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Posts from ‘August, 2009’

Drug Rehabilitation Centers Should Not Be Intimidating

All drug rehabilitation centers pay lip service to the importance of personalized care. But only some of them actually deliver on their promises.

A Holistic Drug Abuse Treatment Center Is The Best Choice

By Max Power | Published: August 31, 2009 The best drug abuse treatment center is the one that eradicates the physical and psychological roots of addiction. As obvious as that sounds, the unfortunate truth is that many of the most “exclusive” drug abuse treatment centers in Los Angeles target one dimension of the disease while ignoring the other.

Free or Low Cost Drug Addiction Treatment Close to Home

any of the calls I receive are from persons that are looking for low-cost or free drug rehabilitation or treatment close to home. That is the number one question that I am asked as a referral specialist. Many times the person calling has already called about five or twenty different places, left messages, sent

Portugal’s success story

This week’s version of The Economist features a story on the situation in Portugal eight years after the country decriminalized all drugs, reported on at the National Post’s Full Comment .

Addiction Recovery Blog » Addiction Recovery Newsletter (8/31/2009)

There are many important aspects about picking the Best Drug Rehab Clinics. One of the main concerns when dealing with recovery is being around the same people and situations that helped the addict be… (More) …

What to Do If Your Teen is Using Crystal Meth

The teenage years are difficult for nearly all of us. The changing natures of our bodies, the changing role within the family as we reach adulthood and the new roles that we take on in society as we’re coming of age.

The Key Features in A Fruitful Alcohol Intervention

What are the major features in an effective alcohol intervention? Why do some alcohol dependency interventions happen as expected while several flop? The Requirement for a Recognized Track Record of Intervention Success Scientific examination reveals that a productive addiction intervention needs to be conducted by an intervention professional who has an established reputation of intervention success.

Your Drug Addiction Getting to The Truth

When you have been through a painful life, the truth is about the last thing you want to face.  A drug addiction stemming from searing pain like this does just that.  Only it also adds the life-wrecking consequences that go along with drug addiction like money problems, injury and death, family chaos, and health risks.  What can help you when you think all is lost?  The truth about your drug addiction can take you on another better path. Getting Through The Addiction Thinking The first

Drug Addiction Treatment | Rehab

Drug addiction treatment can help with the successful removal of drug dependency, and the resumption of a drug free life.

Update: Details Of DJ AM’s Death Emerge

Despite reports that DJ AM (born Adam Goldstein) might have been depressed over a recent breakup with model Hayley Wood before his death on Friday, law enforcement sources believe the celebrity DJ’s death was an accidental drug overdose, not suicide. Citing unnamed police sources, TMZ reported that recovering addict AM had developed a dependency on Xanax and a number of other anti-anxiety drugs after the fiery plane crash he and Blink-182’s Travis Barker survived last year. Both men were seriou