Are you searching for the truth about the effectiveness of drug addiction treatment programs? It has taken me 3 years of research to get the answers I needed to help my own son.
Why go to a drug addiction recovery program that has a low success rate? You are wasting time and money and your life may be at stake.
The chart below shows that conventional drug treatment programs have low success rates for the long term - 8% - 38% !
Most people do not know that there are alternative medicine choices that have high success rates for addiction recovery - at least 60% according to the chart and I have seen results of 80% and more! (Chart provided by Dr. Joan Mathews-Larson)
You do have options!
But you have to use the holistic health approach and treat the whole person - mind, body and spirit.
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A recent study, published in the Public Library of Science (PLoS Medicine Journal), looked at Prozac (fluoxetine), Seroxat (paroxetine), Effexor (venlafaxine) and Serzone (nefazodone) and found "the antidepressants do not produce clinically significant improvements in depression in patients who initially have moderate or even very severe depression."
The researchers conclude that there is little reason to prescribe new-generation antidepressant medications to any but the most severely depressed patients unless alternative treatments have been ineffective.
This is another reason not to take any prescription drugs such as the SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) mentioned above unless absolutely necessary!
Abram Hoffer, M.D., Ph.D., is an internationally recognized physician, author, medical researcher and pioneer in orthomolecular medicine.
In 1960 he met Bill Wilson, co-founder of AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) and talked about using Niacin (Vitamin B-3) to help alcoholics. Bill W. was very interested in using it and he tested it with positive results.
Bill W. was a supporter of using Niacin but unbelievably his ideas were originally rejected by the AA International Headquarters because he was not a medical doctor! View the video (9 1/2 minutes) to hear the story.
An interesting side note is that Vitamin B-3 is also good for balancing your cholesterol levels.
The cigarette is a very efficient and highly engineered drug delivery system.
By inhaling tobacco smoke, the average smoker takes in 1 to 2 mg of nicotine per cigarette. When tobacco is smoked, nicotine rapidly reaches peak levels in the bloodstream and enters the brain in a few seconds. A typical smoker will take 10 puffs on a cigarette over a period of 5 minutes that the cigarette is lit. Thus, a person who smokes about 1-1/2 packs (30 cigarettes) daily gets 300 “hits” of nicotine to the brain each day.
In those who typically do not inhale the smoke—such as cigar and pipe smokers and smokeless tobacco users––nicotine is absorbed through the mucosal membranes and reaches peak blood levels and the brain more slowly.
Here is an excellent 2 1/2 minute animated video of what happens when you smoke cigarettes.
This is an amazing research report about nicotine addiction I discovered.
Research has revealed that the nicotine from one cigarette is enough to saturate the nicotine receptors in the human brain. "Laboratory experiments confirm that nicotine alters the structure and function of the brain within a day of the very first dose. In humans, nicotine-induced alterations in the brain can trigger addiction with the first cigarette," commented Joseph R. DiFranza, MD, professor of family medicine & community health at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and leader of the research team. "Nobody expects to get addicted from smoking one cigarette." Many smokers struggle for a lifetime trying to overcome nicotine addiction.
Symptoms of nicotine addiction can appear when youth are smoking as little as one cigarette per month. At first, one cigarette will relieve the craving produced by nicotine withdrawal for weeks, but as tolerance to nicotine builds, the smoker finds that he or she must smoke ever more frequently to cope with withdrawal.
Marijuana is the most widely used illicit drug in the USA. Admissions in drug abuse treatment facilities in which marijuana was the primary problem substance have more than doubled since the early 1990s and now rank similar to cocaine and heroin with respect to total number of yearly treatment episodes in the United States.
Research by a group of scientists studying the effects of heavy marijuana use shows that withdrawal from the use of marijuana is similar to what is experienced by people when they quit smoking cigarettes. Abstinence from each of these drugs appears to cause several common symptoms, such as irritability, anger and trouble sleeping - based on a recent study of heavy users of both marijuana and cigarettes.
The lead investigator in the study was Ryan Vandrey, PhD, of the Department of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. The study appears in the January issue of the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence.
More information:
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080124145015.htm
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A recent study, published in the Public Library of Science (PLoS Medicine Journal), looked at Prozac (fluoxetine), Seroxat (paroxetine), Effexor (venlafaxine) and Serzone (nefazodone) and found "the antidepressants do not produce clinically significant improvements in depression in patients who initially have moderate or even very severe depression."
This is an amazing research report about 
Marijuana is the most widely used illicit drug in the USA. Admissions in drug abuse treatment facilities in which marijuana was the primary problem substance have more than doubled since the early 1990s and now rank similar to cocaine and heroin with respect to total number of yearly treatment episodes in the United States.
Alcohol Abuse
