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Quality drug and alcohol treatment programs pay attention to the long-term needs of their patients. Rehabilitation doesn’t happen overnight. A treatment center that says you can recover with detox alone is grossly mistaken.
It takes far more than a few days to achieve long-term success in addiction recovery.
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Drug abuse causes damage to the fabric of this country every minute of every day. Every new addict is a concern, just as every addict that can find recovery is a concern. Addiction needs to be fought. But no one is going to solve the drug problem in America.
It’s like the question “how do you carry a mountain”: One rock at a time.
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In a recent survey of return prisoners, all of them reported that they had experienced drug and alcohol addiction relapses and committed crimes before they went back to jail. It is suggested that providing addiction treatment programs for prisoners after they are released could keep them from going back to jail for the second,
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Stimulant and depressant drugs are often referred to as “uppers” and “downers”. The difference between the two has to do with the effects they have on one’s body and mind. As the names suggest, stimulants cause stimulation in the body, while depressants cause sedation.
A depressant is a drug that slows down bodily functions,
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If you are a prescription pain killer addict and you realize that you need help, you are on the right road to recovery. There is nothing more heart breaking than an addict who cannot find this path. But since you have found it, you need to follow it until it reaches its destination “recovery”.
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A frequently asked question about drug and alcohol addiction is whether it can be cured. To begin with, this depends on the nature of addiction itself. There are still some people debating whether addiction is truly a disease or not.
The vast majority of experts in the field now believe that it is,
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Commitment is the key to recovery. You can’t “give recovery a try”. It must be something you are going to do. Your commitment has to be, stand on a rooftop and let the whole world know, strong.
This is not a place to come because your friends are giving rehab a try,
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It’s common in American culture for people to brag about their ability to consume a large amount of alcohol, especially among young people.
Alcohol tolerance is often seen as a sign of masculinity for males and being able to “hold their own” for females.
In certain social settings,
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Drug abuse is a choice. Addiction started out as a single time of drug use. The addict was looking for a good time. Then thing’s got out of control.
The chase after the high got more and more out of control until it became a high speed chase.
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The purpose of nearly all drug and alcohol addiction treatment programs is for the addict to achieve abstinence. This means a lifetime of sobriety, or no longer using drugs and alcohol at all. Many addicts begin to think that they can handle “just one drink” at some point in addiction recovery.
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