Morphine, for example, is often used before or after surgery to alleviate severe pain. Codeine, considering it is less efficacious than morphine, is used for milder pain. Other examples of opioids that can be prescribed to alleviate pain include oxycodone (OxyContin), propoxyphene (Darvon), hydroc…

Itar-Tass Reports that in Moscow alone, there are currently 30,000 drug addicts mostly from the younger generation including students.

Illegal drug use in both Germany and Russia have hit new heights according to different reporting agencies. In Germany, according to the National Treatment Agen…

Employers must follow laws which require drug testing such as:

Title 7 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 Private employers with 15 or more employees
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 Permits employers to adopt drug testing and drugfree workplace policies
State Workers Compensation laws an i…

Ultimately the physician, with input from the patient, will decide whether he/she is referred to another facility, given a 72 hour “cooling-off” period and next re-admitted, or simply discharged.

Suboxone plus has a ceiling effect- meaning that increased doses do not generate increased effects….

And what causes it?

There are many public who still believe addiction is a failure of morality or a spiritual weakness, even a sin or a crime.To non-drinkers it’s often a problem of self-control; for sociologists, poverty; for educators, ignorance…What is addiction?Original post by P. Bench

Individuals learn to label and redress sensitive behaviors. Relapse Prevention, a cognitive-behavioral remedy, was developed for the management of problem drinking and adjusted later for cocaine addicts. Relapse prevention encompasses many cognitive-behavioral strategies that promote abstinence as…

The ONDCP must be agreeable to set in motion theidentical type of hard hitting ad campaigns against prescriptiondrug abuse as it has against, marijuana, ecstasy andcocaine. Pharmaceutical manufacturers must becomebetter denizens and spend the research and developmentdollars to produce safe and effe…

I’d go to the store and buy the diapers or the food.”Williams couldn’t understand how these society became so dependent on crack. He received the news from the prison chaplain.Williams was allowed to go to his father’s funeral. He’s lived in dingy motel rooms. He couldn’t get his former girlfrie…

The Treatment Hotline has begun compiling a list of “noteworthy” news relating to addiction. whether you happen to gather such a thing (I just write…), pass it on and let’s get it archived.Addiction News Archive…like a Smithsonian for Junkies….PB

Original post by P. Bench

Lock the kids up by at Guantanemo untill they tell the truth.Jeb?

Around the corner at the Dawn Farm, Jason Schwartz of Addiction and Recovery News relays a story stating: Injection Drug Use Up Among Younger Heroin Treatment Clients.He goes on to challenge one of the articles unsubstaniated con…