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Many people who enter a residential treatment facility to overcome their addiction also have other underlying problems. It could be depression, suicidal thoughts, anxiety, panic attacks, or other psychiatric issue that both aggravates and fuels their addiction. The fact is that many people with drug and alcohol addiction also have a co-occurring psychiatric disorder. Some have alcohol or drug addictions, a psychiatric disorder, experienced past trauma and suffer from post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In order to gain the most out of rehab, the person needs to be treated in a facility that specializes in treating both the addiction and the underlying psychiatric issues.
An anxiety medication known as D-cycloserine may be able to help suppress cravings and the possibility of relapse in cocaine addicts. According to a new study by researchers at Yale University, the anti-anxiety medication combined with cognitive behavioral therapy in cocaine addicts has the potential to help addicts resist drug consumption when faced with drug-taking cues, even when outside of rehabilitation treatment.
First Lady Michelle Obama announced the new Affordable Care Act on Wednesday, which ensures that such preventive services as tobacco cessation and alcohol counseling are covered under all new health insurance policies at no cost to consumers.
When you’re looking for a treatment facility for addiction, it’s important to find one that carries the appropriate accreditation. While it’s not likely that just anyone would hang out a shingle and tout their addiction recovery services, not every treatment facility will be the right fit for all individuals in need of such services. That’s a big reason why treatment facility accreditation matters. But there are many more aspects to treatment facility accreditation and why it’s important. Here are some to consider.
When you research treatment centers your overall goal is clear: you want the best addiction treatment in an environment you will feel comfortable in for a month. Choosing a treatment center is one of the most important decisions you will make and will mean the difference between building a strong foundation for long-term sobriety or ending up on the rehab merry-go-round.
Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), urged researchers at Monday’s annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association to get more creative in the search for addiction treatment. According to Dr. Volkow, having a better understanding of how addiction overlaps with other brain diseases is leading to experiments to see if a treatment for one condition might also help another.
You don’t have to hit rock bottom to be ready to accept treatment for addiction, but some addicts do. The truth is that the timing of recognizing that you’re ready for treatment is different for everyone. Whenever it occurs, there are some things that are common to the breakthrough moment that may help you take the next all-important step.
Aiming to curb drug use by young adults as well as drugged driving, President Barack Obama released a new anti-drug strategy that focuses on prevention and addiction treatment.
As opiate abuse continues to increase across the country, it’s also increasing among American soldiers. Pentagon statistics obtained by FoxNews.com and confirmed by the Army show that the number of soldiers entering treatment for opiate abuse—such as morphine, codeine, heroin, and some prescription drugs—has jumped nearly 500 percent. When the U.S. began surging troops into Afghanistan, the world’s leading opium producer, this number skyrocketed.
If you really want to quit your addiction, your best bet is to enroll in a professional addiction treatment program at a certified facility. Addiction treatment won’t guarantee that you will never suffer a relapse, but – especially for intractable addictions – if offers the greatest likelihood of success if you stick with the program. Still, addiction treatment is expensive, takes time, and a lot of commitment. So, how do you get the most out of treatment for addiction? Here are some tips that may prove helpful.
Many studies have shown that exercise is an excellent outlet for stress and can be very beneficial in preventing drug abuse relapse. Researchers at the University of Georgia and Emory University will receive $1.9 million over the next five years from the National Institutes of Health to study how regular exercise can help prevent relapse. The findings could be very helpful for addiction treatment centers.
In an effort to put those “this is your brain on drugs” commercials to use in real life, researchers have discovered a way to visualize brain activity after an individual uses cocaine, alcohol, and other recreational drugs. This should help determine better addiction treatment strategies, which could be of immense help to treatment centers.
Addiction treatment centers, including Promises Treatment Centers, are now utilizing online social networking capabilities to get recovery groups talking and sharing in a new forum. Thanks to the innovative Social Solutioning Platform of OneRecovery™ (www.onerecovery.com), recovering addicts, their friends and loved ones, and professional health care providers can become unified in a central, real-time discussion forum that provides constant support to recovering addicts and enables patients to continue recovery efforts after rehabilitation. OneRecovery’s online and mobile social network technologies help addiction treatment physicians, colleagues, and their clients increase health and wellness and effectively reduce the cost of health care. OneRecovery is the first online community for addiction treatment and is revolutionizing addiction medicine and recovery for rehabilitation centers nationwide.
Thirty-year-old John Patrick Barton of Lewisville, Texas, had already been convicted three times for driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI) when he struck a family vehicle early Easter morning, killing 33-year-old mother Kandace Hull and her 13-year-old daughter Autumn Caudle, and injuring three other passengers including Hull’s husband. The repeat offender, having been released on parole from his most recent DUI conviction, was again driving under the influence. Barton has DUI convictions from 1997, 2006, and 2008; records show he was sentenced to three years in prison for his most recent conviction and paroled in early 2009 after serving a ten-month sentence.
One question we are often asked is what is your success rate. There are addiction treatment programs who declare they have a very high success rate, sometimes even claiming a cure rate, with little real evidence to back this up. Anecdotal evidence does not equal an addiction treatment success rate. However, there are other ways to measure success.
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