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Alcohol and drug addiction is a disease that progresses through predictable stages. It takes a trained health professional, often a doctor specializing in addiction medicine, to make an accurate diagnosis and prescribe the most appropriate treatment. Drug Rehabs should offer a variety of treatment programs that meet individual needs. Programs may include inpatient, residential, outpatient, and/or short-stay options.
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It’s Twice as Strong Today…
Even if you experimented with pot when you were younger, there’s nothing hypocritical about trying to keep your kids off of it now. Reliable and consistent evidence indicates today’s marijuana is more than twice as powerful on average than it was twenty years ago. With twice the concentration of THC, marijuana is now capable of causing double the damage.Read Full Article » Does Your Family's History of Alcoholism Put You at Risk?
If you're among the millions who have a parent, grandparent, or other close relative with alcoholism, does that mean problems with alcohol are inevitable for you too?Read Full Article » Couples in Recovery
By Amy Zachary, MSW
When addiction strikes, what happens to a couple? In couples where one partner is using and the other is not, spouses usually develop over-functioning and under-functioning roles. That is, the user under-functions and the non-user over-functions to compensate for their mate.Read Full Article » Millions of Americans in Denial About Their Own Substance Abuse
Results of a recent nationwide survey reveal that, while millions of Americans habitually smoke pot, drink alcohol, use cocaine and swallow prescription drugs, too many who meet the criteria for needing treatment do not recognize that they have a problem. The figure of those "in denial" is estimated at more than 4.6 million--a significantly higher number of individuals who could benefit from professional help than had previously been thought.Read Full Article » Many Doctors Overlook—Or Ignore—Their Patients' Drug Abuse
A nationwide survey of family physicians, internists, obstetricians, gynecologists, and psychiatrists finds that, although primary care physicians are in a key position to help diagnose their patients’ drug addiction and get abusers proper treatment, too many either don’t address the issue with their patients, or they don’t offer intervention to those patients who tell them about their drug use.Read Full Article »
