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  Drug addiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Drug addiction, or substance dependence is the compulsive use of drugs, to the point where the user has no effective choice but to continue use.
Drugs such as codeine or alcohol, for instance, typically require many more exposures to addict their users than drugs such as heroin or cocaine.
Drug addiction is a state of periodic or chronic intoxication produced by the repeated consumption of a drug (natural or synthetic).
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 What is Drug Addiction?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Once it was thought that a person was a drug addict or alcoholic only if he needed the drug daily, or if he went through withdrawal symptoms (vomiting, seizures, cramps, death) when he abruptly stopped using the substance.
Drug abuse is the excessive use of legal mood-altering substances and the use of illegal drugs.
Drug addiction is the extreme end of a continuum that starts with the first use of drugs or alcohol, and progresses through experimentation and abuse to addiction.
www.getcured.com /addict.htm   (1057 words)

  
 Drug Addicts
Addicts become mired in their habit without realizing that a problem is developing, and they practice denial in order to maintain their increasingly fragile world.
Every drug addict is an individual, and the demands of every band's situation vary, but there are limits to the number of times band members are able to give the addict the benefit of the doubt, and to the number of broken promises a band is able to endure.
While the functional drug addict is not completely out of control, he or she is still dependent on their drug, and that dependence is more likely to show itself at times of stress or pressure.
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 Confessions of a Teenage Drug Addict   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Of the total number of abusers, 890,530 were found to be drug addicts, 821,963 of whom were addicted to methamphetamine, 26,656 to marijuana, 19,074 to heroin, 6,593 to glue-sniffing and 5,977 to the stimulant plant krathom.
The highest number of drug addicts are in the 15 to 24 age group, though those using opiates are mostly aged 25 to 59.
Of all the drug users, 58.5% said they were addicted to methamphetamines, 42.2% to marijuana, 33.6% to sleeping pills or hallucinogenic drugs, 16.6% to solvents, 11.3% to Ecstasy, 10.5% to the so-called ``love drug'', 8.7% to ketamine, 7.6% to heroin, 5.6% to opium, 4.9% to cocaine, and 4.9% to morphine.
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 Drug Rehab Drug Addiction Treatment Rehabilitation Drug Rehab Centers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Individuals seeking a Drug Rehab for a loved one with a chronic drug addiction problem should be educated on the subject of drug addiction.
Drug addiction could be defined as; a constant and unrelenting effort to obtain drugs in order to alter the feelings and perceptions of the person using them.
Because of these chemical changes in the brain due to the constant use of drugs, when a drug abuser attempts to halt their drug use the brain signals the individual that the drug is needed.
www.addictionca.com   (1212 words)

  
 Drug Rehab Canada, Drug Rehab Centers Canada
Drug Rehab, Alcohol Rehab Centers can seem all the same and also can be confusing when it is time to choose Drug Rehab Centers.
Drug and alcohol use is a choice, not unlike any other bad decisions we make in life.
Attending a long term drug rehab center helps drug addicted individuals by removing them from their environment for a period of time with less distractions.
www.drug-rehab.ca   (1530 words)

  
 Addiction definition
Objectives There are three main objectives of this article on drug addiction: deciding who is a drug addict, who is an active drug addict, deciding whether to accept judgment of your personality or advice about the use of mind altering substances.
Drug Abuse: To make it simple, if you believe you cannot face life on its own terms without using mind altering drugs, and you have not been diagnosed and certified by a psychiatrist as being seriously mentally ill, whether you are currently using mind altering drugs or not, then you are a “drug addict”.
Qualifications: My definition of drug addiction comes from my degree in psychology, many years of training and observations as an assistant group facilitator with a psychiatrist and a PhD psychologist, both of whom were addicts and specialists in substance abuse, at DeKalb Addiction Center, Georgia.
philjgold.home.mindspring.com /htmls/Addict-def.html   (2476 words)

  
 Drug Crazy: How We Got Into This Mess & How We Can Get Out
As politicians proclaim their support for an ever-escalating "War on Drugs," the first popularly written book exposing the futility of this losing war is being praised across the political spectrum.
Drug Crazy is being praised in advance of publication from across the political spectrum: By two Nobel Prize winners (economist Milton Friedman and physicist Henry Kendall); by former Attorney General Elliott Richardson and former Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders; by liberal journalist Daniel Schorr and conservative journalist William F.
The tragicomic political history of U.S. drug wars from their beginning in 1914 to the present day -- 85 years of cynical posturing and mindless bungling, manipulation of statistics, ostracism of opponents and falsification of medical and scientific data.
www.drugcrazy.com   (542 words)

  
 Rehab Help from RehabHelp.com - Get Help and Information on the Narconon Drug Addiction Treatment Center and ...
Drug addiction is an issue with many consequences, one of them being, addiction withdrawal symptoms experienced when the drugs are discontinued.
Drug rehab programs require that the drug addict or alcoholic understand what is being taught, and have a commitment to their own success.
Drug addiction and alcoholism are conditions that have clearly defined cycles through which addicts progress.
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 Drugdetoxcenter.com - Summer House   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The addict lies to everyone, things start missing around the house, the dishonesty conveyed is proportionate to the severity of the addiction, but these things are all apparent to the person living with an addict in their life.
Our experiences show that the drug addict or alcoholic is usually an intelligent and most often creative person with much hope for the future, which only adds to the calamity of their downfall.
As the addict slips down the spiral, their loved ones try to deny the problem exists, sometimes for years.
drugdetoxcenter.com /web_linkdisplay.cfm?cat_id=186&link=Drug+Addict   (204 words)

  
 Drug Interventions, Family Interventions, Alcohol Interventions
Drug intervention is an attempt by a skilled professional counselor or a group of friends, family or co-workers to motivate a drug addict toward recovery.
Drug intervention, while sometimes painful or embarrassing, is sometimes critical for drug addicts who deny they have a problem.
Tell the addict that you are concerned about his drug addiction and want to be supportive for him while he gets help.
www.drug-intervention.org   (491 words)

  
 Pacifica Graduate Institute | Graduate Research Library | Scumbag Sewer Rats: The Criminalized Male Drug Addict And The ...
The general public, the mental health profession, the american judicial system, and criminalized male drug addicts themselves are struck with a social paradigmatic attitude toward criminalized male drug addicts that characterizes them as dirty, rotten, scumbag sewer rats.
To complicate matters, most criminalized male addicts who do recover retain many of the qualities that have placed them into this category in the first place, and many of those qualities are redemptive if they apply them to the betterment of mankind.
Through these stories, I have elucidated the trickster archetype in drug addicts both in the stories themselves and in the act of story—telling, for in telling these stories, I, too, continue my own trickster ways creating works that are confabulation, partly factual and partly fictional.
www.online.pacifica.edu /pgl/SmethersDissertation   (338 words)

  
 Saint News - Drug Addict Proves Mexican Indian Juan Diego´s Sanctity - 20 December 2001 - Vatican City (ZENIT.org)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
John Paul II today approved the canonical decree recognizing the miracle attributed to the intercession of Juan Diego, the Mexican Indian who witnessed the apparitions of the Virgin of Guadalupe in 1531.
The miracle, which occurred on May 6, 1990, at the very moment the Holy Father was proclaiming Juan Diego blessed, changed the life of drug addict Juan José Barragán Silva.
That day, exasperated and under the drug´s influence, he stabbed himself with a knife in his mother´s presence, and went to a balcony to throw himself over.
www.catholic-forum.com /saints/news0021.htm   (645 words)

  
 Alcohol Abuse Drug Addiction Help
Drug addiction and alcohol abuse are complex, life-threatening issues.
Millions of people are successfully recovering from alcoholism and drug addiction today because they got the right help, before it was too late.
If you or someone you know has a drug addiction or alcohol abuse problem, contact us by phone or form and you will receive the best possible help and information about any drug or alcohol related subject.
www.addict-help.com   (469 words)

  
 Transition Game: I'm a Drug Story Addict   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
That said, all sports have a big problem on their hands going forward containing drug and chemical performance enhancement use and calls to "get tough" are unlikely to make a significant dent in the problem.
It's easy for drug tests to find stanozolol and its "chemical country cousins," as Charles E. Yesalis calls them, and there are other supplements that are cheaper and easier to get, as well as being less detectable.
Protocols can vary from predictable, scheduled drug tests -- which athletes can evade easily by stopping their drug use in enough time to let banned substances pass through their systems -- to the no-notice "pee on the spot" drug testing required by Olympic sport organizations.
www.corante.com /transition/archives/001340.html   (7274 words)

  
 Drug Rehabilitation Alcohol Rehab Substance Abuse Treatment
Support Systems Homes drug addiction and alcoholism rehabilitation programs offer the struggling alcoholic and drug addict a new chance at life and a new beginning.
Our goal is to provide comprehensive drug and alcohol rehabilitation services to individuals whose lives have become unmanageable as a result of addiction and alcoholism and introduce them to a new lifestyle free of chemical dependency.
Our drug rehabilitation centers provide an exemplary level of care and consistently demonstrate results placing us at the top of our industry and all of our services are accredited by both the Commision for the Accredidation of Rehabilitation Facilities and the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs.
www.supportsystemshomes.com   (320 words)

  
 The Daily Mail (London, England) : ADDICTED to addiction; Drug addict, alcoholic, bulimic, anorexic and shopaholic. ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
ADDICTED to addiction; Drug addict, alcoholic, bulimic, anorexic and shopaholic.
But despite the looks, education and privilege that her happy upper-class life has bestowed upon her, Becci's story to date is one of chaos, fear and, at times, sheer squalor.
She is, as she admits with startling candour, addicted to addiction.
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 CBC News - Police offer adieu to heroin drug addict   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
It must have been a strange sight, a police organized remembrance for a drug addict.
She didn't listen, and months later she was living on the street, addicted to drugs.
In it, her transformation into a pale addict with scabs on her face shows the devastation drugs can have in a short period of time.
cbc.ca /cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/2001/01/02/reoch_addict010102   (376 words)

  
 Addict Drug Treatment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
the drug rehab facility should be able to offer a program that fits the needs of the drug addict.
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Our experiences show that the drug addict or alcoholic is usually an intelligent and most often...
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 Drug Rehabilitation Drug Rehabilitation Centers Drug Rehab Centers Drug Rehab Rehabilitation Also for Alcohol ...
Cravings, Guilt and Depression are the primary barriers that an addict encounters.
Drug rehab addiction treatment and alcohol drug rehabilitation treatment have been, at most, only marginally successful.
Drug Rehab Center - Addiction Treatment Help Line is a no cost service to help find rehab centers across United Sates or Canada.
www.drugrehab.ca   (436 words)

  
 Drug Rehabilitation Drug Rehab Center Alcohol and Drug Treatment Program California
We provide accredited, state licensed detoxification, residential treatment, day and outpatient drug and alcohol rehab programs throughout Northern California, including locations in and around the San Francisco Bay Area, San Jose, San Leandro, Oakland, Santa Cruz and Fresno with the highest quality of clinicians, counselors and experience in the field of drug and alcohol rehabilitation.
Support Systems' goal is to provide comprehensive drug treatment and alcohol rehabilitation services to individuals whose lives have become unmanageable as a result of addiction and alcoholism and introduce them to a new lifestyle free of chemicals.
Drug Rehabilitation at Support Systems is covered by many insurance plans, and we offer discounted rates for private pay clients.
www.drug-rehabilitation.com   (731 words)

  
 Rush Limbaugh Biography
drug addict, Rush Hudson Limbaugh III is probably the best
A textbook example of the damning effects of drug abuse,
drug for two and a half more years.
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 Drug Rehab Information 1800NODRUGS.COM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
There are different drug rehabs, drug rehabilitation programs, alcohol treatment centers, sober living homes, therapeutic communities, treatment methodologies etc...
Our goal is to achieve relationships with drug rehab program providers to place in drug rehabilitation treatment those individuals suffering from drug addiction and drug abuse related issues.
If you or someone you know is struggling with the disease of drug addiction or alcoholism, please complete our brief online assessment form or give us a call immediately, we can help.
www.1800nodrugs.com /assessment.php   (298 words)

  
 Alcohol Drug Rehab Treatment Addiction Alcoholism Rehab Treatment Centers
Those who leave AA look elsewhere, such as conventional alcohol and drug treatment for solutions, but 97% of conventional drug rehabs and alcohol treatment centers are 12 step or AA based, thus individuals essentially rejoin AA.
Only flawed studies show that the disease concepts of alcoholism and drug addiction are fact.
Independent studies have proven repeatedly that alcoholism and drug addiction are not diseases and treating them as such is detrimental.
www.SoberForever.net   (687 words)

  
 Moment of clarity saves area drug addict - PittsburghLIVE.com
On rare visits home, he would argue with his mother, often telling her that her concern was driving him to the drug.
All she wanted to do was free him from the addiction, to find the son she knew before the drugs tainted his life.
And while no parent wants to admit their child could be addicted, she insisted parents keep an open mind, and heart.
www.pittsburghlive.com /x/valleyindependent/news/s_159776.html   (1499 words)

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