Underage alcohol use is a sweeping problem with serious health and safety repercussions for the Nation. A substantial number of young people begin drinking before the age of 13, which frequently results in alcohol abuse or dependence. The highest prevalence of alcohol dependence is among people ages 18-20. The conclusion being that the impetus is on parents and people in the community to educate

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 The prospect of seeking treatment for your addiction can be daunting. You can never know what to expect. However, many people get help for their addictions everyday and the following is a success story from one such person that I hope will inspire others to make a change in their life and get the help they need:

"I feel like a new person today, then when I first arrived. My thinking has changed

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Alcohol is ranked much more harmful than the Class A drug Ecstasy in a new classification system proposed by a team of leading scientists.  The team identified three main factors that together determine the harm associated with any drug  of potential  abuse: the physical harm to the individual user caused by the drug; the tendency of the drug to induce dependence and addiction; and the effect of

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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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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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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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So many people want help... I see the emails that come in to the rehab center where I work. So many people say I'm tired of this lifestyle, I want to stop using. I want to stop drinking. I want my family back. I want my happiness back. And it's tragic to think that many of those people won't get help. Real help can come from many places but some programs are better and more successful than

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It tends to not be noticeable when someone has a drinking problem unless you are close to them. Unless you get abused by them. Unless you need to rely on them to support your business with their production. But a person who gets a little sloppy on a regular basis may not be noticed. Unless they kill someone in an auto accident. Unless they go to jail for drunk driving. It's culturally acceptable

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Lucille was an elderly woman who came to the rehab where I work. She was 73 years old. I admired her greatly for taking on rehab in a center where many of the people were quite young. And I admired her for being willing to get her life together at no matter what age. She gamely did the entire program. At one point she got the flu real bad and she was out of sight for a couple of weeks. She

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One of the worst parts of addiction is the fact that is rather conceals itself. A person can be so convinced that it's necessary for them to continue to use their drug or alcohol of choice that life's meaning becomes getting more of your drug or kind of alcohol. And since they only feel normal when they have achieved their usual high, it's valuable to them to continue to get that high so they can

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