Methamphetamine Addiction and Methamphetamine Abuse

Red Ribbon event honors teens fighting drug, alcohol abuse
On Thursday, more than 100 middle school and high school students from across Kansas gathered in Topeka, where they were honored for being on the front lines in the fight against teenage drug and alcohol abuse at the Red Ribbon luncheon and training … Read more on Topeka Capital Journal

'Step Up Fight Against Alcohol Abuse Among Juveniles'
THE Ndola City Council (NCC) has called for community partnership in the fight against alcohol abuse among the under-age. Last week an 18-year-old girl identified as Sylvia Chanda of Ndola's Chifubu Township died at Ndola Central Hospital from … Read more on AllAfrica.com

Triffitt's descent into alcohol abuse
However regaining a professional contract isn't a pressing issue for the former Australian under-19 representative — simply regaining control of his life from the demons of alcohol abuse is. Start of sidebar. Skip to end of sidebar. End of sidebar … Read more on Fox Sports

Question by A. G. Sepulveda: How can a man drink alcohol every day and yet claim not to be an alcoholic?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush_substance_abuse_controversy

Best answer:

Answer by Eddie
yes, that’s the first step of the 12 step program … “hi, my name is george walker bush and i am an alcoholic”

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12 Graduate from Macon County Drug Court
Twelve people say they have a new lease on life after graduating from Macon County's first hybrid court program. Hybrid court is a specialty court that handles drug and alcohol abuse cases. In order to graduate from the program, participants must have … Read more on WICS-TV

Senate panel hears about overdose problem
Phil Lahey, a Methuen father of a recovering addict, said there are few options to get medium-term treatment, a stabilizing time between the initial detoxification and a long-term residential program. “After the five-day spin dry, we're stuck again … Read more on Eagle-Tribune

Question by Olympic fan: “Does alcohol kill brain cells?
Just wondering, are brain cells really killed when alcohol is consumed?

Best answer:

Answer by C H R I S (Philippines)
“Usually brain cells are not killed. For 16 years, Roberta J. Pentney, professor of anatomy and cell biology at the University at Buffalo, has studied chronic alcohol abuse and brain function. She concludes that alcohol does not kill brain cells but rather damages dendrites–the branched ends of nerve cells that bring messages into the cell.

Alcohol surely affects the brain, as we all know, causing slurred speech, clumsiness, slow reflexes, and a loss of inhibition. But alcohol doesn’t destroy the brain cells to cause these problems.

Rather, alcohol dilates the channels in the cellular structure that regulates the flow of calcium. More calcium than normal flows into the cells and stimulates increased activity. Somehow this abnormal “turning on” of activity causes a loss of the end segments but does not kill the whole cell. Losing the end segments, however, means losing incoming messages, which disrupts brain function.

The good news is: the damage to the brain cells, for the most part, isn’t permanent. The brain repairs itself but the recovery process does change nerve-cell structure. So most function returns to normal but some does not.

Another researcher, working independently finds similar results: Alcohol doesn’t kill brain cells; instead it slows communications. Richard Gross, professor of medicine, chemistry, and molecular biology and pharmacology at Washington University in St. Louis, discovers alcohol combines with the brain’s fatty acids and forms compounds called fatty-acid-ethyl esters. These compounds, in turn, change the flow of electric and chemical signals in the brain. A change in this flow alters how the brain works.

A molecule of fatty-acid-ethyl ester latches onto and enters a nerve cell. Inside the cell, the compound speeds up a release of potassium ions, which inhibits the release of neurotransmitters, and that slows down communication between cells.

A drink doesn’t kill brain cells. It damages the way brain cells communicate and the damage is largely reversible.

(Are you a heavy drinker? If you don’t mind? Anyway good question!)

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Question by deburleigh: What would you do to a person who is a confessed filthy multiple rapist and spent time in “rehabilitation”?
He is released from prison and commits the act many more times, and is finally caught again: one of his victims is your daughter. She will never be able to have a true loving trusting marital relationship because of her brutal rape experience.. How many girls and women is enough for you to kill the SOB? I would have shot the monster the first time. He is not human not even an animal, he is a monster…

Best answer:

Answer by apple
How about you mind your own business? What happened to that girl doesn’t regard you. You shouldn’t have a say in all of this.
And by the way, if you would shoot him, well you’d go in jail, so don’t act dumb dude. Don’t be stupid. Mind your own business.

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Mobile app may help people recovering from alcohol abuse: study
He and his colleagues write in JAMA Psychiatry that only about one in four people recovering from alcohol abuse abstains from drinking alcohol during the first year of recovery. Past studies have found that continuing treatment for alcoholism is linked … Read more on Reuters

Latest Best Drug Rehabilitation Blog Post Looks at the Dangers of Drinking and …
“Furthermore, reports from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and other credible organizations confirm that there is a clear correlation between alcohol abuse and prescription drug abuse; in fact, people who abuse the former are nearly twenty times … Read more on Midland Daily News (blog)

Poor oxytocin development could be to blame for alcohol and drug addiction
According to a National Survey on Drug Use and Health from the US Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 8.7% of the US population aged 12 and over was treated for an illicit drug or alcohol abuse addiction in 2010. Read more on Medical News Today

How We Won the War on Dungeons & Dragons
How We Won the War on Dungeons & Dragons S. It sounds crazy in our world today, where there are Dungeons & Dragons movies and a rich game industry full of titles inspired by those old paper-and-dice games we played back in the twentieth century … Read more on io9

Mobile app may help people recovering from alcohol abuse: study
More recovering alcohol abusers also reported total abstinence from drinking when using the app, which has guided relaxation techniques and alerts users when they're near bars and other places that may be risky to their recoveries. "The system we have … Read more on Reuters India

As coal fades in West Virginia, drugs fill void
… of prescription pill addiction has been a game changer, she said. “When it escalated into drug abuse, the addiction got so bad that, on average, about 43 percent of my students had lost a biological mother or father,” either from overdose or … Read more on Al Jazeera America

Tollefson to get out of jail; slated for drug treatment
Former Philadelphia sportscaster Don Tollefson will be released from jail Thursday and transferred to an inpatient drug-treatment facility as he awaits trial on felony fraud charges involving an alleged ticket-selling scam, officials said. The petition … Read more on Philly.com