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09 Feb Tips for Helping an Alcoholic Friend or Family Member

Posted at 14:33h in Alcohol Detox, Getting Into Treatment

If you’re in recovery from alcohol addiction, it no doubt took you a long time to admit your drinking was a problem. If you’ve never been a heavy drinker yourself,...

09 Feb Top 10 Effective Ways to Stop Teen Drug and Alcohol Use Before It Starts

While drug addiction is hardly exclusive to teenagers, drug misuse typically begins early. U.S. teens have only a 30% chance of graduating high school without tasting alcohol, and statistics for...

09 Feb 8 Things to Expect in a Drug and Alcohol Detox Center

Posted at 14:26h in Alcohol Detox, Benzodiazepine Detox, Opiate Detox

With over 20 million Americans having addiction problems that need treatment, it’s no surprise there are over 10,000 mental-health treatment facilities in the United States, most of which offer drug...

09 Feb Cocaine Addiction: Is Teen Cocaine Use More Harmful Than Adult Use?

Posted at 14:21h in Getting Into Treatment

Although we frequently hear how cocaine increases risk of heart attacks and strokes—health issues associated with the middle-aged-and-older population—young users are by no means safe. Nor are they particularly rare....

09 Feb Opiate Addiction Detox: 10 Tips to Get Off Opiates

Posted at 14:19h in Heroin Epidemic, Opiate Detox

Opiates have attracted more and longer-running public concern than any other drug except alcohol. (An online search for alcohol rehab in Los Angeles still returns 8–10 times the results as...

09 Feb Long-term Effects of Alcohol Abuse in Teens and Young Adults

Posted at 14:14h in Alcohol Detox, Getting Into Treatment

For all the attention prescription drug addiction gets, the greatest drug problem still involves “medication” that’s even easier to obtain. Two million Americans struggle with prescription drug addiction involving opiate...

09 Feb Interview: Ipek Aykol, LMFT

Posted at 13:32h in Interviews

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