Blog Entries tagged 'prescription pain killers'

NO PLACE TO HIDE: ADDICTION IN AMERICA PART X

garysmithccdc@gmail.com — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:00:00 +0100

"Guilt": The Third Barrier to Successful Recovery

The third and final barrier to recovery from addiction is guilt. Guilt acts as another strap in the harness that keeps the addict trapped in his addiction.

An addict is filled with guilt. He feels guilty because he has lost his integrity; he has beco [...]

NO PLACE TO HIDE: ADDICTION IN AMERICA PART IX

garysmithccdc@gmail.com — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:00:00 +0100

The Life Cycle and Mechanics of Addiction

"Depression": The Second Barrier to Successful Recover

Depression is another factor that keeps an addict harnessed in his addiction Depression is the source of a constant and significant amount of discomfort that prom [...]

NO PLACE TO HIDE: ADDICTION IN AMERICA PART IV

garysmithccdc@gmail.com — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:00:00 +0100

If you have been following this series of articles, you have learned how opium and its derivatives morphine and heroin made their way into America's channels of commerce. In time, each substance acquired an expanding customer base, anchored by the addictiveness of the drug. In the Twentieth Century, the popularity of cocaine in its various forms would prove to reach much deeper and farther than any drug to date.

Cocaine is derived from the coca plant, a plant that grows wild in the [...]

DRUG ADDICITION AND ABILITY

garysmithccdc@gmail.com — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 01:00:00 +0100

There is volumes of information and science avaialbe on the subject of drug addictions its causes and cures. There are multiple philososphies on how addiction comes into being and how to overcome it. For those addicted to drugs it gets to be pretty hard to decide what program and what addicition philosophy to buy into when looking for help. So how does one steer through the massive amount of information and treatment modalities to arrive at the best program a [...]

UNAPPROVED PRESCRIPTION DRUGS, FUELING AMERICA'S DRUG PROBLEM

garysmithccdc@gmail.com — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 01:00:00 +0100

Seeking to remove unapproved prescription drugs from the market place, the Food and Drug Administartation on March 31st ordered nine companies to stop manufacturing narcotics whose theraputic claims have not been proved.

The FDA's warning letter notified the companies they may be subject to legal action if they do not stop manufacturing and distributing "prescription unapproved products"that include high-concentrate mrophine sulfate oral solutions and immediate- [...]

EVERY ADDICT IS HAUNTED BY THE TRUTH ESPECIALLY AT THIS TIME OF YEAR.

garysmithccdc@gmail.com — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 01:00:00 +0100

If you have been struggeling with an alcohol problem or have fallen into prescription pain killer or other prescription med abuse. If you had a heroin problem and are now trapped with a methadone habit or your abusing methamphetamins, cocaine or any drug for that matter and you have made it through the holidays the time to get help is now.

Maybe you have never been through rehab before or maybe you have with no success. Maybe you [...]

ARE WE BEING DUPED INTO BELIEVING DRUG ADDICTION IS OK?

garysmithccdc@gmail.com — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 01:00:00 +0100

I think most people will agree that the media has a great influence over us and how it molds the way we act and feel about many issues.

Take the subject of drug addcition. Going back to President Lyndon Baines Johnson every president since has had their administrative plan of attack and subsquent war on the drug problem. Despite the billions and billions of dollars that the government has thrown at trying to solve this problem over the years the num [...]

IF YOU ARE A PARENT OF A TEEN ARE YOU A "PASSIVE PUSHER?"

garysmithccdc@gmail.com — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 01:00:00 +0100

If you are a parent of a teenager(s), I strongly suggest you read this year's "Back-To-School-Survey", sponsored by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, (CASA) at Columbia University (http://www.casacolumbia.org/).

This survey sends a pretty strong message to parents of teens to wake up and smell the coffee in regard to your children and their chances of becommig drug abusers in school. It will hopefully help you realize that the [...]

PARENTS WAKE UP! PRESCRIPTION DRUGS ARE CRIPPLING OUR KIDS

garysmithccdc@gmail.com — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 01:00:00 +0100

After 30 plus years of working in the drug and alcohol rehabilitation and prevention field I thought that there wasn't much that could shock me anymore on the subject. Well I was way wrong. I just finished reading the 13th Annual "back-to-school survey" entitled The National Survey of American Attitudes on Substance Abuse- Teens and Parents, conducted by the folks at the National Center on Addiciton and Substance Abuse at Columbia University [...]

CAN A HEROIN ADDICT EVER BE NORMAL AGAIN?

garysmithccdc@gmail.com — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 01:00:00 +0100

Heroin addiction presents a unique set of cirrcumstances for an individual who choses to travel that road. An addicts daily living gets divided into to two categories. Living and acting out life on heroin or struggeling to function in life while you are sick from not being on heroin trying to get well again by acquiring more of the drug. Which life style you will expereince in the coming day will be determined by how well you have organized your resources to acqui [...]

A HISTORY LESSON IN SUBSTITUE DRUG TREATMENT FOR DRUG ADDICTION

garysmithccdc@gmail.com — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 01:00:00 +0100

Today it has become common place in treating heroin addiction to substitue methadone for heroin. It is also becoming more common that addicts who switch to methadone after a time want to get off the methodone but can't because if is far more physically addicting and painful to withdrawl from then heroin. Some treatment professionals consider substitute drug treatment "progressive", but in actuality methadone is just another substitute drug on the opia [...]