Health-related events, classes, more around Asheville
International self-help recovery group for women with alcohol and/or drug addiction. Call 215-536-8026 or visit www.womenforsobriety.com. OVERCOMERS RECOVERY SUPPORT GROUP: 5:30-7:30 p.m. Mondays, Christ Anglican Church, 9-M Walden … Read more on Asheville Citizen-Times

Vanderbilt honors founding pastor of Vestavia Hills Methodist, who officiated …
Thomas Ogletree vert.jpg The Rev. Thomas Ogletree, founding pastor of Vestavia Hills United Methodist Church, will be honored with a distinguished alumni award on Oct. 3, 2014. (Vanderbilt University). BIRMINGHAM, Alabama – Vanderbilt University plans … Read more on AL.com

Wellness briefs
The Celebrate Recovery program at Shore Fellowship Church is a Christ-centered 12-step program to help people recover from addictive and compulsive behaviors. Meetings are 7-8:30 p.m. Mondays in the Student Education Building of Shore Fellowship … Read more on Shore News Today

State drug courts boost treatment for addicts
Heffernan presides over a specialty court where defendants with substance abuse problems are closely supervised, subjected to random drug testing and required to participate in support groups and treatment programs as an alternative to jail … Read more on GazetteNET

Tazewell County grand jury hands down drug indictments
as an example of the work done by the prevention and treatment programs. He called on the medical community to use more caution in prescribing drug s for their patients. He said reformulating opana ended overdose deaths from use of that drug. Read more on Southwest Virginia Today

California Poised to Lead the Nation in Innovative Overdose Prevention Effort
AB 1535 is supported by a long list of public health organizations, drug treatment providers and advocacy groups including: California Pharmacists Association (co-sponsor); Drug Policy Alliance (co-sponsor); California Narcotic Officers' Association … Read more on Drug Policy Alliance (press release) (blog)

Patients face 'hoop-jumping' to gain medical marijuana
Julie Falco was active in lobbying Illinois to legalize medical marijuana, a drug she credits with "saving my life" since she started eating pot brownies to treat to multiple sclerosis 10 years ago. Yet now that the state has enacted a medicinal … Read more on Chicago Tribune

A Different Path to Fighting Addiction
The center, known as the C.M.C., operates out of two floors of a 19th-century building on 30th Street and Fifth Avenue. It is part of a growing wing of addiction treatment that rejects the A.A. model of strict abstinence as the sole form of recovery … Read more on New York Times

Mutated Worms Could Be Good News For Alcoholics
"This is the first example of altering a human alcohol target to prevent intoxication in an animal," says corresponding author, Jon Pierce-Shimomura, assistant professor in the university's College of Natural Sciences and Waggoner Center for Alcohol … Read more on Huffington Post

Drug Series: Second chance in 'Section 35'
Mary D'Eramo of the Norwell Chapter of Learn to Cope, a peer-led support group for families dealing with addiction and recovery, explained that the law, often referred to simply as “Section 35,” is a civil commitment to treatment, not a criminal … Read more on Wicked Local Scituate

Police log: Fall death
The man would not wake up for officers and he was taken to Flagstaff Medical Center for treatment. When he regained consciousness, the man, also a street alcoholic, told police that he did not want to press charges and would not cooperate with the … Read more on Arizona Daily Sun

Martin County support groups, updated June 25
Alcoholics Anonymous: For meetings on the Treasure Coast call 772-562-1114 or visit www.indianriveraa.org. Nar-Anon family groups: a fellowship for those … of eating disorders. 11 a.m.-noon Saturdays. Parkway Rehab Center, 800 Central Parkway, Stuart. Read more on TCPalm

Alzheimer's caregivers support group
An ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease) support group meets 6 p.m. Monday at Cardinal Hill Rehab Center on Bluegrass Parkway in Louisville. …. The World Service Organization Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACA) is a 12-Step program similar to AA and Al-Anon. Read more on Shelbyville Sentinel News

How Scientists Came to Recognize the Benefits of Alcoholics Anonymous
Because AA is a large and respected organization, attacking it when you are trying to promote your book on addiction or your fancy new rehab center is pretty much de rigeur. But scientifically, you don't have a leg to stand on, as I describe in my … Read more on The Reality-Based Community

Urban Zone open house introduces service organizations to Kalamazoo …
Founded in 2009 by Brenda Henry, Latter Rain Outreach provides an eight-week workshop and recovery programming for women battling drug or alcohol addiction in Kalamazoo County. Henry, a former addict turned certified recovery coach, used to let women … Read more on Mlive Kalamazoo

Back in session: Summer school programs under way in MCS, CCSD
Walton High School summer school teacher Bruce Wade teaches his Tuesday morning lesson on the effects of drugs and alcohol to the human body to high school students in his health class. While most teenagers are enjoying their summer breaks, hundreds of … Read more on Marietta Daily Journal

LDS Family Services Shifts from Adoption Agency to Adoption Counseling
It provides professional counseling services and an addiction recovery program, among other services. For decades, it has been operating one of the largest, private, nonprofit adoption agencies in the world. Tuesday's announcement comes at a time when … Read more on Meridian Magazine

Community Calendar, June 18, 2014
Teen Summer Reading Activities — Tie dye T-shirt program, 11:30 a.m., Reedsport Branch Library, 395 Winchester Ave., Reedsport. Teens aged 12 to … SAFE Drug/alcohol recovery support group 6:30 a.m., Highlands Baptist Church, 2500 Longwood Drive. Read more on Coos Bay World

Individuals are always subject to times of weakness. These can make manifest in different kind of vices. These vices are can in turn develop into addiction such as substance dependence or drug addiction. These addictions have a profound effect on the life not only of the addict but most especially the lives of the members of their family, their friends as well as their loved one and even their community. Drug addiction can affect daily performance of duties and can thus put a strain on relationships both professional and personal.

Nevertheless there is no need to despair. Drug addiction help is always possible. Drug rehab centres offer various programs to help patients get over the hump and achieve sobriety.

Drug counseling is one of the therapies that are offered to patients. Questions nonetheless arise as to what goes on in this process. But basically drug counseling is part of drug addiction treatment. It is an important component in the quest to help individuals achieve sobriety and stay sober after treatment.

Counseling provides an avenue where patients can talk about their struggles and how their addiction came about. This helps doctors decipher how best to help these patients recover. Drug counseling may be done individually or in groups. The former is done with a registered counselor who is trained to address different issues that the addict may have. The latter is done in a group setting where individuals get to share their experiences and work as a support group for each other.

With various issues that are centered on, drug counseling can be a challenge. However, recovery can be much more difficult and even nearly impossible to attain without it. Addiction counselors and medical professionals can devise different programs to specifically cater to each patient. They have extensive training to be able to address all the needs of the addict and assist them in their quest for sobriety.

Addicts go through a lot of physical, mental and emotional struggles throughout treatment. It is the roles of drug counseling and counselors to help lift this heavy burden by providing an avenue where individuals can express their feelings and vent out all the negative emotions that may be residing in them. Drug counseling is thus vital in the healing process.

Drug addiction affects the different facets of a person’s life-lifestyle, family, community and work. Drug counseling aids person in coming to terms with their addiction and addressing all the issues that come with it. Drug counseling acts as a sounding board and a reflection of an individual’s life before, during and after addiction or while on treatment. This can be a way of showing an individual various paths that can be taken that are more productive and rewarding. Drug counseling is a way of empowering an addict to better deal with their issues and face them squarely. This enables them to devise solutions and in turn solve their problems.

All in all, drug counseling is in every bit, vital to the quest for recovery from drug addiction. Being able to vent out feelings and talk about issues are important steps on the way to sobriety.

Ranzenhofer says Senate passes comprehensive package of bills on opiates
The passage of the bill package begins the legislative response laid out in the report to prevent drug abuse and overdoses; increase the availability and efficacy of addiction treatment; and enhance the tools provided to law enforcement to keep heroin … Read more on The Batavian

Police: Killer couple shouted: 'Revolution!'
In 2011, he pleaded guilty to a felony charge of dealing marijuana and was sentenced to two year's probation and drug counseling. He was arrested and charged with battery in 2009. A jury acquitted him later that year. Couple moved to Las Vegas in January. Read more on KSPR

Homeless population growing in South Jersey, NJ Counts report says
In order to combat the homeless problem, she believes, the drug addiction problem must be tackled. "There's a pretty large heroin and opiate problem. This heroin crisis going on is in all the counties," she said. "We need more drug counseling … Read more on NJ.com