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Hurting Yourself on Purpose: The Opioid Addiction Phenomenon No One is Talking About

Opioid addiction is strange to me, to be honest. Not strange that people can get addicted to them but it’s what people do after getting addicted to them that boggles my mind a bit. There’s some weird, weird things we’ll do in our full-blown addiction,...

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I Had Forgotten How to Live

Before I arrived at Narconon Suncoast, I had forgotten how to live. I was lost, and I just couldn’t find my purpose for life anymore. I was plagued with anxiety and depression. Conventional medicine was to no avail. I had lost all my motivation to ever...

DRUG INFORMATION

Xanax: Do We All Have Anxiety?

Here’s your friendly reminder that there’s an outrageous drug problem going on in the U.S. right now and it’s not just opioids. Most people think about heroin and fentanyl when anyone mentions the drug crisis but lest we forget, there’s a huge...

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The New Miracle Cure for Heroin Addiction: Here We Go Again…

So-called “miracle cures” for addiction seem to pop up every so often. Pharmaceutical companies put out new drugs to get us off the one’s we’re taking, psychiatrists say antidepressants, antipsychotics, and mood stabilizers will handle our “disease,”...

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How Does a Child Become an Addict?

Addiction is a rough situation for any family to deal with. No family really knows what’s in store for them once they find out that their son or daughter is addicted to drugs. There becomes a lot of unknowns.

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How Does a Child Become an Addict?

Addiction is a rough situation for any family to deal with. No family really knows what’s in store for them once they find out that their son or daughter is addicted to drugs . There becomes a lot of unknowns.

NARCONON SUNCOAST REVIEWS

A Bottle of Wine and a Handful of Pills: Hockey Mom Saved by Intervention

I’ve always said that interventions can be the difference between life and death and that still rings true. Not everyone is willing to seek help and going to a drug rehab and sorting your life’s problems out is a logical choice. You can’t always...

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Addiction: A Choice or a Disease?

Drugs, drugs, drugs… that’s all we hear about these days. The substance abuse problem has reached epidemic proportions and all it seems we do about is disagree about it. Everything’s an argument. Pro-marijuana supporters argue that marijuana isn’t...

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Shellfish: The Most Unsuspecting Victims of the Opioid Crisis

The drug crisis has gone from bad, to worse. Each day that passes, more victims come to the surface whose lives have been touched by the U.S.’s drug problem.

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So, Your Kid is an Addict…Did You Fail as a Parent?

Addiction isn’t an easy thing to deal with. It’s not easy for the family and regardless of what some people might think, it’s not easy for the addict. Addiction sucks, plain and simple.

NARCONON SUNCOAST REVIEWS

If Addiction is a Life-Long Disease, How Did I Get Sober?

Going to drug rehab can be a scary thing. You’re taking a person who uses drugs or alcohol as their everyday coping mechanism and basically taking it away. When you remove the warm, cozy comfort blanket, you’re left with the raw, unbridled addict in...

NARCONON SUNCOAST REVIEWS

After a Life of Drugs and Deceit, is There Ever a Happy Ending?

On his graduation day, J.M. and I sat down to recount his journey through the shadowy world of addiction and into sobriety. “I never thought I could do it,” he said smiling, with a look of disbelief on his face.…

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5 Signs Your Child Might be an Addict

With the current drug crisis in full-swing, now more than ever, parents have to be hypervigilant in not only teaching their kids about drugs , alcohol , and the dangers of getting high, but in keeping their kids off of drugs altogether.

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Fentanyl-Involved Cocaine Deaths Are on the Rise… and No One Knows Why

Fentanyl has been killing drug users for years. The drug is commonly mixed in with heroin to increase its potency and pressed into imposter pills to look like oxycodone, Vicodin, and even Xanax.

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Adderall: Meth for America’s Privileged

Drugs have become a completely normal part of our society. There’s a drug for this, a drug for that, and a drug for everything else in between. Popping pills is now part of the American Dream. All of us want an edge in what we’re doing. We want to...

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The Cult of ‘Big Pharma’

The Cult of ‘Big Pharma’ Have a headache, take a pill. Stomach hurts, take a pill. Job giving you anxiety, take a pill. Having a bad day, take a pill.

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Can an Addict Ever Use Successfully?

In today’s society, you would be hard-pressed to meet someone who hasn’t been touched by addiction in some way, shape or form. It seems that everyone knows someone who is an addict.

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Remember Narcan-Resistant Fentanyl? Now Allegheny County, PA Breaks Record for Fatal Overdoses

Remember Narcan-Resistant Fentanyl? Now Allegheny County, PA Breaks Record for Fatal Overdoses As the years go on, so does the drug epidemic . Every year, I hope for a turnaround. I hope families across the nation need not endure the heartache and loss...

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Antibiotics and Surgery Don’t Cure the Cause of Endocarditis In IV Drug Users

Endocarditis is a serious infection that affects the heart valves and is becoming more common than ever with today’s drug epidemic . You never used to hear of so many young people being diagnosed with the illness.

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Toddlers: The Voiceless Victims of the Drug Crisis

With the current drug epidemic surging as intensely as it is, the future is starting to appear pretty grim. Every day, parents across the nation are burying their children and even some children are burying their parents.