Substance-related disorders

patients in our acute treatment center. Treatment can last anywhere from months to even years as part of our acute program. Our team of specialists and certified professionals in addiction medicine focus on detox, recovery and counseling for any substance abuse issue you might face. Why an acute treatment facility? There are plenty of programs that offer outpatient addiction care. A person who enrolls in a program like this can get addiction help while still living at home. For some, that’s a…

As far as Al Qaeda recruitment procedures, several investigations have been conducted with those involved found playing a part in terror networks and even with some of the terrorists who have been arrested. Conclusions show that there are many methods of recruiting people including special financing for their tasks, giving them free apartment living and giving them other incentives. These same investigations revealed that many agents are usually appointed to different cities all over to gather…

According to Johann Hari on his talk in TEDx, addiction is caused by isolation. To come up with his conclusion, he met with different people from different parts of the world and shared an experiment done by Professor Bruce Alexander. In his experiment, he put a rat in a cage with two water bottles, one of which had drugs. The rat chose the one with drugs, but Professor Alexander realized that the cage was empty and this could have affected the results. When he included other aspects in the cage…

There are lots of factors to consider these situations, such as, genes, environment, age etc. Gender, ethnicity, culture and mental disorders may influence drug addiction as…

Radicals, liberals and conservation all have their own individual view on regulating drugs. Some seem more effective than others or not effective at all. Each group all consist of the same people that play a role in regulating drugs, individual’s themselves, and the government. One group might way heavier on this matter than the other. Looking at a conservative point of view on drugs and alcohol, these people always will refer to old fashion learning. Conservatives always go back to their moral…

The Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction training program (MBSR) was my next intervention as I needed to reduce my stress level. One feels stress when external demands are higher than he can handle. And personal beliefs such as self-efficacy are necessary to evaluate whether those demands are threatening or challenging (Zajacova, Lynch, Espenshade, Sep, & Espenshadet, 2012). This is how I felt with my 19-year old son, mainly due to his alcohol and drug usage. At the beginning of the semester,…

As we know today the war on drugs have failed, not only are nonviolent drug offenders risking their lives in prison, their causing corrections facilitates to be overcrowded and underfunded. It would seem that there should be other options rather than just sending nonviolent drug offenders to prison. “There is no evidence that imprisonment reduces the likelihood of recidivism. Instead, we find compelling evidence that offenders who are sentenced to prison have higher rates of recidivism and…

Everything one’s brain is responsible for doing, which is all mental processes, takes place at alarmingly fast rates every second of every day in areas of the brain called synapses. Synapses are formed by a gap in between the ends of two neurons that is measured in units of nanometers. Signals received by a neuron begins the domino effect, the first thing that follows is the electrical impulse that is the sign for neurotransmitters (chemicals) to be released. These neurotransmitters then travel…

Hello, in this essay I will be talking to you about D.A.R.E or drug abuse resistance education. I will also be talking to you about something called the buddy system and a call list that you use in case of an emergency and common pressures middle schoolers like me and you face. One thing that we learned in D.A.R.E is that it is a class, the class where you learn how to be safe. We talk about how drugs are very dangerous for you, me and other people. You will also talk about how to say no…

Heroin Treatment Options: Treatment with Methadone versus Suboxone Lori A. Snyder April 11, 2016 Heroin Treatment Options: Treatment with Methadone versus Suboxone There has been an increase in the number of people addicted to heroin. With the increase of people addicted to heroin, comes a need for more or better treatment options to help those with heroin addiction. The purpose of this paper is to compare two treatment options with information from three journal articles that have done…