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Symptoms of Addiction: What Is Addiction? and Where Can You Get Help in California?
Question by eros_gary: What is addiction? and where can you get help in California?
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Answer by mgaribay74
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People who are addicted cannot control their need for alcohol or other drugs, even in the face of negative health, social or legal consequences.
The illness becomes harder to treat and the related health problems, such as organ disease, become worse.
Addiction is a chronic, but treatable, brain disorder. People who are addicted cannot control their need for alcohol or other drugs, even in the face of negative health, social or legal consequences. This lack of control is the result of alcohol- or drug-induced changes in the brain. Those changes, in turn, cause behavior changes.
Can a Former Drug Addict Do Anything to Reproduce Brain Cells?
Question by sunkissed299: Can a former drug addict do anything to reproduce brain cells?
I work in a homeless shelter and someone just asked. I would say no. Thats why they tell you not to do drugs.lol
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Answer by Lara Love
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) is a United States federal government research institute. Their mission is to lead the Nation in bringing the power of science to bear on drug abuse and addiction.
According to notes released by NIDA Director Dr. Alan I. Leshner in the September 2000 issue of Director’s Column:
“Remarkable research and technological advances in the past two decades have proved that brain disruption and damage play central roles in the consequences of drug abuse and addiction. Knowing the nature of a problem, of course, opens the way for systematic attempts to fix it. Thus, today, finding ways to restore normal brain function after it has been changed by drugs is a main goal of NIDA research.
Substance Abuse Grants: Community Foundation Announces $280K in Grants
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The Center for Human Development Inc. in Orange was awarded a $ 4,000 grant to train 15 clinicians in substance abuse counseling. Thayer Symphony Orchestra Inc. of Leominster received a $ 15,000 grant for The Music Connection, which is focused on …
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University of Houston receives 5000 grant to address smoking cessation
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… the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) awarded a $ 675,000 grant to Michael J. Zvolensky, the Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Distinguished University Professor in the department of clinical psychology at the University of Houston (UH) and Peter J …
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Why Do a Lot of Schizophrenics Like to Smoke Cigarettes and Drink Coffee?
Question by ? Plea for Peace!: why do a lot of schizophrenics like to smoke cigarettes and drink coffee?
i’ve read that something like 90% of schizophrenics smoke cigarettes, and i’ve also heard that a large percentage drink a lot more coffee than those considered normal.
does anyone have any ideas? the smoking i can understand if it’s an obsessive behavior, but i wonder if the nicotine in cigs or the caffeine in coffee has anything to do with it?
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Answer by gardensallday
I think I read recently that they have an inability to experience pleasure normally, and cigarettes fill that need. I don’t know about the coffee. I will say that I drink a hell of a lot of coffee & I have bipolar. Oh wait, found this on schizohprenia.com:
Scientists find link for smoking, schizophrenia – Schizophrenia Update, January 2004
Health Practitioners in Ghana Suffering From Drug Addiction
Health practitioners in Ghana suffering from drug addiction
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The issue is now spiralling out of control: In one hospital, in a period of just four days, six nurses were recently caught altering patients' prescriptions to get a hold of the drug and Korle Bu Teaching Hospital has even set up a rehab center for …
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CHICAGOThe "crack babies" scare of the 1980s may have been overblown, a …
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Widespread use of crack cocaine in the 1980s led to the "crack baby" scare, when babies born to crack users sometimes had worrisome symptoms including jitteriness and smaller heads. Studies at the time blamed prenatal drug use, suggested affected …
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Drug Rehab: Woman Who Abducted Niece Gets Probation, Drug Rehab – KFMB News 8
Woman who abducted niece gets probation, drug rehab – KFMB News 8
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Woman who abducted niece gets probation, drug rehab
KFMB News 8 EL CAJON (CNS) – A woman who took her 3-week-old niece from the Spring Valley home of the child's grandmother was sentenced Monday to three years probation and ordered to undergo four months of addiction treatment. Deborah Ann Fowler, 46, … |
Painkiller Addiction Treatment and Prescription Drug Rehab Announced – PR Web (press release)
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Painkiller Addiction Treatment and Prescription Drug Rehab Announced
PR Web (press release) Recovery Associates Drug Treatment Center, through its multiple treatment tracks, now offers support for adolescents and adults seeking to find relief from painkiller addiction. According to research provided by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, … Cheap and Deadly: Use of New Drug “Sisa” Worries Officials |