Drug Rehab – Stay Away From Drugs And Alcohol

Roxiocodone, a brand name for Oxycodone, has replaced Oxycontin as the opiate of choice among many prescription pill addicts because of its availability and intense side effects. Roxiocodone is known on the street by other names such as “roxies,” “blues,” and “berries.” Opiate analgesics are abused for their sedative effects, similar to heroin and morphine…

May sure is busy with health-related awareness campaigns!
This week is National Prevention Week, a new SAMHSA-supported annual health observance that celebrates the work that community organizations and individuals do year-round to help prevent substance abuse and promote mental, emotional, and behavioral well-being…

The attention of the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) has turned towards the security of prescription drugs in the state’s hospitals as the numbers of thefts by healthcare workers has begun to rise steadily. In 2006, hospitals statewide had only 16 incidents with prescription drug theft and diversion…

Drug Addiction: Stigma Paints it as a Choice, Not a Mental Illness I like to think that we are making great progress in the fight against the stigma of mental illness — a fight that is necessary to ensure that people of any age with psychiatric or learning disorders feel comfortable getting the care they […

by Nicholas A. Roes, PhD We’ll order now what they ordered then, ‘Cause everything old is new again “Everything Old Is New Again,” Peter Allen and Carole Bayer Sager DBT” is a relatively new construct being used as the wrapping for some time-tested techniques now being generously re-gifted to the substance use treatment community…

The Ethics of Addiction Studies
Five years after a heroin-assisted therapy research project, participants wonder: Could there have been a better exit strategy?
By Candice Vallantin
TheTyee.ca
May 23, 2012
Ontario Helping Reduce Abuse of Prescription Drugs
McGuinty Government Taking Strong Action to Protect Ontario Families
Government of Ontario
News release
May 22, 2012
Protective parents’ efforts erased when other parents are lax
A new study finds that teen drug and alcohol use may depend on their friends’ folks
By Ken MacQueen
Macleans
May 22, 2012Abbotsford may end ban on safe-injection sites
By Elaine O’Connor
The Province
May 20, 2012

MPs mull cross-border waterway policing
‘Shiprider’ program has been tested in Juan de Fuca Strait, elsewhere
By Douglas Quan
Times Colonist
May 17, 2012

Did you know that according to Statistics Canada, 1 in 7 people struggle either to fall asleep or to stay asleep through the night? I can tell you it’s one of the most common problems I come across in my practice: every day I see at least half a dozen patients looking for help in their quest for a good night’s sleep…

LONDON (Reuters) – The United States sees drug abuse as a public health problem as much as a crime issue and is seeking to learn from countries in Europe and elsewhere about how to treat addiction as a disease, Barack Obama’s drugs policy chief said on Tuesday.

Review of The Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition

Part I

It’s easy to think of cigarettes, and the machinations of the tobacco industry, as “old news.” But in his revealing 737-page book, The Golden Holocaust, based on 70 million pages of documents from the tobacco industry, Stanford professor Robert N…

Whether you lean towards the political left or right, here’s a stance on which many can and should agree: Obama and his team believe drug addiction should be handled as a public health problem, just as much as it’s considered a crime issue — thus promoting prevention, treatment and recovery, rather than a government which solely focuses its efforts on staving off a drug war…