Posts Tagged ‘habit’

A Pill for Everything – Including your Addiction

Chemically-assisted detox, replacement therapy, recovery-pharmocotherapy are current buzzwords in addiction treatment. Five years ago these would have been viewed as oxymoronic. Today, our understanding of the brain has advanced the development of more drugs to treat addiction then almost any other health problem. We as a society believe there is a pill for whatever ails [...]

Are there any options aside from interventions?

I tried intervening with my friend Wilma’s addiction to cocaine but I failed. I wasn’t able to convince her to enter a rehabilitation center or to receive drug treatment. I didn’t know what to do. I wanted her to lose the habit because we all know that it’s not good for her. Do I have [...]

Killer Pills: People in pain hurt by codeine ban aimed at addicts

***WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES*** Russians have started panic buying painkillers. The reason – a forthcoming government ban on certain pills containing codeine being sold over-the-counter. The move’s aimed at keeping drug-addicts from using them to make dangerous narcotics. But some experts fear it’s the people in real pain that’ll suffer. You may find some of the [...]

The Terrible Truth: Marijuana and Heroin Addiction (1951)

DVD: www.amazon.com More drug films: thefilmarchived.blogspot.com Heroin (diacetylmorphine (INN)), also known as diamorphine (BAN), is a semi-synthetic opioid drug synthesized from morphine, a derivative of the opium poppy. It is the 3,6-diacetyl ester of morphine (di (two)-acetyl-morphine). The white crystalline form is commonly the hydrochloride salt diacetylmorphine hydrochloride, though often adulterated thus dulling the sheen [...]

Stop Compulsive Gambling: Treatments And Therapy

www.justbewell.com You can learn to stop compulsive gambling and you can do so however chronic or extreme the problem has been. Excessive gambling can ruin lives, but you probably dont need us to tell you that but there is a cure. The powerful and direct treatments we give people using the best from the fields [...]

How do I remove deleted files from my laptop?

I have let my husband use my laptop 3 different times in the past 6 months. EVERY TIME he gives me the computer back, he has performed a "system recovery" and returned the computer to it’s "out-of-box state" which supposedly deletes any and all information on the computer. He used to have a serious porn [...]

Anyone enjoy the humanness of the medical drama E.R. seeing what the characters go through?

I think it is always interesting to watch episodes of the medical series ER and just see how the characters interact with each other, bond, get frustrated, sob through the bad times, and laugh through the good times. I think that is very interesting in many ways. Like seeing the how Doug mentored Mark and [...]

What are the long-term effects of yearly drug abuse (400 + mg of dyphenhydramine a night)?

I’ve recently caught up with an old friend and I’ve just learned about his ‘addiction’ (Bottle says ‘non-habit forming’) to over the counter sleeping pills containing dyphenhydramine, and he claims that he’s been taking four hundred plus mg a night of this stuff for years and has built a very strong tolerance so he’s had [...]

What are the long-term effects of yearly drug abuse (400 + mg of dyphenhydramine a night)?

I’ve recently caught up with an old friend and I’ve just learned about his ‘addiction’ (Bottle says ‘non-habit forming’) to over the counter sleeping pills containing dyphenhydramine, and he claims that he’s been taking four hundred plus mg a night of this stuff for years and has built a very strong tolerance so he’s had [...]

Im struggling with finding treatment for addiction, im hoping some1 might know of some resources?

I’ve had an addiction 2painkillers 4 almost 2years now &have exhausted myself with the destruction I have continued 2put myself thru. My daily routine consists of taking anywhere from 15-30pills, consuming up2 even 8pills at once at times. Without the pills (vicodin * percocet) i do suffer extreme withdrawal which has prevented me from stopping [...]