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Link Between Childhood ADD & ADHD and Addiction 2007-07-10 12:16:04 Over the past couple of years, the link between childhood ADD and ADHD and addiction later in life has been well documented. But, the research has also caused some confusion among parents who have resisted medicating their children for these disorders for fear that this will lead to a chemical dependency problem later.
What some parents have failed to realize is that undiagnosed and untreated ADD and ADHD have the highest rates of addiction for these disorders. In A Mother’s Diary, Barbara Mulloy-Robbins M.C., M.S.C., talks about her own personal experience raising two sons with ADHD and their chemical dependency issues later.
Robbins, like many other researchers conclude that early diagnosis and treatment of these disorders offers the best prognosis for avoiding addiction problems later in life.
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Tutti Fruiti Cocaine Trend Geared Towards Youth 2007-06-29 10:03:35 As if the allure for cocaine isn’t bad enough, now illicit drug makers have taken the phrase “nose candy” literally and flavored cocaine like real candy. According to the Sacramento Bee in Northern California, six people were recently arrested with three pounds of cocaine flavored to taste like strawberries and coconuts.
According to DEA officials, this is a marketing tool to attract younger customers for the drug dealers. With this disturbing trend, one has to wonder what the next trend will be and if it will include such items as cocaine lollipops, cocaine ice cream cones and cocaine cotton candy?
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Cracks About Crack Get TV Sitcom in Hot Water 2007-06-21 16:37:16 TBS TV show Tyler Perry’s House of Payne first aired a couple of weeks ago to record ratings for the network. But, what has gotten some people riled up is that the main characters have made some cracks about crack cocaine, accompanied by laugh track that many have found offensive.
With over 5 million viewers for each of the first two episodes, Tyler Perry’s House of Payne has seen a gain in acceptance as well from those who like sitcoms to push the envelop of social commentary. Crack slapstick has never been tried before on a family show and these crack wisecracks may not be so wise in the coming weeks if viewers and advertisers start to pull out.
It remains to be seen how heavily or lightly Payne will tread on this subject as stepping over the line may just cause the show a world of hurt when it comes to ratings.
Parenting Tips to Prevent Drug Addiction in Children 2007-06-12 15:36:24 An article on the Health24 site talks about parenting tips to help prevent drug addiction in their children as they grow older. Many drug addicts have been predestined to drug abuse since childhood, so there are techniques parents can use to help prevent problems later.
Label behavior instead of the identity of children is one tip. According to the article, labeling the children themselves as somehow bad or inadequate damages self esteem and can cause people to turn to drugs later to fill the void or block out negative self-image thoughts.
Encouraging kids to feel and express their feelings is a wonderful tool that will promote health in children and healthy adults later on. Other tips are to set boundaries and promote self-esteem in children. Each of these techniques will have a positive impact on children in the home and will be something that will help them later in life as well.
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, Children
Lindsay Lohan Checks Into Malibu Rehab Center 2007-05-29 15:21:26 Lindsay Lohan
, 20-year-old actress and star of “Georgia Rule,” “Bobby” and “Mean Girls” has reported checked into the Malibu
Promises RehabCenter
for treatment of drug and alcohol related issues. Lohan was arrested this past Saturday in Beverly Hills, California for driving under the influence.
The police report also specified that a drug believed to be cocaine was found in Lohan’s Mercedes SL-65 automobile. Lohan crashed the vehicle around 5:30 a.m. and had two other passengers riding in the vehicle at the time.
In January of this year, Lindsay Lohan
had reportedly checked into the Wonderland Center in West Hollywood. Lohan’s publicist also reported that Lohan had been attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings for over a year at that time.
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Controversial Safe Injection Site Shows Positive Results 2007-05-26 08:52:21 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada hosts North America’s only safe injection site and research about its InSite facility has show positive results. According to researchers, the InSite facility has reduced the spread of HIV and crime in the area.
Not only that ,but the safe injection site has also shown a 30-percent increase in drug addicts going into addiction treatment programs. Rates of injection among users at the facility have also dropped.
Since its opening in 2003, the safe injection program has been under fire from Canada’s conservative federal health minister. So, the continuation of the program is unknown at this moment.
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What If Fictive Thoughts Play a Role in Addiction? 2007-05-17 14:15:02 What if fictive thoughts were to play a role in addiction asks researchers at Baylor College of Medicine. Fictive thoughts, or fictive learning uses “what if” scenarios on subjects to see “what might have been” and their emotional responses to these questions and fictional situations.
The study used MRI technology to detect changes in the brain in accordance to stimuli presented in the “what if” scenarios. Real world examples of stock market crashes, gambling and other scenarios are given subjects along with choices on how to react.
The studies measures emotional regret for choices taken and choices not taken and have tied these fictive learning experiences into the role of choices in addiction.
Mobile Meth Labs Add Complexity to Drug Enforcement 2007-05-08 12:03:21 As if traditional meth labs aren’t bad enough, where criminals cook a combination of over-the-counter and acquired hazardous materials to feed the addicts’ need, now these same criminals are evading police in mobile meth labs. When meth labs are housed in a home or apartment, there is the inherent danger of explosion from chemical reactions and fire used to produce the drugs.
Illegal drug makers, though, have been a sitting target fearing police intervention at any moment. Static meth labs have also given government officials, motel owners and other landlords the added obligation of sending out the HAZMAT team to cleanup the hazardous chemicals whenever a meth lab is busted.
But, now the methamphetamine makers have taken to the streets in groves in order to evade detection by police, creating mobile meth labs in cars, vans, trucks and RV’s. According to reports in 2002, at least 20-percent of the meth labs were then mobile. Recent reports state that this number is now over 30-per Read more:Mobile
, Complexity
ASAM 38th Annual Medical-Scientific Conference in Miami, FL 2007-05-03 10:36:16 Last week the American Society for Addiction Medicine (ASAM) held their 38h Annual
Medical-Scientific
Conference in Miami
, Florida. The focus on the conference was to present the most current research, development and treatment available in the field of addiction.
The conference was open to physicians, nurses, counselors, psychologists and students in the field of addiction. Some of the topics covered by the workshops included Buprenorphine in treatment, complications of heavy drinking, OxyContin misuse in rural West Virginia, prescription stimulant abuse, chemical dependency and pregnancy, anabolic steroids, adherence monitoring, correctional settings, co-occurring mental disorders, PTSD and addictions and parity for substance abuse treatment.
HBO’s Addiction Documentary Free to College Students 2007-04-24 15:35:32 Home Box Office (HBO) has teamed up with the Open Student Television Network (OSTN) to bring the documentary Addiction to students on their TV’s and computers. The public service initiative will be free to students nationwide on over 4,500 campuses.
HBO’s Addiction features a 90-minute full-length documentary featuring industry experts, case studies and the real human impact of drug and alcohol abuse in the United States. Additionally, there are 13 shorter films, many of which feature interviews with the experts in the field, that delve more deeply into many of the issues of the 90-minute film.
Some of the key messages of the film state that addiction is a brain disease, that many addicts have one or more co-occurring mental disorders that also need to be treated, new medications are available to help with cravings and treatment does not have to be voluntary to be effective.
The 13 supplementary short films for Addiction focuses on such subjects as relapse prevention, the adolescen Read more:Documentary
, College
Lindsay Lohan Fails Rehab with DUI and Drug Possession Charge 2007-07-24 14:43:09 Just out of drug and alcohol rehab, LindsayLohan
was arrested early this morning for DUI and possession of cocaine. Lohan was booked for driving with a suspended license as well as driving under the influence with a blood-alcohol level measuring .12 and .08 as the legal limit for intoxication. Lohan was also booked on two felony charges as well for possession of cocaine and transportation of a narcotic substance.
Lindsay Lohan
was given a field sobriety test in a parking lot in Santa Monica after an altercation. Lohan failed the test. Lohan had two other passengers in her vehicle at the time of the incident. Lindsay Lohan had, until recently been in a drug and alcohol rehab facility following a Memorial Day hit and run driving incident, in which she was booked.
Lohan had been wearing an ankle bracelet to monitor her use of drugs and alcohol while in rehab, but is no longer wearing the device. Lohan was released on $25,000 bail and will most likely be headed back to rehab for the fourt Read more:Rehab
, Possession
Drug Offers Hope to Finnish Drinkers 2007-07-31 09:47:38 Finland has had the reputation of host a large percentage of binge drinkers as part of it Scandinavian culture. A recent study of a new drug has set out to curb the cravings in that country, however.
Finnish
researchers have found that the drug nalmefene caused a definite reduction in drinking among those who took the drug as opposed to those who took a placebo. The U. S. FDA has not approved nalmefene yet as an alcohol reduction treatment program as it is still investigating the drug. Read more:Offers
CASA Survey Will Report of Rampant Drug Use in School 2007-08-09 20:10:49 CASA or The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, has sent out a little teaser of the survey results they will fully explain on August 16, 2007. According to the report, Chairman Joseph A. Califano, Jr will explain the in-depth survey of over 1,000 teens and over 500 parents nationwide that were asked about drug and alcohol use in the nation’s high schools.
According to the early reports, the survey will reveal that America’s schools are “infested with drug possession, use, dealing, drunk and high students.” This also leads to a culture that accepts this behavior and sets the tone for drug and alcohol abuse later in life. Read more:Rampant
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CASA Reports Drugs Rampant in Schools 2007-08-16 12:38:35 Last week we talked about what the CASA (or National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University) would report and now this week the detailed report has actually come out concerning drugs and alcohol in high schools. Parents, students, teachers and policy-makers all need to be on alert because of the latest findings.
Some of the key findings include:
1) a 63-percent jump in observed drug use in middle schools by other students
2) of the students coming in for drug and alcohol treatment, 10.5-percent started using before 11-years-old
3) among parents, 11-percent said drug use in high school was the most important problem their children faced while 24-percent of their kids said drug use was the most important issue Read more:Drugs
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Large Cities in Canada Have Less Drug Use than Smaller Ones 2007-08-23 16:24:41 According to a new study by Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Canada
, large cities such as Montreal and Toronto have a smaller rate of drug and alcohol abuse than mid-size cities. In addition, cities on the Eastern and Western regions of Canada have a higher rate of drug and alcohol addiction than the central and rural areas.
The CAMH researchers list some of the possible explanations for this disparity as being the positive influence of immigrants, migration patterns within the state, availability of drugs and alcohol throughout the regions, the accessibility of treatment and local policies and culture. Read more:Cities
How to Make Meth 2007-08-31 09:56:46 How to make meth is one of the more popular searches on the Internet concerning illicit drugs. Two keyword research tools say that between 207 and 268 people a day are searching for information on how to make meth.
This is no surprise given the power of the World Wide Web. What is surprising, however is that someone would want to start a drug addiction outside of a social situation and peer pressure.
When one searches how to make meth online the presumption is that they have either lost their supply line and want to do it on their own or are curious and want to experiment by starting a habit from scratch.
If you have come to this page looking for information on how to make meth, then its time to seek out a drug treatment program to get your life in order. How to make meth is not as important as “how to get my life back under control.”
Inhaling Adhesives Get Orphaned Indians High 2007-09-20 11:06:23 There is an article in the Calcutta, India Telegraph that talks about how orphaned Indian youngsters are getting high on inhaling adhesives at the local railway station. The inhaling of adhesives is used to curb hunger pains and the injuries from fighting other kids for survival.
Rescue efforts for some of these youth are taking place, however. The Hope Foundation and Cini Asha are taking steps to befriend some of these youngsters then bring them back to their facilities to treat their addictions and relieve them from the railway lifestyle. Read more:Indians
Hitting Rock Bottom Not Necessary to Treat Addiction 2007-09-14 15:59:53 One of the long-standing myths about recovering from drug and alcohol addiction is that one has to hit rock bottom first. According to Medical University of South Carolina psychiatry professor, Dr. Kathleen Brady, “Addicts and alcoholics are more likely to recover if they still have a job, if they still have a spouse, if their family still lets them in the door.”
Brady says that willpower and morality has nothing to do with the recovery process. She also states that this country tends to criminalize addiction by sending people to prison for taking illicit substances rather than putting them in rehab.
Some of this has changed in the last couple of years, thanks to new technology. Because of the advent of ankle bracelets that monitor drug and alcohol use, this has kept many people in their homes and jobs rather than in prison. More states and counties, however, need to avail themselves of this new technology in order to give addicts the best chances of recovery. Read more:Hitting
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National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month 2007-09-06 14:40:48 September has now been designated NationalAlcohol
and Drug Addiction RecoveryMonth
. It has been estimated that alcohol abuse and drug addiction cost U. S. taxpayers $294 billion every year.
During his National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month proclamation, President George W. Bush said, “Alcohol and drug addiction can ruin lives and devastate families. We must continue working toward a society in which our citizens can lead lives free from the influence of alcohol and drugs.”
The purpose of the proclamation of September as a month of substance abuse recovery is to raise awareness for the seriousness of the disease and the impact that it not only has on the individuals, but their families, friends, coworkers and society at large, as well.
Gene Linked to Alcohol Addiction 2007-09-27 12:43:13 Results of a study published in Alcohol
ism: Clinical & Experimental Research have concluded that a specific gene, previously unidentified may also be responsible for alcohol addiction and other addictive behavior. Author of the study, Danielle Dick, has stated that the gene named ankyrin repeat and kinase domain containing 1 (ANKK1) is one of the genes responsible for making people vulnerable to addiction.
Previous research has centered around the neighboring gene, DRD2. The research on the DRD2 gene has had serious limitations, however, and the new research on the ANKK1 gene sheds light on these limitations. By implicating another gene is the same region, researchers now believe that several genes in the same phenotype are involved.
Migraine Pill May Help Curb Alcohol Addiction 2007-10-11 19:54:38 An anticonvulsant drug used routinely for migraines and seizures may help alcoholics taper off their alcohol addictions without having to go through detoxification. A recent study published in Wednesday’s journal of the American Medical Association, has shown that the drug Topamax helped 15 percent of alcoholics at the height of their drinking binges stop drinking altogether for 7 weeks.
The rest of the group, given the anticonvulsant drug cut their drinking in roughly half of what it had been prior to the study. All participants were encouraged to stop drinking altogether. The 14-week trial is good news for some candidates with alcohol addictions as they may opt to be treated by their family doctor, while in their own community rather than leaving jobs and family for a trip to a rehab facility. Read more:Migraine
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Britney Spears, Tatum O’Neal Addiction Connection 2007-10-04 12:28:15 In a recent interview with Entertainment Tonight, Tatum O’Neal gave advice that she hopes BritneySpears
will hear coming from one famous mother who lost her kids due to addiction to another. The 43-year-old Tatum O’Neal outlined her struggles with heroin addiction and the loss of custody of her three children to ex-husband John McEnroe in her book “A Paper Life”. O’Neal has also been on the Oprah Winfrey Show talking about similar issues and her openly hostile relationship with McEnroe.
Tatum O’Neal, an Oscar-winning actress for Paper Moon, has stated that Britney Spears
needs to get into drug and alcohol addiction rehab and shield her kids from the media attention. Earlier this week, Los Angeles Superior Court judge, Scott Gordon, ordered Britney Spears to turn over custody of her two children, Sean Preston and Jayden James to former husband Kevin Federline until further notice.
Addiction Costs London $243 Million Per Year 2007-10-18 12:13:24 It’s been estimated that addiction costs London $243 million per year and some of this cost is due to the 1,500 homeless people, of which 40-percent are struggling with drug and alcohol addiction and mental illness. For this population only 360 shelter beds are available on any given night.
But, addiction isn’t confined to the homeless population as it cuts across all ethnic and socio-economic barriers from poor to middle class to upper class. Even legendary Londoner and rock superstar Eric Clapton has written his autobiography outlining his own addictions to heroin and alcohol. The book tells about how his addiction led him to a brush with suicide to escape his own personal pain. Read more:Costs
Red Ribbon Week Calls Awareness to Addiction 2007-10-25 12:45:57 It’s Red Ribbon
Week once again in the U. S. and time to call awareness to the issues surrounding drug and alcohol addiction. The National Family Partnership, who coordinates Red Ribbon Week says that more than 80 million people participate in drug and alcohol prevention commitments during this week, particularly students.
Students this week are encouraged to pledge to live drug and alcohol free lives, while wearing red ribbons and other red clothing. Red Ribbon Week honors DEA agent Enrique Camarena (Kiki) who was captured and killed by drug traffickers in Mexico City in 1985.
Red Ribbon Week is the oldest and largest drug and alcohol prevention campaign in the U. S. and is a method of showing a visible commitment to a drug-free America. Read more:Awareness
Baby Boy Given Overdose of Cocaine 2008-02-15 13:44:05 In a case that has outraged the citizens of Fort Worth, Texas a baby boy was given a fatal overdose of cocaine. The 14-month-old J.C. Luna was given cocaine sometime in-between his mother dropping him off with the babysitter, according to police.
The parents and babysitter and their homes were tested for cocaine and the tests [...] Read more:Baby Boy
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Most Methamphetamines Imported from Mexico 2008-01-29 14:18:47 Because of recent clamp-downs by the U. S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) including moving the over the counter drugs used to make meth behind the counter, Mexico
has emerged as the number one source for the drug. According to the World Drug Report, there are now 12 million meth addicts in the United States.
The DEA [...]
Chinese Find 396 Addiction Genes 2008-01-15 18:48:20 Researchers at China’s Peking University have discovered 396 genes linked to addiction. These so-called “addiction genes” are linked to pathways for substance abuse problems involving alcohol, cocaine, opium and nicotine.
According to the director Wei Liping, “The research provides a more complete picture of drug addiction, as genetic factors contribute to about 60 percent of the [...] Read more:Chinese
, Genes
Celebrities with Bipolar Disorder and Addictions 2008-01-10 13:43:37 There is a blog post at the Real Mental Health website that lists celebrities who have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. I’m not sure the list is 100-percent accurate, since to the best of my knowledge, Britney Spears, who is on the list has never been officially diagnosed as such.
Be that as it may, I [...] Read more:Celebrities
, Bipolar
Cocaine Vaccine May Be Approved by the FDA 2008-01-03 14:36:08 Two researchers at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas have been testing a vaccine for cocaine addiction. The new cocaine vaccine uses antibodies that attach to the drug and prohibit the cocaine from passing the blood-brain barrier.
Because the cocaine cannot be absorbed and passed to the brain tissue no high is experienced by [...] Read more:Cocaine
Tara Conner Writing Rehab Book 2007-12-29 10:25:44 Tara Conner
now has a year of sobriety under her belt, so last year’s Miss USA is moving onto the next step, which is to write a book about her rehab experience. If you’ll remember, Donald Trump was gracious enough to give Tara Conner
a second chance before he terminated her from her crown.
Going into [...] Read more:Rehab
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