Posts Tagged ‘drug addiction’
Thursday, January 14th, 2010
ABC’s of drug addiction:
A = Addiction - n. the condition of being a slave to a habit: strongly inclined.
B = Be-all and end-all - Informal - the most important person or thing. To an addict, drugs or alcohol are THE most important thing and they are the most important person to themselves. The addict or alcholic can only focus on their needs. Their drive is their addiction for the next fix or drink.
C = Cocaine - n. A drug used to deaden pain and as a stimulant. It is a narcotic obtained from dried coca leaves. When used in excess, it can cause systemic poisoning. It has been proven that once a person starts taking this drug, it is almost impossible to free yourself physically and mentally without the help of an effective drug rehab.
D = Drugs - n. 1. A substance (other than food) that, when taken into the body, produces a change in it. Drugs are a poison to the body. Aspirin is a drug. Drugs are obtained from molds, parts of plants, parts of animals, and minerals or are prepared synthetically. 2. A drug that brings drowsiness or sleep, or lessens pain by dulling the nerves; narcotic. Narcotic - n. Any of a group of drugs, including opium and its derivatives and similar compunds, that have a strong pain-killing effect and produce drowsiness, dullness, or sleep, and that have the potential for physiological dependence with prolonged use.
The world of drug addiction is a deadly game. It can happen in the blink of an eye, that one answer, “sure I can try it once….he says its not addicting” and the person is hooked! The addict is now on that road of slavery to drugs. Education and learning the ABC’s of drug addiction can keep a person out of that deadly game and living drug free.
If someone you know and love is playing that deadly game get them to a successful drug rehab and before you know it they will be playing the game of life and living!
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Monday, January 4th, 2010
Yes NOW is the time! If you are having a drug or alcohol problem, please seek help. Now is the perfect time to go to rehab. Do it for yourself and everyone around you.
Addicts may not realize but they are causing chaos all around them. An addict, who only has the ability to concentrate on themselves, as they are so driven to acquire the drugs or alcohol needed to relieve their pain, cause much upset and grief to those around them. The relatives around an addict are so consumed with what the addict is doing to themselves and it is always on their minds of what is happening or going to happen to their loved one, they themselves have accidents and problems.
The addict needs help. When the addict cannot realize this on his own it is best for the family to call in the experts to best handle them. The expert being an interventionist. He or she will ensure that the intervention will be controlled and done in such a way to get the addict to come to his or her own realization that they need help and agree to go to rehab. This is the best way to handle an addict or alcoholic as they will not have taken any responsibility for the addiction in the first place and it is a very hard thing to swallow that you are an addict and need help.
There are many effective drug free rehabilitation centers with highly successful programs to enable a person to live a drug or alcohol free life.
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Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
Kiddie Cocaine! Poor man’s cocaine! This prescription drug can kill, whether your doctor has prescriped it for Little Johnny or he’s managed to buy it from a dealer and abuse it.
Here is a story about Matthew. This is quoted from a “Say No to drugs and Yes to Life” booklet.
Matthew was a teenager who had been on Ritalin for seven years. He died suddenly in March 2000. Although he had no history of heart problems, the autopsy revealed clear signs of small vessel damage. His distraught parents were told by one of the medical examiners that the heart of a healthy, fully grown man weighs about 350 grams. Matthew’s heart weighted 402 grams. His death certificate reads: “Death caused from long term use of
Methylphenidate (Ritalin).”
Also a study supported by National Institute on Drug Abuse found that users of Ritalin and similar drugs “showed the highest percentage of cocaine abuse.” As a person builds up a tolerance to the drug they will turn to stronger more potent drugs which is an escape from an unwanted condition that first lead them to abuse the drug in the first place.
Kurt Cobain was prescriped Ritalin at 7. It is believed this lead to his abuse later of stronger drugs. Which in turn lead to his suicide in 1994.
Had anyone taken the steps to intervene with his drug addiction to get him to a drug rehab with the help of an interventionist we would be hearing his music today.
It would seem that the effects of this drug, Ritalin means “death” to anyone who is prescribed it or they attain it through the local dealer. If you have someone you know and love and they are abusing Ritalin or are now abusing more potent drugs such as cocaine or crack cocaine, heroin do not wait a minute longer! They need help and there are excellent drug rehab programs to help them become drug free and live a healthy life!
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Thursday, November 26th, 2009
Laughing Gas - a street name for inhalants. This is quite the opposite of laughing……it is extremely deadly!
What are inhalants? Inhalants are substances which their vapors can be inhaled. Such as, an aerosol - hairspray or vegetable oil used to spray on a frying pan, spray paints, glue. This does not leave much to the imagination when you think of a person inhaling hairspray and what it is doing to the lungs…..my god just feel your hair after you’ve sprayed it! What is happening to the tissue inside? I shutter to think!
Who would abuse inhalants? 12 year olds to 17 year olds from spray paint to lighter fluid. Also adults who mostly abuse nitrites to sniff, snort or huff!
From the Library of Parliament the following survey shows the numbers:
The 2004 survey revealed that 67% of those reporting solvent use indicated that they first used solvents between the ages of 12 and 16: 13% first used them before the age of 12 and 19% first used them when they were 17 or older. In the Northwest Territories according to the 2004 NWT survey, 2.7% respondents indicated having used inhalants in their lifetime. As well, the Ontario Student Drug Use Survey (2005) indicated that the proportion of Canadian adolescents who reported using inhalants in the year prior to the survey ranged from 2.3% to 5.3%, depending on whether they used glue or other solvents.
These inhalants can cause permanent brain damage and worse of all it can kill a person by suffocation as the fumes take the place of oxygen or even a heart attack!
These are very serious effects from abusing inhalants. Educate your children early so they understand and can never be lured to
abuse inhalants. Educate , Educate, Educate! Inhalants lead to other drugs, drug abuse and drug addiction!
If you know someone who is abusing inhalants get help for them. Get them to a drug rehab before it is too late!
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Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
As a parent, if you are asking yourself “Is my little Johnny using drugs?”, he very well could be. You’ve probably had that nagging question because there have been signs of using drugs ….but ….but you can’t quite believe it and you’re not sure of what to do.
He’s staying out past the curfew, he’s not hanging out with the same friends the names your hearing are different. He stays in his room sleeping more, he’s dropped out of soccer once his favorite thing to do on the weekends. You found visine in his room. You found little bags…. you notice his eyes are really bloodshot, glassy.
These are signs and as a parent you need to find out, is Johnny using drugs. This is the time when you need to have done your homework so you know the skinny on drugs and alcohol. Give your son the information on the true effects of marijuana. Show him the health problems of drugs that have been proven, growth disorders, inability to understand, study difficulties because he will have a reduced ability to learn and retain information. That dream he has of being a professional soccer player…..down the tubes, the damage to the lungs from the deep inhaling of the marijuana smoke will have taken away the capacity to run.
Give him real stories from real people who thought just smoking pot was fun. How they thought it wasn’t a real drug and how their lives were changed forever because of “just smoking a bit of pot” turned into drug addiction. For reference a good website with real stories from real people is www.drugfreeworld.org.
Before it reaches this point, the point where little Johnny now needs a good drug rehab because he has been smoking pot but is progressing to things that are stronger, we need to educate. Educate before the teenage years, the younger the better.
From the National Anti-Drug Strategy it states nationally, the number of youth, 15 to 24 years of age, reporting use of at least one illegal drug in the past year increased from 23% in 1994 to 38% in 2004 and increase of 67% over 10 years.
Education is the key and its seems from the numbers above we need to get busy!
We want all our little Johnny’s armed like Rambo. Their AK47’s armed with all the information so they can give that loaded question “Come on one hit won’t hurt” a shotgun “NO”. With that “NO” it will be one less Little Johnny in a drug rehab program!
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Monday, November 23rd, 2009
What is going on? Everywhere I turn I hear someone talking about a friend, an uncle, a cousin, their friends mother, my daughter, my nephew….. on drugs, a crack addict, smoking pot, abusing prescription drugs..on and on and on!
My uncle had an accident now he’s addicted to OxyCotin, my cousin went to a club and someone gave her ecstasy she ended up in the hospital…almost died! Gee did you hear Jody’s mom got charged with drinking and driving……Sam’s uncle is so depressed his doctor has him on prozac.
The ads are everywhere, magazines, television all promoting…take this pill and it will ALL GO AWAY! This is not true it will NOT all go away with a pill. In fact the problem the person is trying to handle will multiply and the need increases for more pills or drugs. Hence, drug addiction!
The stats on the abuse of illicit drugs and prescription drugs is on the rise as the following numbers give all the evidence.
These are the numbers from National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) - According to the 2007 NSDUH, an estimated 6.9 million persons, or 2.8 percent of the population, aged 12 or older had used prescription psychotherapeutic medications (anti-depressants and tranquilzers) nonmedically in the month prior to being surveyed. This includes 5.2 million using pain relievers (an increase from 4.7 million in 2005), 1.8 million using tranquilizers, 1.1 million using stimulants, and 350,000 using sedatives.
I find this mind boggling! But these are the statistics and just the simple fact of listening to my friends and associates, the conversations always include the mention of someone in their family, a close friend or an associate on drugs, abusing drugs, or a drug addict.
As a society we need to really take a stand so there can be changes. Get educated! Help get these friends, family members and associates to an effective drug rehabilitation center. They need help!
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Sunday, November 8th, 2009
Drugs rob us of our loved ones. There is no doubt in my mind. Look around you, you will see there is someone, if not in your own family, in someone else’s family, a loved one with a drug or alcohol addiction.
My son was born January 1986. He was perfect in everyway. When he was 6 weeks old he was trying to make the sounds of a nursery song, he was actually trying to sing. I marked it on his calendar.
He loved music, he sang, he loved to dance. He wanted lessons like his sister. Okay. From that point he was laying the ground work for what he wanted in his life he to took singing lessons, he joined a choir, he auditioned for musicals at the local theater. Every audition he made the cut, he was in the play! He also auditioned for one of the top performing choirs and acquired a spot in this very prestigous choir! He was elated! He had many, many friends all of whom were dancers, singers, performers and all reaching for their goals. He was building his future. What more could a parent want. Life was good. But was it?
At the age of 12 things started to go awry for my son. I did not see the warnings signs. I later found out that peer pressure from friends who were not in the arts gave him such a hard time that to be their friends and be cool he couldn’t be the singer, the dancer the performer he had to be “the guy with the bag of weed”.
The marijuana took his motivation, clouded his thinking, he forgot words to songs and he started losing the friends that were motived. The so called friends that were left had one thing on their minds. Getting stoned!
The road was a long one and it lasted for over 10 years, to me it felt like 100 years. My son went to a rehab. There was some relief from late night calls, the police at the door…..on and on. Then he got kicked out. He couldn’t stay at home we kicked him out. I was heartbroken, was there no end to this addiction! It took less than a year he came begging said he was dying and needed help. The drugs had escalated from marijuana to cocaine, ecstasy and alcohol. Marijuana is addicting and it always leads to stonger drugs.
He had to make the choice continue with the drugs, losing his family, dying or GET HELP! He chose help! And an effective rehabilitation center with incredible results and he made it.
Addiction can end and we can have the ones we love back and living a drug free live.
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Friday, November 6th, 2009
The use of prescription drugs is definitely on the rise! Doctors are prescriping far too quickly and easily. These drugs are very, very dangerous even though one may think they are safe coming from a doctor. When presciption drugs are abused they are even more serious than street drugs.
Take OxyContin, Vicodin or Percocets. These are an opioid and are drugs prescribed for moderate to severe pain. One of the reasons these prescription drugs are abused is because they create a euphoric feeling for the user, also these drugs have a numbing and sedating effect. These opioids are very addictive and are as strong as cocaine and heroin and to continue to use and abuse these cause addiction and withdrawal that can be painful.
Source: NIDA Infofacts
- Between 1995 and 2005 treatment admissions for abuse of prescription pain relievers grew more than 300 peercent.
- Past year abuse of Vicodin is particularly high amoung 8th, 10th, and 12th graders, with nearly one in 10 high school seniors reporting taking it in the past year without a doctor’s approval
- Unintentional poisoning deaths involving narcotics and hallucinogens grew 55 percent from 1999 to 2004. Research suggests this is an increase attributed primarily to prescription painkillers.
If someone you know is abusing prescription drugs get them help before it is too late. Get them to an effective drug rehab program.
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Thursday, November 5th, 2009
The abuse of club drugs is on the rise. Why? What is so bad about going out to a club and actually just enjoying the music and dancing and really knowing exactly what you are feeling. Music itself is so enjoyable and when the beat is just right, it is the beat that moves you. When the club goers add a drug like ecstasy or LSD it blinds the person to what is actually happening, warps the sound of the music, distorts the persons perceptions so as to create a total unreality.
This leaves the person totally at risk to be taken advantage of in more ways than one. Anything could happen. When you combine ecstasy and the hot crowded club the person can experience extreme dehydration and even heart and kidney failure.
The numbers of youth having used ecstasy (MDMA) is alarming. The following information is taken from NIDA (National Institute on Drug Abuse): In 2006 2.1 million Americans age 12 and older had abused MDMA at least once in the year being surveyed. Source: National Survey on Drug use and Health; A study showed that 1.5% of 8th graders, 3.5% of 10th graders, and 4.5% of 12th graders had abused MDMA at least once in the year prior to being surveyed.
With such high numbers of users of Ecstasy and other club drugs such as Rohypnol and LSD we have to ask ourselves what is it our children are escaping from? What is so bad about life that one cannot find enjoyment from the sheer enjoyment of music, dancing, life, friends?
Ecstasy and club drugs have become mainstream and are being used by more adults as well. First we need to educate our children so they understand the long term and short term effects of drugs such as Ecstasy, LSD and rohypnol so they can say “no” to drugs. Secondly anyone around us that we know are abusing drugs we need to help them to an effective drug rehab program so they can lead a drug free life. After all we need to set a good example if the cycle of drug addiction is to stop.
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Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
Its the club drug, ecstasy, to make you dance all night. Or so the dealers and pushers tell the unsuspecting young party goers. Other lies to the unsuspecting is that they will have a heightened sexual sensations when touching or caressing another during sex.
These are all lies to entice new users. The drug shuts down the persons ability to know when enough is enough. He or she will dance until they drop from exhaustion, overheating and dehydrating the body to extremes even causing death taking ecstasy.
All the evidence shows ecstasy to be a very dangerous drug and yet it still is one of the most popular drugs among the younger people. According to U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration ecstasy is classified as a “Schedule I” drug, which is a description for a dangerous substance that has no medical use. Other drugs in this class are LSD, heroin and mescaline.
Also according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration 8.1 million Americans, 12 years and older tried Ecstasy in 2001, up from 6.5 million the year before.
-Between 1995 and 2001, the number of teenagers using Ecstasy increased by 140%
-92% of those who begin using Ecstasy later turn to other drugs including marijuana, cocaine and heroin.
With these numbers so high, it means our youth are also high! This is so devasting to their lives and the lives of everyone around them. We need to educate our children before they become the victims of drug abuse. We need to speak up before the slick salesman the drug pusher gets his sales pitch to our children.
If you know a drug addict addicted to ecstasy or the addiction has led to other drugs, cocaine, crack or heroin, get help for them now. A good drug rehab program is what is needed!
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