Renowned Psychiatrist Joins Lucida Treatment Center
Lucida Treatment Center, a luxury drug rehabilitation and mood disorder program in Florida, welcomes board-certified psychiatrist, award-winning psychotherapist and board-certified addiction psychiatrist Christopher La Tourette La Riche, MD, as its …
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Former Edmond pastor joins Florida treatment center leadership
Charles W. Robinson III, former pastor of recovery at Edmond's Henderson Hills Baptist Church, has joined Elements Behavioral Health and will work to enhance and expand its Christian addiction treatment program at The Recovery Place in Florida.
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Question by wethefolks14: Is our judicial sytem fair?
If so how? If not, then why no outcry?

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Answer by eldude
It’s not fair. There are lots of things that play into ‘justice’ including race and income. Both of those things are both used for and against people of all walks. It’s weird and inconsistent. It’s not perfect but it’s not bad I think. There are lots of checks and balances in the justice system to help people avoid being screwed over by the system. But still, people get screwed often.
Justice is not blind though when it should be.

Answer by rickinnocal
Pretty much, yes.

There are problems, but on the whole it’s mostly fair.

Richard

Darryl Strawberry is opening a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center in Florida
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Report: Heroin epidemic in South Florida
The Florida Department of Children and Families tracks treatment admissions by primary drug for those seeking help at publicly funded facilities. In Miami-Dade, the number of persons admitted for heroin treatment more than doubled – 161 to 386 …
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Justin Bieber pleads not guilty in DUI arrest
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Question by Tonya W: How to use Air dusters?
I am doing a paper at school on how are duster and i didn’t know how you actually got High with it. How do you do it?

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Answer by Robert W
Read this article on the dangers of ‘dusting’.

Inhalant abuse has been on the rise nationwide, and more teens are experiencing the tragic effects of this cheap high. NBC News correspondent Peter Alexander reports on how a common household product, a computer cleaner, can result in a deadly high.

There’s a new way to get high, and you could have it right next to your desk at home. They’re designed to clean your computer but, if inhaled, these popular products have the potential to kill.

It’s called “dusting” — the term comes from the cleaning brand “Dust Off” — and it has become a teenager’s new cheap and easily accessible high, despite a warning on the side of each canister.
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This form of inhalant abuse, “huffing,” has been around for years, but dusting is the more specific term associated with the use of cans of any common aerosolized computer keyboard cleaner that contains compressed gas.

One teen, 18-year-old Jessie Stotz, is now in rehab at the Pathway Family Center in Indianapolis because of dusting.

“There wasn’t the hassle of finding somebody to buy it for you and stuff, you could walk into a store, being 13 years old, and buy it yourself,” says Stotz.

But one hit can be crippling, as 15-year-old Ben Goudberg experienced in California.

“I couldn’t move for three to four minutes, and I was staring at a door thinking I wanted to get up and go and touch it and I couldn’t do it,” says Goudberg. “It’s one of the scariest feelings in the world.”

The high from the gas paralyzes the user for several minutes and gives a feeling of euphoria. Both dusting and huffing can result in damage to the brain, lungs, heart, kidneys and liver, and can cause death. In computer cleaning products, a freon type of gas, or fluorinated hydrocarbon, is the dangerous ingredient.

The dangerous practice was dramatized in the film “Thirteen.” In the opening scene, the two actresses are sitting on a bed, “dusting,” and then slapping each other out of their trancelike states.

“Sudden sniffing death” describes the process of inhaled hydrocarbons provoking irregular heart rhythms in the victim, which leads to sudden fatal cardiac arrest in even very young and healthy hearts.

“Just that fast a kid could experience intoxication,” says John Daily, a drug counselor at New Directions — and just that fast they could die. The compressed air in the cleaners fills a person’s lungs, keeping oxygen out and potentially stopping the heart.

Some retailers, like Staples and Wal-Mart, now restrict the sales of computer cleaners to buyers over 18 years of age, and many have placed warning labels on the top of cans.

But Jeff Williams, a Cleveland police officer whose son Kyle tragically died in March while trying dusting, thinks more needs to be done. Williams says there is already one keyboard cleaning product on the market that adds a bitter smell and taste to the chemicals, making them unpalatable, and he says all manufacturers should do the same. Williams also thinks that retailers need to do a better job of policing who they sell to.

Dusting is part of a larger problem involving inhalants, with huffing on the rise. In 2002, more than a million people abused them for the first time — the vast majority in their teens.

The National Survey on Drug Use and Health found that inhalant experimentation is initiated earlier than any other illicit substance, with young females starting before young males. Also, a higher percentage of 12 and 13 year olds had used inhalants than marijuana.

Inhalant abuse is often more dangerous and difficult to detect than other drug abuse. Inhalants such as glue, lighter fluid and spray paint are completely legal and found in every home — which often leads kids to think they are harmless — and abusers need to conceal only the act of inhaling, not the product.

But inhalants are addictive physically and psychologically, almost as much as alcohol.

“Not only was it the inhalant that was addictive, it was the lifestyle, the friends and the attention that I would receive when I did it,” says Jessie Stotz.
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But in the deadly new world of dusting, someone’s first time seeking the high may also be their last.

In the United Kingdom, where deaths associated with these substances are tracked, 39 percent of the deaths occurred during the victim’s first time.

Wolfe says the most important way to combat this drug abuse is to educate parents about it and to inform kids that the inhalants can kill them on the first try.

Other prevention methods include reading product labels regarding safety issues, and choosing to minimize aerosols in households by using pump sprays instead.

The warning signs of dusting are not easily detected, but these signs may indicate abuse:

* Disappearance of the product at a rapid rate
* Empty cans or containers of chemicals in tra

Fla. congressman to resign after cocaine scandal
But Radel had pledged to stay in office after taking a leave of absence and completing a monthlong in-patient treatment program for drug and alcohol abuse. In a defiant prime-time news conference last month, he defended his legislative record and …
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Escorts of drug rehab center face inquiry for man's death
Police looking into the death of a man who died while being taken to a drug rehabilitation center in Cebu City will question four men who were hired to escort Jerome Bendebel, 42, from Balamban town on New Year's Eve. Investigators are withholding the …
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Question by melissa: how to get off meth without money for rehab?

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Answer by Alex
You can get help from friends and family

Answer by Kelly A
I don’t have personal experience with meth addiction, but from the research and information I do know, it is one of the hardest addictions to overcome next to alcohol and heroin. Obviously rehab is the best place to start. There have been many people though that have been successful in overcoming the addiction with out rehab. You have to be prepared for the fact it will be one of the most difficult things you ever do, but if you are dedicated you can do it. You should confide in a friend or family member if you already haven’t that can support you through overcoming the addiction. You will need to have a positive motivator to help you along the way. You will need to do a lot of thinking and legwork and determine the reasons you want to get off meth. Do you have goals or dreams? Do you want to go to school, college, have children? Do you want to travel? You will need to have other things to occupy you, something that interests you such as sports, exercise, reading, etc. that you can turn to during difficult times. There are clinics and non profit organizations you can contact that will assist you in meth addiction rehab at little or no cost. With out know where you live, I can’t point you in the direction. But you can look up “no cost drug rehabilitation” or “low income drug rehabilitation” to start with.

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Question by Jessica MMM: my son VOLUNTARILY admitted himself into rehab 3 years ago, does this exclude him from posessing a foid card?
he was 16 at the time, it was not court ordered and the firearms owner act is poorly worded they do not define “mental health facility” as a rehabilitation center and on the application says it’s a felony to falsely admit info. so what im wondering is since he was self mandated, received no physiciatric care while staying, and also was never banned by a professional that he is not able to obtain a FOID card. so does this mean he’s still eligible because he loves hunting and is looking toward getting a rifle.

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Answer by screamyourheartout
i don’t think it makes any difference whether it was voluntary or not. he still went to rehab

if i were you, i would check with someone. there should be a contact number or something like that on the foid application form, or online if you google it. ring them and ask if that counts as a mental health facility

Answer by StealthBeast
I’m pretty sure it’s okay. They intentionally make exception for the word voluntary so you don’t have to choose between necessary help and constitutional rights…

Sad really, that you need to worry about this.

But neither my answer nor the guy above me is qualified to answer. I think you need to ask someone more locally, and officially like the police, that way if the police it’s okay, get that in writing… If stuff goes south, you’ll have covered your bases.

Good luck.

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Bloomington residents gather to protest rehab facility
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Did Morehead group kill Grayson rehab center?
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New Helpline Assists Teens in Finding Help for Addiction
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New Adolescent Substance Abuse Helpline Assists Young Addicts in Lufkin
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