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Experts Warn About Zohydro, FDA-Approved 'Heroin in Pill Form'
The drug makers claim that Zohydro is intended to help patients with severe and chronic pain without damaging the liver. Natalie Costa, producer of a documentary film about drug abuse called Behind the Orange Curtain, called the drug “heroin in pill …
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Free documentary on heroin abuse
The office of Vermont's U.S. attorney says a 2011 documentary on heroin abuse that is aimed at preventing people from getting involved with opiate drugs can be viewed online for free. The film "The Opiate Effect" is the story of University of Vermont …
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Deirdre Kelly, AKA White Dee: 'I would never watch a show called Benefits Street'
Vilified by critics as the "patron saint of drug addicts and dropouts", and lauded by fans as a working-class hero, hers is the latest – and possibly least likely – life to be turned inside out by a television show. "I've had offers from all … She is …
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Question by hubhubhi12: Do I have a drug problem?
I huff and I use prescribed narcotics when I don’t need them. I know it’s completely idiotic of me and I know the danger but I just can’t justify it. No one in my life knows this is going on. Should I tell someone? I don’t want them to be disappointed because I just overcame a 6 year battle with bulimia and I’m not like the other 17 year olds my age I don’t do it for fun. I really don’t know what to do…sorry this is so long.
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Answer by Alfred
Please stop. You don’t need to tell anyone if you can stop immediately. Use something harmless like weed. You are going to have many problems when you are older if you continue this abuse. Anyone that disagrees does not know their information.
Answer by jon_mac_usa_007
Well yes, you do. You also seem to have had some problems, but don’t accept this as your norm. You need to stop, ask your parents if you can stop on your own, everyone need help sometimes. It would be helpful if you can find someone to share your feeling, maybe you can call a teen crisis hotline.
You have had a 6 year struggle, so a little more time and you can fight this addiction as well. You asked if you have a problem, but you know you do. You are seeking for someone to push you to stop, to get help if you need it.
Some teens have an easier life than other, most keep their problems a secret too. Don’t give up, you can be strong, you can beat this too.
Grant and Chezzi Denyer. Source: Supplied
“Arriving at the rehab centre in Thailand was a blur for me. I was there for help with my drug addiction and didn't know what to expect,” Karahan told the magazine. “It was the following day in a roomful of people in group therapy I saw Grant Denyer …
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Letter: Insurers stint on outpatient rehab
In 30 years, no one has ever told me his or her childhood dream was to become an alcoholic or drug addict. These people are sick and suffering. Let them get the treatment they need. Claudia Ragni, Smithtown. Editor's note: The writer owns outpatient …
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Canadian rehab center installs crack pipe vending machine
A drug treatment center in Vancouver, Canada has installed a crack pipe vending machine at its facility — going retail in an effort to reach hardcore addicts and keep them off the streets. The bright, polka-dotted machine dispenses crack pipes like …
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Billy Connolly ditches Parkinson's disease pills as they turned him into a SEX …
Scientists say drugs used to treat the neurological condition are linked to compulsive shopping, cleaning and gambling, as well as a higher sex drive. Billy was diagnosed with the degenerative brain disorder last year after an Australian doctor, who …
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Recovery from addictions focus of documentary
The film “The Anonymous People,'' a documentary about people living in long-term recovery from drug and alcohol addiction, will be shown at 5 p.m. Tuesday, March 4, in the Butte Central High School gym. It's hosted by the Southwest Montana Addictions …
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Litchfield County Business Notes
Mr. Williams will be honored as Man of the Year for his work in producing The Anonymous People, an independent feature documentary about the 23 million Americans living in long-term recovery. Mr. Williams is a Danbury resident and grew up in Newtown …
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Petal hosts drug awareness seminar for parents today
The Petal School District is hosting a drug awareness seminar for parents and community members from 6-7:30 p.m. today at the Petal High School Performing Arts Center. This seminar is designed to inform parents about trending drugs on the street and …
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Drug, Alcohol Awareness Weekend At Ocean County Mall
Also, Supervising Assistant Prosecutor Anthony Pierro is coordinating the Drug Awareness Weekend event at the Ocean County Mall in center court Friday evening and Saturday morning. Members of the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office will be there from 5 …
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Tuscaloosa nonprofit looks to increase drug awareness in area schools
Derek Osborn, the executive director of the Parents Resource Institute for Drug Education, also known as PRIDE, said he plans to rebuild the organization to make a difference in Tuscaloosa. "This is something that needed to be done in Tuscaloosa, we …
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Top Asian Alcohol and Drug Rehab to Raise Awareness About the Latest …
Concerned about the serious shortage of credible and effective treatment options in the region, this March, senior Cabin staff will fly to Kuwait, Qatar, the UAE and Oman to conduct a series of exclusive meetings with professionals in the addiction and …
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Question by CreatioN: Is past extensive cocaine use and alcohol abuse treatable?
Im sorry if my question did not come out right, i’ll do the best i can to explain my situation.
My mother is 54 going on 55. In the past back in the 80s up to the 2000s, she did extensive coke use and was(or is) an alcoholic. She appears to be lack confidence and can be so controlling at times. She can never calm down nevertheless hold a job i think. When you do alot of cocaine, i know you lose your mind. You go a bit insane and paranoid. Is there any long-term treatments or options that i should take that can calm her down? She smoke cigarettes every day, so many packs and it will not improve her heart and medical conditions at all. Im very very close to sending her to a nursing home or have her seek counseling, but im trying to find out what other options that i can take that dont involve her leaving the house. Im so extremely lost, please help and God bless.
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Answer by Techwing
It sounds like she has a personality that is very prone to addiction. She sounds like she may have other issues as well, which might benefit from professional help.
You can recover from addictions, but they don’t really go away, in the sense that you cannot resume use of a substance to which you’ve previously been addicted without running the very real risk of falling into addiction again. Thus, alcoholics (for example) remain alcoholic for life, even though they may recover from their alcoholism by abstaining permanently from alcohol. A recovered addict is, for all practical purposes, the same as anyone else, except that he can never touch the substance to which he was previously addicted without the risk of a major relapse.
Answer by rikki k
hi rolfe
your mom sounds so like a girl i know, she is 52, 2 girls, 22 and 20, she was/is into cocaine, loves her beer and smokes cigarettes and pot. she claims to be “”clean”” for months but you can never rely on that, you can’t or have a hard time believing them. she claims to want CA cocaine anonomous, and AA alcohlics anonomous, but she meets and befriends people that enable her behaviour.
this girl is also paranoid and can not hold down a job or does she want to, sounds a lot like your mom. the thing i’m noticing is that you sound like you are developing or are into a co-dependant relationship. if you don’t have the support group or haven’t looked into co-dependancy, then you need to do some research into the subject. its pain full and frustrating as i’m sure you love your mom, as i do this friend but i couldn’t “”help”” her. i say “”help”” because we can’t help them, we get sucked into the whole addiction , ocb < obsessive compulsive behaviour, i would say that you rolfe need to know that you may be enabling your mom out of sincere love, but she is using your good nature to justify her own behaviour. i'm not saying you don't love her and she you, but its an addicts mind here, forget who she was, because she's not that person all the time, maybe she is that person some of the times and that is what we hope they will become again. i know that with my friends continued drinking and pot smoking and maybe even cocaine use, i had to distance myself, even though when we got together it was nice for a few days, her behaviour went to the familiar. she was constantly threatening "i want drugs", cocaine, cuz she was smoking the pot. in any crisis that was her refrain,"i want drugs" , was that her cry for help or was it real? in additon to her addiction and ocb's, she claims many medical conditons, fibromyalgia, arthritis, thinning hair, insomnia, low appetit, constipation, hemmoroids, she feared being around people. she was not capable of simple chores, clothes washing, cleaning the house, shopping, even going out. recently a good fiend of mine has been seeing a guy with gambling ""addiction"" whichhe doesn't see as a problem, and is self treating bi polar disease, she feel into the enabling hole with in 2 months. as we talked she realized that she was changing and becoming the enable co-dependant, she had no clue at the time we spokee, but slowly she's realizing what was beccoming of her. good luck with that and take care of YOURSELF as you attempt to care for mom ..