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Losing 13,000 people a year

Posted by: karen in hope, consequences on Jan 12, 2009

That's how many people we lose each year to traffic accidents involving alcohol. Some of those people will be great people, valuable people, people who were not themselves at fault. People who were in the wrong place at the wrong time. What could we do with these 13,000 people who died needlessly? Could we have more good teachers? More volunteers? More good fathers, fewer kids losing their

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Treating the body, mind, spirit

Posted by: karen in rehab, recovery on Jan 12, 2009

I don't think that a rehab can work unless it is theraputic to all three areas. Of course the body should be cleansed of old drugs and residues that keep a person from recovering. But many programs never do this. They actually give more drugs. Of course a person should be able to experience counseling that provides relief from past bad deeds that resulted in guilt. Cravings, guilt and depression

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Adding insult to injury, prescription drugs that are addictive

Posted by: karen in rehab, recovery, family, consequences on Jan 12, 2009

It's bad enough that there are plant and chemical substances that are used as drugs, destroy people's lives and harm health and one's very ability to live. There also have to be pharmaceutical companies that develop more addictive substances and make them legal so they are in circulation in society. Then they promote them to doctors, concealing their addictiveness. Then they take a further step

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Paying the price

Posted by: karen in consequences on Jan 12, 2009

I was never an addict but I did use drugs back in the day. I think that part of the mentality of using drugs, whether you are addicted or not, is that you think you can get by without paying the price for something you do that is dangerous, damaging, neglectful of responsibilities. But it is never true. That price is exacted. It may only come out in your own decline of happiness but it is paid.

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It's all about your choices

Posted by: karen in hope, goals, drunk driving on Jan 12, 2009

A young man I know just flipped his truck while having a blood alcohol level way over the legal limit. He hurt a young girl in the process. It's all about your choices. Your choice to drink. Your choice to drive. Your choice to get distracted, to swerve then overcompensate. Your choice to be in no shape to drive but to drive anyway. Your choice to have a beautiful young girl as a passenger. We

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Alcohol can kill; so can other drugs

Posted by: karen in drug treatment center, drug rehab, alcoholism on Jan 12, 2009

You might not even believe that it could happen except that it happens every day. People will take a toxic substance into their body for the brief good feeling it gives them, but there is a risk of death. Some people will die, from heroin, cocaine, Ecstasy, alcohol intoxication, prescription drug abuse. The body can tolerate an amazing amount of abuse but sometimes there is a weakness in the body

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Reaching out

Posted by: karen in family on Jan 12, 2009

I've been working at a rehab for about two years. People who become addicted to drugs or alcohol descend to such a terrible level. Bad health, bad relationships, destroyed finances, a past they don't want to remember and a future without hope. The ability to get help, a rehab that really helps bring about sobriety is one of the greatest gifts someone can get. When a family reaches out to someone

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Getting help -- when?

Posted by: karen in Untagged  on Jan 12, 2009

If a person asks for help, when they are having trouble with drugs or alcohol, jump right then and find them rehab! Addicts are notorious for not wanting help but that is the nature of addiction. Cruelly, addiction hides itself, hides the real problems being created by being addicted. However, it is not necessary to wait for the person to hit bottom, as some people think, before they will get

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Addicts and their future

Posted by: karen in drug rehab, alcohol rehab on Jan 07, 2009

When a person is addicted, there is no future. There is only keeping withdrawal symptoms at bay, or chasing that next high. When they are addicted, the use of drugs or alcohol seems to them to be the thing that makes them feel normal. It's hard for a person who has never been addicted to understand thoroughly. It's the only way they feel normal, it's as important to them as breathing or eating if

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While they want help

Posted by: karen in recovery, intervention, alcoholism on Jan 07, 2009

Sometimes people contact the drug rehab where I work to get help for a family member and they say, "I need to get him somewhere while they want help." They see this little window which doesn't open very often, where their loved one says they want help. Actually, interventionists that are good at what they do mean that a family doesn't always have to wait for this window. The skill they bring to

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