What Is Addiction? and Where Can You Get Help in California?
Question by eros_gary: What is addiction? and where can you get help in California?
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Summary
People who are addicted cannot control their need for alcohol or other drugs, even in the face of negative health, social or legal consequences.
The illness becomes harder to treat and the related health problems, such as organ disease, become worse.
Addiction is a chronic, but treatable,… Continue reading
Teen Drug Rehab: Use Old Ferry for Drug-Rehab Centre – Victoria Times Colonist
Use old ferry for drug-rehab centre – Victoria Times Colonist
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Use old ferry for drug–rehab centre
Victoria Times Colonist One of these vessels would make an ideal drug- and alcohol-treatment centre if it floated in Finlayson Arm, just at the foot of the Malahat Drive. It's a place were the “patient” is removed from his bad habits and can think more about his or her … |
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Drug Abuse: Center for Child and Family Policy: Prescription Drug Abuse on the Rise in Durham
Center for Child and Family Policy: Prescription drug abuse on the rise in Durham
Filed under: Drug Abuse
A new report says substance abuse including prescription drug abuse is one of Durham’s biggest public health problems, accounting for growing numbers of emergency room visits, hospitalizations and deaths.
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Huge Rise in Numbers Treated for Alcoholism
Huge rise in numbers treated for alcoholism
Filed under: alcohol help
The charity said that although increasing numbers of people are now getting drugs to help with alcohol dependency, most did not, with estimates that one in 17 people with alcohol problems receives specialist help. Alan Perkins, chief executive of the …
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Wellington City seeks public voice on alcohol harm reduction
Filed under: alcohol help
“Council's role is to help… Continue reading