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Genetic Link Found in Family Members with Opioid Dependence
2008-01-03 18:14:00 It is a well known fact that if either of your parents or your grandparents were or are addicted to drugs and alcohol then chances are you will most likely develop an addiction if you decide to use, too. The Yale School of Medicine has further clarified this assumption by identifying a common gene among ... More About: Family , Addiction , Link , Detox , Heroin
Celebrity Rehab Profile ? Nicole Richie
2008-01-02 20:44:00 Nicole Richie has suffered in the spotlight: her struggle with maintaining a normal weight, her spat with Paris Hilton, her in and out rehab status for heroin addiction. The gossip columns and paparazzi love to report that she is on her way back to rehab or going AWOL from a rehab facility to hit the shopping mall. At 26 years old, Richie has lived 10 lives in the press and with the conflicting stories from CNN, her press agent and the tabloids, who knows what?s really true? More About: Nicole Richie , Celebrity , Rehab , Drug Rehab , Addiction
Large Family Study Pinpoints Genetic Linkage In Drug Addiction
2007-12-31 18:52:00 We?ve known for quite some time now that if your parents or grandparents had issues with addiction that you, too, would have a lower tolerance to drugs and alcohol. Now, researchers at Yale School of Medicine have identified a gene that shows a predilection for addiction to opioid-based drugs like OxyContin, heroin and morphine. More About: Family , Study , Addiction , Linkage , Detox
Utah Doctor Charged for Illegal Painkiller Prescriptions
2007-12-24 19:05:00 More doctors are falling in the Federal search for those involved in illegal trafficking of prescription painkillers. And as we have seen before, doctors are not immune. One of the latest to fall is Dr. Warren Stack of Utah who was charged with 18 criminal counts that include illegal distribution of a controlled substance, conspiracy, health care fraud and money laundering. Up to 80 people a day received prescription opiate medications from Dr. Stack and five of them died because of it. More About: Addiction , Prescriptions , Detox , Doctor
Painkiller Use On The Rise
2007-12-20 21:37:00 According to the latest surveys, painkiller use and painkiller prescription is rising every month in the United States. Between 1997 and 2005, the sales of five of the largest pain medications?codeine, morphine, oxycodone, hydrocodone and meperidine?rose by 88 percent. The numbers break down to more than 200,000 pounds each year, an average of 300 milligrams of opiate drugs for every American. More About: Drug Rehab , Addiction , Detox , Rise , Suboxone
Anna Nicole: Prescription Painkiller Overdose
2007-12-19 21:04:00 When they did the autopsy on Anna Nicole Smith last year, Florida officials found the cause to be prescription painkiller overdose. Some of the nine drugs found in her system included methadone as well as a number of anti-anxiety opiate medications. Her son, Daniel, died a few days early, also a victim of prescription opiate medication overdose, methadone and other anti-depression drugs. More About: Drug Rehab , Detox
VA Pain Doctor Sentenced to Almost Five Years
2007-12-18 18:50:00 The feds are serious about indicting those involved in the illegal selling of prescription painkillers. Latest on the chopping block is a pain doctor in Virginia named William E. Hurwitz who was convicted on 16 counts of drug trafficking. Prosecutors wanted him to get life, but he was sentenced to 25 years, a sentence which was later overturned and cut down to about five years. More About: Addiction , Pain , Years , Doctor , Sentenced
Don?t Walk Away and Leave a Friend to DIE Campaign Wins Award
2007-12-17 23:01:00 It?s a great campaign with a great name: Don?t Walk Away and Leave a Friend to DIE?and it won top prize at the Health Business Award s 2007 for its creator, UNISON member Steve Evans, a North West Ambulance paramedic. More About: Addiction , Campaign
Teen Drug Use Influenced By Their Gender And Their Friends
2007-12-16 19:51:00 If you?re worried that your teen or adolescent child is using drugs or drinking alcohol, you may have only to look at the combination of gender and their friends for the definitive answer, according to one new study published in Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research. More About: Friends , Drug Rehab , Addiction , Gender , Detox
Penn State Gets Grant to Fight Substance Abuse
2007-12-15 23:36:00 The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has granted Penn State University $5.7 million to invest in their continued community development with the goal of making families stronger and helping kids to avoid drug use and addiction. More About: Addiction , Fight
United States Will Support Pilot Methadone Program In Vietnam
2007-12-14 17:09:00 A new methadone program is slated to start up in Vietnam after the new year, according to a conference reported on by AFP/Yahoo! News. The goal of the conference and the methadone initiative is to reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS among injection drug users (IDUs), and the United States is in full support. More About: Support , Program
Drug Addiction on the Rise In Soldiers Stationed in Somalia
2007-12-13 20:41:00 Drug abuse and addiction isn?t just a problem for Americans living in-country. According to a study published in the journal PLoS Medicine, soldiers stationed in southern and central Somalia are experiencing a noticeable rise in substance abuse and addiction. More About: Addiction , Detox , Soldiers , Drug
Teens and Illegal Drug Use Survey Shows Mixed Results
2007-12-12 18:58:00 There?s a new survey out on American teens and their use of drugs, alcohol and cigarettes. Overall, the results show that smoking and drug use have been in decline over the last decade but that the trends in opioid prescription medications have been on the rise. More About: Teens , Drug Rehab , Survey , Results , Addiction
NIH Grant Funds Drug Abuse Research at the University of Houston
2007-12-11 18:19:00 It makes me feel safer knowing that the powers-that-be (the powers with money, that is) are using their resources for good and not evil in this whole convoluted ?War On Drugs? affair created in the ?80s and perpetuated by a steady?and seemingly unending?line of unoriginal thinkers. The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), which is part ... More About: Research , University , Drug Rehab , Addiction
Medicaid Pays 33 Percent of $10 Billion Drug Abuse Hospitalization Bill
2007-12-10 20:35:00 And who pays for Medicaid? We do. There are about 1.3 million hospital stays each year due to misuse and abuse of prescription drugs and street drugs, of which about half were opiates. According to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, more than one-third of these expensive hospital stays are paid for by Medicaid, a government agency paid for by our taxes. The total cost? $10 billion, which means that about $3.3 billion comes out of our pockets. More About: Abuse , Drug Rehab , Addiction , Detox , Drug
Researcher Gets $2.9 Million To Study Substance Abuse Treatment
2007-12-09 18:47:00 Researcher David A. Fiellin, M.D., at Yale School of Medicine is one of the latest recipients of a National Institute on Drug Abuse grant. Fiellin will spend the five-year grant of $2.9 million to continue his research on substance abuse. More About: Study , Addiction , Treatment , Detox
Neurological Damage Inflicted By Club Drugs Similar To Traumatic Brain Inju
2007-12-06 19:24:00 Yet another reason to avoid ?experimenting? with strange drugs you?ve never heard of: the damage caused by overdose and over use of so-called ?club? drugs is similar to the damage caused by physical brain injury. According to a new study out by the University of Florida, a chain of similar chemical reactions occurs in both situations, reactions that result in long-term and short-term memory loss, irreversible brain damage, and cell death. More About: Drugs , Addiction , Club , Detox , Brain
The Kids Are Still On Drugs
2007-12-05 22:34:00 The numbers of kids admitting to drug use in surveys these days rises and falls in cycles but in New England the number comes about to about 15 percent. That is to say, about 15 percent of teenagers who came in for routine outpatient care had positive results on a substance abuse screening test. More About: Kids , Drugs , Drug Rehab , Addiction , The Kids
NIH Gives Yale $23 Million To Research Stress And Addictions
2007-12-04 16:27:00 When those who are prescribed prescription medications begin taking their drugs, their one concern is their physical pain. After a surgical procedure or an injury, a painkilling prescription is common and necessary. However, many addictions are started due to a physical dependence on the drug and perpetuated by stress. It?s difficult to get back in ... More About: Research , Drug Rehab , Addiction , Stress , Million
Should Illegal Drugs Be Decriminalized?
2007-12-03 20:53:00 People generally feel very strongly about this question, one way or the other. The jails and prisons in the United States are jammed with people whose only offense was possession of an illegal substance. I?ve known people who went to prison for selling weed and came out gun-wielding bank robbers. It?s ridiculous and?the objection against legislated morality aside?it costs an insane amount of money, something along the lines of $20,000 per person. More About: Drugs , Drug Rehab , Addiction , Illegal , Suboxone
Opiate Addiction and Your Pain and Reward System
2007-12-02 19:44:00 Opioid-based prescription drugs attach to receptors in the brain?s opioid system, a system that controls our reactions of pain, reward and addiction. The three receptors that opiate painkillers bind to are the mu, delta and kappa receptors and by doing so they block your experience of pain and simultaneously signal the reward pathways which trigger addictive behavior. More About: System , Addiction , Pain , Detox , Suboxone
What to Expect at a Painkiller Addiction Intervention
2007-12-01 21:03:00 Intervention: It?s a popular TV show for some reason and also the hardest day of an addict?s life. It?s most likely the tragedy that makes the show so popular but when it comes to prescription medication addiction, how to realistic is the reality show? More About: Drug Rehab , Addiction , Expect , Opiates , Painkillers
Interventions ? Coping With the Aftermath
2007-11-29 22:21:00 Every intervention ends with one thing: an ultimatum. The person addicted to prescription painkillers or street opiates is offered the opportunity to drive to the closest Meditox office (or the airport to get to Meditox, depending on where they are located) or?. More About: Addiction , Coping , Detox
How To Know if Your Loved One Needs an Intervention
2007-11-28 22:21:00 Some may feel insecure about confronting their loved one or friend about their drug issues, especially when the drug in question is a prescription drug. Prescription painkillers are tricky: yes, they serve a purpose but taken too long, they can become a problem in and of themselves. Family members who notice changes in those taking prescription opiates like Vicodin, OxyContin, Norco, Lortab and more may not know when these changes are merely side effects and when they denote an unacknowledged addiction worthy of an intervention. More About: Drug Rehab , Addiction , Needs
Tips to Set Up a Successful Intervention
2007-11-27 20:47:00 An intervention, like we discussed here yesterday, is an organized meeting that allows friends and family members to confront those who are addicted to prescription painkillers with the effects of their addiction in a safe, nonjudgmental environment. A successful intervention will end with the addict choosing to get help, actively getting in the car to go to the airport or the closest Meditox office for their pre-set outpatient appointment and coming home with a treatment plan and a prescription for Suboxone treatment to help them detox off of opioid-based prescription meds. More About: Drug Rehab , Tips , Addiction
How To Help Loved Ones Seek Help For Addiction
2007-11-26 20:47:00 It?s a fine line when you?re trying to help someone you love who is addicted to opiates and prescription painkillers. Too much help can be termed ?co-dependent,? essentially making their addiction possible by providing them with a place to stay, money to feed their habit and helping them to lie and cover up addictive behavior in front of others. Too little and your friend or family member may not realize that there is a way out of addiction through detox and treatment. More About: Drug Rehab , Addiction , Detox , Seek , Painkillers
The Connection Between Self Control and Drug Addiction
2007-11-25 18:41:00 Half of drug addiction is physical: your body builds up a tolerance over long-term use, requiring significantly higher doses of the drug to continue to effectively block pain. The other half of drug dependence is mental, the compulsion to pop that pill even though you know it will only harm you, your health, and your ability to maintain relationships at home and at work. Compulsive behavior is the root of many addictions and it?s not something that you can cure with a pill. More About: Connection , Addiction , Drug , Control , Subutex
The Link Between Drug Addiction And Stress
2007-11-24 18:34:00 Here?s something I bet you didn?t know: the fact that martini time starts immediately after work and that Mom likes a little nip to ?relax? is directly associated to the stress. That?s right. Drug and alcohol use often starts as an attempt to mitigate stressful situations, lubricate conversation and shake off discomfort with oneself and others. Right. You knew that. But now, there is a scientific study to back up the assumption. Or at least there will be. More About: Addiction , Link , Stress , Subutex
The Benefits of Decreased Opiate Tolerance
2007-11-23 18:24:00 The results are in: A Saint Louis University of Medicine research team discovered that it is possible to block the natural effect of tolerance build up when an opiate drug is taken over a long period of time. What does this mean? That new pain management regimens can be developed without incurring the side effects caused by constantly elevated levels of opiate drugs?including opiate addiction. More About: Addiction , Tolerance , Benefits , Subutex , Suboxone
Link Between Drugs And Diabetes Discovered
More articles from this author:2007-11-22 18:20:00 According to a research team at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, insulin has a direct effect on the levels of dopamine in the brain, a hormone which, in turn, is affected by drug use and addiction. What does this matter to people who are taking opioid-based medications for pain management or Suboxone to fight addiction to such drugs? It means there's exists another health reason to handle your addiction immediately. More About: Drugs , Addiction , Link , Diabetes , Detox 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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