by Valiant | Jul 30, 2015 | Addiction treatment, Alcohol abuse, Drug abuse
Before you make any final decisions on the facility and program that you will use make sure to investigate and evaluate several facilities and programs of this type. Each substance abuse treatment center will have a specific way that they do things, and specific...
by Valiant | Jul 30, 2015 | mental illness and disorders
Researchers at Warwick Medical School in Germany have found that very premature babies tend to grow into withdrawn adults, with personalities that are extremely socially withdrawn. This is indicated in the study by higher levels of introversion and neuroticism, autism...
by Valiant | Jul 30, 2015 | Addiction treatment, Alcohol abuse
1. Your Health- Alcohol abuse has a very devastating effect on your health, both your physical health and your mental health. This type of substance abuse can lead to many diseases of the mind and body. Alcohol destroys your liver and other internal organs, and it has...
by Valiant | Jul 30, 2015 | Addiction treatment, heroin use, Prescription drug abuse
One of the biggest challenges that the medical community faces today is identifying the risk of opioid dependence and narcotic painkiller addiction in a patient. This may become easier than ever before thanks to a new study by an anesthesiologist at the Mayo Clinic in...
by Valiant | Jul 30, 2015 | marijuana use
Legalizing medical marijuana is a move that many states in the USA have made, and this has caused some concern that teen pot use will also increase because many teens will view marijuana as harmless and be tempted to indulge. A new study suggests that legalizing...
by Valiant | Jul 30, 2015 | Addiction treatment, Drug abuse, Prescription drug abuse
According to the study almost half of all the fatal narcotic painkiller overdose cases in the USA involved patients on Medicaid, a government funded health program, and these patients used multiple pharmacies to fill prescriptions. Using more than one pharmacy at the...
by Valiant | Jul 30, 2015 | Drug abuse, marijuana use
Dabs of concentrated marijuana or the active compound in the drug called THC are used, and these dabs are smoked out of a water pipe to vaporize the substance. A new study shows that this practice can be extremely dangerous, leading to serious burns and other medical...
by Valiant | Jul 30, 2015 | Addiction treatment, Alcohol abuse, Drug abuse
Recent figures and details have caused many to describe the rates as alarmingly high. In the past higher mortality rates among former prisoners was high but no efforts were made to determine why this was the case or to perform an in depth investigation of this. In the...
by Valiant | Jul 30, 2015 | Drug abuse, medical studies, Prescription drug abuse
Mayo Clinic researchers recently studied the percentage of patients who received an opioid pain medication for the very first time who went on to long term prescriptions, abuse of the medications, or addiction. The answer was an astonishing 25%, or 1 in 4 patients....
