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CDC Reports 1 in 5 High School Students Have Abused Prescription Drugs

Saturday, June 5th, 2010

From the CDC – One  in 5 U.S. high school students say they have ever taken a prescription drug without a doctor’s prescription, according to the 2009 National Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  This is the first year the survey assessed prescription drug abuse among high school students.  The YRBS has been conducted every other year since 1991.

The survey asked if they’d ever taken a prescription drug such as OxyContin, Percocet, Vicodin, Adderall, Ritalin, or Xanax, without a doctor’s prescription.

While this is alarming, it shouldn’t be surprising, frankly.  Prescription drugs have been pushed on Americans for every feeling or malady imaginable and drug companies have marketed their products (often fraudulently) to doctors and consumers to get people to buy them.  So if millions of American adults think taking these drugs are okay, then of course our children will follow suit.

This is still in the beginning stages of the epidemic, as more people continue to seek drug rehab centers for prescription drug addiction than ever.  If you or someone you love is in need of help for being dependent on prescriptions or other drugs, contact us today for help finding a successful addiction recovery program.

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New Evidence that More Recovery Programs are Needed Instead of Jail

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University recently issued findings from a study of inmates and substance abuse issues.  The beginning of their release states:

“Of the 2.3 million inmates crowding our nations prisons and jails, 1.5 million meet the DSM IV medical criteria for substance abuse or addiction, and another 458,000, while not meeting the strict DSM IV criteria, had histories of substance abuse; were under the influence of alcohol or other drugs at the time of their crime; committed their offense to get money to buy drugs; were incarcerated for an alcohol or drug law violation; or shared some combination of these characteristics, according to Behind Bars II: Substance Abuse and America’s Prison Population. Combined these two groups constitute 85 percent of the U.S. prison population.”

While experts at addiction treatment centers throughout the country have been pushing for more drug rehabs instead of incarceration, this study presents hard-hitting facts about the correlation between substance abuse and crime in America.

If you or someone you love is in need of an addiction recovery program, contact us today for help.  Call 1-877-372-5719 now.

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Insurance Coverage for Drug Rehabs

Monday, February 8th, 2010

Drug and alcohol rehabs both benefit and suffer from labeling addiction as a mental health disorder.  The upside is that the new insurance parity law will force many insuranc policies to pay for drug rehab centers in an equal fashion to other healthcare provided by its coverage.  The downside is that it gets attached to a law that ultimately allows for pharmaceutical companies and ineffective psychiatric-based treatments to continue to bilk billions of dollars from American taxpayers by treating other forms of mental illness because they have convinced lawmakers that they are incurable diseases that require continual treatment.

Addiction recovery shouldn’t be a life-long endeavor.  People are able to recover from alcohol and other drug addiction permanently, with no signs of relapse, and do so every day.  This means that it is clearly not the incurable disease that the afore-mentioned groups claim it to be.  At the same time, drug rehab centers that do have high success rates are able to make themselves available for more people by allowing them to be covered within the same calendar year after they have been unsuccessful at traditional addiction treatment centers.

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Addiction Recovery Advocate Offers Reward for Disease Theory Proof

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

Co-founder of The New Face of Recovery™ uses personal experience to challenge the idea that addiction is an incurable brain disease.

Clearwater, FL (PRWEB) December 31, 2009 — In the 1950’s alcoholism was voted on as being a disease by the American Medical Association (AMA) and has since been promoted as such, citing there are common characteristics with other diseases. Even today, the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAA) classifies alcoholism as a brain disease and claims it cannot be cured.

 However, more than 50 years have passed and even with the most advanced clinical testing there is still no solid proof that addiction is an incurable disease. Brain scans can’t take a sober person who was once labeled as an alcoholic and tell that he has a disease, and there is no blood test to identify someone either. The same holds true with many other mental disorders.

“I was a classic alcoholic with major depression and social anxiety,” explains Lucas A Catton, CCDC, co-founder of the advocacy group The New Face of Recovery ™, “However, it’s been more than a decade since I have displayed any of those symptoms and I will personally give $1,000 to any doctor, psychiatrist, government official or pharmaceutical company that can prove that I have an incurable brain disease.”

Catton says what helped him beat his addiction was a non-traditional program that was long-term and drug-free, which is the type of programs his group supports now as being the most effective. The advocacy group points out that results should be what matters most in addiction recovery, looking at all areas of life including happiness at home, employment and productivity at work, activity in groups, churches and other social settings in addition to measuring sobriety.

The New Face of Recovery movement also says that the use of certain prescription drugs should be a part of this measurement, especially any mind-altering substances, as many of the drugs prescribed in today’s treatment centers still leave people dependent on drugs in their daily lives. In addition, drug and alcohol rehabs that tell their clients they have an incurable disease and give them replacement drugs typically have higher relapse rates.

More addiction treatment centers lately have been using the holistic buzzword and not following the disease theory of addiction, although there are several different types of rehabilitation methods even in the non-traditional category. To find out more information about successful drug rehab centers visit www.newfaceofrecovery.org.

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From: http://www.prweb.com/releases/addiction/recovery/prweb3391314.htm