Prescription Drugs More Deadly Than Cocaine, Heroin, Amphetamines Tuesday, September 02, 2008 by: Sherry Baker, Health Sciences EditorSee all articles by this authorEmail this author
NaturalNews) When handsome and talented young actor Heath Ledger died last winter, the New York City medical examiner's autopsy report revealed his death was due to an unintentional life-ending cocktail of prescription drugs, including anti-anxiety medications Alprazolam (Xanax), Diazepam (Valium) and Lorazepam (Ativan), the sleeping pill Zopiclone (Lunesta) and the sedative Temazepam (Restoril), which is also used for insomnia.So this was just one of those rare tragedies that mostly happens to troubled or hard living Hollywood stars, right? Wrong. Unfortunately, people from all walks of life are dying by the thousands across the U.S. due to prescription drugs. And a new study, Florida’s annual report on Drugs Identified in Deceased Persons, dramatically illustrates this truth.Relying on autopsies performed in 2007, the state report concludes prescription drugs (anti-anxiety benzodiazepines, the muscle relaxer carisoprodol and all opioids, excluding heroin) continue to be found in both lethal and non-lethal amounts in the dead far more often than illicit drugs.The bottom line: the rate of deaths in Florida caused by prescription drugs is over three times as high as the rate of deaths caused by all illicit drugs combined.The study shows 2,328 Floridians died of opiate, or painkiller, overdoses while another 743 lost their lives from over-consuming benzodiazepines, which include the drugs Valium and Xanax. On the other hand, about a third less number of people, 989, died of overdoses from illegal drugs like cocaine, heroin, or methamphetamine (“speed”).In a statement for the press, Bill James, Director of Florida’s Office of Drug Control, said: “Prescription drugs are not safe and must be secured. Doctors and pharmacists must help law enforcement identify and stop doctor shoppers. We are also looking for ways to curb illegal internet sales. Only through a comprehensive, coordinated strategy will we be able to reverse this tragic, unacceptable trend."That’s a nice goal and it is true some people abuse prescription drugs. However, the Drug Enforcement Administration states as many as 7 million Americans are abusing prescription medication -- far more people than those using cocaine, heroin, hallucinogens, Ecstasy and inhalants combined.And the truth is, even when legal medications are taken as prescribed, they are too often dangerous and even deadly. In fact, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), an estimated 1.9 million adverse drug reactions occur each year, and up to 180,000 of them could be life threatening or even fatal.The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released data showing that at least half of all Americans take one prescription drug and one in six of us takes three or even more prescribed medications. And this love affair with pharmaceuticals for health problems is no doubt why prescription drug deaths are now the fourth leading cause of death in the United States, after heart disease, cancer and stroke.
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Relapse Prevention
Scientifically Based Approaches to Drug Addiction Treatment
This section presents several examples of treatment approaches and components that have been developed and tested for efficacy through research supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). Each approach is designed to address certain aspects of drug addiction and its consequences for the individual, family, and society. The approaches are to be used to supplement or enhanceÑnot replaceÑexisting treatment programs.
This section is not a complete list of efficacious, scientifically based treatment approaches. Additional approaches are under development as part of NIDA's continuing support of treatment research.
Relapse Prevention, a cognitive-behavioral therapy, was developed for the treatment of problem drinking and adapted later for cocaine addicts. Cognitive-behavioral strategies are based on the theory that learning processes play a critical role in the development of maladaptive behavioral patterns. Individuals learn to identify and correct problematic behaviors. Relapse prevention encompasses several cognitive-behavioral strategies that facilitate abstinence as well as provide help for people who experience relapse.
The relapse prevention approach to the treatment of cocaine addiction consists of a collection of strategies intended to enhance self-control. Specific techniques include exploring the positive and negative consequences of continued use, self-monitoring to recognize drug cravings early on and to identify high-risk situations for use, and developing strategies for coping with and avoiding high-risk situations and the desire to use. A central element of this treatment is anticipating the problems patients are likely to meet and helping them develop effective coping strategies.
Research indicates that the skills individuals learn through relapse prevention therapy remain after the completion of treatment. In one study, most people receiving this cognitive-behavioral approach maintained the gains they made in treatment throughout the year following treatment.
References:
Carroll, K.; Rounsaville, B.; and Keller, D. Relapse prevention strategies for the treatment of cocaine abuse. American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse 17(3): 249-265, 1991.
Carroll, K.; Rounsaville, B.; Nich, C.; Gordon, L.; Wirtz, P.; and Gawin, F. One-year follow-up of psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy for cocaine dependence: delayed emergence of psychotherapy effects. Archives of General Psychiatry 51: 989-997, 1994.
Marlatt, G. and Gordon, J.R., eds. Relapse Prevention: Maintenance Strategies in the Treatment of Addictive Behaviors. New York: Guilford Press, 1985.
This section presents several examples of treatment approaches and components that have been developed and tested for efficacy through research supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). Each approach is designed to address certain aspects of drug addiction and its consequences for the individual, family, and society. The approaches are to be used to supplement or enhanceÑnot replaceÑexisting treatment programs.
This section is not a complete list of efficacious, scientifically based treatment approaches. Additional approaches are under development as part of NIDA's continuing support of treatment research.
Relapse Prevention, a cognitive-behavioral therapy, was developed for the treatment of problem drinking and adapted later for cocaine addicts. Cognitive-behavioral strategies are based on the theory that learning processes play a critical role in the development of maladaptive behavioral patterns. Individuals learn to identify and correct problematic behaviors. Relapse prevention encompasses several cognitive-behavioral strategies that facilitate abstinence as well as provide help for people who experience relapse.
The relapse prevention approach to the treatment of cocaine addiction consists of a collection of strategies intended to enhance self-control. Specific techniques include exploring the positive and negative consequences of continued use, self-monitoring to recognize drug cravings early on and to identify high-risk situations for use, and developing strategies for coping with and avoiding high-risk situations and the desire to use. A central element of this treatment is anticipating the problems patients are likely to meet and helping them develop effective coping strategies.
Research indicates that the skills individuals learn through relapse prevention therapy remain after the completion of treatment. In one study, most people receiving this cognitive-behavioral approach maintained the gains they made in treatment throughout the year following treatment.
References:
Carroll, K.; Rounsaville, B.; and Keller, D. Relapse prevention strategies for the treatment of cocaine abuse. American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse 17(3): 249-265, 1991.
Carroll, K.; Rounsaville, B.; Nich, C.; Gordon, L.; Wirtz, P.; and Gawin, F. One-year follow-up of psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy for cocaine dependence: delayed emergence of psychotherapy effects. Archives of General Psychiatry 51: 989-997, 1994.
Marlatt, G. and Gordon, J.R., eds. Relapse Prevention: Maintenance Strategies in the Treatment of Addictive Behaviors. New York: Guilford Press, 1985.
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Legal Drugs Kill Far More than Illegal, Florida Says
Legal Drugs Kill Far More Than Illegal, Florida Says
By DAMIEN CAVE
Published: June 14, 2008
MIAMI — From “Scarface” to “Miami Vice,” Florida’s drug problem has been portrayed as the story of a single narcotic: cocaine. But for Floridians, prescription drugs are increasingly a far more lethal habit.
An analysis of autopsies in 2007 released this week by the Florida Medical Examiners Commission found that the rate of deaths caused by prescription drugs was three times the rate of deaths caused by all illicit drugs combined.
Law enforcement officials said that the shift toward prescription-drug abuse, which began here about eight years ago, showed no sign of letting up and that the state must do more to control it.
“You have health care providers involved, you have doctor shoppers, and then there are crimes like robbing drug shipments,” said Jeff Beasley, a drug intelligence inspector for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, which co-sponsored the study. “There is a multitude of ways to get these drugs, and that’s what makes things complicated.”
The report’s findings track with similar studies by the federal Drug Enforcement Administration, which has found that roughly seven million Americans are abusing prescription drugs. If accurate, that would be an increase of 80 percent in six years and more than the total abusing cocaine, heroin, hallucinogens, Ecstasy and inhalants.
The Florida report analyzed 168,900 deaths statewide. Cocaine, heroin and all methamphetamines caused 989 deaths, it found, while legal opioids — strong painkillers in brand-name drugs like Vicodin and OxyContin — caused 2,328.
Drugs with benzodiazepine, mainly depressants like Valium and Xanax, led to 743 deaths. Alcohol was the most commonly occurring drug, appearing in the bodies of 4,179 of the dead and judged the cause of death of 466 — fewer than cocaine (843) but more than methamphetamine (25) and marijuana (0).
The study also found that while the number of people who died with heroin in their bodies increased 14 percent in 2007, to 110, deaths related to the opioid oxycodone increased 36 percent, to 1,253.
Florida scrutinizes drug-related deaths more closely than do other states, and so there is little basis for comparison with them.
It has also witnessed several highly publicized cases in recent years that have highlighted the problem. Only last year, an accidental prescription drug overdose killed Anna Nicole Smith in Broward County.
Still, the state has lagged in enforcement. Thirty-eight other states have approved prescription drug monitoring programs that track sales. Florida lawmakers have repeatedly considered similar legislation, but privacy concerns have kept it from passing.
As a result, federal, state and local law enforcement officials say, Florida has become a source of prescription drugs that are illegally sold across the country.
“The monitoring plan is our priority effort, but that is not enough,” William H. Janes, the Florida director of drug control, said in a statement accompanying the study. He said Florida was also looking at ways to curb illegal Internet sales and to encourage doctors and pharmacists to identify potential abusers.
Some local police departments have taken a more novel approach.
In Broward County on May 31, deputies completed a “drug takeback” in which $5 Wal-Mart, CVS or Walgreens gift cards were distributed to 150 people who cleaned out their medicine cabinets and turned in unused drugs in an effort to keep them out of young people’s hands.
“The abuse has reached epidemic proportions,” said Lisa McElhaney, a sergeant in the pharmaceutical drug diversion unit of the Broward County Sheriff’s Office. “It’s just explosive.”
By DAMIEN CAVE
Published: June 14, 2008
MIAMI — From “Scarface” to “Miami Vice,” Florida’s drug problem has been portrayed as the story of a single narcotic: cocaine. But for Floridians, prescription drugs are increasingly a far more lethal habit.
An analysis of autopsies in 2007 released this week by the Florida Medical Examiners Commission found that the rate of deaths caused by prescription drugs was three times the rate of deaths caused by all illicit drugs combined.
Law enforcement officials said that the shift toward prescription-drug abuse, which began here about eight years ago, showed no sign of letting up and that the state must do more to control it.
“You have health care providers involved, you have doctor shoppers, and then there are crimes like robbing drug shipments,” said Jeff Beasley, a drug intelligence inspector for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, which co-sponsored the study. “There is a multitude of ways to get these drugs, and that’s what makes things complicated.”
The report’s findings track with similar studies by the federal Drug Enforcement Administration, which has found that roughly seven million Americans are abusing prescription drugs. If accurate, that would be an increase of 80 percent in six years and more than the total abusing cocaine, heroin, hallucinogens, Ecstasy and inhalants.
The Florida report analyzed 168,900 deaths statewide. Cocaine, heroin and all methamphetamines caused 989 deaths, it found, while legal opioids — strong painkillers in brand-name drugs like Vicodin and OxyContin — caused 2,328.
Drugs with benzodiazepine, mainly depressants like Valium and Xanax, led to 743 deaths. Alcohol was the most commonly occurring drug, appearing in the bodies of 4,179 of the dead and judged the cause of death of 466 — fewer than cocaine (843) but more than methamphetamine (25) and marijuana (0).
The study also found that while the number of people who died with heroin in their bodies increased 14 percent in 2007, to 110, deaths related to the opioid oxycodone increased 36 percent, to 1,253.
Florida scrutinizes drug-related deaths more closely than do other states, and so there is little basis for comparison with them.
It has also witnessed several highly publicized cases in recent years that have highlighted the problem. Only last year, an accidental prescription drug overdose killed Anna Nicole Smith in Broward County.
Still, the state has lagged in enforcement. Thirty-eight other states have approved prescription drug monitoring programs that track sales. Florida lawmakers have repeatedly considered similar legislation, but privacy concerns have kept it from passing.
As a result, federal, state and local law enforcement officials say, Florida has become a source of prescription drugs that are illegally sold across the country.
“The monitoring plan is our priority effort, but that is not enough,” William H. Janes, the Florida director of drug control, said in a statement accompanying the study. He said Florida was also looking at ways to curb illegal Internet sales and to encourage doctors and pharmacists to identify potential abusers.
Some local police departments have taken a more novel approach.
In Broward County on May 31, deputies completed a “drug takeback” in which $5 Wal-Mart, CVS or Walgreens gift cards were distributed to 150 people who cleaned out their medicine cabinets and turned in unused drugs in an effort to keep them out of young people’s hands.
“The abuse has reached epidemic proportions,” said Lisa McElhaney, a sergeant in the pharmaceutical drug diversion unit of the Broward County Sheriff’s Office. “It’s just explosive.”
Legal Drugs Kill Far More than Illegal, Florida Says
Legal Drugs Kill Far More Than Illegal, Florida Says
By DAMIEN CAVE
Published: June 14, 2008
MIAMI — From “Scarface” to “Miami Vice,” Florida’s drug problem has been portrayed as the story of a single narcotic: cocaine. But for Floridians, prescription drugs are increasingly a far more lethal habit.
An analysis of autopsies in 2007 released this week by the Florida Medical Examiners Commission found that the rate of deaths caused by prescription drugs was three times the rate of deaths caused by all illicit drugs combined.
Law enforcement officials said that the shift toward prescription-drug abuse, which began here about eight years ago, showed no sign of letting up and that the state must do more to control it.
“You have health care providers involved, you have doctor shoppers, and then there are crimes like robbing drug shipments,” said Jeff Beasley, a drug intelligence inspector for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, which co-sponsored the study. “There is a multitude of ways to get these drugs, and that’s what makes things complicated.”
The report’s findings track with similar studies by the federal Drug Enforcement Administration, which has found that roughly seven million Americans are abusing prescription drugs. If accurate, that would be an increase of 80 percent in six years and more than the total abusing cocaine, heroin, hallucinogens, Ecstasy and inhalants.
The Florida report analyzed 168,900 deaths statewide. Cocaine, heroin and all methamphetamines caused 989 deaths, it found, while legal opioids — strong painkillers in brand-name drugs like Vicodin and OxyContin — caused 2,328.
Drugs with benzodiazepine, mainly depressants like Valium and Xanax, led to 743 deaths. Alcohol was the most commonly occurring drug, appearing in the bodies of 4,179 of the dead and judged the cause of death of 466 — fewer than cocaine (843) but more than methamphetamine (25) and marijuana (0).
The study also found that while the number of people who died with heroin in their bodies increased 14 percent in 2007, to 110, deaths related to the opioid oxycodone increased 36 percent, to 1,253.
Florida scrutinizes drug-related deaths more closely than do other states, and so there is little basis for comparison with them.
It has also witnessed several highly publicized cases in recent years that have highlighted the problem. Only last year, an accidental prescription drug overdose killed Anna Nicole Smith in Broward County.
Still, the state has lagged in enforcement. Thirty-eight other states have approved prescription drug monitoring programs that track sales. Florida lawmakers have repeatedly considered similar legislation, but privacy concerns have kept it from passing.
As a result, federal, state and local law enforcement officials say, Florida has become a source of prescription drugs that are illegally sold across the country.
“The monitoring plan is our priority effort, but that is not enough,” William H. Janes, the Florida director of drug control, said in a statement accompanying the study. He said Florida was also looking at ways to curb illegal Internet sales and to encourage doctors and pharmacists to identify potential abusers.
Some local police departments have taken a more novel approach.
In Broward County on May 31, deputies completed a “drug takeback” in which $5 Wal-Mart, CVS or Walgreens gift cards were distributed to 150 people who cleaned out their medicine cabinets and turned in unused drugs in an effort to keep them out of young people’s hands.
“The abuse has reached epidemic proportions,” said Lisa McElhaney, a sergeant in the pharmaceutical drug diversion unit of the Broward County Sheriff’s Office. “It’s just explosive.”
By DAMIEN CAVE
Published: June 14, 2008
MIAMI — From “Scarface” to “Miami Vice,” Florida’s drug problem has been portrayed as the story of a single narcotic: cocaine. But for Floridians, prescription drugs are increasingly a far more lethal habit.
An analysis of autopsies in 2007 released this week by the Florida Medical Examiners Commission found that the rate of deaths caused by prescription drugs was three times the rate of deaths caused by all illicit drugs combined.
Law enforcement officials said that the shift toward prescription-drug abuse, which began here about eight years ago, showed no sign of letting up and that the state must do more to control it.
“You have health care providers involved, you have doctor shoppers, and then there are crimes like robbing drug shipments,” said Jeff Beasley, a drug intelligence inspector for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, which co-sponsored the study. “There is a multitude of ways to get these drugs, and that’s what makes things complicated.”
The report’s findings track with similar studies by the federal Drug Enforcement Administration, which has found that roughly seven million Americans are abusing prescription drugs. If accurate, that would be an increase of 80 percent in six years and more than the total abusing cocaine, heroin, hallucinogens, Ecstasy and inhalants.
The Florida report analyzed 168,900 deaths statewide. Cocaine, heroin and all methamphetamines caused 989 deaths, it found, while legal opioids — strong painkillers in brand-name drugs like Vicodin and OxyContin — caused 2,328.
Drugs with benzodiazepine, mainly depressants like Valium and Xanax, led to 743 deaths. Alcohol was the most commonly occurring drug, appearing in the bodies of 4,179 of the dead and judged the cause of death of 466 — fewer than cocaine (843) but more than methamphetamine (25) and marijuana (0).
The study also found that while the number of people who died with heroin in their bodies increased 14 percent in 2007, to 110, deaths related to the opioid oxycodone increased 36 percent, to 1,253.
Florida scrutinizes drug-related deaths more closely than do other states, and so there is little basis for comparison with them.
It has also witnessed several highly publicized cases in recent years that have highlighted the problem. Only last year, an accidental prescription drug overdose killed Anna Nicole Smith in Broward County.
Still, the state has lagged in enforcement. Thirty-eight other states have approved prescription drug monitoring programs that track sales. Florida lawmakers have repeatedly considered similar legislation, but privacy concerns have kept it from passing.
As a result, federal, state and local law enforcement officials say, Florida has become a source of prescription drugs that are illegally sold across the country.
“The monitoring plan is our priority effort, but that is not enough,” William H. Janes, the Florida director of drug control, said in a statement accompanying the study. He said Florida was also looking at ways to curb illegal Internet sales and to encourage doctors and pharmacists to identify potential abusers.
Some local police departments have taken a more novel approach.
In Broward County on May 31, deputies completed a “drug takeback” in which $5 Wal-Mart, CVS or Walgreens gift cards were distributed to 150 people who cleaned out their medicine cabinets and turned in unused drugs in an effort to keep them out of young people’s hands.
“The abuse has reached epidemic proportions,” said Lisa McElhaney, a sergeant in the pharmaceutical drug diversion unit of the Broward County Sheriff’s Office. “It’s just explosive.”
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Heroin Hits the Suburbs Hard Amid Wave of Drug Abuse by Teens and 20-Somethings
Heroin Hits the Suburbs Hard Amid Wave of Drug Abuse by Teens and 20-Somethings
By Jessica Calefati
Posted December 5, 2008
When the vomiting, tremors, and chills she felt each morning became overwhelming, Jessica Polmann started selling her body to finance her heroin addiction and halt the debilitating physical symptoms of withdrawal. The petite, blond cheerleader, who made the honor roll before she started doing heroin at age 13, received $60 and some cigarettes each time she had sex with a man in his 50s who lived near her suburban New Jersey home. Jessica also traded sex for drugs with her dealers and male friends if they had extra bags of dope.
Addicted to Heroin at 13: Jessica Polmann
Drug Abuse's Young Face: Kristen, 18
Heroin Abuse's Young Face: Sean O'Conner, 19
She even introduced her friends and boyfriend to heroin to expand the pool of people she could call on to pick up more drugs. "I was," she says now, "really disgusting."
Polmann, now 18, is just one in a wave of teens and 20-somethings in suburbs across the Northeast who are becoming addicted to and dying from abuse of heroin and prescription opiates like OxyContin. Once prevalent mostly in big cities, heroin has been spreading out to smaller towns in New England and the mid-Atlantic as the drug is becoming more widely available in a highly pure, inexpensive form that can be snorted. Many of these young addicts get started on prescription drugs, move on to cheap heroin that can be snorted, and end up injecting it for a more potent high. Either way, the effects have been deadly. In Massachusetts, for example, the number of opiate-related deaths, which include overdoses and fatal drug interactions, among people ages 13 to 30 was five times as great in 2006 as it was in 1997. And according to drug intelligence, law enforcement, and treatment officials at both the federal and state level, the trend has not yet shown signs of reversing or slowing down
By Jessica Calefati
Posted December 5, 2008
When the vomiting, tremors, and chills she felt each morning became overwhelming, Jessica Polmann started selling her body to finance her heroin addiction and halt the debilitating physical symptoms of withdrawal. The petite, blond cheerleader, who made the honor roll before she started doing heroin at age 13, received $60 and some cigarettes each time she had sex with a man in his 50s who lived near her suburban New Jersey home. Jessica also traded sex for drugs with her dealers and male friends if they had extra bags of dope.
Addicted to Heroin at 13: Jessica Polmann
Drug Abuse's Young Face: Kristen, 18
Heroin Abuse's Young Face: Sean O'Conner, 19
She even introduced her friends and boyfriend to heroin to expand the pool of people she could call on to pick up more drugs. "I was," she says now, "really disgusting."
Polmann, now 18, is just one in a wave of teens and 20-somethings in suburbs across the Northeast who are becoming addicted to and dying from abuse of heroin and prescription opiates like OxyContin. Once prevalent mostly in big cities, heroin has been spreading out to smaller towns in New England and the mid-Atlantic as the drug is becoming more widely available in a highly pure, inexpensive form that can be snorted. Many of these young addicts get started on prescription drugs, move on to cheap heroin that can be snorted, and end up injecting it for a more potent high. Either way, the effects have been deadly. In Massachusetts, for example, the number of opiate-related deaths, which include overdoses and fatal drug interactions, among people ages 13 to 30 was five times as great in 2006 as it was in 1997. And according to drug intelligence, law enforcement, and treatment officials at both the federal and state level, the trend has not yet shown signs of reversing or slowing down
Monday, December 15, 2008
How is Cocaine Abused?
How is Cocaine Abused?
Three routes of administration are commonly used for cocaine: snorting, injecting, and smoking. Snorting is the process of inhaling cocaine powder through the nose, where it is absorbed into the bloodstream through the nasal tissues. Injecting is the use of a needle to release the drug directly into the bloodstream. Smoking involves inhaling cocaine vapor or smoke into the lungs, where absorption into the bloodstream is as rapid as by injection. All three methods of cocaine abuse can lead to addiction and other severe health problems, including increasing the risk of contracting HIV and infectious diseases.
The intensity and duration of cocaine’s effects, which include increased energy, reduced fatigue, and mental alertness, depend on the route of drug administration. The faster cocaine is absorbed into the bloodstream and delivered to the brain, the more intense the high. Injecting or smoking cocaine produces a quicker, stronger high than snorting. On the other hand, faster absorption usually means shorter duration of action. The high from snorting cocaine may last 15 to 30 minutes, but the high from smoking may last only 5 to 10 minutes. In order to sustain the high, a cocaine abuser has to administer the drug again. For this reason, cocaine is sometimes abused in binges—taken repeatedly within a relatively short period of time, at increasingly high doses.
Article by http://www.nida.nih.gov/Infofacts/cocaine.html
Three routes of administration are commonly used for cocaine: snorting, injecting, and smoking. Snorting is the process of inhaling cocaine powder through the nose, where it is absorbed into the bloodstream through the nasal tissues. Injecting is the use of a needle to release the drug directly into the bloodstream. Smoking involves inhaling cocaine vapor or smoke into the lungs, where absorption into the bloodstream is as rapid as by injection. All three methods of cocaine abuse can lead to addiction and other severe health problems, including increasing the risk of contracting HIV and infectious diseases.
The intensity and duration of cocaine’s effects, which include increased energy, reduced fatigue, and mental alertness, depend on the route of drug administration. The faster cocaine is absorbed into the bloodstream and delivered to the brain, the more intense the high. Injecting or smoking cocaine produces a quicker, stronger high than snorting. On the other hand, faster absorption usually means shorter duration of action. The high from snorting cocaine may last 15 to 30 minutes, but the high from smoking may last only 5 to 10 minutes. In order to sustain the high, a cocaine abuser has to administer the drug again. For this reason, cocaine is sometimes abused in binges—taken repeatedly within a relatively short period of time, at increasingly high doses.
Article by http://www.nida.nih.gov/Infofacts/cocaine.html
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Are Policies Valuable?
The Orange County Survey Showed relative consistency on the question of whether maintaining a drug-free workplace benefits company operations. Among all respondents, including those in companies without drug-free workplace policies, 71.4% said drug-free workplaces have a highly positive effect on productivity, with 80% saying they have a highly positive effect on safety.
Respondents in companies that have a drug-free workplace policy said their organization is not always particularly vocal about such policies. Only 43.8% of these respondents said their company specifics its drug-free workplace status in recruitment advertising.
Companies also showed wide differences in how they respond when a tested employee submits a positive screen. Slightly more than half of respondents in companies with drug-free workplace policies said their companies terminate the employment of workers who test positive for illicit drugs. Just under one-third said their companies refer employees testing positive for professional assistance, with about the same percentage saying their company has an EAP. The survey did not analyze responses by industry group, Brooks says.-
Article from Addiction Professional
Vol. 6, No.3By
Gary A. Enos, Editor
Thursday, November 20, 2008
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Thursday, May 22, 2008
Music & Treatment
I recently read an article about combining music and group sessions together. The concept can be truly successful in such bringing the group together to learn together and feel comfortable. The brain is a powerful part of the human body which can be triggered by sound, touch, motion, which can allow different reactions. If you have tried this in your groups please let us know. I have read where it does work in making treatment fun with education. Please leave us a comment.
Call us at 866-631-0026 KD Consulting Corporation
Call us at 866-631-0026 KD Consulting Corporation
Friday, May 16, 2008
Career Training
Have you wanted to learn about intervention and how the process works. Or need extra training hours to help you reach your certifications to become a board certified interventionist. We can help you find your path to a new future as an interventionist. You can visit our website www.kdconsulting.org to learn more about intervention training.
Thursday, May 15, 2008
We are a nationwide intervention
Please visit our website at www.kdconsulting.org to learn more about addiction click on this word addiction. We are here to help educate families and loved ones about the disease of addiction and the denial that comes along with it. We are here to support you in being strong and saying no to the disease of addiction not to your loved one. It is the hardest yet strongest part to fighting against the disease that is destroying your loved one's life. Please call us today 866-631-0026 we are here to help you find a solution.
Monday, May 5, 2008
KD Consulting Corporation
KD Consulting Corporation
Please call us to learn more about what you can do to help your loved one with a drug problem. Please contact us at 866-631-0026 if you know someone who needs help and they are in denial. You can visit our website at www.kdconsulting.org
To learn about an intervention visit www.lifelineintervention.com
Please call us to learn more about what you can do to help your loved one with a drug problem. Please contact us at 866-631-0026 if you know someone who needs help and they are in denial. You can visit our website at www.kdconsulting.org
To learn about an intervention visit www.lifelineintervention.com
Thursday, May 1, 2008
KD Consulting Corporation
KD Consulting Corporation has been truly making a difference in helping families, one family at a time. We are bringing forth a new effort to helping make a difference. KD Consulting is helping families all across the world make a difference in someone's life. Please take a moment to look at our website and leave us a comment of what you think of the website www.kdconsulting.org. Thank you for your time.
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
KD Consulting Corporation
KD Consulting Corporation has been up and running over a month now. We have been very successful in helping families get their loved ones into treatment. It was a wonderful month for KD Consulting Corporation. May 1, 2008 will be the beginning of a new month in helping families again. Please visit our website if you need help saving a loved one who has an addiction. Please call us 866-631-0026 or visit our website www.kdconsulting.org
Sunday, April 20, 2008
What is KD?
What is KD you ask,
KD stands for Kevin Dixon, founder of KD Consulting Corporation. People are a bit puzzled by what KD Consulting Corporation really is. We are a consulting corporation bridging the gap between patients, families, and treatment centers. We are putting all three components together to form one unity. For instance, the patient. The patient usually depends on the family for some support either financially, emotionally, and physically. The family depends on the addict. Sometime the family forgets the addict is an addict not the person before the drug use. Then the treatment center come in to help the family become a family. First, with the patient, then with the family all together. This is re-establishing a new bond of unity together growing together in the opposite direction. Rather than before with the drug the family grew hatred with the disease. Now in treatment is where the family is building a bond of hope in fight against the disease of addiction. Through the treatment centers they can learn a new way to communicate as family.
If you know someone who has an addiction problem and they are in need of help please visit our website www.kdconsulting.org or contact us 866-631-0026.
Jenny Sanders
KD stands for Kevin Dixon, founder of KD Consulting Corporation. People are a bit puzzled by what KD Consulting Corporation really is. We are a consulting corporation bridging the gap between patients, families, and treatment centers. We are putting all three components together to form one unity. For instance, the patient. The patient usually depends on the family for some support either financially, emotionally, and physically. The family depends on the addict. Sometime the family forgets the addict is an addict not the person before the drug use. Then the treatment center come in to help the family become a family. First, with the patient, then with the family all together. This is re-establishing a new bond of unity together growing together in the opposite direction. Rather than before with the drug the family grew hatred with the disease. Now in treatment is where the family is building a bond of hope in fight against the disease of addiction. Through the treatment centers they can learn a new way to communicate as family.
If you know someone who has an addiction problem and they are in need of help please visit our website www.kdconsulting.org or contact us 866-631-0026.
Jenny Sanders
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Please Call or Visit our website
Please visit our website www.kdconsulting.org to find our more about what you can do in helping your friend, family member that are suffering from their drug addiction. Our number is 866-631-0026.
Monday, April 14, 2008
VISIT our website
PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT www.kdconsulting.org
To LEARN MORE ABOUT AN INTERVENTION..
To LEARN MORE ABOUT AN INTERVENTION..
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Drug & Alcohol Intervention
We are a nationwide intervention company helping families who have a loved one that suffers from the disease of addiction. We can help you find a solution for your loved one. Please contact us at 866-631-0026 or visit our website www.kdconsulting.org. We are here to help you find that help you have been waiting for.
Friday, April 11, 2008
Hi everone,
This is the founder of Lifeline Intervention and KD Consulting Corporation. As we come to a close for the first week and the grand opening of the company. I wanted to thank everyone that has viewed my website and my company and commented. I look forward to helping your family and the families of the country and the world. Helping Bring Change, One family at a time. If you have not seen my website please visit www.kdconsulting.org & www.lifelineintervention.com. I created this company for affordable drug and alcohol intervention so that every family can get the help they need when their love one is in denial.
Please call us at 866-631-0026
Sincerely,
Kevin Dixon
This is the founder of Lifeline Intervention and KD Consulting Corporation. As we come to a close for the first week and the grand opening of the company. I wanted to thank everyone that has viewed my website and my company and commented. I look forward to helping your family and the families of the country and the world. Helping Bring Change, One family at a time. If you have not seen my website please visit www.kdconsulting.org & www.lifelineintervention.com. I created this company for affordable drug and alcohol intervention so that every family can get the help they need when their love one is in denial.
Please call us at 866-631-0026
Sincerely,
Kevin Dixon
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Hi everyone
Hi Everyone,
If you haven't had a chance to view my website www.kdconsulting.org or www.lifelineintervention.com. This is the first week of this new companyKD Consulting Corporation A Division of Lifelineintervention.com. I encourage you to visit our website. If you know a loved one who suffers from the disease of addiction. Please call us 866-631-0026. We are here to help you step by step in bringing a change in your life as well as the one who suffers from the disease of addiction. As we come to a close of the first week of the company's grand opening. I encourages those to view our website. There are 8.2 million people each year that don't get the help they need because they are in denial. If you know of a loved one in denial and needs help please call us. As well as review our website and leaving comments on what you thing.
"Life is an occasion rise to it."
Kevin Dixon
President & Founder
KD Consulting Corporation
If you haven't had a chance to view my website www.kdconsulting.org or www.lifelineintervention.com. This is the first week of this new companyKD Consulting Corporation A Division of Lifelineintervention.com. I encourage you to visit our website. If you know a loved one who suffers from the disease of addiction. Please call us 866-631-0026. We are here to help you step by step in bringing a change in your life as well as the one who suffers from the disease of addiction. As we come to a close of the first week of the company's grand opening. I encourages those to view our website. There are 8.2 million people each year that don't get the help they need because they are in denial. If you know of a loved one in denial and needs help please call us. As well as review our website and leaving comments on what you thing.
"Life is an occasion rise to it."
Kevin Dixon
President & Founder
KD Consulting Corporation
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
ANNOUNCEMENT KD CONSULTING CORPORATION
ANNOUNCEMENT FROM KEVIN DIXON, PRESIDENT & FOUNDER OF
KD CONSULTING CORPORATION A DIVISON OF LIFELINEINTEVENTION.COM
I wanted to personally welcome everyone to my new company called KD Consulting Corporation A Divison of Lifelineintervention.com. Being in the field for the past 15 years and opening up major treatment and running national intervention companies. I wanted this company to represent the things I have learned personally and professionally. Denial is the number symptom of the disease of addiction. In doing over 500 drug and alcohol intervention in the past 15 years, I have seen how it paralyzes families. Don't be a statstic. Please call us today at our toll-free number 866-631-0026 or visit our website http://www.kdconsulting.org/.
Also please visit our Lifeline Intervention at http://www.lifelineintervention.com/ which offers drug and alcohol intervention, crisis intervention, executive intervention, treatment options, rehabilitation, or other services.
Sincerely,
Kevin Dixon
President & Founder
KD Consulting Corporation
A Division of Lifelineintervention.com
KD CONSULTING CORPORATION A DIVISON OF LIFELINEINTEVENTION.COM
I wanted to personally welcome everyone to my new company called KD Consulting Corporation A Divison of Lifelineintervention.com. Being in the field for the past 15 years and opening up major treatment and running national intervention companies. I wanted this company to represent the things I have learned personally and professionally. Denial is the number symptom of the disease of addiction. In doing over 500 drug and alcohol intervention in the past 15 years, I have seen how it paralyzes families. Don't be a statstic. Please call us today at our toll-free number 866-631-0026 or visit our website http://www.kdconsulting.org/.
Also please visit our Lifeline Intervention at http://www.lifelineintervention.com/ which offers drug and alcohol intervention, crisis intervention, executive intervention, treatment options, rehabilitation, or other services.
Sincerely,
Kevin Dixon
President & Founder
KD Consulting Corporation
A Division of Lifelineintervention.com
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