How Can the Family Help Someone With Alcohol, Drug, or Gambling Problems

Published February 4, 2014

How can the family help someone with alcohol, drug, or gambling problems – Tom Claunch explains how family or friends can help a person with a drug or alcohol problem who may not initialy want to access treatment.

Heroin & Rational Choice

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I must say, Kevin's piece today “Glamour Junkies” is the best thing I've read on drug addiction in a while. … We'd set up guardrails on our own, without the help of the State, as the culture absorbed the stupidity of heroin and other hard drugs. But …
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Addiction experts: Relapses always possible in recovery

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Two addiction-treatment drugs — Buprenorphine and Naltrexone — have been found to keep addicts from relapsing, when prescribed along with very intensive “psychosocial treatment,” he said. CNN reported that buprenorphine was among the prescription …
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Recovering addicts: tell us about your experience with heroin addiction

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A recent survey by the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration found that the use of heroin jumped 102% between 2002 and 2012. In 2012, about 669,000 people reported using heroin at some point in the year. Roughly 467,000 …
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