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Does a Drug Treatment Center Help?

The United States is filled with thousands of drug treatment centers known under a variety of names: drug rehab center, alcohol rehabilitation center, substance abuse treatment center, addiction treatment program, and more. All of these terms are used to describe the same basic service: an environment that’s safe and supportive for a person addicted to [...]

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Does a Drug Treatment Center Help?

How Can I Tell if Someone is Using Crack Cocaine?

It’s not always easy to tell if someone is using a drug like crack cocaine; however, there are symptoms for which you might look. Cocaine, in particular, may be subtle, so if a person is only using occasionally or only using a small amount, the use might not be readily detectable. However, as the use [...]

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How Can I Tell if Someone is Using Crack Cocaine?

How to Stop Smoking Marijuana

No one can tell you when to stop smoking marijuana, but those who have done it successfully have provided tips on how to stop smoking. Like most things that are difficult to do, people tend to procrastinate. Setting an actual date on which to stop smoking can be helpful. Don’t tell yourself that you’ll quit [...]

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How to Stop Smoking Marijuana

History of Narcotics Anonymous

Narcotics Anonymous (NA) began in the late 1940s, inspired by Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), which, in turn, began in the 1930s. The first meetings were held in the Los Angeles region in the early 1950s. Officially, though, the NA program started in 1953. Jimmy Kinnon, also known as Jimmy K., born in Scotland on April 5th, [...]

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History of Narcotics Anonymous

What is Alcohol Abuse?

Most people who take a drink on a regular basis — a couple of glasses of wine at the end of the day or a few beers with pizza — rarely give it much thought. The American culture is saturated with advertising for alcohol and information that suggests that even a couple of glasses of [...]

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What is Alcohol Abuse?

Overcoming Meth Addiction

Methamphetamine, or more simply, meth, is known to be one of the most addictive drugs available to people. The abuse of this drug can cause its users to isolate themselves socially, become depressed, psychotic, experience convulsions, and die. Finding a way to overcome meth addiction is certainly not an easy thing to do, and it [...]

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Overcoming Meth Addiction

Can You Ever Drink Alcohol After Recovery?

Alcohol dependence, or alcoholism, may be defined by four specific symptoms: a strong need or urge to drink, not being able to stop drinking once you’ve begun, withdrawal symptoms once you do stop drinking (including nausea, sweating, anxiety, shakiness), and the need to drink greater amounts in order to get drunk or high. This disease [...]

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Can You Ever Drink Alcohol After Recovery?

Twelve Steps to Drug and Alcohol Recovery

Even Bill W. — one of the co-founders of Alcoholics Anonymous in 1935 — doesn’t quite know the origins of the twelve steps, used so prominently in many rehab treatment programs for both drug and alcohol recovery, but he does recall a conversation with an alcoholic friend in 1934, who told him that his path [...]

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Twelve Steps to Drug and Alcohol Recovery

Withdrawal Effects of Crack Cocaine

While similar to cocaine, crack cocaine is a drug mixed with baking soda or ammonia and water which then forms into rocks; crack cocaine is often less expensive than cocaine, and is usually smoked in pipes. It is an extremely addictive substance, causing a particular type of euphoria-like high to the user. This high doesn’t [...]

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Withdrawal Effects of Crack Cocaine

Alcoholism symptoms

Symptoms that might be an indication that alcoholism is present are often the same symptoms that might accompany someone who is a heavy drinker. There is a difference, although it’s not at all uncommon for heavy drinkers to become alcoholics in time. It’s important to understand what the symptoms are, and perhaps even more important [...]

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Alcoholism symptoms