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Weird question - liquid diets vs. less food, more exercise!
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Ok - I have a dilemma I hope you can solve for me! :-) I have been doing a liquid diet (hmr - the same as medifast or optifast, all protein shakes) for about a month. I have lost a lot of weight and love that. I still have about 45 pounds to lose. hmr and all other liquid diets tell you to obtain your goal weight before reintroducing food. But I just don't think staying on all liquids for another few months is healthy. I also think I will have gross hanging skin because although I do walk, I can ...
drug vocabulary
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Dear experts, my dictionaries do not help me in this specific case: I am looking for a word/phrase that describes a social (?) institution to help/advise/guide/councel drug addicts. Is there something like a drug counceling/advice center? Thanks for your suggestions, Mike -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ majae...@foni.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Anti-depressants for chronic pain?
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Does anyone here take anti-depressants (or can point me to studies) for chronic pain? Any AD's that are not tricyclics? Has anyone tried, for example, Effexor? My psychiatrist told me there is evidence it's good for pain. Has anyone tried Prozac for pain? Does anyone know of studies that compare various anti-depressants and their effects on pain? I know, a lot of questions, sorry. I'm back on the neurontin and having trouble with the addled brain thing. It isn't tired; it's really brain-not-work ...
Rosie is a Lying FRAUD
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From: "rosie readandpost" <readandpostREM...@yahoo.com> Newsgroups: alt.support.stop-smoking NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 08:34:19 CST as an addiction counselor, i no longer feel like a FRAUD! -- read and post daily, it works! rosie ************************************ From: "rosie@readandpost" <readandp...@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: whats your job? NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 08:32:42 CDT Newsgroups: alt.fashion i am a retired ICCU/ER nurse and now am ...
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Does Treatment Work? - ONDCP Agonist Maintenance Treatment for opiate addicts usually is conducted in outpatient settings, often called methadone treatment programs. These programs use a long-acting synthetic opiate medication, usually methadone or LAAM, administered orally for a sustained period at a dosage sufficient to prevent opiate withdrawal, block the effects of illicit opiate use, and decrease opiate craving. Patients stabilized on adequate, sustained dosages of methadone or LAAM can function normally. They can hold jobs, avoid the crime and violence of the street culture, and reduce their exposure ...
Narcotic Antagonist Treatment Using Naltrexone for opiate addicts usually is conducted in outpatient settings although initiation of the medication often begins after medical detoxification in a residential setting. Naltrexone is a long-acting synthetic opiate antagonist with few side effects that is taken orally either daily or three times a week for a sustained period of time. Individuals must be medically detoxified and opiate-free for several days before naltrexone can be taken to prevent precipitating an opiate abstinence syndrome. When used this way, all the effects ...
Residential Drug Treatment Programs and Residential Treatment Youth Care of Utah offers a continuum of care for adolescents ages 11-18 who are experiencing emotional or behavioral problems including depression and thought disorders, Reactive Attachment Disorder, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, and/or drug and alcohol abuse. We offer residential treatment programs including dual diagnosis treating a combination of several mental health and/or substance abuse issues. LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa - Substance abuse is a family issue, even if what makes the news is celebrities going it alone. Actress Lindsay Lohan might not have to worry about keeping a family together while dealing with her addiction, but that isn't the case for many people who need help, such as the 928,000 Pennsylvanians who abused controlled substances in 2005, according to estimates by the Substance Abuse ...
Fighting addiction is a struggle at any price The physical part includes detox -- five to seven days for a heavy user during which the body rids itself of alcohol or heroin and other opiates. It's done in a hospital under a doctor's constant care, sometimes using sedatives for alcohol or methadone for heroin -- because acute withdrawal can cause delirium, rapid heart rate, spiking blood pressure, seizures, even stroke, Lerner says. And even after physical withdrawal is complete, psychological withdrawal remains.
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Iowa woman pleads to get into overcrowded jail While rehab centers appear to be paying increased attention to nicotine addiction, there are still not many options for people like Jodi Perkins, who feel they need to literally be locked down in order to kick the deadly habit. For the past year, the Caron Treatment Center in Pennsylvania has made nicotine cessation a requirement for the adolescent drug or alcohol inpatient treatment program, which includes patients from 12 and 19. A spokeswoman for the facility said that Caron is aiming to make their entire campus smoke-free within a year. ...
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Sexy Girlz in Action Yeah! Morphine Addiction Morphine addiction is a very serious and sometimes life threatening dilemma. Not only is it difficult for the addict, it is extremely hard on those around them who care about them. For the addict, admitting they have an addiction problem can be difficult. However painful this may be, it must be acknowledged as the first gradient to overcoming the problem. The next hurdle is being willing to seek & accept help from an addiction professional. It can be hard for an addict to confront the fact that they can not do it alone. Once this fact is accepted, it is time ...
Rehab Centers 03.21.07 Rehab Centers Posted in Drug Rehab In Malibu , Drug Rehab , Rehab Centers at 6:39 pm by admin Each year, more than 500,000 deaths - or over one in four - in the United States are attributable to abuse of alcohol, tobacco or other drugs. There are many types of rehab centers available to the recovering addict today. It’s important to remember that drug addiction recovery is a long-term process. Abstinence from all drugs takes a strong commitment from the addict and a reliable support system. That support ...
test Drug Alcohol Treatment Rehabilitation Center - Call for help . Drug Rehab - Alcohol Rehab ilitation - Passages Addiction Treatment. In many ways a lot of the issues they face are the same as most other rehab s dealing with addictive behavior. Lakeview Health Systems has been the addiction treatment center and alcohol rehab of choice for thousands of addicts and alcoholics throughout the United States. - Since 1983, Sierra Tucson has grown from a drug rehab center to a comprehensive inpatient treatment facility. Our patients are helped to refocus ...
What Does Recovery Mean? In the addiction counseling world, "recovery" is the word most often associated with successful treatment. But we also hear that someone has "recovered" from alcoholism or that someone has just entered a "recovery program" for drug addiction. Those "in recovery" often refer to themselves as "recovering" from their addiction. So what do these variations on the word "recovery" really mean? In Alcoholics Anonymous (published in 1939 and known as "The Big Book"), the word "recovered" refers to an AA promise: If a person applies the principles of the program, the desire to drink will ...
1 comments: Thomas A. McDaniel said... I was glad to encounter this great and greatly needed blog. I find it curious that there hasn't been a lot more comment. "Recovery" is kind of a misnomer with regard to addiction, isn't it? One doesn't really recover from diabetes or COPD, one manages those health conditions. Still, the word is too much in all the literature now to hope for any improvement in verbal accuracy. It's bad enough trying to define "alcoholism." And how about poor alcohol, with all those people who abuse it? Anyway, I wanted to comment about ...