Addiction Treatment in Miami
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“There’s more to family than what you see.” Many Times There’s More To A Movie Than What You Expected To See… If you read the reviews, both from critics and moviegoers, for the movie Black or White you might be tempted not to see this movie. But the quote you see above ‘there’s more to […]
Addiction Treatment In The News… If you have a few minutes, open an internet browser and try completing a search or “Googling” the phrase “addiction treatment.” On any given day the general search engine results will be somewhere in the neighborhood of 157,000,000 and news results could be around 450,000. Imagine now being the parent, […]
With people across the country succumbing to an opioid use disorder, it is easy to become despondent. After all, upward of a hundred Americans experience a fatal overdose daily. When we do hear promising stories in the news about the opioid addiction epidemic, it is usually about one of two things, either new legislation is […]
Global drug policy has been a hot button topic in recent weeks, with the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on Drugs (UNGASS) ending April 21, 2016. While nations differed on how to handle both drug addiction and trafficking, it would appear that not much is going to change on how we, as a society, […]
It was not that long ago when people believed that alcoholism/addiction was a moral failing and resulted from a lack of willpower. Even today many people still view addiction in the same way, which has served to stigmatize those who suffer from what we now understand to be a disease. Thankfully, research into the subject […]
Chemical dependency is a form of mental illness that unfortunately cannot be cured, but can be successfully treated and arrested. A person who suffers with this illness can recover, but they must continue maintenance by taking care of themselves and working a program of recovery. Addiction is similar to Type I diabetes, where patients must […]
If you were to evaluate most of the individuals that seek treatment for addiction, you would find that most of them have experienced some type of childhood trauma, also known as adverse childhood experience (ACE). Common forms of this include physical and emotional abuse, sexual assault and the loss of a loved one. When things […]
If a teenager or young adult is diagnosed as having attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), they are commonly prescribed a stimulant medication, such as Ritalin or Adderall. Prescription stimulants in small doses help people focus, but in higher doses it will cause feelings of euphoria. Stimulant narcotics are highly sought after, and are commonly abused […]
The prescription opioid epidemic has brought a scourge of heroin addiction along with it, forcing both lawmakers and health experts to confront the crisis head on. Some of the measures to combat the opioid epidemic include: Greater Naloxone Access Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs Abuse Deterrent Medications Prescription Drug Take Back Days While the aforementioned efforts […]
