Posts Tagged ‘drug treatment’
Posted on November 2nd, 2012 by by rehab
Decriminalise drug use, say experts after six-year study A six-year study of Britain’s drug laws by leading scientists, police officers, academics and experts has concluded it is time to introduce decriminalisation. The report by the UK Drug Policy Commission (UKDPC), an independent advisory body, says possession of small amounts of controlled drugs should no longer [...]
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Posted on October 3rd, 2012 by by rehab
Some interesting details and data from Texas government web site. Drug users constitute a large and growing proportion of the criminal justice population. Drug users not only commit a substantial amount of crime, but as the frequency of drug use increases, the frequency of crime increases and the severity of crimes committed also increases. Drug [...]
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Tags: crime, drug addiction, drug treatment, rehab methods, rehab success, result data, substance abuse
Posted on May 12th, 2012 by by rehab
Celebrity Russell Brand makes very intelligent comments to a UK government inquiry on how to deal with drug addiction problems. He was an addict and has been drug free now for years. His main point seems to be that we need to take a pragmatic approach to what is a primarily a health problem not [...]
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Posted on April 4th, 2012 by by rehab
In 1989 the first recovery high schools in the USA began. The Ecole Novelle (now known as Sobriety High) and Peers Enjoying A Sober Education (PEASE Academy) were both started in started in the Minneapolis, Minnesota area, and are still operating today. Today, there are approximately 30 recovery high schools around the USA. Sobriety High [...]
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Posted on September 6th, 2011 by by ellinor
There are many of reasons why people resort to abusing substances such as drugs or alcohol. People from different levels of society and from different age brackets fall into drug or alcohol addiction. Many use it for socialization or enjoyment but others tend to abuse it leading to addiction. Drug and alcohol rehabilitation is so [...]
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Posted on July 31st, 2010 by by rehab
An Obscure Hallucinogen Gains Legitimacy as a Solution for Addictions Ibogaine, a brown powder derived from the African Tabernathe iboga plant, has intrigued researchers since 1962, when Howard Lotsof, a student at New York University and an opiate addict, found that a single dose erased his drug cravings without causing any withdrawal symptoms. Unfortunately, the [...]
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Posted on July 16th, 2010 by by rehab
“You cannot fully recovery unless you help the society that made you sick, recover.” New Jerusalem Now, a community of former addicts helping each other achieve a “fullness of life” formerly prevented by drug and alcohol abuse. From the residents’ narratives, you learn how they run their community within a community in one of the [...]
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Posted on May 15th, 2010 by by rehab
A detailed study of women in treatment for drug addition in England shows a 19 percent fall in the number of adult females under 30 entering heroin programmes over the last five years – 1,000 fewer female addicts than in 2005. The fall is even sharper – 26 percent – for the 18-25 age-group, providing [...]
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Posted on October 25th, 2009 by by rehab
Wendell Bryant was a star defensive lineman for the Wisconsin Badgers, selected 12th overall in the 2002 NFL draft by the Arizona Cardinals. He received a $5.5 million signing bonus. In 2005 Bryant was banned of the NFL after breaking the league’s substance-abuse policy for the third time. Bryant has faced sobering journey since leaving [...]
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Posted on September 7th, 2009 by by rehab
After 50 years, Smokey Robinson is still having fun I speak at schools, churches, gang meetings, rehab facilities, telling people that drugs don’t discriminate. I was 39 years old and my life was going exactly as I would have it go. I couldn’t have written it any better. But drugs don’t care who you are, [...]
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