Choking to death: should we stop sending women to prison?
“I didn't tell the girls I hadn't done them before – I just wanted to fit in,” she tells me when we meet at Brighton Oasis Project, a charity for women with drug or alcohol addictions. By her second jail sentence, at HMP Bronzefield in …. All current … Read more on New Statesman

Hamilton hospital aims to change mental health care
“Just as there is no shame in getting an MRI to diagnose an illness, or seeking medical treatment for diabetes, there should be no shame in seeking mental or addiction care.” The new 855,000 square foot facility also features a number of improved … Read more on CP24 Toronto’s Breaking News

Fitness calendar
Acupuncture for cancer caregivers – Missoula Community Acupunture, located in the Radio Central Building, 127 E Main St., Suite 314, offers free acupuncture treatments for friends, family, nurses, doctors or anyone who takes care of cancer patients on … Read more on The Missoulian

Times In-Depth: Heroin's deadly return to Erie
The department in its most recent annual report said the number of people in Pennsylvania who had received a specific treatment for heroin addiction — detoxification using a drug called Buprenorphine — increased to 780 in 2010-2011 from nearly 500 in … Read more on GoErie.com

Punk Rock Pastor Joe Furey's Life of Addiction, Loss and Recovery Makes Him …
It's a simple place run by a humble, charismatic pastor who can look into the eyes of a coke addict, a thief, a workaholic, and not only see a lost soul, but a bit of himself as well. Furey's history of drug abuse, addiction, loss and recovery is … Read more on OC Weekly

Firms face up to staff with alcohol and substance abuse problems
London businesses are facing significant challenges in managing staff with alcohol and substance abuse problems, warns GQ Employment Law, a specialist London employment law firm. GQ Employment Law says that the problem is increasingly being … Read more on Here Is The City

The War Within: Portraits of Vietnam Veterans Fighting Heroin Addiction
Caption from LIFE. "The tears that rolled down Chad Harris's cheeks were partly a symptom of withdrawal: he hadn't had a fix in 14 hours. But he was also crying out of fear that he wouldn't be accepted into the drug treatment program at California's … Read more on TIME

Why Is Heroin Abuse Rising While Other Drug Abuse Is Falling?
Peter Shumlin, Democratic governor of Vermont, moved heroin addiction to the front burner of national news by devoting his entire State of the State address last week to his state's dramatic increase in heroin abuse. Shumlin described the situation as … Read more on Forbes

Niagara County faith-related events Jan. 19-26
RECOVERY GROUP: 7:30 p.m., Wheatfield Community Church, 3571 Niagara Falls Blvd. Addiction Conquerors will offer a Life Recovery Group every week to those who are victims of any addiction. The Rev. Pat Lavery, co-founder of the group, will lead. Read more on Buffalo News

Russell Brand and former Coronation Street star Kevin Kennedy team up in …
They met at a London conference aimed at supporting more social enterprises for people recovering from addiction. The Sunday Mirror told earlier this month how Kevin plans to open a dry pub in Brighton and is looking to raise £100,000 to finance the … Read more on Mirror.co.uk

Pa. mom has had double dose of heroin tragedy
11, daughter Stacie Lee Burnell, 36, whose heroin addiction led her to living on the streets of Chester, was shot and killed just hours after being released from prison – presumably by a dealer she'd ripped off. Her murder remains unsolved. For Shedlo … Read more on Philly.com

Question by Christina: What do you think about methadone as a treatment for heroin addiction?
Alot of people look down on iy, bu its been proved to work better than the 12 step groups and the like. If you agree its good why? If you don’t why?

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Answer by Sick of Butt-Hurt People
“bu its been proved to work better than the 12 step groups and the like.”

Please provide evidence for this assumption.

Methadone is good for pregnant women trying to stop IV Heroin Use, what can lead to all sorts of contaminants entering the bloodstream and adversely effecting the fetus and Methadone is great for people that, basically, have to either go on it or continue activities that will result in their immediate death…

But in the long term, “maintenance” therapy does nothing but prolong the suffering of the Addicts.

Addiction is a horrific biological and mental illness that has nothing to do with the Substance or even the Actions because “Addiction” is defined as the inability to stop doing something despite mounting consequences.

Withdrawal doesn’t have anything to do with addiction.
“Only Doing It Once And A While” has nothing to do with addiction.

People that are profoundly addicted to meth/speed only do it 2 or 3 times a week and they use their delusions of “Control” to make the claim that they’re not hurting themselves… The same is said for heroin addicts.

They are on an opiate that is MORE addictive and hard to get off of than Heroin and just because they have doctors giving the opiates to them doesn’t make it any less of a “Problem”.

By giving Methadone or even Maintenance Heroin does nothing but allow the problem to continue.

By allowing the problem to continue, you are harming the addict and, more importantly, the family, friends, and culture of the addict.

An impaired parent is an abusive and abandoning parent… As the child of an addict, I think that the children of these people should be removed from their custody immediately or, if possible, get them to consent to sterilization as they do with:

? Project Prevention – Children Requiring a Caring Community
http://www.projectprevention.org/

If you can’t care for yourself, you are unable to care for others… period… end of story. Addiction does nothing but cause damage to the brain development of the offspring and cause their own addiction biology to activate at an early age and the children then go on to perpetuate the generational transmission of trauma onto THEIR kids, leading to the next generation of homeless, impoverished, victimized addicts.

By telling people they can just “Coast” on maintenance therapy, you’re telling them that they’re “Better” when they’re not… It’s a quick and temporary fix that will still almost always lead back to relapse, cross addiction, etc.

Since it isn’t legal to just put addicts down for the good of everyone around them, the way we put down rabid dogs that can’t be trained to not try to bite, we have no choice other than to get these people to do as little harm as possible to EVERYONE ELSE and this means long term TREATMENT that includes supervised withdrawal, mental health treatment, and a structured environment that will train their brain to not seek drugs as a coping mechanism.

Maintenance Therapy should be nothing more than a temporary crutch as a part of a much greater treatment program, which includes 12-Step among other types of therapy and treatment.

Suicide would be the best thing that a heroin addict could do for themselves, their children, their family, their friends, and the whole human species. It’s the only way to both stop the suffering of the addict and the way that they do nothing but cause harm to anyone they are in contact with.

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Amphetamine addiction overtakes alcohol and heroin
The drug and alcohol addiction rehabilitation centre has been treating Australians since 1977. Now for the first time, amphetamine abuse is the number one problem for people seeking treatment. The centre's staff say the use of drugs like speed, ice and … Read more on ABC Online

De Blasio's Daughter Admits Battling Alcohol, Drug Addiction
The 19-year-old daughter of Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio admitted in a YouTube video released on Christmas Eve that she sought treatment for alcohol and drug addiction after years of also battling depression. Andrew Siff reports. De Blasio's Daughter Admits. Read more on NBC New York

A Pill to Cure Addiction?
Support groups like Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous only work in a fraction of alcoholics and addicts, according to Michael Fingerhood, who heads Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine's division of chemical dependency. The few … Read more on Wall Street Journal

Question by Me: Need advice step son is coming to live with my husband and i after being in rehab for heroin addiction….?
My husband and i have been married for about 6 years he has a 13 year old son from a previous relationship. Well his son is coming to live with us he just got out of Rehab for Heroin addiction and his mom wants nothing to do with him at all. Well hubby and i have three son’s of our own 2.4,6 and so as you can imagine i am concerned for there safty and well being but at the same time i also believe in Redemption so to speak everyone makes mistakes and i understand that so i am trying not to hold any preconceived notions about the kid but at the same time never had to really be a step parent to this kid and everything. I mean honestly i am more worried about him relapsing into it because he got into it to begin with because his gf was into it heavily and then she introduced him to it and then she died because of in OD so he got into it heavily trying to block out his pain and everything. Sorry for blabbing i just don’t know what to do with the kid hubby thinks there isn’t a threat and that he will be fine and that we just need to love on him but at the same time i don’t want him here =/. Advice?

Best answer:

Answer by Cougar Death
he will murder all of you in your sleep

What do you think? Answer below!

Relapse Prevention for Stimulant Abuse And Addiction

Drug Court Judge Gisele Pollack Enters Rehab After Erratic Behavior At Work
A judge who presides over a drug court in Florida is entering rehab after unprofessional acts on the job. Broward County Judge Gisele Pollack, who has been open about her past troubles with alcohol, admits she suffered a relapse, the South Florida Sun … Read more on Huffington Post

Drug court judge acts erratically, admits she needs help
The judge who oversees Broward County's misdemeanor drug court is headed for rehab herself after sources say she acted erratically at work on Tuesday. Broward County Judge Gisele Pollack, who has been open about battling alcoholism in the past, was … Read more on Sun-Sentinel

US Rep. Radel will not resign after coke bust
Trey Radel of Florida refused to resign Thursday, saying he wants to "rebuild the trust" of voters. At a news conference held the same day he left a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center, the 37-year-old freshman told reporters at his Cape Coral … Read more on Salt Lake Tribune

Question by Jack: Why are the conditions in most mental hospitals awful?
Some are even dangerous e.g. patients can often be at risk from other patients. And I’m not even talking about the ones that use electric shock “treatment”.

My question is how are mental hospitals actually supposed to HELP patients? I would think that feeling unsafe and being around people that scream and bang their heads off walls and stuff would make anyone’s mental problem 10 times worse?

Best answer:

Answer by asp2write
First, they aren’t all like that, but the ones that are, they are usually public funded, where the patients are unwanted by anyone else, so there is no one to complain about the bruises, or the filth, they are just deposited there to die, it really pretty sad, we need better laws that both check up on, and punish these places.

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Veterans' treatment addresses both mental illness, substance abuse
Integrated dual disorder treatment recognizes that substance addiction and serious mental illness — bipolar disorder, schizophrenia severe post-traumatic stress disorder — need to be treated together, said Gary Stofle, coordinator of the Columbus VA … Read more on Columbus Dispatch

Op-Ed: Treating addiction like a disease – medically assisted treatment
Programs like Alcoholics Anonymous that have been around since the 1930s are built on group therapy and an acceptance that the addict does in fact have a problem and needs help to beat their addiction. The problem for many fighting addiction … Read more on DigitalJournal.com

Injectable opioid treatment for chronic heroin addiction more cost-effective …
Supervised injectable opiate treatments are more cost-effective than optimised oral methadone treatment for chronic heroin addiction, according to new research from King's College London. Although injectable treatments are more expensive to provide … Read more on The Almagest