Jim Fent, from A Better Tomorrow, speaks about Pain Management and Addiction. The sound can be difficult to hear in parts when guest ask questions or speak, however, there is a lot of good information here.
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Celebrities Who Have Overcome Addictions
Every addict lives in their own world of isolation, feeling that no one can understand where they are, or why they are there. An important aspect of the possibility of recovery is for the addict to believe that it is an attainable goal. Knowing that others have been in the same depths of despair and made it out has to be positive encouragement to their troubled souls.
Drew Barrymore was smoking cigarettes by the age of nine. At eleven, she was an alcoholic. By the time she reached thirteen, she was addicted to cocaine. At fourteen she attempted suicide. It took multiple trips to rehab, but she did overcome her addictions. She is not only an accomplished actress but has become a producer and formed her own production company.
Angelina Jolie was interviewed in 1998 and admitted to trying just about every drug possible including cocaine, heroin, Ecstasy, and LSD. She said her drug days are a thing of the past. She is one of the major female stars today, an Oscar winning actress, a mother of six and a dedicated humanitarian. She is well known for her work as a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency.
Robin Williams was addicted to cocaine before he began his acting career. He admitted that he abused a number of other drugs as well. It took the death of John Belushi, caused by a drug overdose, to send him to a rehab center. He has since become a phenomenal actor and has had many comedy hits as well as serious ones. He won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in the film Good Will Hunting.
Maybe the most shocking case is Oprah Winfrey. She abused cocaine in the 70’s and 80’s but has been able to put it all behind her. A year ago, Forbes listed Oprah as having a fortune worth over $2.7 billion.
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Drew Barrymore was smoking cigarettes by the age of nine. At eleven, she was an alcoholic. By the time she reached thirteen, she was addicted to cocaine. At fourteen she attempted suicide. It took multiple trips to rehab, but she did overcome her addictions. She is not only an accomplished actress but has become a producer and formed her own production company.
Angelina Jolie was interviewed in 1998 and admitted to trying just about every drug possible including cocaine, heroin, Ecstasy, and LSD. She said her drug days are a thing of the past. She is one of the major female stars today, an Oscar winning actress, a mother of six and a dedicated humanitarian. She is well known for her work as a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency.
Robin Williams was addicted to cocaine before he began his acting career. He admitted that he abused a number of other drugs as well. It took the death of John Belushi, caused by a drug overdose, to send him to a rehab center. He has since become a phenomenal actor and has had many comedy hits as well as serious ones. He won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in the film Good Will Hunting.
Maybe the most shocking case is Oprah Winfrey. She abused cocaine in the 70’s and 80’s but has been able to put it all behind her. A year ago, Forbes listed Oprah as having a fortune worth over $2.7 billion.
One thing that makes recovery from an addiction possible is that the person wants to beat the addiction. Once they accept that, they are ready to start the journey back to their former life. Seldom can this be achieved without the intervention of professionals. A Better Tomorrow is waiting to hear from you. Make the call today. Recovery is possible for you too.
If you need help, are struggling with an addiction, or know of someone who is, please contact A Better Tomorrow Treatment Center today. We are here to help.
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009
The Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN)
DAWN is a public health surveillance system that monitors visits to hospital emergency rooms that are drug related. They also track drug related deaths that are reported by medical examiners and coroners. In 2003 the program underwent some major changes to help communities and member facilities to identify emerging problems, improve patient care and manage resources.
DAWN is operated by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) which is an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The data collected is used by the government as well as those in the private sector. It can be used for public health planning or policy and program development; it is helpful in obtaining grant support to address local drug related problems; it is an invaluable asset when it comes to improving patient care and management of resources in participating hospitals. DAWN provides a picture of the impact of drug use as well as misuse and abuse in different areas across the nation.
The primary users of DAWN include federal agencies, communities in the private sector and members of the network. The Food and Drug Administration uses Dawn to identify new drug abuse trends with prescription drugs. It also uses DAWN to identify and track adverse reactions and other health consequences of prescription drugs. In the private sector DAWN pays particular attention to ER visits having to do with underage drinking, adverse reactions to new medications, accidental poisonings of young children and misuse of prescription drugs. Members of the network have immediate access to their own data through DAWN LIVE, a secure internet based query system.
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DAWN is operated by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) which is an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The data collected is used by the government as well as those in the private sector. It can be used for public health planning or policy and program development; it is helpful in obtaining grant support to address local drug related problems; it is an invaluable asset when it comes to improving patient care and management of resources in participating hospitals. DAWN provides a picture of the impact of drug use as well as misuse and abuse in different areas across the nation.
The primary users of DAWN include federal agencies, communities in the private sector and members of the network. The Food and Drug Administration uses Dawn to identify new drug abuse trends with prescription drugs. It also uses DAWN to identify and track adverse reactions and other health consequences of prescription drugs. In the private sector DAWN pays particular attention to ER visits having to do with underage drinking, adverse reactions to new medications, accidental poisonings of young children and misuse of prescription drugs. Members of the network have immediate access to their own data through DAWN LIVE, a secure internet based query system.
If you or someone you love has a problem with an addiction, call A Better Tomorrow. Get the help you need along with the understanding you deserve.
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Monday, November 16, 2009
Using Embalming Fluid to Get High ~ Drug Wet
Every adult knows what embalming fluid is, and what it’s used for, even if they do not know what it is made from. It is a combination made up mostly of Formaldehyde, methanol and ethanol, with other minor solvents added in. Like most chemicals which fulfill a valid need, this is also another chemical being abused by drug users. The combination is used to soak tobacco, cigarettes, and/or marijuana joints in and after it dries, the product is smoked. Some times PCP is added to the mixture.
Each treated ‘smoke’ can be sold for about $20.00. The street name’s include wet, sherm, fry, amp, illy, dank, hydro, and matrix. This is not an all inclusive list and terms vary depending on the location across the country. As with other drugs, wet has no boundaries. It is used by rich and poor, young and old, and in big cities as well as small towns. A regular cigarette soaked in this solution is seldom caught because these are not drugs that are normally tested for. There seems to be a certain morbid, gothic appeal to using embalming fluid to get high. It is more popular with children and young adults.
Symptoms may include coma, seizures, renal failure, and stroke. Depending on the mix and the individual, the high can last from six hours to three days. Users may appear spaced out and dissociative. When PCP is added there is often destructive behavior. Under the influence of “wet”, a 14 year old boy stabbed a thirty three year old neighbor 70 times. He told authorities he took the drug to quiet the voices in his head.
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Each treated ‘smoke’ can be sold for about $20.00. The street name’s include wet, sherm, fry, amp, illy, dank, hydro, and matrix. This is not an all inclusive list and terms vary depending on the location across the country. As with other drugs, wet has no boundaries. It is used by rich and poor, young and old, and in big cities as well as small towns. A regular cigarette soaked in this solution is seldom caught because these are not drugs that are normally tested for. There seems to be a certain morbid, gothic appeal to using embalming fluid to get high. It is more popular with children and young adults.
Symptoms may include coma, seizures, renal failure, and stroke. Depending on the mix and the individual, the high can last from six hours to three days. Users may appear spaced out and dissociative. When PCP is added there is often destructive behavior. Under the influence of “wet”, a 14 year old boy stabbed a thirty three year old neighbor 70 times. He told authorities he took the drug to quiet the voices in his head.
If you or someone you know has a drug problem, you need to know that there is help available. A Better Tomorrow is waiting to hear from you, today. Make the call; you are worth it.
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Friday, November 13, 2009
Drug Identification ~ Lysergic Acid Diethylamide
Lysergic Acid Diethylamide
Other Names: LSD, Acid, Microdot, White lightning, Blue heaven and Sugar Cubes
What It Looks Like: Colored tablets, blotter paper, clear liquid, thin squares of gelatin
How it's Administered: It's taken orally and in small doses. LSD is most often found in small squares of impregnated paper called blotter acid, or in sheets of paper like postage stamps. The drug is licked off the paper. The drug can also come in tiny tablets called microdots, or in small gelatin squares called windowpane, both taken by orally ingesting. A user can also get LSD in a clear liquid solution. This is most often dispensed by using an eyedropper onto sugar cubes or directly onto the tongue. Some users have also been known to put the droops into their eyes. Another type of LSD is the blue dot acid, which consists of paper slips smeared with a blue colored solution of the drug.
Effects on Users: Altered states of perception and feeling, nausea, persisting perception disorder (flashbacks), increased body temperature, heart rate and blood pressure, loss of appetite, sleeplessness, numbness, weakness, tremors, and persistent mental disorders. Physical effects of LSD may include dilated pupils, high temperatures, rapid heartbeats, increased blood pressure, sleeplessness, appetite loss and tremors. The Psychological effects can last up to 12 hours.
Other Info: This drug has a high potential for abuse
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Other Names: LSD, Acid, Microdot, White lightning, Blue heaven and Sugar Cubes
What It Looks Like: Colored tablets, blotter paper, clear liquid, thin squares of gelatin
How it's Administered: It's taken orally and in small doses. LSD is most often found in small squares of impregnated paper called blotter acid, or in sheets of paper like postage stamps. The drug is licked off the paper. The drug can also come in tiny tablets called microdots, or in small gelatin squares called windowpane, both taken by orally ingesting. A user can also get LSD in a clear liquid solution. This is most often dispensed by using an eyedropper onto sugar cubes or directly onto the tongue. Some users have also been known to put the droops into their eyes. Another type of LSD is the blue dot acid, which consists of paper slips smeared with a blue colored solution of the drug.
Effects on Users: Altered states of perception and feeling, nausea, persisting perception disorder (flashbacks), increased body temperature, heart rate and blood pressure, loss of appetite, sleeplessness, numbness, weakness, tremors, and persistent mental disorders. Physical effects of LSD may include dilated pupils, high temperatures, rapid heartbeats, increased blood pressure, sleeplessness, appetite loss and tremors. The Psychological effects can last up to 12 hours.
Other Info: This drug has a high potential for abuse
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Thursday, November 12, 2009
Causes of Addiction
Research has shown that there are similarities between addictive conditions like alcoholism and drug addiction and many cases of eating disorders which are considered addictive behaviors. The human brain has within it reward centers that are activated when a person feels well, or does something well. This could occur naturally when taking care of the body, behaving sensibly, being praised, experiencing feelings of love and even when exercising.
It is also possible to stimulate the reward centers by artificial means. Drugs of all kinds produce chemical stimulation making it an important aspect of the cause of addiction. The same stimulation is caused by a number of drugs, both legal and illegal. This stimulation also blocks unpleasant feelings. It could explain why people with addictive disorders use them to block feelings that are unbearable. When the reward center is stimulated by drugs, alcohol or abuse of food, they stop functioning in the way they should. Abuse is merely a shortcut to false happiness which doesn’t come from achieving something good.
Incorrect use of these centers is especially common with people who have a personality requiring an excess of reward effects in order for them to feel well. There is accordingly a common factor with many types of addiction: Alcoholism and drug disorders, eating disorders, compulsive sex dependence, compulsive gambling, self-injury and anorexia nervosa (body injuries can stimulate the center in order to protect the body from pain) and even compulsive exercise.
Eating disorders and drug addiction are similar in the fact that the addiction is compulsively developed into an even stronger form regardless of the effect on their health. Serious medical complications do not assure that the addict will give up their addiction. Starvation in anorexia reduces the activity of the hormone Serotonin and in turn reduces the anxiety in a person with an overactive nervous system. Many drug addicts began with compulsive eating before switching to drugs. There are certain hereditary characteristics that increase the risk of eating disorders and drug addiction although the presence of the characteristics does not mean they will become addicts. Addictions are treatable and A Better Tomorrow is waiting to hear from you.
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Addict Now, Addict Forever?
Addictions vary in severity. You don’t generally get addicted to a drug the first time you use it, although it is a possibility. Generally addiction is a process that occurs over many months and/or years of abuse. Some people are able to decrease the amount of the drug they are using and some may be able to stop all together. Others will be drug users until they die. Life time drug users don’t generally die of old age. Their lives are diminished in time and quality.
If the addiction is less severe, it might be considered a temporary disorder and the right treatment can help put your life back in order and you will be pretty much the person you were before the addiction. In more severe addictions, the disorder has more lasting effects. The goal for any addict is to stop the use of drugs. With more severe addictions there is a long history of use accompanied by many physical, emotional and social problems. There are situations where brain damage keeps the addict from being able to resist the impulse to use again. This often happens with alcoholics.
With all of that in mind, be assured that addiction can be treated and overcome. Do relapses happen? Of course they do, but it doesn’t have to accelerate to the level of addiction. Relapses create a feeling of dejection and that has a negative effect, and can actually push the person closer to the road back to addiction. The better approach is to examine the events surrounding the relapse and learn from the experience. If you can pinpoint the circumstances that pushed the person into the relapse, they may be able to avoid them in the future. There is strength to be gained from a relapse. Breaking the habit is not a cure, but a process, just as addiction was a process. Neither of them happens overnight. Breaking the habit also means there is a possibility of remission.
The biggest boost is not to lose hope. If you or someone you love is enslaved by an addiction, there is help available to you. Call A Better Tomorrow and get on the road to recovery.
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