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The History of Opiates
By Terek Shastalon · 12 years ago
Contemporary drug abusers often take powerful opiates such as morphine, heroin, Oxycontin, and codeine. These narcotics cause rapid addictions to develop in their users, and opium-related dependencies are some of the most difficult to treat ...
Residential Inpatient Rehabilitation for Alcoholics
By Terek Shastalon · 12 years ago
The most involved form of addiction therapy for any type of substance abuse is a thirty to ninety-day inpatient stay at a rehabilitation facility. Unlike day and night programs, which involve daytime treatments and supervised ...
What to Expect from Alcohol Addiction Treatment
By Terek Shastalon · 12 years ago
Alcoholism is a crippling disease, but modern clinical treatments have proven astoundingly effective at helping people with their drinking problems. Although many people still view alcoholism as a lack of willpower, most medical professionals have ...
Outpatient, Partial Hospitalization, and Inpatient Drug Rehab Programs
By Terek Shastalon · 12 years ago
Inpatient drug rehab is the most intense and effective form of addiction treatment for most people. Rehab clinics across the United States have helped thousands of people with severe drug dependencies make lasting recoveries. However, ...
Effective Lifestyle Changes for Recovering Drug Addicts
By Terek Shastalon · 12 years ago
People who develop drug dependencies typically settle into lifestyles that involve their addictions at every level. Mundane activities become familiar "triggers" for their drug use. It's therefore essential that a recovering addict makes permanent lifestyle ...
A Brief History of Cocaine
By Terek Shastalon · 12 years ago
Cocaine isn't just one of the most commonly abused illicit substances in the world - it's also one of the oldest substances of abuse. Cocaine is derived from the young leaves of the coca plant, ...
Search Engine Optimization for Small Businesses
By Terek Shastalon · 12 years ago
Search engine optimization is a complex process designed for businesses, organizations and individuals to achieve visibility in major search engines for certain keywords or keyphrases. For small businesses a good SEO strategy can make the ...
Addiction to Diet Pills
By Terek Shastalon · 12 years ago
An addiction to diet pills can be extremely dangerous and in some cases fatal. Unfortunately, many people believe that if a substance can be sold over the counter, then it wouldn't be possible to become ...
A Noble Experiment? The Prohibition Act
By Terek Shastalon · 12 years ago
The American Prohibition Act of 1920 outlawed the use, possession, transportation, manufacture and distribution of alcoholic beverages. But despite the wreckage that this generally good-intentioned law caused in the U.S., it was referred to by ...