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5 Ways to Avoid Drug Rehab

December 30th, 2011

In a perfect world, we could just prevent drug abuse altogether. There would be no addiction and in return, there would be fewer crimes, fewer homeless people and fewer problems within our families. Obviously, this is impossible. There will always be people who become addicted to drugs or alcohol, but it’s not something a person does on purpose. For the people who are close to us to may be on the verge of substance abuse, we can help them with avoiding drug rehab.

1. Dealing with Peer Pressure – One of the main reasons an adolescent will begin using drugs is because their friends are doing it and end up talking them into it as well. No one wants to feel left out and teens are very vulnerable to this feeling. They want to be liked – even at the expense of getting in trouble or just doing things they normally would not do. It is so important to teach your teens early how to deal effectively with peer pressure so that they can say NO and mean it.

2. Dealing with Daily Stress – One other reason that some people fall victim to addiction is due to their lack of ability to deal with the pressure of daily stress in their lives. Being overwhelmed with work or school can become too much to deal with and many will turn to drugs or alcohol to relieve that type of stress. A drink after work can quickly turn into several drinks and addiction can set in due to habit. People often fail to see how drugs or alcohol may very well end up adding much more stress to their lives over time. It is important to find other ways to deal with stress. Some ways of doing so include exercising, reading, or even just finding a hobby that you enjoy.

3. Seek Help For Mental Illness – Some may not know that substance abuse and mental illness can often go hand in hand. For a person suffering from mental illness, they may turn to drugs or alcohol to ease their pain whether it is for depression, PTSD, anxiety or some other mental disorder. Seeking help before their issues lead to substance abuse is a good way to avoid drug rehab.

4. Look for Potential Risks of Substance Abuse – If risks of substance abuse exist in your family, it is good to be aware of them in order to overcome them. You may have a history of substance abuse in the family, or living in a situation where drug use exists and creates temptation – keep an eye on things such as these so you can avoid falling into a trap that can eventually lead to addiction.

5. Balance Your Life – Finding balance is very important. So many have turned to drugs or alcohol because something in their life isn’t working or when they are unhappy about they way things are going. Try to keep your priorities in order and when things get tough, build up a good support system of friends and family to help you get through those times.

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Pain Management versus Detox from Addictive Drugs and Pills

July 6th, 2011

In reality, there are definitely certain people who have to deal with terrible chronic pain; the type of pain that can make getting through the day practically unbearable. When one struggles with chronic pain, it can become not only physically exhausting but also emotionally exhausting. Those people may find it completely overwhelming to live that way. In certain cases, a doctor will prescribe medication for long term pain relief. Unfortunately, all too many of those people become addicted to the opiate pain medications and take on an entirely different struggle. If they thought life was a living hell because of the pain, it’s almost nothing compared to dealing with a severe addiction.

Treatment for an Addiction to Painkillers

If you are at a point where you are already struggling with an addiction to pain medication, you are going to have to seek treatment from a professional. Many pain killers can actually make your pain worse. Pain killers work to block pain from your brain’s pain receptors and may also cause your brain to give off dopamine to calm you. After continuing to take these opiates long term, your brain gets used to these medicines and the feelings. The brain will adjust itself to the medication, and will at some point give off less and less dopamine of its own. The brain’s increasing tolerance to the pain killers means that it will then need more and more of the medication to feel good. So not only is the pain still there, you now have an addiction as well. This is when professional help for addiction is important, as your body has to detox from the pain killers. There are medically supervised and specialized detox programs for those addicted to pain killers which will help ensure as little pain as possible.

Pain Management without Drugs

Fortunately, there is good news for those with chronic pain that need to manage without drugs. Alternative options include physical therapy, acupuncture, stress management, exercise, a change in diet, dietary supplements, and bioelectric therapy. Talk to your physician about these different methods of pain management to see which ones may be right for your situation. Chronic pain is a very difficult thing to deal with if you let it overwhelm you and take over your life, but alternative pain management versus detox from addictive drugs and pills is a more viable option if addiction is something you struggle with.

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Why Do People Come to Florida for Pain Clinics?

July 1st, 2011

The popular thing to do in Florida for the last few years was to come down and find a pain management clinic just to get a prescription for pills that a person clearly did not need nor did they have any proof of any pain to show that the prescription was necessary. Somewhere around 2008, pain clinics in Florida began popping up left and right – most with doctors who didn’t give one care in the world about what kind of prescriptions they were writing for their so-called “patients”. In Florida in particular, there weren’t many laws or regulations governing such pain clinics so people flocked to the state to get the prescriptions they wanted without any repercussions.

While it is true that some pain management clinics in Florida do legitimately service patients who really have needs for medication caused by chronic pain, many of them are making fast money and handing out pain killers like candy to children. Some “pill mills”, as Florida pain clinics are also called are able to help people in a legitimate way for those with mobility issues that interfere with their everyday life. Sometimes it can be too much of a hassle, not to mention to expensive, to go through the process of making an appointment at a doctor to get a prescription written and then having it filled at a pharmacy. This is why many people opt for chronic pain and chiropractic doctors who can provide prescriptions for controlled substances right out of their office which provides a much more convenient experience. This practice has unfortunately let to a lot of abuse however.

Lately however, the Florida laws have been cracking down on pain clinics. So many have opened up so fast that it became a cause for concern so legislators got involved and decided that pain clinics in Florida could no longer dispense prescriptions on site. They have also taken measures to ensure that felons are not allowed to work for or own these types of businesses. These new laws are meant to limit the amount of drug addicts who can easily access the pills and limit the amount of prescriptions that are written to people they shouldn’t be written to.

Because Florida is known as the “capital of prescription drug use”, the lenient laws have caused people to flock to Florida while they still can to get the prescriptions they want before the laws crack down even worse.

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Are All Drug Addicts Homeless?

June 17th, 2011

Homelessness amongst Drug Addicts

The correlation between homelessness and drug addiction is a controversial topic that many can not agree upon. Of course, if you are taking a look solely at the homeless population, you will see there is a high number of them who are addicted to drugs or alcohol. Further looking into the subject however, the addiction can not always explain the reason for the fact that the person has lost everything – and some of the homeless do not even try drugs or alcohol as a way to cope with their problems until they are already in a homeless situation. The truth of the matter is that the majority of those who are addicted to alcohol or drugs never hit a point where they are homeless. The addicts who are most at risk, which should be common sense, are those who are poor to begin with. Clearly if you do not have a lot of money, and you choose to spend what you do have to support your addiction, it is much easier to lose your home to your addiction and end up on the streets.

When you think about the homeless, who are they? Records show that the majority of them are made up of mostly men, ages 18 to 35 and women ages 16 to 30 who are single parents. Many of them are minorities and local to the area where they grew up – not exactly the transients that people think they are. Also surprisingly, the majority of them have been on the streets for less than a year. Today’s homeless people are a diverse mixture of emotionally dysfunctional and mentally ill, some who are even at risk in a medical way with diseases such as AIDS or HIV. Some of them are actually drug and alcohol addicts who are dependent on a plethora of different substances. Statistics show that the number one cause of homelessness is mental illness. With all of this information, you can clearly see that there are just as many reasons that people end up homeless as there are homeless people living on the streets.

Research among the homeless shows that about two-thirds of them struggle with alcoholism and about half of homeless adults are dealing with a drug addiction in some form or another. Additionally, about a third of homeless adults suffer from severe psychiatric disorders, many of whom are dually diagnosed – that is – struggling with addiction and mental disorders at the same time.

At the end of the day, what people label as homelessness can really be described as a total alienation from human relationships and the support systems that most people can maintain. If they are addicts in addiction to being homeless, more than likely their relationships with family and friends were already dysfunctional. Broken homes and dysfunctional families are some of the root causes of those who become homeless – and it does not always have to do with drug or alcohol addiction.

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What is Dual Diagnosis?

July 28th, 2009

Person who has alcohol or else drug problem and emotional or psychiatric problem is been said to have dual diagnosis.  To recover completely, person needs a treatment for both the problems.

How Common Is the Dual Diagnosis?

Dual diagnosis is common than you may imagine. According to report published by Journal of American Medical Association*:  37 % of the alcohol abusers & 53 % percent of the drug abusers have one severe mental illness. Of all the people been diagnosed as mentally ill, around 29 % abuse alcohol or drugs.

Term dual diagnosis is used interchangeably with terms co-occurring illnesses, co-morbidity, co morbid disorders, concurrent disorders, dual disorder, co-occurring disorder, and double trouble. The professional literature has been used in confusing range of terms & acronyms to explain co-occurring disorders or dual diagnosis.

Individuals who knowledge dual diagnosis face a wide variety of psychosocial issues & might experience numerous interacting illnesses.

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