is or if it’s really a “vaccine” as one traditionally thinks of such types of medicine. Opioids are not infectious...

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Fentanyl Vaccine Won’t Address Underlying Reasons Why Addicts Use Drugs

Researchers have reported they’ve created a vaccine to help fight the opioid epidemic that claims tens of thousands of lives every year. While the medication is being hailed as a breakthrough (and it indeed will help save lives), the only way to truly...

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Treating Addiction Provides Lasting Economic Benefits

Though it is not often mentioned by the media, there is a broader economic cost to the national public health emergency of drug and alcohol addiction. Addiction is expensive, not just for addicts, but for all Americans. Conversely, solving America’s...

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The Effects of Addiction Are Obvious, Why Is So Little Being Done to Treat It?

How can the effects of addiction be so obvious, yet so little is done to address the crisis?

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How Addiction Treatment Can Inspire Hope

Is there a connection between hopelessness and addictive behavior? And if so, how could hope be used to help people recover from drinking and drug use?

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Seeking Help for Yourself While a Loved One Still Struggles

Can a recovering addict seek treatment and create a relapse-free life if they have a loved one back at home who is still using drugs and alcohol?

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The Importance of 12 Step Alternatives

Many different types of people have different needs, which is why it is important for people to have options when it comes to addiction recovery. While 12 Step programs may work for some, non 12 step options are needed.

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Your Loved One Just Relapsed – What Do You Do?

One of the most feared words in the addiction treatment space is the word “relapse.” Relapse carries such a horrible connotation, and many recovering addicts associate “relapse” with “failure.” They should not do this. Relapses DO happen, yes,...

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Is Drug Rehab Worth the Cost?

The cost of a good rehab can be daunting to a family… Foresight can save a family many tens of thousands of dollars and perhaps even lives.

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How Can You Help a Loved One Stay in a Rehab Program?

Once a person walks through the doors of a rehab, the family may breathe a sigh of relief but in fact, the job's not done yet. It's likely for there to be demands or pleas which may sound terribly earnest, to allow the addicted person to come home. The...

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There are Many Definitions of Recovery – Which One is Right for You?

Recovery is recovery is recovery – Isn’t it? Isn’t recovery the same thing for everyone finishing rehab? Aren’t we all talking about the same thing? Actually, we’re not. There are many definitions of recovery, depending on whom you talk to.

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Whatever Happened to Providing Abstinence Based Addiction Treatment?

At one time, the expectation of rehab success was abstinence. Now, it's more often the expectation that a person maintains compliance with a medication regimen. Have we given up on the concept of being fully drug-free after rehab?

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What Works in Ensuring Long-Term Recovery?

For anyone who has a family member or loved one who is addicted or is in recovery, the big question is this. “How can we guarantee long-term recovery?” We know how dangerous relapses are. We know about the ever-present risk of an overdose. We know...

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The Importance of Offering REAL Treatment Options to Inmates

Recidivism, the revolving door nature of the prison system provides significant barriers to rehabilitating criminal behavior. Much of this is because offenders are put in a prison system that does not address the underlying reasons why they did something...

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What Should We Do to Make the Correct Addiction Treatment More Available?

The current drug addiction epidemic began in the late 1990s. However, it took several years for the United States to recognize the severity of the problem. Since it became apparent that we were indeed in an addiction crisis, states all across America have...

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Should Family Members Have a Right to Know When a Loved One Overdoses on Drugs?

As soon as we get into the realm of medicine, patient medical history, physical health, and mental health, we start walking on delicate ground. On the one hand, it is essential to maintain privacy and personal confidentiality when it comes to an individual’s...

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Recent Study Shows Pitfalls of The Disease Model of Addiction

Over the last 50 years, the way we look at addiction has evolved. Then, as in earlier times, it was seen as a moral failing or weakness. Individuals who found themselves addicted felt they had nowhere to turn for help, and the social stigma of addiction...