Posts Tagged ‘drug and alcohol rehabilitation’
Heroin Addiction: Narconon Explains: Crime and Addiction During the Holidays
Oklahoma – During the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas, many Americans spend large amounts of money, buying gifts for their family, friends, and co-workers. These gifts are then brought home and placed safely under the Christmas tree, or so it may seem.
While you are out shopping for Christmas gifts, so are the criminals. Experts say that criminal activity, specifically home burglary, greatly increases during the holiday season. Many of these individuals who are burglarizing homes use the gifts to fuel their drug addiction.
“Many burglaries are related to heroin or drug use,” Caulfield Police Sen-Sgt Mathieson said. “Quite often if heroin comes in, with that comes a need to commit crime to pay for it.”
Heroin Addiction: What Makes Russians Protest Against Methadone Treatment for Heroin Addiction?
When the Soviet Union fell and greater freedoms became available to its citizens, an undesirable side effect of this change was greater access to narcotics. In particular, heroin. And, as in many other countries, along with a heroin epidemic comes HIV infections resulting from the sharing of needles used to inject heroin. Estimates of the number of heroin addicts vary from three million to six million of the country’s 142 million citizens.
Like in America, some Russian doctors propose the use of substitution therapy with methadone. But unlike America, the treatment of heroin addiction with methadone is illegal. In fact, the discussion of the subject is forbidden, as is the promotion of the treatment on a website. Sometimes, even the mentioning it in conversation can bring legal sanctions down on a person.