Drug Addiction: Preventing Drug Addiction Tips

Taking Back the Streets from Drugs and Crime.

Many people are aware of a drug problem in their community, school or even at home, but are unaware of methods to fight drug addiction.

While drug rehab is an option for those already addicted to drugs, studies have shown that proper drug education and drug awareness go a long way to drug prevention. What can a person do?

Amidst the clamor of drug abusers and drug dealers in our communities, there needs to be a voice of reason. Our churches can bring a better vision to teach our children, empower our residents and provide the light of reasoning.

The Atlanta Recovery Center Drug Rehab in Georgia has recently been working with local churches on a simple plan to take back our communities, which includes cleaning up the local convenience stores and providing drug education. Our first step has been to gain a better understanding of the problem.

Convenience stores that sell drug paraphernalia are magnets for drug addicts and drug dealers. The store where citizens pick up their cat food or grab a cup of coffee in a hurry; may have crack pipes, papers, bongs and other paraphernalia for sale. The average customer won’t see these items. They are for special customers and remain behind the counter until they are requested. If there are individuals lurking outside the convenience store for periods of time, chances these may be drug dealers, making this convenience store a “one stop shop” for drug abusers.

Religious educators can warn their parishioners on the possibility of drug trafficking at the local store. They should know to ask what paraphernalia is for sale next time they are in. And if it is for sale they should tell other concerned citizens and get them involved. Collectively, these citizens can complain in person and write letters. This is the stronger customer base and the stores will listen.

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Recognize the Signs of Alcohol Abuse

This article underscores the fact that effective drug and alcohol prevention is vital for our youth and begs the question of why this administration would cut funding for drug education in our schools.  This leaves parents, already overloaded due to a down turning economy, as the sole drug educators in their children’s lives.  However hard the task, they must accept the job.

Parents must learn the warning signs of alcohol abuse in their kids and when the signs are there, get immediate alcohol treatment.  Alcohol abuse does not simply go away and many rehab clients report that they started drinking in their early teens.

Effective alcohol prevention and alcohol treatment can prevent teenage suicides.  Let’s get behind any efforts that promote these.

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“The risk of suicide rises sharply among teens who drink when they are feeling depressed, a new study finds.

Reuters reported May 8 that suicide risk increased 68 percent among students in grades 7-12 who drank when they felt depressed and had previously thought about suicide. Risk also increased threefold among those teens who never contemplated suicide previously, according to researcher Elizabeth A. Schilling of the University of Connecticut Health Center and colleagues.

The authors said the findings demonstrated the need to screen teens for alcohol use that could predict impulsive suicides.”

The study was published in the April 2009 issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health. http://www.jointogether.org/news/research/summaries/2009/teens-who-drink-when.html

Narconon treats all drugs of abuse including heroin, adderall, methamphetamine and cocaine.

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Prescription Drug Abuse- Methadone Detox: Methadone Facts

The Atlanta Recovery Center Drug Rehab Answers Questions on Methadone, Methadone Detox.

Methadone is a synthetic (man-made) narcotic. It is used legally in addiction to narcotics and to relieve severe pain, often in individuals who have cancer or terminal illnesses. Although methadone has been legally available in the United States since 1947, more recently it has emerged as a drug of abuse, requiring methadone detox. This trend may be driven in part by the ready availability of the drug as it increasingly is used in the treatment of narcotic addiction and to relieve chronic pain.

For many, methadone remains a mystery.  For some, it is used for pain relief and for others it is a favored drug of abuse.  For many, it represents a life planned around a daily trip to a Methadone clinic to avoid severe withdrawal symptoms – this life sometimes described as a life not worth living.

The Atlanta Recovery Center Drug Rehab in Georgia answers the many questions methadone presents.

What is methadone? Methadone is a synthetic analgesic (pain-killer) similar in action to heroin or morphine.

How was methadone developed? Methadone was developed in 1937 by German scientists who sought a drug that was easier to administer and less addictive than morphine. (Unfortunately methadone did not live up to their expectations)

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Drug Intervention: Tips On Helping A Drug Addict

Intervention Tips By The Atlanta Recovery Center Drug Rehab.

Drug Intervention Needs To Be Done

Thoughts on a drug intervention: “It would be nice to tell you that I did it on my own. It would be nice to tell you that I made some spiritual breakthrough and saved myself, but the fact is that I didn’t.”

These are the actual words of someone who made it through drug rehab because of the drug intervention of family and friends.

Does someone you know need a drug intervention? Has their life spiraled so far out of control that you are afraid the next call you get will be the police, informing you that they are in jail, or worse, dead?

In some cases, drug addicts ask for help. They realize that they need to do something to change their life or it will get worse than ever. In many cases, however, the addict denies anything is wrong, and continues to lie, cheat, and steal in order to support their drug habit. You can see their life going completely out of control, but don’t know what to do.

Others are not so lucky.

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