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Friday, January 28, 2005
Thursday, January 27, 2005
Mission Critical
Your mission as an addict (ok, pretend you're an addict)...do a search on the major search engines as if you needed help. Treatment. Detox. Help. Use different terms and different engines and pretend like your insides are going to be on your outsides any second. Type away, soak it all in and then come back here. Yep. Come back and tell us all what you saw...
Tuesday, January 25, 2005
Alcohol Drug Rehabs Treatment Centers Drug Rehabilitation Programs
Directory of Alcohol and Drug Rehabs and Treatment Centers
This site has just about anything you could ever need under one Recovery Roof.
This site has just about anything you could ever need under one Recovery Roof.
Friday, January 14, 2005
Monday, January 10, 2005
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Addiction Rehab Resources
The Addiction and Rehab Resource Guide has compiled an extensive collection of articles related to the treatment of drug and alcohol Addiction and abuse recovery. For your ease we've seperated the resources into the catagories of alcohol abuse, drug Addiction and general Addiction treatment. Please see the sample of articles below to begin your road to recovery from substance abuse.
Addiction Rehab Resources
The Addiction and Rehab Resource Guide has compiled an extensive collection of articles related to the treatment of drug and alcohol Addiction and abuse recovery. For your ease we've seperated the resources into the catagories of alcohol abuse, drug Addiction and general Addiction treatment. Please see the sample of articles below to begin your road to recovery from substance abuse.
Saturday, January 08, 2005
Can addicts recover?
Can addicts recover?
Actually, yes. Addiction can be successfully treated in most adults and adolescents alike, even when it is far advanced. Successful treatment is based on simple principles:
The addict must learn enough about addiction to recognize the disease and diagnose it within themselves;
The addict must learn at least some new tools-recovery groups, lifestyle changes, even hobbies, etc.
The main point here? The addict MUST take personal responsibility for their own recovery.
So, what about "Success Rates?"
Don't be misled by purported "success rates." Effective treatment of alcoholism and addiction depends on the individual's willingness to achieve sobriety and recovery. A program provides the individual with the education, therapies, and necessary coping tools in a structured environment.
Cure? No Cure?
Use caution when considering a drug rehab program that claims to be able to "cure" addiction to drugs and/or alcoholism. There very well maybe a cure...I haven't experienced one or seen one personally... it's just that the facts up until now support a relapse rate well over 50% for a "first-timer." That's not a judgement. I'm sober awhile now, 5-10-25 tries later. So if you're having problems with it all you're in the MAJORITY...it's just that some of the "healed" talk so damn much you end up believing you're doing "it" wrong. Fuck em. Get up and keep trying. And the path you choose better be yours, not theirs.
If I don't take responsibility for my addiction, I will be unable to take responsibility for my recovery. In other words, (my words anyway), while help is welcome and most of the time necessary, this is my deal...and I better deal with it.
Here's a few thousand people always available to talk. Really.
Addicts, Alkies, Friends and Family: 24 Hours A Day
And some more:
Whose Your Buddy?
And one more...
From Coast to Coast...from Sea to Shining Sea...
You're OK...you just don't know it yet.
Actually, yes. Addiction can be successfully treated in most adults and adolescents alike, even when it is far advanced. Successful treatment is based on simple principles:
The addict must learn enough about addiction to recognize the disease and diagnose it within themselves;
The addict must learn at least some new tools-recovery groups, lifestyle changes, even hobbies, etc.
The main point here? The addict MUST take personal responsibility for their own recovery.
So, what about "Success Rates?"
Don't be misled by purported "success rates." Effective treatment of alcoholism and addiction depends on the individual's willingness to achieve sobriety and recovery. A program provides the individual with the education, therapies, and necessary coping tools in a structured environment.
Cure? No Cure?
Use caution when considering a drug rehab program that claims to be able to "cure" addiction to drugs and/or alcoholism. There very well maybe a cure...I haven't experienced one or seen one personally... it's just that the facts up until now support a relapse rate well over 50% for a "first-timer." That's not a judgement. I'm sober awhile now, 5-10-25 tries later. So if you're having problems with it all you're in the MAJORITY...it's just that some of the "healed" talk so damn much you end up believing you're doing "it" wrong. Fuck em. Get up and keep trying. And the path you choose better be yours, not theirs.
If I don't take responsibility for my addiction, I will be unable to take responsibility for my recovery. In other words, (my words anyway), while help is welcome and most of the time necessary, this is my deal...and I better deal with it.
Here's a few thousand people always available to talk. Really.
Addicts, Alkies, Friends and Family: 24 Hours A Day
And some more:
Whose Your Buddy?
And one more...
From Coast to Coast...from Sea to Shining Sea...
You're OK...you just don't know it yet.
Wednesday, January 05, 2005
Why Do Sally And Johnny Use Drugs?
Why Do Sally And Johnny Use Drugs?
In April of 2001, Alan I Lesher, Ph.D. wrote:
"Right at the top of virtually every parent's concerns is the fear that their children might become involved with drugs. And they are right to be concerned. Whether in cities, suburbia or rural communities, whether in wealthy or poor neighborhoods, drugs are now readily available to all young people. And even the seemingly nerdiest kids can speak with apparent fluency and familiarity about marijuana, cocaine, heroin, and such strange-sounding things as blunts, ecstasy, roofies, Special K, and crystal meth. Drugs are an equal opportunity destroyer. Fifty percent of young people have used an illegal drug by the time they leave high school...."
The truth, for me anyway, is that I really do try and pretend it could never happen. Despite all of my "training" with drugs of abuse, I am in complete and total denial that one of mine might ever get loaded.
Oh, and here's the best part; I don't even have "one of mine" yet.
While it's nice to fantasize about taking a machine gun down to the 'hood and making damn sure Jonny doesn't get a double-up (oh like you never thought about it when your last 20 got ripped off), chances are better than Vegas that my future kid is going to get wasted one day.
If you were expecting a solemn and serious soul-searching moment right about now, forget it. I'm going back down to the hood. And I will get that 20 bucks back.
In April of 2001, Alan I Lesher, Ph.D. wrote:
"Right at the top of virtually every parent's concerns is the fear that their children might become involved with drugs. And they are right to be concerned. Whether in cities, suburbia or rural communities, whether in wealthy or poor neighborhoods, drugs are now readily available to all young people. And even the seemingly nerdiest kids can speak with apparent fluency and familiarity about marijuana, cocaine, heroin, and such strange-sounding things as blunts, ecstasy, roofies, Special K, and crystal meth. Drugs are an equal opportunity destroyer. Fifty percent of young people have used an illegal drug by the time they leave high school...."
The truth, for me anyway, is that I really do try and pretend it could never happen. Despite all of my "training" with drugs of abuse, I am in complete and total denial that one of mine might ever get loaded.
Oh, and here's the best part; I don't even have "one of mine" yet.
While it's nice to fantasize about taking a machine gun down to the 'hood and making damn sure Jonny doesn't get a double-up (oh like you never thought about it when your last 20 got ripped off), chances are better than Vegas that my future kid is going to get wasted one day.
If you were expecting a solemn and serious soul-searching moment right about now, forget it. I'm going back down to the hood. And I will get that 20 bucks back.
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