Addicts in Medical News

Phoenix House Offers Hope for Addicts in Hamptons Community

Phoenix House Benefit Honoring Haley and Jason Binn East Hampton , Saturday, June 27, 2009, 6-8 PM NEW YORK, June 16 /PRNewswire/ -- "Addiction runs its devastating course through every community - including the Hamptons," says Howard Meitiner , President and CEO of Phoenix House ...

Brain Scans Show Differences in Cocaine Addicts

Regions affected when thinking about drugs could be targets for treatments, researchers say THURSDAY, May 28 (HealthDay News) --Cocaine users appear to have less activity in the parts of their brains that monitor behaviors and emotions, a finding that researchers think may make them mo...

Why dopamine freezes parkinson patients and drives drug addicts

CHICAGO -- Parkinson's disease and drug addiction are polar opposite diseases, but both depend upon dopamine in the brain. Parkinson's patients don't have enough of it; drug addicts get too much of it. Although the importance of dopamine in these disorders has been well known, the way it works has...

Coffee Addicts With Baby, Take Heart

Coffee if drunk in moderation offers no harm to an expectant mother, in terms of baby weight or gestational period, say researchers.// This study performed by researcher Dr Bodil Hammer Bech and team from the University of Aarhus in Denmark, and published online by the British Medical Journal. ...

Only Half of Addicts in American Families Seek Help

A survey of American families has revealed that only half of drug- or alcohol-addicted family members seek help for their problem// but doing so often gives positive results to 82% of them. On interviewing about 902 U.S. adults in a recent Gallup poll, the USA Today/HBO Family Drug Addiction pol...

Needles Given To Drug Addicts Go Missing In Scotland

Statistics released by the Scottish Executive show that around 2.9 million clean needles were dispensed for drug users, but only 1.9 million were returned thus sparking a shortage of a million needles and concerns over hepatitis C as well. // ...

Over 10,000 Drug Addicts In Meerut: Survey

Meerut, June 5. There are over 10,000 drug addicts in the age group of 13 and 35 in Meerut, a survey by a local NGO running de-addiction clinics says.// These youths spend over Rs 1,500 in a single day on brown sugar and other drugs like morphine, Avil and Phenergan, according to the NGO 'Jag...

Heroin Addicts Chained For Cure

With their ankles shackled, scores of heroin addicts hobble around the crowded yard of their rehabilitation centre in a unique de-addiction programme in this Manipur district bordering Myanmar in northeastern India. // Two heavy China-made padlocks that are difficult to pick secure the thick ...

Drug Addicts In US Expected To Double By 2020

Drug addiction is becoming a significant public health probelm in the U.S. A U.S. government survey has estimated that the number of individuals with drug addiction// problems will double to approximately 5 million, by the end of 2020. Nearly 2.5 million Americans have been said to have encou...

Adolescent Drinkers Turned Addicts Cause the Exchequer More

According to a study conducted by Susan E. Foster, M.S.W., and colleagues from The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, New York, //found that there is a sudden increase in the number of adolescent drinkers. Statistics show that about $23 billion is contributed y...

Drug Addicts To Prove ‘Child-Caring Capabilities’ By Clearing Drug Tess

This is a litmus test, for drug addicts, to check out if they really have the potential to care for their children – They will need to tide over drug tests// to prove their child rearing and caring capabilities. This idea is being chewed upon by Peter Peacock, the children's minister, who is ...

More Drug Addicts In Scotland Seek Treatment

The increased investment made by the Government in treating drug addicts is beginning to yield results in Scotland, with as many as 14,000 new drug users seeking treatment in 2004. Heroin users accounted for 8,000 of this figure. //This amounts to a 10% increase in the number of people trying to ge...

AIDS Threat Aggravated Due To Sale of Blood by Drug Addicts in Cambodia

Drug users in Cambodia have adopted a new way of marketing their blood to hospitals to pay for their habits. Health experts warn that if this practice is not curbed in time, it would serve as a severe threat to the country's gains in fighting HIV/AIDS.// So far, there has been no report o...

Brain of Cocaine Addicts Smaller In Size

In a new study, advanced imaging techniques reveals unexpected structural differences in the brains of cocaine addicts. For the study researchers compared detailed images of the brain structure // of 27 cocaine addicts to that of similar images obtained from 27 healthy patients. Results showed t...

Ten Percent of Tihar Jail Inmates are Drug Addicts

New Delhi: Nearly 10 percent of jailbirds at Tihar jail, home to over 14,000 prisoners, are drug addicts, according to the prison director general B.K. Gupta//. "It's not very good statistics but nearly 10 percent of our inmates are drug addicts. They have been taking drugs before being lodged...

Genetic-Key to Stop Heroin Addicts

Researchers from University of Adelaide in the Discipline of Pharmacology have found a genetic key for improving treatment success rates of heroin addicts around// the world. They have discovered a gene that helps determining the optimum methadone dosage levels for heroin addicts. The study re...

Proposed Compulsory Treatment For Alcohol Addicts

The New South Wales Government, through a two-year pilot program would trial compulsory treatment for alcoholics up to 28 days at Nepean Hospital in western Sydney.// The government is drafting changes to the Inebriates Act 1912 to enable the trial to take place. The two-year plan, to be rolled...

Painkiller Dihydrocodeine May Replace Methodone In Treating Heroin Addicts

Scottish researchers from Universities of Edinburgh, Napier and Adelaide have found out an alternative painkiller, dihydrocodeine for treating HEROIN addicts.// The new drug costs half as much as methadone and is much safer and less toxic too. ‘The study findings could have major implications f...

Adolescent Drug Users Turn Compulsive Addicts

According to a recent research it was found that teenagers who were taking cannabis on a regular basis became addicts to other hard drugs// later in their life. Teenagers turn in to heroin addiction later in their life due to the positive emotion that they derive by taking these drugs. Cannabi...

A new way out for heroin addicts

Heroin addiction is a serious problem that can often be fatal. Methadone has been one of the treatment options for long-term heroin addicts. However, the major concern in treating heroin addicts with methadone is that methadone can become addictive. This is one reason methadone therapy is usually o...

Drug saves heroin addicts

The drug naloxone saves heroin addicts from overdose and it is advisable for these addicts to have naloxone with them for life saving emergencies, according to doctors at the National Addiction center at London. Naloxone, is routinely given by doctors, during emergency resuscitation following ...

Ex- White House Drug Spokesman Urges 'Double Drug Treatment'; Bob Weiner and Policy Analyst Zoe Pagonis Highlight 'Drug War's Wrong Focus'

...t." "According to the Justice Department this May, 68 percent of arrestees in 10 cities tested positive for illegal drugs. As long as there are addicts and drug abusers, people will buy and sell drugs." Weiner and Pagonis conclude, "President Barack Obama is right to increase the National Drug ...

Narconon of Georgia Saves Lives of Orphaned Children in Honduras

... exercise to repair their bodies after the damage caused by the chemicals. This is the same procedure used at Narconon of Georgia to help addicts permanently recover from other drugs, and is just one part of the long-term rehabilitation program that has been helping people successfully overcome ...

Drug Crimes in Canada Cause Continuing Problems for Small Communities

... TROIS-RIVIERES, Quebec, July 8 /PRNewswire/ -- The Narconon drug rehab program has noticed a trend of many drug addicts being involved with drug related charges due to their addiction. "You can have the everyday functioning addict who is battling a drug addiction, and ...

America's Silent Crisis: Addiction -- Downturn Fuels Rising Drug and Alcohol Abuse, Phoenix House Study Reveals

...es, local governments, and non-profits are all facing tremendous budget shortfalls -- and they are cutting the resources to help this growing group of addicts in trouble, just when they need it the most," warns Mr. Meitiner. "We must recognize and address the debilitating effects of addiction on all of ...

Reduce Relapse Thru Effective Drug Rehabilitation and Save Society Tens of Thousands of Dollars per Addict, Says Narconon

...ates it can reduce relapse to drugs, not just keep addicts off the streets for a few months." Recently review...sts society would have had if Narconon's recovered addicts had continued to do drugs. Carr estimates that sin...e's the unexploded bomb," says Carr. "Those 46,000 addicts treated in L.A. emergency rooms stated that they h...

In Both the U.S. and Mexico, we Must Advance not Retreat From Strategic Government Goals Regarding Drug Addiction and Drug-Related Crime, Says Narconon International

...taff of La Vida," says Carr, "for their dedication and courage. We must also recognize that drug rehab staffs everywhere confront evil daily - helping addicts with more or less unsavory histories revolutionize their lives in order to live ethically and drug-free." With 24 years working hands-on in dru...

Church of Scientology Distributes Drug Abuse and Addiction Facts Internationally

... those who resort to selling sex are supporting their habits. Our prisons are full of men and women who are there because they dealt drugs or are drug addicts who committed crimes to support their habits. Governments, nonprofit organizations and private individuals spend billions every year in an attempt to ...

G & G Holistic Addiction Treatment Uses Innovative Use of Oxygen Therapy Which Restores Mind and Body in Drug Rehab

...n injuries provides a foundation for efficacy with use to treat the brain injuries which result from long term drug and alcohol abuse. Brain scans of addicts show areas of reduced circulation and functioning in the brain much like those of stroke and gas poisoning victims. The ability of HBOT to restore th...

The Rev. Joseph C. Martin, Leading Authority on Alcoholism and Addiction Treatment, Dies at 84

...ed his teachings with hope. He believed in the innate dignity of the human person and founded Father Martin's Ashley as an oasis where alcoholics and addicts could heal." Fr. Martin's "Chalk Talk on Alcohol" lecture, which began: "I'm Joe Martin, and I'm an alcoholic," and more than 40 motivational fi...

Teens' Lung Health Is Linked to Their Diet

... Eating fruit and fish might lessen asthma, bronchitis symptoms, research suggests FRIDAY, March 6 (HealthDay News) -- Teenage junk-food addicts aren't doing their bodies any favors, and their lungs are no exception. Researchers have found that diets lower in fruit, vitamins C and E, and om...

70 percent of drug-addicted men admit they consume drugs to increase their sexual pleasure

...nhancer factor of sexuality, is also the most incapacitating drug at a sexual level". According to researchers, this fact could be due to that drug addicts use cocaine in order to increase their sexual power and performance which, as has been proved by authors such as Cregel and Mark, only happens when co...

Author's Unwelcome Sequel Brings Light to Addiction

... rescuing one of their own from the always ebbing and flowing tide of addiction. In an effort to better understand the profound difficulties that addicts struggle with, and why they seem so powerless to control their lives, Neal devotes the mid-section of the book to research. Neal also covers addiction...

Medical prescription of heroin does not pose neighborhood risk

...treal, February 17, 2009 Providing heroin to drug addicts at medically supervised clinics does not pose risk...than simple methadone treatments to help some drug addicts that do not respond to traditional treatment. In M...h so this type of program can be offered to heroin addicts that don't respond to traditional treatments," say...

Cleveland House a Sober living Resort, is Celebrating 7 Year Anniversary

...ructured easy to follow program for alcoholics and addicts to transition back to society. Cleveland house has...help them stay sober. First and foremost, some addicts depending on the severity of their addiction and d... are provided daily. This provides alcoholics and addicts the stability for a safe and healthy environment t...

Three-Quarters of Americans Believe Health Insurance Should Pay for Addiction Treatment, Yet Most Don't Know If Their Health Plan Covers Substance-Abuse Care, Says New Hazelden Survey

... Most respondents (77 percent) agree that many addicts who complete treatment go on to lead useful lives....done to explain how effective treatment can be for addicts and to bring an end to the stigma that prevents addicts from pursuing treatment," says William Cope Moyers...

Radio Address by President Bush to the Nation

...e by limiting demand, reducing supply, and helping addicts get treatment. Over the past six years, w...ing work. Through our Access to Recovery program, addicts receive vouchers they can redeem at treatment cent... So far, this program has helped more than 260,000 addicts along the path toward clean lives. Take...

C.A.R.E. Florida Launches Family Weekends to Help on That Long Road to Recovery

... being manipulated, lied to and otherwise controlled by the addict." The distinction C.A.R.E. FLORIDA hopes to evoke and clarify for families of addicts is the difference between loving the addict in the family and enabling them. Also, the C.A.R.E. family is helping an addict's family build the nec...

Hope for treating relapse to methamphetamine abuse

...n neuroanatomist Stephen Dewey, who led the research team. "This animal study suggests that vigabatrin could potentially prevent human methamphetamine addicts from relapsing." According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, methamphetamine is a very addictive stimulant that is quickly becoming an Ameri...

TheraQuest's IND for Abuse Deterrent Strong Opioid (TQ-1015) Accepted by FDA

...erience with extended release opioid pain relievers has shown that intentional crushing or extraction of the active ingredient from the dosage form by addicts and recreational drug users can destroy the timed-release mechanism and result in a rapid surge of drug into the bloodstream. Serious side-effects and...