Archive for the ‘Adolescent Substance Abuse’ Category

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore: The mysterious workings of the adolescent brain — Why do teenagers seem so much more impulsive, so much less self-aware than grown-ups? Cognitive neuroscientist Sarah-Jayne Blakemore compares the prefrontal …

Teenagers can be so dramatic that they will feed on water to cut weight
Naluwende adds that adolescent growth demands an increase in protein foods to support the puberty changes in both sexes, and the developing muscle mass in boys. Girls, she advises, require 46 grammes a day and boys require 52 grammes a day to …
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Many kids wait for mental health services
"It demonstrates the necessity for continued investment in the development of services to meet this demand, so that children and adolescents can access appropriate services in a timely manner and achieve the best possible outcomes. Supporting the work …
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Treatment Center Finder Expands Their Addiction Hotline
Their facilities help with all sorts of addiction including drug and alcohol rehabilitation, dual diagnosis treatment, Christian and faith-based rehab centers, gambling addiction, drug and alcohol detox, and eating disorder treatments. Recently …
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Women's Drug Rehab Destination Hope Addresses “Drynuary”
Destination Hope: The Women's Program is a full service addiction, drug, alcohol and dual diagnosis drug rehab for women treatment facility in Florida for women suffering from substance abuse and mental health issues. Treatment programs include: drug …
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Nine patients affected by Eastern Health errors
Eastern Health confirmed Thursday nine breast cancer patients got the wrong results from a test to determine their treatment. Due to the wrong results, eight of those patients were taking a drug called Herceptin, while one opted not to take the …
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Department of Psychiatry and Psychology at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN — The Department of Psychiatry and Psychology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, comprises one of the largest psychiatric treatment groups in the United S…

Drop-in mental health clinic at Rawson-Neal to close Friday
State officials will close a clinic at Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital in Las Vegas on Friday after federal officials cited the facility for violations. The state health department said it was “extremely disappointed” the federal Centers for Medicare …
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Las Vegas mental clinic to close under federal pressure
An outpatient clinic inside Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital that federal officials found fell short of standards set by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act will close its doors at 5 p.m. Friday. The clinic opened in July to help decrease the …
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UNICEF: Stop Child Abuse Now! — Are there 100000 people who care enough to protect our children from abuse? Let us show abusers in our society we will not tolerate them hurting our childre…

Communities that Care: 'Stewards' training prepares adults for child abuse …
The sexual abuse of children is an overwhelming problem and its effects are devastating. Our children need us to help prevent abuse from happening in the first place. This month's “Straight Talk for Parents” session will share with community members …
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County officials collecting information on child abuse prevention
STOCKTON — Preventing child abuse in a community requires knowledge about the community, and county officials are collecting information by surveying county residents. So the San Joaquin County Human Services Agency is putting out the call to drive …
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Question by andrew johansen: Lemon Detox Diet and alcohol?
I want to do the lemon detox diet for the week that I am on vacation, since ill have time to follow the diet. However, there might be a night or two where I will want to go out drinking with friends.

Will alcohol cause me any health problems since my body wont have anything in it besides the diet?

Best answer:

Answer by ClickMaster
You should forget the diet because it’s not going to do anything good for you.

“Detox” is short for detoxification and detoxification is a natural process involving your liver and kidneys and there is nothing you can do to effect it. It is impossible to detoxify a human once the toxin is in the blood with the possible exception of kidney dialysis, kelation therapy, and other expensive medical modalities. Currently “detox” is a faddist word, relatively meaningless, and is used to express that which the users cannot otherwise express because of ignorance or because the expression would be patently false.

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Question by Solomon: Does anyone know of a free, or cheap, non faith based, non 12 step, meth addiction treatment program?
With all the hype about meth addiction and it’s evils you would think it would be easy to find help. Not so far.
I have been looking for a free, or cheap, non faith based, non 12 step meth addiction outpatient program in the Phoenix Metro area. Something with counselling and medical supervision would be ideal. I cannot afford to not be working since I am self employed. I need to quit, and want to be clean. The cycle must be broken. Does anybody know how to help?

Best answer:

Answer by ditdit
You can turn yourself around if you haven’t been addicted for a long time.
Good luck.
I know how you feel -but my addictions were anti depressants cigarettes and Jack Daniels