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Finding Effective Drug Addiction Treatment – A guide to finding the right treatment from the Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration.
Seeking Drug Abuse Treatment: Know What to Ask – Information & guidance to help those in search of effective drug abuse treatment from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Medline Plus Guide to Substance Abuse – Trusted information on drugs and substance abuse from the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
The Partnership at DrugFree.org – Drug abuse prevention, intervention, treatment and recovery resources.
Mayo Clinic on Drug Addiction – Signs, symptoms, causes and treatment for drug addiction and substance abuse related problems.
The Science Behind Drug Abuse & Addiction – NIDA on the science of drug abuse and what causes addiction.
NIDA for Teens – Facts, support, intervention and scientific research behind drug abuse and addiction in teens.
Center for Substance Abuse Treatment – Support, treatment and information for those suffering from substance abuse and addiction.
Assessment Tools – Drug addiction assessment and review tools for treatment providers.
Narcotics Anonymous – Help for those suffering from addiction to narcotics, NA is free to join and support groups can be found around the world.
Cocaine Anonymous – CA support groups offer a helping hand to those in recovery from cocaine addiction. Members follow twelve steps and support one another through recovery.
Crystal Meth Anonymous – A fellowship of men and women who support one another through recovery from crystal meth addiction.
Marijuana Anonymous – A support group where men and women share their strength, experience and hope in recovery from marijuana addiction.
Narconon – Support for those suffering from drug addiction and for the family members of addicts.
The Obama administration tells federal authorities not to prosecute users and suppliers following state laws, reversing Bush’s position. The Obama administration on Monday told federal authorities not to arrest or prosecute medical marijuana users and suppliers who aren’t violating local laws, paving the way for some states to allow dispensaries to provide the drug as….
Treating heroin addicts by giving them heroin might seem counterintuitive. But for some of the most hardened addicts, administering heroin in supervised clinics may just do the trick where detox and methadone have failed. Following the lead of Switzerland and a handful of other countries, Britain recently concluded a four-year trial in which longtime addicts….
One hundred years ago, the US convened the International Opium Conference. This meeting of 13 nations in Shanghai was the beginning of global drug prohibition. Prohibition slowly became one of the most universally applied policies in the world. But a century on, international support for this blanket drug policy is slowly but inexorably unravelling. In….
GARRISON, N.Y. — It was shortly after 8 a.m. on a sun-drenched July day in this idyllic hamlet 50 miles north of Manhattan, and a hulk of a man named Venice Crafton was lumbering between beds of arugula, leaving outsize footprints in his wake. Mr. Crafton is 6-foot-2 ½ inches, 241 pounds and missing his….
A study published this week in the open access journal PLoS Medicine demonstrates that there is an association between schizophrenia and violence, but shows that this association is greatly increased by drug and alcohol abuse. Importantly, the study also finds that the risk of violence from patients with psychoses who also have substance use disorder….
When Luis Carino was sober, his friends said he was a thoughtful guy. He painted and fixed things and did odd jobs for people in the neighborhood where he used to live. But when he drank beer, which friends said was often, it was a different story. Carino, 52, who had a history of battery,….
Amina is 35 years old. She is married and has six children. She is also addicted to heroin. A housewife from Herat Province in Afghanistan, Amina started using drugs at the age of 10, when she was working as a carpet weaver. The job was strenuous and her workmates advised her to use opium to….
What happened to Michael Jackson was heartbreaking. I think that he was frightened all his life and took prescription drugs to deal with it. I did the same. I was addicted to an anti-anxiety drug — as was Jackson, reportedly — and they can be more addictive and harder to come off than heroin. Why….
Medicines are supposed to save lives, but as with all things that are not used responsibly, they end up killing people more often than not when they are abused. It’s not just illegal drugs that kill; even the ones that are prescribed have the potential to become dangerous when they are not used as they….
Factors that affect suicide rates include drug addiction and alcohol abuse. Studies also shows that being male, or part of a minority group, affects the incidence of suicide. New data from the CDC’s Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report shows that interventional programs should focus on alcohol treatment and rehabilitation to reduce the risk of suicide….
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