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Drug Rehabilitation During the Holidays

Many families often make the mistake of waiting until after the Holidays are over to get their loved one into a drug rehabilitation program. However, the Holiday Season can be a very difficult time for someone struggling with addiction, especially … Continue reading

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Creating the Opiate Addiction Epidemic

For many years I have been writing about the devastation caused by drug companies and have helped thousands of families find drug rehab centers for addictions to prescription drugs. However, the latest discovery started with a hunch that I tracked … Continue reading

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Cartel Kills 19 at Drug Rehab Center in Mexico

The violence surrounding Mexican drug lords doesn’t seem to be getting much better. In devastating news released today via the AP, 19 people at a drug rehab center in Chihuahua were executed by drug cartel members. Roughly 23,000 deaths have … Continue reading

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Cheaper, Stronger Heroin Contributing to Rise in Deaths

An Associated Press (AP) story that hit the web on Monday talked about the increased number of cheaper and purer heroin entering the U.S. through Mexico and contributing to the dramatic rise in heroin-related overdose deaths. The article cites that … Continue reading

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Prison Treatment Program Funding in Jeopardy

As reported in JoinTogether Online, an AP article earlier this month stated that several states have either eliminated prison drug treatment programs or have proposed cutbacks due to budget shortfalls. A quote from Boby May, associated director for the Association … Continue reading

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Substance Abuse and the Military

Nobody can claim to know what it’s like to be in the military stationed overseas, taking orders from people that you may not agree with, being stuck in 100+ degree desert climates and potentially having to resort to killing innocent … Continue reading

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Drug Abusing Population Growing in America

According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, the percentage of people over the age of 12 who used illicit drugs in the previous month has remained steady over the last six years at roughly eight percent. However, … Continue reading

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Drug Rehab Criticism

If you’re like many people and speak to several different drug rehab centers, you’ll notice that in most cases each one will tell you why they are the best, and in doing so will probably say something negative about other … Continue reading

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Another State Shows Rise in Methadone-Related Overdose Deaths

The Reuters news agency reported in early November that the state of Washington claimed methadone was involved in 64 percent of fatal overdoses of prescription opiates. This is yet another state where this is the case, yet even more money … Continue reading

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Marijuana Potency Causing More than Abuse

A recent report from the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University detailed some alarming statistics regarding marijuana abuse among teens. Some of the trends noted were that there was an increase of more than 135% … Continue reading

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