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Teenage Prescription Abuse – http://drugrehabcenter.com – Teenage Prescription Abuse – We can help you discover the best treatment options for you – call our 24-hour Toll-Free Recovery H…

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Teen pitfall: Stress can lead to depression, drug use
What happens when a teen becomes overloaded by stress? Is it more than just a bad day at school? "Stress can be compared with the pressure that a sculptor places on a piece of marble: the right pressure and it becomes a masterpiece, but too much …
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Guest opinion: Make sure your teens know risks of prescription drug abuse
We talk to our children about the dangers of drugs, about drinking. There are major marketing campaigns encouraging teens to think, to stand up to drugs, to say Not Even Once or to talk to someone they trust. This is all important. Our children should …
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NIDA's drug abuse information for teens goes mobile
Teens — and adults who care for them — can now find answers to questions about drug abuse and addiction more easily, and through smartphones and tablets. Spanish language versions of easy to understand resources on drug abuse and addiction are …
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Opiate Addiction Help Is Key Focus at Drug Rehab Woodstock

Opiate Addiction Help is Key Focus at Drug Rehab Woodstock
Prescription drug abuse in no minor problem here in the United States and one treatment center is doing everything possible to help those struggling with a potentially lethal addiction to opiate pain medication. The large increase in the number of …
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by greg.turner

Epilepsy drug may help treat cocaine addiction
The study, led by Bankole A Johnson, chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, is one of the first to establish a pharmacological treatment for cocaine addiction, for which there are currently no FDA …
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New Programs at Drug Rehab Carrollton Tackle Prescription Addiction

New Programs at Drug Rehab Carrollton Tackle Prescription Addiction
Long term abuse of prescription medications can cause significant damage to a person's health and overall well-being. Drug Rehab Carrollton is promoting the awareness of prescription drug abuse with their new, comprehensive treatment programs.
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Drug Rehab Duluth Refocuses the View of Addiction
Because every addict is different, specialists at Drug Rehab Duluth are hoping to encourage recovering addicts by developing more individualized treatment programs. Drug Rehab Duluth counselor Charles J. says many addicts are discouraged from seeking …
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Low-Income Drug Addicts Struggle to Get Treated

Low-income drug addicts struggle to get treated
They called themselves Columbus United in Recovery and vowed to break the chains of marijuana, alcohol, cocaine, crack, methamphetamine, prescription drugs and other unhealthy substance addictions. The event was held in observation of National …
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Dogs in Berlin are overdosing on drug addicts' feces
Berlin's dogs are being poisoned by the feces of drug addicts, according to a report from Germany's Tagesspiegel newspaper. Veterinarians tell the paper they've seen increased poisoning cases involving dogs that had eaten human waste, with many …
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What Is the Addiction and Recovery Rate for Antidepressants?

Question by Lucy: What is the addiction and recovery rate for antidepressants?
What is the addiction and recovery rate for antidepressants? Please include website you found the information on. THANK YOU!!!!

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Answer by ixi26c
I am a psychopharmacology student (drugs and behavior). After Thanksgiving we’re going to discuss antidepressants in-depth. But what I already know tells me you do not become addicted to antidepressants. Also, the whole concept of “addiction” isn’t defined. What you’re probably referring to is physical dependency. You would not experience this. Physical dependency is characterized by withdrawal symptoms that tend to be exaggerrated and opposite effects of the drug. But antidepressants, specifically SSRIs (Zoloft, Prozac) have a very long half-life which means it takes a very long time for the body to rid itself of the drug. When you switch antidepressants you have to wait a couple of weeks before trying a new one, otherwise you may risk serotonin toxicity (which is a neurotransmitter in your brain). If you want web sources, why don’t you just search google? I’d be careful about what web sources you trust, however. I’d more readily trust books.

Answer by stillstanding
That all depends on which drug you are talking about.

I can only speak from personal experience here and not scientific studies or the like.

I am now on Lexapro and it has helped me get over the hump of my depression, and with no side effects as of yet.

I also have heard many people praise this drug, both doctors and patients, but statistics really don’t matter at all for antidepressants.

This is because every person taking these drugs react differently to them, regardless of how many other people have been helped by a specific drug.

Antidepressant use is really just a trial and error process, no matter how popular or effective any specific drug becomes (like Prozac).

Bruce D. Grant: Treatment brings hope for recovery from drugs
Substance abuse treatment is effective and people can and do recover. Addiction is a treatable disease. Individuals can overcome addiction, counteract the damaging effects of drugs and alcohol and regain control of their lives. Indeed, treatment does …
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Kennedy nephew to speak from experience on drug abuse, recovery
His direction in life changed dramatically after his recovery from alcoholism and heroin addiction. He is now an advocate for recovery and mental-health programs and has worked with the White House Office on Drug Control Policy and the World Health …
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What Comes to Mind When You Think of a “Drug Addict”?

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Question by candigal: What comes to mind when you think of a “drug addict”?
Are “drug addicts ” bad people? Is drug use a choice? What is the eccomomic status of most people who use drug? What are some of the names people have for drug addicts? Do you think treatment works? How are “addicts” different then “non-addicts”? This is for an essay I am writing. Thanks for your help. Also do you think that there is a certain eithnic group that has a higher rate of substance abuse?

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Answer by Hell’s Own Harlot
Drug addicts are not necessarily bad people. They lack self control and are under a notion that what they want must be gratified RIGHT NOW. They lack any type of concern for how their behavior effects others and personally, I consider it a slow suicide. Treatment only works if you want it to. You have to be motivated and most drug users aren’t. There are not any particular ethnic groups that are more prone to use than any other. You have losers in every race of people.

Answer by mhjd3
Some addicts may be bad, others good [ my opinion ]

I also think drugs are a choice. I’ve heard some cancer patients have marijuana to lighten their pain.

I know someone that does weed on a regular basis. He said it’s a Jamacian tradition. I’m not sure of that. And he’s only 12, which shocks me.

Sorry, I can’t help with the other questions.
Good luck. :]

Help for Russia's drug addicts
Andrei, a former drug addict who cooks for the rest of the patients in treatment for drug addiction at City Without Drugs, works in the kitchen in Yekaterinburg, Russia, Oct. 16, 2013. Nine boys, many of whom were either experimenting with drugs or had …
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Series of talks tackle drug addiction
Knowing the damage that alcohol and drug abuse can do to families isn't usually enough to push someone to seek treatment for his or her condition, said Laurie Blanchard, community behavioral health liaison at North Central Health Care in Wausau.
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