Taunton preacher reflects on his heroin-addicted past
Editor's Note: This is the first installment of a Taunton Daily Gazette series, Kicking the Habit, focusing on recovering opiate addicts and their road to recovery. TAUNTON — The preacher recalled scenes from his youth of vomit on the floor, with no …
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square heroin
His story is all too typical — nearly four out of five people who recently started using heroin used prescription painkillers first, according to the Center for Behavioral Health Statistics. Ever since … Medical-assisted recovery centers have been …
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There are many great Florida drug rehabs that provide effect treatments and therapies for addicts. Through treatment that is tailored to individual needs, patients can learn to control their condition and live normal, productive lives. Like people with diabetes or heart disease, people in treatment for drug addiction learn behavioral changes and often take medications as part of their treatment regimen.

Apart from drug detox Florida, there are behavioral therapies that include counseling, psychotherapy, support groups, family therapy, etc. Treatment medications offer help in suppressing the withdrawal symptoms and drug craving. They also help in blocking the effects of drugs. Generally, the more treatment is given, the better the results are. Many patients require other services as well, such as medical and mental health services and HIV prevention services. Over the last 25 years, studies have shown that treatment works to reduce drug intake and crimes committed by drug-dependent people. Researchers also have found that drug abusers who have been through treatment are more likely to have jobs.

The ultimate goal of drug abuse treatments is to enable the patient to achieve lasting abstinence. The immediate goals are to reduce drug use, improve the patient’s ability to function and lessen the medical and social complications of drug abuse. There are several types of treatment programs for drug abuse. Short-term methods last less than 6 months and include residential therapy, medication therapy, and drug-free outpatient therapy. Longer term treatment may include, for example, methadone maintenance outpatient treatment for opiate addicts and residential therapeutic community treatment.

Florida drug rehab offer treatment programs and counseling to fit the needs of the patients. Group therapy and one-on-one counseling sessions are crucial in paving the way to recovery. Therapists and counselors get to the root of the problem and help patients learn to let go of the issues that they have that make them dependent on drugs and other substances. Family therapy is also considered helpful when it comes to drug rehabilitation. Not only does it make the patient’s relatives understand the problem, but also provides them information on how to support the patient once they are out of the rehab center.

One of the most important parts of treatment is the aftercare. Once patients leave the center, they need a lot of support and care. Apart from this, supervision also needs to be given as there will many ways for them to get back into the habit. Aftercare programs are there to help and support them.

'Coach' to aid recovery of heroin addicts at Step Industries
Toni Digristine has been hired by Step Industries to work with opiate addicts The Neenah-based nonprofit company provides those in recovery with manufacturing, packaging and assembly jobs. Digristine's position is partially funded by grants from the …
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Pyramid Healthcare Publishes an Infographic on the Stages of Addiction Recovery
(PRLEAP.COM) Pyramid Healthcare, a Pennsylvania drug and alcohol rehab center, released an infographic explaining the five stages of change that people struggling with an addiction move through once they acknowledge their addictions and actively …
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Girl Talk: Why I'm Thankful For My Weekly 12-Step Meeting
I think about the mothers and fathers in the group, whose children are in different stages of addiction and/or recovery, who do or do not talk to them, and I'm inspired by their courage. I think about those in the group who are or have been in romantic …
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There are many great Florida drug rehabs that provide effect treatments and therapies for addicts. Through treatment that is tailored to individual needs, patients can learn to control their condition and live normal, productive lives. Like people with diabetes or heart disease, people in treatment for drug addiction learn behavioral changes and often take medications as part of their treatment regimen.

Apart from drug detox Florida, there are behavioral therapies that include counseling, psychotherapy, support groups, family therapy, etc. Treatment medications offer help in suppressing the withdrawal symptoms and drug craving. They also help in blocking the effects of drugs. Generally, the more treatment is given, the better the results are. Many patients require other services as well, such as medical and mental health services and HIV prevention services. Over the last 25 years, studies have shown that treatment works to reduce drug intake and crimes committed by drug-dependent people. Researchers also have found that drug abusers who have been through treatment are more likely to have jobs.

The ultimate goal of drug abuse treatments is to enable the patient to achieve lasting abstinence. The immediate goals are to reduce drug use, improve the patient’s ability to function and lessen the medical and social complications of drug abuse. There are several types of treatment programs for drug abuse. Short-term methods last less than 6 months and include residential therapy, medication therapy, and drug-free outpatient therapy. Longer term treatment may include, for example, methadone maintenance outpatient treatment for opiate addicts and residential therapeutic community treatment.

Florida drug rehab offer treatment programs and counseling to fit the needs of the patients. Group therapy and one-on-one counseling sessions are crucial in paving the way to recovery. Therapists and counselors get to the root of the problem and help patients learn to let go of the issues that they have that make them dependent on drugs and other substances. Family therapy is also considered helpful when it comes to drug rehabilitation. Not only does it make the patient’s relatives understand the problem, but also provides them information on how to support the patient once they are out of the rehab center.

One of the most important parts of treatment is the aftercare. Once patients leave the center, they need a lot of support and care. Apart from this, supervision also needs to be given as there will many ways for them to get back into the habit. Aftercare programs are there to help and support them.

Addict stories give insight
Titled Demystifying Addiction through Personal Stories, it features video interviews with seven New Zealanders in recovery from drug and alcohol problems. "I think when people have come through the worst of their experiences they're very happy to talk …
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Fear on the family farm: The harrowing story of a man who killed his father
What emerged is a story of tragedy and survival, of a father's abiding rage and a son who finally stood up to protect his family in the only way he thought he could. The entrance to the Crichton family farm about …. “Being loud and violent was almost …
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Maine appears ready for battle against meth addiction
It was not prepared for the subsequent onslaught of opiate addicts who outwitted doctors who themselves had much to learn about the determination and the level of sickness and desperation of their patients. Since that time in the mid 1990s, law …
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Two-year MaineCare cutoff for opiate addiction drugs kicks in Tuesday
Both of those funding decreases, which are part of overall state budget cuts, come at a time when Maine reports the highest per capita rate of people seeking treatment for opiate addiction in the country. Roy Miller, a physician who practices at …
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Heroin deaths creep up statewide as other opiates become too expensive
Following a statewide war against prescription drug abuse, there are early signs of growing heroin use as an alternative to opiate pills, which are becoming harder and more expensive to get. In an analysis of drug-related deaths for 2011, the Florida …
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High Today, Gone Tomorrow: Why Opiate Addicts Die
Opiate addicts die from overdose, suicide, disease, violence and from various aspects of withdrawal and drug treatment – most notably opioid replacement therapies and rapid detox. But while this might seem like a modern problem, the only the only thing …
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Children Services to tackle parental substance abuse
Summit County Children Services soon will launch a major, multiyear research project focused on parents addicted to drugs and alcohol — one of the big reasons kids end up in the child welfare system. The agency nabbed a $ 2.5 million grant from the U.S …
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