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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...

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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.

ADDICTION

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.

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Alcohol May Be the REAL Gateway Drug…

Marijuana has long been hailed as the main gateway drug in our society. By “gateway drug” it’s meant that it leads to other drug use.

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Narconon Suncoast Receives “The Gold Seal of Approval”

Narconon Suncoast Rehabilitation Center today announced it has earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval for Behavioral Health Care Accreditation by demonstrating continuous compliance with its performance standards.

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My Life Was in Complete Turmoil

When I first came to Narconon Suncoast my life was in complete turmoil. I had made decisions in my life that I never thought I would make and I caused the people in my life a lot of problems, upset, and pain.

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I Couldn’t Shake the Constant Urge to Get High

Before I came to Narconon Suncoast my life was on a steady decline. With the toxins in my body, I could not shake the urge to get high. I went through sauna and I can finally say I’m glad to get rid of all the toxins and the urges.

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Uber Pilot Program Offers Free Rides to Rehab

Treatment can be expensive. In a world where drug rehab is one of the most needed community services, unfortunately, not everyone can afford it. Not everyone’s family has cushy jobs that offer benefits like health and dental insurance.

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Heroin or Fentanyl: What’s Our REAL Problem?

For years, when discussing the opioid problem in the United States, most people think about one of two things; either they think about the heroin problem and how it started with painkiller abuse, or they think about fentanyl and the massive problems it’s...

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I Can’t Believe the Amazing Person I’ve Become

I had been a hopeless person for a long time, well over ten years. I had hit the ultimate rock bottom a few years ago but nothing changed in my world. I continued the same lifestyle of breaking the law, using any drug with no regard for others or myself....

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Amount of Fentanyl Found in Prince’s System Was ‘Exceedingly High’

Just like most of us remember where we were and what we were doing when Michael Jackson died, a lot of us seem to remember the same details when we heard that Prince had died of a fatal overdose. He was a musical and cultural gift to our world but unfortunately,...

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Remember the Bath Salt Zombies? Now Spice is Making People’s Eyes Bleed…

Spice is one of those drugs that one, is really scary and two, has completely gotten out-of-hand since it was created. I first heard about spice in 2010. I kept seeing it sold in gas stations and convenience stores.

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How to Not Overdose on Fentanyl

Take everything you know or think you know about fentanyl and throw it out the window. Over the last couple of years urban legends and myths have surrounded the drug and all that has done is put a bunch of false data and wrong information into the hands...