Drug Rehab Dowling Park Helps Teens Find Professional Youth Rehab
Drug Rehab Dowling Park was created to provide young people and their family members with guidance and support they need to find the best treatment programs and adolescent treatment facilities for them. Drug Rehab Dowling Park can be reached by … Read more on Ticker Report

Making a difference: Area students submit videos to fight drug use among youth
Manuel Vazquez had always thought that drug addiction happened to adults, not kids. That is, until he visited a rehabilitation center with his mom when he was 12 years old. When he entered the facility, Vazquez, a recent Sheboygan South High School … Read more on The Sheboygan Press

Long Term Alcoholic Rehab from the Gonzalez Recovery Residences
The González Recovery Residences residential drug rehab facilities have programs that range from 28 days to several years and the probability of success (lifelong sobriety) all too often is directly related to one's time in treatment (with longer stays … Read more on PR Web (press release)

Substance abuse among seniors on the rise
Santa Ana, CA, United States (4E) – Alcohol and drug abuse among the senior population of the U.S. is worsening as the number of older patients in South Florida's substance addiction treatment facilities grows and the number of 65 and up Medicare … Read more on Gant Daily

Question by cjsu: Driving myself to Chemo treatments?
I will be beginning chemotherapy in a city about 30 miles away next week. I know I need a driver my first time, but will there ever be a time when I can drive myself? (I will be having Herceptin and Navelbine, which are quite mild for side effects like nausea and hair loss.)

I don’t know ANYTHING about the actual immediate effects chemo has on people, other than the nausea but surely that doesn’t begin within the 1st hour?!

Do I have a window of “wellness” where I can drive home safely after treatment or do I ALWAYS have to have a companion? The ride is about an hour – depending on traffic.

And unless you have had or worked with the drugs I mentioned, you may have out-of date info. Thanks anyway.
This is NOT because I don’t have anyone, but sometimes I want to be alone.

(It’s possible that I am like a wolf who needs to go into a cave alone and lick my wounds before coming out and rejoining my pack when I’m feeling better!)

Best answer:

Answer by The Cheminator
This all depends on the individual.
Symtoms can occur very fast.
best to have someone with you and not need them then to not have someone and do!

What do you think? Answer below!

Aid in Recovery Comments on Recent Vote in Maine Aimed at Funding More …
Aid in Recovery, a full service drug and alcohol rehabilitation center servicing South Florida, released a statement today commenting on a recent report detailing the Maine state legislature's recent vote to roll back Gov. Paul LePage's proposal to … Read more on PR Web (press release)

Pataskala Alcoholism Treatment Helpline Aims to Assist Addicts in Recovery
LIGHTNING RELEASES 04/21/14 – The new Pataskala Alcoholism Treatment Helpline offers a dependable resource for anyone who needs help finding a drug and alcohol recovery facility. For those in Pataskala, OH who struggle with a hazardous substance … Read more on Ticker Report

Question by Lori Odum: Cost of premiere keratin treatment service at a Hair Cuttery in Northern VA?
My friend had it done in Florida and it looks really good. It’s a hair straightener that lasts up to 3 months.

Best answer:

Answer by Sur La Mer
About $ 300.

I wouldn’t recommend them. There are many brands of hair straightening out there and they call them anyway they want to get your attention. Coco is another name brand. Some Japanese hair straightening processes can damage the hair and leave it flat and lifeless.
None is better than the other.
Ex. of one relaxer: http://monicabtheorganicstylist.wordpress.com/tag/hair-relaxers/

Keratin are not approved by the FDA. Visit their website & search for it in their web. If you’re thinking about the Brazilian treatment, there’s a danger about using formaldehyde, a chemical that causes cancer. The FDA does not restrict the use of that chemical in cosmetics.

A hairstylist in Portland, Or. is blowing a whistle on the treatment.
“A big red flag: About a month after she started using Brazilian Blowout on clients, Scrutton had the first nosebleed of her life.”
http://www.oregonlive.com/health/index.ssf/2010/10/
after_hair_stylist_becomes_sus.html
(Type it in if they moved the page. “After hairstylist becomes suspicious of Brazilian Blowout, tests find formaldehyde”.

Stylists and clients often wear gas masks or other protective equipment and still may feel the ill effects of this potentially fatal gas.

Many customers and stylists do not know that this Brazilian treatment often contains high concentrations of formaldehyde, a cancer-causing chemical.

Relaxers are for permanent, but they are damaging to hair.

Go to the FDA website & type in permanent or relaxers so you understand what are the side effects.
http://www.fda.gov/forconsumers/byaudien…

Here’s the newest news:
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently seized tens of thousands of bottles of “Rio” hair relaxer products after determining they can cause severe hair loss or turn hair green.
http://blog.taragana.com/business/2010/0…

The FDA have warned consumers not to use “Rio Hair Naturalizer Systems,” a product imported from Brazil and sold through television infomercials by World Rio Corp. of Los Angeles.
http://www.fda.gov/Cosmetics/ProductandIngredientSafety/ProductInformation/ucm228898.htm

The official complaints against hair straightening products range from serious hair breakage and hair damage to serious scalp burns that may require an emergency room visit.
Example of what one suffering severe hair loss after Japanese Hair Straightening from YA HAIR:
I got my hair rebonded back in March and have lost more than a third of it since then. Everytime I run my hands through my hair, I lose 7-10 strands on average!
In the shower I lose clumps after shampooing and conditioning.
Bald spots are showing up in my hair.
I used to have beautiful thick hair, ho can I get it back?

Another ex: I used to have very curly, beautiful hair..and then i got it chemically straightened..DONT DO IT! when it started growing out, it was mess and even more difficult to work with than before. and once it was completely grown out, my hair was no longer curly..it is now this aweful wavy mess, and only certain spots are still curly.

Another example: I don’t recommend it. Hair went back to normal even before 4 months (it stated that the Keratin would stay on for 4months). Soft rebonding would be the better choice. I think the KeraStraight was a scam. Even the KeraStraight shampoo/conditioner did no contribution. It was a complete waste of money :/ However it was straight for awhile. But not very long.

Source(s):
I know hair. I have 4 decades of hair know-how. I have silky, shiny, soft, smooth very healthy hair down to my knees. Previously damaged by perming & dyeing in the 80’s & 90’s. I’ve known people in their 30’s whose hair stopped growing from ironing their hair in the 70’s.

Give your answer to this question below!

Editorial: Smart justice
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WCRI to Present Research on Florida Ban on Physician Dispensing of Opioids …
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South Florida lawmakers ramp up push for needle-exchange bill
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In wake of 'Lost Innocents' series, Miami Herald town hall focuses on …
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Battle against heroin an ongoing struggle
By: Denise Crosby | [email protected]. FILE – In a Sunday, March 5, 2006, file photo, actor Philip Seymour Hoffman poses with the Oscar he won for best actor for his work in "Capote" at the 78th Academy Awards, in Los Angeles. … Just a few … Read more on Naperville Sun

Aid in Recovery Comments on Study Measuring Link Between Mental Illness …
Aid in Recovery, a full service drug and alcohol treatment center in South Florida, released a statement today commenting on new research that examine s the link between mental illness and drug addiction. The study (Comorbidity of Severe Psychotic … Read more on PR Web (press release)

Human trafficking: modern-day slavery
“I think there is a perception that human trafficking is something that happens in large, urban centers or on the coast,” said Elizabeth Miller, chief of adolescent medicine at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, and associate professor of … Read more on Anderson Independent Mail

List of Giving Hearts Day participants for 2014
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UFC Fighter Thiago Silva Held Over Gun Claim
The Florida gym where Silva is claimed to have made threats. Pic: NBC 6. According to official … It is reported that after testing positive for marijuana in 2012, Silva agreed to a six-month ban from the sport and went into drug rehab. :: Watch Sky … Read more on Sky News

SWAT team arrests martial arts fighter Silva after threats
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Matt Williams: Before the Washington Nationals, two jarring blows altered his path
During rehab, Williams bought $ 11,600 worth of human growth hormone, steroids and other drugs from a clinic in Palm Beach, Fla. In November 2007, the San Francisco Chronicle uncovered the purchase through business records. Later that year, Williams … Read more on Washington Post

E-cigs now banned on Williamson County property
The policy prohibits smoking or using any tobacco product while on Williamson County premises, excluding Williamson County parks, roads, the jail or the Central Texas Treatment Center. County officials say that although some proponents of e-cigarettes … Read more on KXAN.com

The Watershed Opens New Facility in Texas
The Watershed, a leading drug and alcohol treatment center, headquartered in South Florida, officially opened its doors on January 15th to a premier 28-bed facility in Clear Lake serving the Southeast Texas community. The Watershed Addiction Treatment … Read more on PR Web (press release)

Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials
Texas. And only in the last decade has U.S. public opinion shifted from disapproving of gay marriage to supporting it. Ironically — and shamefully — some conservative evangelical Christians who lost ground with their anti-gay gospel here have … Read more on Washington Post