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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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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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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...

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Emergency Rooms Shut Down Doctor Shopping

I’d like to say that “doctor shopping” is one of the oldest tricks in the book when it comes to being able to get lots of highly potent and addictive medication.

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HIV Cases Surge in Massachusetts

HIV and AIDS have been around for years and caused one of the worst public health crises our country, save the world, has ever seen. In the 80’s and 90’s the AIDS epidemic had our nation locked in a grip of fear.

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CDC Grossly Underreporting Opioid Deaths

Right now, we’re in the midst of the worst drug epidemic in recorded history. It’s so bad, that more people died as a result of a drug overdose last year than the total number of Americans killed during the Vietnam War.

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Native Americans Return to Tradition to Battle Addiction

Addiction affects more than one demographic in this country. Way back when, the stigma of addiction seemed to only affect the lower-class, and minority groups. As time has gone on the script has flipped, so to speak.

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Death Penalty for Drug Dealers—The New Plan to Fight the Epidemic

The drug crisis has been the birthplace of many strange ideas. Of course, as with any major problem or situation, citizens and law makers alike are going to try to come up with ideas…any ideas that may offer a solution.

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Child Overdoses Have Doubled Since 2004

Kids overdosing on opioids and other narcotic medications is definitely not a new phenomenon. It’s been happening for years and it’s a stark reminder of where our society has evolved to regarding the opioid epidemic.

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I’m Just Happy to Be Alive…

When I arrived on November 8th, 2017, I did not expect the program to work. I came 95% to please my parents and 5% to see if it’d help my depression. I wanted to leave after about a week and even packed my bags. The staff here are very caring and they...

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Even Musician Flea Got Overprescribed OxyContin

The opioid crisis in the United States is so out-of-control that people seem to come out of the woodwork every day and talk about their experiences with opioids, being overprescribed drugs like Vicodin and OxyContin, and the fall out the may or may not...

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African Americans—Some of the Most Affected by the Opiate Crisis

When it comes to the opiate crisis in the United States, most people have a mental image of who the most commonly affected type of people are.

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Dry Needles and Laughing Gas Are One ER’s Solution to Painkiller Abuse

Let’s face it, opioid abuse isn’t going away and, in fact, it’s getting worse. As the years go on, more and more people are getting hooked on painkillers and winding up on heroin , as many of us have.