Effective drug rehab does exist; just not where most people in need of it will look. Google the phrase “drug rehab’ and millions of sites optimized with this common search term rapidly display. But despite the google worth of siteseach purporting to offer drug rehab, the sad fact is that most offer little true rehab. [...]
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“The Dangers of Taking Klonopin.”
I’ve known more than a few people addicted to Klonopin, a drug prescribed by doctors to treat panic and anxiety. I’ve met most of these addicts at Georgia drug rehab centers where they were being weaned off of this insidious drug. Klonopin is particularly insidious because it’s prescribed to palliate suffering. Klonopin and other benzodiazepines [...]
“Taking drugs is not a victimless crime.”
Politically speaking, I lean toward being a Libertarian. Less Government, lower taxes, more freedom sound right to me. I believe that people should be free to choose and responsible for the consequences of their choices. Up to a point. Some choices are made under duress and with such sad consequences that they should be governed [...]
“Ecstasy abuse skyrockets. Do you know the signs of abuse?”
Admissions to hospitals from adverse reactions due to Ecstasy abuse have skyrocketed. In 2008 emergency room physicians treated 75% more patients intoxicated with Ecstasy than they did in 2004. That’s bad news in its own right. But there’s more bad news. The skyrocketing statistic doesn’t reveal the real problem. which is that Ecstasy abuse is [...]
“Signs of Designer Drug Abuse.”
Also referred to as “club drugs”, designer drugs are prepared by amateur chemists called “cookers”. Cookers alter the molecular structure of certain chemicals to mimic existing illicit drugs and their pharmacological effects. They are powerful and dangerous. For example, cookers modify pharmaceutical drug Fentanyl to create a designer drug 80 to as much as one [...]
“Researchers claim women are more susceptible to cocaine addiction.”
Since we all know that men are from Mars and women are from Venus, it seems ever so logical to claim that women respond to cocaine differently than men and as a result become addicted to cocaine more rapidly. The problem with this proposition is that no clear evidence of this phenomenon exists. And even [...]
“The prescription drug crisis follows the same old pattern.”
Though prescription drug abuse is relatively new, having reached critical proportions just in the past decade, the prescription drug crisis follows an old pattern and tells an all too familiar tale. It is a tale filled with victims and with villains. The victims are the same sorry lot. They range from thrill seeking rich kids, [...]
“Why marijuana must remain illegal.”
Marijuana is a toxin, a gateway drug and the cause on its own of untold misery. One child I know just finished a stint in an Dulon uth drug rehab program. He was hooked on marijuana. Oh so you’ve heard you can’t get hooked have you. Perhaps not in the same way that certain prescription [...]
“They’ll never learn a thing about drug addiction from rats.”
Studying rats to understand human behavior never made much sense to me. But then again it must not make much sense to the researchers either. What they’ve extrapolated from their research has done little to advance the cause of drug rehab in Georgia or anywhere else for that matter. The relapse rate among drug rehab [...]
“What an ultra luxury Christian drug rehab program says about the effectiveness of drug rehab in Georgia.”
The first ultra luxury Christian addiction treatment program has opened. That’s good news for wealthy men and women of faith. But not necessarily good news for the average drug abuser. The reason management decided on an upscale environment, food and individualized counseling is because they found that the typical approach used by drug rehab programs [...]
