'20/20' Anchor Elizabeth Vargas In Rehab for Alcohol Abuse
Vargas checked into rehab a couple weeks ago — according to the NY Daily News — and will remain in treatment for a few weeks more. She'll return to "20/20" when she's released from the rehab facility. Vargas released a statement saying she suffers …
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Austin Alcohol Rehab Launches New Video Aimed at Informing Public of Its …
An Austin alcohol rehab center is announcing a new video explaining its services has been launched for Austin and surrounding areas through Alcohol Addiction Treatment Centers. Other cities in the Austin area include Pflugerville, Round Rock, Cedar …
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Pax House Is the Most Effective Rehab in Los Angeles for Drug Addicts
The treatment offered by Pax House is solely and diversely defined on the basis of the problem of the individual. The center efficiently uses its expertise by offering the most effective recovery programs including proper drug detox, and other …
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New grant-funded center helps veterans of all eras
Problems veterans face range from drug/alcohol addiction, weight control, finding a job or education and/or training. But Williams said there is no typical veteran. "It really depends because it's so individual," he said. … Programs in California …
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Can Congressman Trey Radel Survive A Drug Bust?
John Sullivan, R-Okla. (2009). Sullivan, a member of Congress for seven years at the time, took a leave of absence in May 2009 to check himself into the Betty Ford Center in California for alcohol addiction treatment. He returned in July and sailed to …
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Navajo Nation making plans for extensive development with Twin Arrows
FLAGSTAFF, Arizona — The last cows are gone and a strangely oversized new road now meets the edge of the Drye family's former pastures. Where the … The shopping center complex will either drill its own wells or tap into the casino's well water …
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Question by grumpybumnath: what harmful chemicals are found on a farm?
i have searched on the internet but cant find what i am after. if you just tell me the names i will find out the rest

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Answer by I8AShroom
Depends on the farm. Ammonia is found on many farms and can be considered harmful. Metolachlor and Glufosinate ammonium are on many farms and are definitely harmful.

Answer by ANGEL
Harmful chemicals include household cleaners,chemical fertilizers, insect sprays-pesticides, herbicides, kerosene, lighter fluid, furniture polishers, turpentine, paints, solvents, products containing lye and acids, and even pet shampoos and treatments.
http://www.cdc.gov/nasd/docs/d001601-d001700/d001619/d001619.html
http://www.nrdc.org/greengate/guides/chemicals.asp

Endosulfan, an antiquated insecticide (baned in more than 15 countries) is “one of the most commonly detected residues in our nation’s food supply.” PAN released a report documenting the presence of endosulfan… that drifted in from nearby farms… in the air near a school in rural Florida. “Four pesticides were identified in the samples: the insecticides endosulfan and diazinon, the herbicide trifluralin, and the fungicide chlorothalonil. Of the samples collected, 56% contained three of the four pesticides, and 18% contained all four pesticides.” :
http://www.panna.org/drift/catcher/results/hastings07
The insecticide DDT (baned in the U.S.) was sprayed inside homes in malaria-ravaged Uganda, but “reported malaria cases are higher this year than they were in 2007”
Methyl iodide, a cancer-causing fumigant pesticide, is still being used (see the last article on page):
http://www.panna.org/resources/panups/panup_20081009

Organophosphate chemicals — chlorpyrifos, diazinon and dimethoate — drifting into an organic farm from another farm’s spraying, “wiped out a year’s worth of culinary herbs including sage, rosemary and dill at Jacobs Farm Del Cabo.”
http://www.panna.org/files/SFChronFarmDriftSuit20080930.pdf
http://www.panna.org/resources/panups/panup_20081002

This article cites the effects of the termite and ant killer Tengard SFR :
“Numbness, seizures, or even death could result from overexposure to permethrin, the chemical found in Tengard SFR,” says PAN Senior Scientist Susan Kegley.
http://www.panna.org/resources/panups/panup_20081002
http://www.pesticideinfo.org/Detail_Product.jsp?REG_NR=07050600006&DIST_NR=070506

“Japanese shoppers were reportedly “horrified” by the discovery that 102,053 red bean onigiri rice balls sold in supermarkets and stores over a five-month period were contaminated with mold and the pesticide methamidophos. According to the Associated Press, the tainted rice was intended “for industrial uses such as the manufacture of glue” but a rice trader in Osaka shipped the contaminated rice to sweets and liquor makers as well as some 370 food companies while “several chemical companies, including a glue maker, also shipped tainted rice as food.” The AP reports the rice, “imported from China, Vietnam and the United States, was shipped to food companies, schools, day-care centers and nursing homes.”
http://www.panna.org/files/APJapanAgMinisterQuitsOverRice20080910.pdf

Good luck!!! Hope this helps you in your research….
What happens on farms can affect us all in ways we may not even realize 🙁

Newly Renovated Lake Villa Rehab Center Inspires Recovery
Gateway Foundation's Lake Villa Treatment Center offers separate comprehensive residential programs to address the specific recovery needs of each gender. Family counseling and ongoing after-care support are built-in as part of one's treatment program.
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Eating Recovery Center Is Title Sponsor of Brene Brown Seminar in Denver
For further information about tomorrow's event or to sponsor Eating Recovery Center's comprehensive treatment programs and services for adults, adolescents and children, please contact us at 877-218-1344 or [email protected], …
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Question by Llesenia: Please help!!!! i want to help my boyfriend stop drinking so much?
well my boyfriend has been drinking since he was about 15 now he is 21, he’s drinking before when he was younger he told me was pretty heavy & also drug consumption, now he doesn’t do much drinking if he does drink its sometimes on the weekends when he hangs out with his friends. But my concern has always been that even though now he doesn’t drink as much but im thinking he has damaged his stomach to the point now he just started throwing up & there’s blood in the vomit, before he would tell me he had a stomach pain that he would get on the right side of his stomach by his belly button. That pain he told me went away but just last night after he drank & he is a heavy drinker when he drinks he told me after he took a nap he woke up feeling bad & was throwing up blood i want him stop i know i cant make him but i don’t want to lose him i love him very much with all my heart but i cant stand see him hurting himself more & it leading to worse.

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Answer by A
He needs to see a doctor to treat the physical symptoms and then he should probably either join a program or talk to someone who can help him learn the tools to stop drinking. It sounds like he’s done a lot of damage to his body with all this drinking and he should stop if he wants to be healthy and keep on living. Excessive drinking is very bad and can destroy your liver and lead to many health problems in the future.
Vomiting blood isn’t a good sign, so get him checked out.

Answer by Durable Med
I’m a former nurse, and I’m going to give you perhaps the most well-kept secret in the alcohol and drug rehab business. I wish I had known about it while I was in the medical business.

This will not be what you expect, but go along with it till you finish. Because I’m going to give you an entirely different direction.
You are concerned for him, because he’s obviously doing himself damage, and it doesn’t look like he’s very well motivated to quit. And you’ve indicated that he had done “drugs” before. And when you say “leading to worse” the narcotics can be the next direction.

Ya know, you’re going after it all wrong. He is addicted because he’s trying to make up for a physical deficiency in endorphin production. To hell with trying to abstain, or talk therapy, or all the other efforts that have a dismal success rate. The two of you need to try a different path.

Seems like it’s past time to learn how to have his body make more personal morphine to avoid having to continue on the same endless loop.

Interested?

He is making a lot less of the personal morphines than most people make naturally, and don’t understand that narcotics, alcohol, self-inflicted injuries, etc. are a way of self-medicating. Even bulimia, because the body makes endorphins after vomiting. As well as running, binge-eating, bungi-cord jumping, fast cars, illicit sexual encounters, excessive gambling, kleptomania, etc.

He is likely only producing about a third of the endorphins that the “normal” person makes. But there’s a way to cause his body to make a lot more, and by using an alcohol rehab drug, Revia, to do it. Now, that’s the making of an Urban Legend, except for being true.

I’m gonna tell you a story. In the early 1980’s, the narcotics addicts were filling the New York jails, and if they were probated, they went right back to robbing, burglarizing, mugging, etc. to get their next fix. Well, a drug was approved, called Naltrexone. Trade name Revia, and others, depending on where it’s made, etc. You could give the addict the Revia at the local community center as the term for their probation. They swallow it down, and stay in the room for a half hour. After that, free to go. Because even if they were to throw up, it would be sufficiently absorbed.
The Revia is an oral version of naloxone (Narcan), which ties up the body’s narcotic receptor sites. A person in respiratory depression from a narcotics O.D., with enough to kill a horse, could be up and chatty within minutes after an I.V. push of Narcan.
So there was no point in taking any narcotics, the sites were not available. So the addicts were able to be probated. But, they HATED it. It made them feel terrible, without a way of getting better.

Anyway, a neurologist named Bihari was part of the naltrexone administration. He wanted to know why an addict would go right back to doing it, even though they ran the risk of “cold turkey” if they got caught. He hired a researcher, who found that addicts were only running a third of the endorphins of the ‘normal’ population, so the heroin etc. was a self medication.

Long story shorter, he found that if you give the addict a small portion of the naltrexone, at bed time, the body checks its supply around 2 in the morning, finds it at zero, and brings the endorphin level to as much as 5 times what it would have been. So the addicts were waking up WITH NO NEED FOR THE HEROIN.

So, how would you like to have your boyfriend’s own body making up to 5 times the morphine it does now? Would you like to have him no longer feeling the need for the alcohol? I’ll take your answer as a “yes” since you already asked the question.

Think about that, and read the article at the first site I’ve given, go from there. All he would have to do would be to ask his doctor for a one-month prescription for Revia, to “try it”. The Low Dose thing needs to stay his secret. And at the low dose protocol, a month’s supply actually becomes a full year’s worth, and costing maybe a dime a day.

But the Low Dose protocol will never be FDA approved, it would be too expensive for something that went generic over a decade ago.

And as an aside, does cancer cause problems for many of his family? Or autoimmune issues like Rheumatoid Arthritis? The endorphins are needed to show the immune system what’s supposed to be there and what’s not. Poor signalling means poor directions for the immune system.

I hope I’ve given you a reasonable direction.

Company building two drug rehab centers in south St. Louis
Preferred Family Healthcare is building two residential drug treatment centers in south St. Louis — one in the Dutchtown neighborhood, the other in Tower Grove South. The Dutchtown center, at 4066 Dunnica Avenue, will be for adults, while the Tower …
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Cymbrowitz wants public input when siting drug rehab centers
After halting construction of a drug recovery center in the Sheepshead Bay neighborhood, Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz, D- Brooklyn, announced he is sponsoring a bill (A.8237) that would require government agencies to solicit and consider public …
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New hope in alcoholism treatment, say Scripps researchers
SAN DIEGO – Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute declared new hope in the treatment of alcoholism on Monday, following the results of a new study to treat the disease with a drug that is already on the market. Gabapentin already is prescribed …
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Elizabeth Vargas Checks Into Rehab To Handle Alcoholism Battle
Elizabeth Vargas has admitted herself in to a rehabilitation clinic at an undisclosed location after admitting to having a problem with her alcohol consumption. The ABC News anchor was admitted to the clinic at some point over the past few weeks, with …
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Elizabeth Vargas in Rehab: ABC 20/20 Co-Anchor Checked in For Alcohol …
When Elizabeth Vargas was mysteriously absent from her post as ABC's 20/20 co-anchor for weeks, people started to wonder where the seasoned reporter was. Now Vargas, 51, has confirmed that she's been in a rehabilitation facility for alcohol abuse.
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