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Heroin like returning to the womb
People gather outside Philip Seymour Hoffman's home. Photo: Reuters. It's also one of the drugs that fuelled US Academy Award-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman's substance addiction, played a part in the death of Australian actor Heath Ledger and …
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Addiction Helpline in Lackawanna Provides Recovery Information for Teens
Many young adults in Lackawanna, NY struggle with an alcohol and drug addiction on a daily basis. Unfortunately, many don't know where to turn for help. For many years, very little information on rehab was available for young adults in Lackawanna …
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Question by tcahh12: how much does a typical 30 day inpatient rehab cost?
Any suggestions for a good treatment center in the southeast?

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Answer by older
the state i live in has a state hospital with a rehab center and it is free. call the “AA” they can tell you

Answer by raysny
Far too much for what you get.

You don’t mention what you “need” rehab for. If you are physically addicted to alcohol or some other drugs, you may need detox or medical attention, see a doctor.

Rehabs are basically a place to get away from the people you used with and the places where you used. They are indoctrination centers for AA/NA and have only a slightly better success rate than “free” AA/NA meetings.    Read more...

Question by Annie: For any dual diagnosis bipolar plus heroin addicts out there?
We have a family member that is struggling with a “dual diagnosis” — bipolar disorder and substance addiction. Drug of choice is Heroin, but will take whatever is available.

As members of this person’s concerned family we’d like to know — from somebody who had the same problem — what helped you? This person is a late-aged teenager, has been through multiple residential rehabs (months in duration), only to return to home (to intensive outpatient, psychiatrist and personal counselor support, along with NA meetings) and do it all again. All of us in the family are ready to get off this roller-coaster of horror and the parents are ready to withdraw all support and let this young adult sink or swim on her own, as they’ve exhausted the family finances and fear for the rest of the families’ safety. This is a nice middle class educated family, not abusive nor others in the immediate family with addiction issues.    Read more...

Question by Constantine VI: I believe all man has free will, that while a God may exist, he has no hand in our world…Yet?
Today I met a girl named Aliena who is a friend of the girl who I’m “supposedly” dating from Brazil (God, I hope neither on on here lol). I didn’t know it was her friend, to me she looked caucasian at 1st but then my supposed girlfriend introduced the people as her friends from Brazil. We locked eyes and she just consumed the entire structure…I believe in love at 1st sight, in fact, any girl I’ve ever loved I knew the moment I saw her…. Aliena, is the name of the lead female character in my favorite novel; Ken Follett’s “Pillars of the Earth”. I took that name and incorporated it into my next novel which has yet to be published; The lead female character is a Latin orphan named Aliena…One look at the REAL Aliena and I knew I COULD love her. Fate? Coincidence? In a way I believe we all have a destiny. I’ve been on the streets homeless, flooding my veins with heroin; locked down in a stark, cold cell…but even through that impenetrable darkness, something inside me kept saying; “You are better than this, hold on, you will overcome.”
I just knew… I have overcome the worst addiction on earth, published novels when nobody believed I could even finish one…Why, even in my darkest hours, did I believe I would overcome someday? Is it inherent? Is it insanity? Why did no matter how far I fell, did I still believe I would overcome all the adversity? And make no mistake, I’ve faced more adversity than anyone. I thought kicking heroin and 740mgs/ day of morphine would be the hardest part, yet that was the easiest. Why that much morphine? Because I was paralyzed in a car accident and initially told I was a complete injury, if I ever walked again it would be unprecedented. I wasn’t a complete injury, and no, I’m not where I was before the accident, but I can stand, move my legs…The doctor said; “impossible! never!” Then I read Rudyard Kipling’s “IF” again;
“If you can force your nerve, heart and sinew, to serve their term long after they are gone,”
And so hold on, when there is nothing left in you but the WILL that says to them, “HOLD ON!”…I took that to heart, and applied it to my physical therapy. I’ll never forget the look on that doctor’s face when I WALKED into his office (I used a walker, yes, but he’d told me even that was impossible, I had no hope so just give up now.) I told him; “Remember what you said to me that day 3 years ago?” He nodded and looked down in shame. I said; (even though I don’t believe in religion, he does) “I pray for your soul, you never tell another kid he will never walk again. This here? This is your precedent.”… And I limped out of his office…did I have moments of doubt? Certainly, but the day he told me that, I went up on the roof, considered throwing myself off it.
Instead I vowed to walk again. It turned out I was not a complete injury; he was wrong, i just had a great deal of swelling in my spine when the initial MRI was taken. How did I know I would walk again when the “experts” said “impossible!”? How did I know in that jail cell, I would overcome all of it, to surpass all expectations and all my peers in the process?
I don’t want to hear from Religious nuts, drunk on Jesus who insist it’s “The Hand of God!”. Quoting bs from the Bible. I want to hear from the openminded; Inherent? Insanity (that happened become sanity) or the hand of God?
What is it that makes someone believe, when no one else does, what we are capable of, and able to accomplish?
I asked for no Bible bangers for a reason; If you chose to believe in Jesus as the son of God, that is your choice. However I urge you to research Horas, the Egyptian Sun God who was around long before Jesus…or the Druids…Greeks…Jesus was a man, sorry to disillusion you, but I prefer sarcasm to Biblical BS, truly…thanks!    Read more...

Heroin Addiction: Vaccines for heroin and cocaine addiction?
Chemist Kim Janda and a handful of other U.S. researchers have spent years working on shots that would help prevent drug addicts from relapsing, but the work has been slowed by disappointing results in some human tests and a lack of financial backing from pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.
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Heroin Addiction: Valley law enforcement agencies grapple with heroin resurgence
Marijuana isn’t always the “gateway drug” that leads to hard-core substance addiction. For some, it doesn’t begin to compare with what’s right there in the medicine cabinet.“Prescription drugs are one of the things that get kids hooked” and lead them to begin abusing heroin, said Naperville police Detective Shaun Ferguson. “When they realize they can pay much less for heroin than for …
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Heroin Addiction: ‘Bath salt’ use emerging as statewide trend
The designer drug marketed as “bath salts” is appearing statewide as an emerging drug trend, according to officials from the Ohio Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services.“We are seeing it in some of the different regions, but it is hard for us to say just how big of a problem it is right now,” said Brad DeCamp, the department’s assistant chief of treatment and recovery services.
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Heroin Addiction: ‘Bath salts’ considered emerging Ohio drug trend
The designer drug marketed as “bath salts” is appearing statewide as an emerging drug trend, according to officials from the Ohio Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services.“We are seeing it in some of the different regions, but it is hard for us to say just how big of a problem it is right now,” said Brad DeCamp, the department’s assistant chief of treatment and recovery services.
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