Thursday, October 2, 2008
Addiction is becoming an epidimic in the US
Anyone who has been around an addict knows this fact: the addict is not the only one suffering. The families, the employers, teachers and friends of the addict suffer too. Addiction in the US is a problem that we need to face immediately. Our citizens are losing their families, jobs, and homes due to addiction. There are rehabs pooping up all over the United States but their success rates are so low that people are ending up having to try to receive treatment multiple times or not at all. Instead of having a new rehab open everyday shouldn't we join forces and have a few rehabs that are really effective?
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Epidemic. It destroys relationships and jobs. Well, it's better to have lesser centers that are affective than to have many that you don't know if they can really help.
-mike u.
The best solution regarding drug addiction treatment is to be with their families, the person needs hope and inspiration in order to recover from his addiction and he also needs a quiet place which is away from the city where drug influence is strong.
There are some good centers out there. The key is that there isn’t some quick fix. It takes time to recover from and addition. I found this really awesome video about someone’s recovery from addiction after being in and out of a lot of treatment centers- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-u46cAHmKzw.
A lot of people don’t think of alcoholism as a disease, but it is, and it affects millions of people each year. It is also becoming more and more prevalent on college campuses where kids binge drink several nights a week. After doing some research I’ve found that Silver Hill Hospital, a substance abuse and psychiatric hospital, has some really good treatment options for adolescents and adults suffering from this and other terrible addictions.
Childhood risk factors for adolescent drug and alcohol abuse are reviewed.
Childhood personality manifesting the difficult child syndrome and psychopathological features of hyperactivity and antisocial traits are predictive of later substance abuse, especially when these traits persist into adolescence.
Key interpersonal risk factors include family mismanagement, parental substance use, low academic performance and commitment, and association with substance-using peers.
A schema outlines postulated predictive paths of substance use that are comprised of various risk factors.
The source of origin, time of emergence, and quantity of risk factors are proposed to account for differing levels of substance involvement.
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