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Alcohol Drug Use : Relapse and Recovery.
When traditional methods are used to treat alcohol and drug addiction, the only indicator of success, for both the addict and the program is whether or not the addict has a relapse. If someone who has used alcohol, and in recovery, goes on a week-long bender, chances are that they will feel a failure, that they have lost control. With an all or nothing approach to alcohol addiction, a relapse means total failure. When drug addicts are placed on substitute drugs by traditional rehab methods, a return... Posted by
Janet on
Sep 1st, 2010
According to CBC news, Manitoba now has some of the highest fines in Canada to discourage underage drinking. In our society exposure to and experience with alcohol drinking is almost a rite of passage for young people in transition to early adulthood.
The teenage years are a time when children need to gradually take on more of the responsibilities associated with maturity and adulthood. Preparation for the...
Canada Binge Drinking – ...
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Janet on
Aug 29th, 2010
In 2006 it was reported that drug and alcohol abuse was costing Canada around $40 billion a year. We still have a drug alcohol problem so how was the money spent.
The traditional approach to alcohol abuse and drug rehabilitation is to take control of the addict, his life and set him up in a supportive system to reduce his drug alcohol intake.
Treated as a patient, someone in need of help – he is...
Drug Alcohol Addiction Can...
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Janet on
Aug 26th, 2010
Some people take a rather gloomy view about the causes of addiction. Many, including the medical profession claim addiction to be a disease that you get, often inherited genetically. If this was true then people would randomly catch the disease or inherit the genes and have no choice but to be an addict.
Others put responsibility with the addict for choosing to use substances of addiction, and bringing...
Addiction Causes: Fate or ...
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Janet on
Aug 25th, 2010
According to the 2009 statistics from the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse (CCSA-CCLAT) on drug use in Canada, around 10% of 15 year olds and 26% of young people are using or have tried cannabis. Around 7% of adults have used cannabis. Cannabis is used more by males than by females.
With the harder drugs up to 1% of the population used drugs such as crack, speed and meth with around 11% of the general...
Drug Use in Canada – Use...
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Janet on
Aug 23rd, 2010
Adverse side effects of amphetamine use can be hyperarousal and feelings of anxiety leading to paranoia and panic attacks. Current medical research has identified the brain peptide orexin as having a role in conditions of hyperarousal of the brain such as are caused by amphetamine use. Panic attacks and extreme agitation can also occur with substance abuse, particularly with kid’s huffing.
Orexin is...
Drug Addiction: Orexin, An...
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Janet on
Aug 20th, 2010
There has in the past been little importance placed on good nutrition in helping people to overcome addiction. This is because addiction has been regarded by the medical profession, and the general public informed that addiction is a disease for which there is no cure, which must be relieved by drugs and medication. Cognitive behavioral therapy has then taught the medicated addict that as part of their...
Nutrition and Recovery fro...
Posted by
Janet on
Aug 18th, 2010
There are current moves within the medical profession to start prescribing LSD (d-lysergic acid diethylamide) to help people with terminal or life threatening illness overcome anxiety. LSD was originally discovered and investigated by Hofmann in the 1940′s. Lysergic acid is found in fungi which grow on grains. Hofmann is said to have been extremely disappointed when in the late 50′s and...
LSD Psilocybin and PCP ...
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Janet on
Aug 16th, 2010
Alcohol effects are mainly as a result of the ethanol alcohol component of alcoholic drinks. Ethanol is highly toxic to all organs of the body and in particular the stomach lining and the liver.
As a toxin, the liver is able to remove ethanol by producing alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) and usually around 90% of consumed alcohol passes into the blood stream and is processed by the liver, the remaining 10%...
Alcohol Effects: Mood and ...
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