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		<title>Should medicare and medicaid pay for treatment of those abuse drugs/alcohol, smoke and over eat?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:32:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Follow the Substance Abuse Treatment Step-by-Step &amp; Get Your Life Healthier</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 10:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Substance abuse refers the dependence on and repeated use of injurious or harmful substance like alcohol, cocaine, heroin and other prescribed illegal drugs. It is used for the purpose of altering the mood but gradually it leads towards dependence syndrome. Dependence syndrome is a psychological phenomenon develops the tendency of excessive substance abuse (drugs or [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Substance abuse refers the dependence on and repeated use of injurious or harmful substance like alcohol, cocaine, heroin and other prescribed illegal drugs. It is used for the purpose of altering the mood but gradually it leads towards dependence syndrome. Dependence syndrome is a psychological phenomenon develops the tendency of excessive substance abuse (drugs or alcohol). Consequently, addicted people engender strong desire to use the drugs/alcohol repeatedly in spite of knowing it that it is dangerous for their health.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, thanks to <a rel="nofollow" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackPageview', '/outgoing/article_exit_link']);" href="http://www.treatmentforsubstanceabuse.org/">substance abuse treatment centers</a> who provide effective programs. The general objectives of these programs are to stop substance abuse and assist in keeping away from the psychological, financial, social, physical, and legal consequences because it is root cause of abnormal and dangerous life. The policies used by these treatment centers for removal of disorder are helpful and make effort towards the re-establishment of normal life in affected persons.</p>
<p>Substance abuse is influential addiction that does not quit without external help and strong internal desire. Another noticeable point is – the relapse rates are high; hence, the <a rel="nofollow" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackPageview', '/outgoing/article_exit_link']);" href="http://www.treatmentforsubstanceabuse.org/substance-abuse.php">substance abuse counselors</a> expertise themselves to tackle the issue carefully. These sorts of treatment are basically dependent upon personal counseling and behavioral therapy. However, one of the best methods is client-centered approach, under which patients have been given unconditional positive regards with full empathy. The responsibility of substance abuse counselors is in demand because they endow with a remarkable contribution for community’s welfare.</p>
<p>By countering the complicacies of the problems, there are various methodologies have been developed for the treatment of substance abuse patients but first of all it is necessary to target the problems for the accurate treatment. However as per requirement, the alcohol abuse treatment programs and drug abuse treatment programs are equally beneficial for the treatments.</p>
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		<title>Drug And Alcohol Abuse Treatment Center</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 09:58:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unknown to many people out there, it is quite possibel for you or anyone grappling with alcohol addiction to quit without the assistance of any expert. However, there are cases that you may not be able to handle on your own. Hence, you need to get help and the earlier you admit that you need [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Unknown to many people out there, it is quite possibel for you or anyone grappling with alcohol addiction to quit without the assistance of any expert. However, there are cases that you may not be able to handle on your own. Hence, you need to get help and the earlier you admit that you need help, the better it is for you. The only way for you to get this much needed help that will help you quit alcoholism is in a treatment center. Surely, this is the best decision that you will ever make in your life or that of a loved one having problem with bootles of alcohol. </p>
<p>You should not treat the problem of alcohol addiciton with levity. In other words, there should nto be any form of compromise when trying to solve the problme. This same approach is usually used by mnay alcohol treatment centers out there. They don&#8217;t treat the problem with kid&#8217;s gloves. Hence, you won&#8217;t find any bottle of liquor at there center.</p>
<p>You must never treat alcohol addiction with a loose hand if you ever want to triumph over the menace. Getting the patient off the problem must be sudden and total. If this approach is not used, the patient will have relapse. Thus, you may have to visit an alcohol treatment center to get help. </p>
<p>Many of the alcohol treatment centers out there often focus their attention on helping alcohol addicts to stop drinking alcohol. While some of these centers try to unravel this problem in a sudden form, others choose to do it subtly. But they have the same goal and it is not only to get the patient off the problem but also to help him or her stay off alcohol permanently. Anything short of this is futility. The patient must remain sober for the rest of his or her life.</p>
<p>When you are trapped in the web of alcoholism, what takes place is that you are engrossed with it. It becomes dangerous for you stop drinking alcohol. This is where an alcohol treatment centre comes in. But, you should appreciate that your individual contribution to ensuring your success is required. In other words, you can not leave everything to the center. You should be actively involved in freeing yourself. </p>
<p>Unknown to many people who indulge in alcohol, they are prone to obesity and liver disease. A lot of alcohol addicts are simply not pleased with their chosen lifestyle but they are helpless. They can&#8217;t seem to stop drinking. If you or a loved one is in this situation, it is highly advisable that you check into a good and reliable treatment center instantly. </p>
<p>If you have a friend or family member experiencing alcoholism, it is highly necessary for you to overcome the crisis at its initial stage before it will become a full blown crisis that can&#8217;t be prohibited. Make sure that you take the right step without delay when you become aware of the signs of alcoholism in you or a loved one. The information you require to effectively cope with the difficulty can only be purchased in an alcohol treatment center.</p>
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		<title>Naltrexone used for treatment of Sexual Addiction?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 09:56:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My doctor just prescribed Naltrexone for me in attempt to treat my sexual addiction problem. Does anyone know about how successful this medication works for the treatment of sexual addictions? The drug is really used for Alcohol abuse treatment and people addicted to Heroion.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My doctor just prescribed Naltrexone for me in attempt to treat my sexual addiction problem. Does anyone know about how successful this medication works for the treatment of sexual addictions? The drug is really used for Alcohol abuse treatment and people addicted to Heroion.<br />
I checked the net but could not find anything that mentioned specifically of its use to treat sexual addictions.</p>
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		<title>Alcohol Abuse Treatments</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 10:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The intake of alcohol is dangerous to both your physical and mental health. It would end up ruining your personal relationships because well as your career. There are also therefore many strategies to help you actually to stop drinking alcohol.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The intake of alcohol is dangerous to both your physical and mental health. It would end up ruining your personal relationships because well as your career. There are also therefore many strategies to help you actually to stop drinking alcohol.</p>
<p>Firstly, you really should experience to guage your everyone alcoholic health problems by consulting your doctor who may also advise you simpler the simple way you really must proceed for home alcohol-detox. Secondly, you have to consult your doctor to seek his permission for initiating this method of detoxification at home following perfect medical examination of your mind and soul. Thirdly, you really experience to plan perfectly the simple way you really move ahead for starting home alcohol-detox. Fourthly, there is want of safe environment around you really when you are also going through the process of home alcohol detox. Fifthly, you should facilitate yourself with everything which your body needs during the method of alcohol detox.</p>
<p>When withdrawal symptoms seem, you actually create convinced that you also are taking well-balanced diet to energize yourself to purge away everyone toxin substances from your body. You really experience to treat yourself by taking a couple of the results-oriented medication during order to lower the influences of withdrawal influences. You really must suffer a phone directory near you actually to notify emergency telephone numbers during the argument of unexpected emergency argument.</p>
<p>It has been observed that people with PTSD have a greater risk of developing alcoholism and the majority alcoholics are even diagnosed with the said disease. Around eighty percent of war veterans undergoing treatment for PTSD have been detected with alcohol abuse disorders. These individuals experience a tendency to commit suicide once they become depressed especially if they also are over the age of 65. Binge drinking is too a frequent activity in soldiers/veterans because it is used because a tool to forget traumatic memories for a brief period of time.</p>
<p>One primary sign of a burning want that wants to quit drinking is staying away from everyone types of alcoholic drinks. As well, it is useless telling everybody that you actually wish to quit and you really still suffer bottles of alcohol around you really. This is a mere wish that may have you actually no where. You want to get rid of the bottles and stay away from your alcoholic friends. The latter is very vital. Without telling them to go, you will still find yourself drinking.</p>
<p>You have to consult your doctors or visit doctors often, if you also are willing to start home alcohol detox hence that you really may also be examined by expert medical supervisor in alcoholic recovery method at home. You really may improve your health following getting off alcoholism during less expensive rates if you actually choose alcohol detox at home by yourself. You actually may also recover soon if you really follow everyone above pointers before starting home alcohol detox plans. Allow break away from alcohol drinking and enjoy your life healthfully!</p>
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		<title>what is ADHD in the treatment of drug and alcohol abuse?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 10:07:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Can you go to OCS if you have sought treatment for substance abuse? Specifically alcohol, not illegal drugs.?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 10:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been through a 28 day inpatient program. I went voluntarily (I was not court mandated), I&#8217;ve never had a DUI or been in any trouble, and I have been completely sober for almost two years. I am just interested in military service, and I have no idea if this would effect my eligibility [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have been through a 28 day inpatient program. I went voluntarily (I was not court mandated), I&#8217;ve never had a DUI or been in any trouble, and I have been completely sober for almost two years. I am just interested in military service, and I have no idea if this would effect my eligibility for a program like OCS, or not.</p>
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		<title>Alcohol Abuse Treatment &#8211; Inpatient or Out-Patient?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 09:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is difficult to make a decision to seek treatment for alcohol abuse, dependency, or addiction. But having made that choice it becomes even more confusing when seeking an appropriate type of program. Essentially the first decision comes down to opting for either Inpatient or Out-Patient.
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	First consider In-Patient, commonly referred to as &#8220;Residential.&#8221; Generally these [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is difficult to make a decision to seek treatment for alcohol abuse, dependency, or addiction. But having made that choice it becomes even more confusing when seeking an appropriate type of program. Essentially the first decision comes down to opting for either Inpatient or Out-Patient.</p>
<p>&#13;<br />
	First consider In-Patient, commonly referred to as &#8220;Residential.&#8221; Generally these programs run from 30 to 90 days at an average cost of $1000/day, though some may run three or four times that amount. Usually the client is confined to a facility, shielded from outside pressures, assessed, counseled, and released to aftercare which usually consists of weekly groups at a hospital, clinic, or other local facility and the mandate &#8220;don&#8217;t drink, attend AA, work your program.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#13;<br />
	The benefits are fairly straightforward: removal from immediate stressers; isolation from temptation; appeasement of family and employers; time to regroup and collect one&#8217;s thoughts; and a period away from the usual alcoholic fog.</p>
<p>&#13;<br />
	The drawbacks are equally apparent: expense; disconnection from reality; labeling; depression; and re-entry shock which generally leads to relapse within a month or two and a return to old behaviors which will now necessitate out-patient services if you can can afford them either financially or emotionally.</p>
<p>&#13;<br />
	Out-patient, on the otherhand, allows the client to gradually modify behaviors within the ongoing context of their daily life. It also provides assessment and counseling and followup, but with continuity of program, staff, and facility. </p>
<p>&#13;<br />
	The drawback is that the client isn&#8217;t isolated or protected from their usual stresses and temptations. But is this really a negative point?</p>
<p>&#13;<br />
	Nearly anyone can modify a behavior in a controlled environment for a short period of time. People do lose weight at spas; they get into shape at camps; they quit drinking in rehab. But they almost always return to their old patterns when they return to their usual lives and problems, people and jobs, neighborhoods and families. All that has changed is that they&#8217;ve had a very expensive vacation.</p>
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	The harsh reality is that change takes place within the individual in their usual surroundings, or it doesn&#8217;t last for long.  That said, Out-Patient treatment is more effective because it works with all of the day-to-day problems that must be coped with. It&#8217;s cheaper, and you can always stay at a hotel for awhile if you need to escape long enough to clear your head and develop some plans. It&#8217;s more inclusive, again because it is done within the context of your real life. It&#8217;s also less prone to labeling you with a permanent diagnosis which may or may not be accurate and is usually demeaning.</p>
<p>&#13;<br />
     Finally, modifying behaviors over time is more apt to result in lasting change. It takes time to alter behavior, thirty days to break a habit and a year or more to replace the activity. If you want to succeed, expect to give yourself the time you deserve in the most efficient ways available.</p>
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<p>Dr. Edward Wilson has been developing and providing alternative alcohol counseling, including moderation, sincve 1990. He is the co-founder and Clinical Director of Your Empowering Solutions, Inc, located in S. California. http://www.non12.step.com</p>
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		<title>Alcohol Abuse Treatment: Out-Patient or Residential? II</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 09:59:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is difficult to make a decision to seek treatment for alcohol abuse, dependency, or addiction. But having made that choice it becomes even more confusing when seeking an appropriate type of program. Essentially the first decision comes down to opting for either Inpatient or Out-Patient.
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	First consider In-Patient, commonly referred to as &#8220;Residential.&#8221; Generally these [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is difficult to make a decision to seek treatment for alcohol abuse, dependency, or addiction. But having made that choice it becomes even more confusing when seeking an appropriate type of program. Essentially the first decision comes down to opting for either Inpatient or Out-Patient.</p>
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	First consider In-Patient, commonly referred to as &#8220;Residential.&#8221; Generally these programs run from 30 to 90 days at an average cost of $1000/day, though some may run three or four times that amount. Usually the client is confined to a facility, shielded from outside pressures, assessed, counseled, and released to aftercare which usually consists of weekly groups at a hospital, clinic, or other local facility and the mandate &#8220;don&#8217;t drink, attend AA, work your program.&#8221;</p>
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	The benefits are fairly straightforward: removel from immediate stressers; isolation from temptation; appeasement of family and employers; time to regroup and collect one&#8217;s thoughts; and a period away from the usual alcoholic fog.</p>
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	The drawbacks are equally apparent: expense; disconnection from reality; labeling; depression; and re-entry shock which generally leads to relapse within a month or two and a return to old behaviors which will now necessitate out-patient services if you can can afford them either financially or emotionally.</p>
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	Out-patient, on the otherhand, allows the client to gradually modify behaviors within the ongoing context of their daily life. It also provides assessment and counseling and followup, but with continuity of program, staff, and facility.</p>
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	The drawback is that the client isn&#8217;t isolated or protected from their usual stresses and temptations. But is this really a negative point?</p>
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	Nearly anyone can modify a behavior in a controlled environment for a short period of time. People do lose weight at spas; they get into shape at camps; they quit drinking in rehab. But they almost always return to their old patterns when they return to their usual lives and problems, people and jobs, neighborhoods and families. All that has changed is that they&#8217;ve had a very expensive vacation.</p>
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	The harsh reality is that change takes place within the individual in their usual surroundings, or it doesn&#8217;t last for long.  That said, Out-Patient treatment is more effective because it works with all of the day-to-day problems that must be coped with. It&#8217;s cheaper, but you can always stay at a hotel for awhile if you need to escape long enough to clear your head and develop some plans. It&#8217;s more inclusive, again because it is done within the context of your real life. It&#8217;s also less prone to labeling you with a permanent diagnosis which may or may not be accurate and is usually demeaning.</p>
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     Finally, modifying behaviors over time is more apt to result in lasting change. It takes time to alter behavior, usually about thirty days to break a habit and a year or more to replace the activity. If you want to succeed, expect to give yourself the time you deserve in the most efficient ways available.</p>
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<p>Dr. Edward Wilson has been developing and providing alternative alcohol counseling, including moderation, sincve 1990. He is the co-founder and Clinical Director of Your Empowering Solutions, Inc, located in S. California. http://www.non12step.com</p>
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		<title>Importance of Senior Alcohol Abuse Treatment</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:57:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although seniors represent greater risk for substance abuse, they are seriously underrepresented in treatment programs; for a number of reasons as senior alcohol treatment is as important as the treatment for other age groups.
Seniors self report feeling shame and guilt for abuse behaviors, and will very rarely initiate treatment on their own. They are also [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Although seniors represent greater risk for substance abuse, they are seriously underrepresented in treatment programs; for a number of reasons as senior <strong>alcohol treatment</strong> is as important as the treatment for other age groups.</p>
<p>Seniors self report feeling shame and guilt for abuse behaviors, and will very rarely initiate treatment on their own. They are also less likely to get noticed for their <strong><a rel="nofollow" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/article_exit_link');" href="http://www.freshstartprivate.com">alcohol drinking problem</a></strong> and less likely to have problems with work or the law; basically, they generally drink in the home, and in secret places where no one notice them or catch them.</p>
<p>Family is also often reluctant to intervene in the drinking habits of the adults or say seniors. Too many otherwise concerned and caring family members do not intervene even when the reality of a problem is clear to all of them thinking that it could hurt their seniors and loved ones. Many people mistakenly believe that they do a kindness by allowing seniors their &#8220;comfort&#8221; of intoxication and they forget that they themselves allowing their seniors to follow a life threatening path where their life could be a hell instead of comfort zone. They may also feel embarrassment or may be unsure about treatment options at such a late stage in life for seniors.</p>
<p>The reality is by not intervening you rob them of a chance for a better life as the seniors are also a part of our growing society. You actually by agreeing or by not stopping them are letting them to a shortened lifespan, to <strong>greater health problems</strong>, to greater cognitive impairments and to more psychiatric distress. Allowing someone to continue with drug or <strong><a rel="nofollow" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/article_exit_link');" href="http://www.freshstartprivate.com/alcohol-abuse-effects/malnutrition-alcohol-abuse-and-its-effects.php">alcohol abuse</a></strong> is never a kindness.</p>
<p>Older adults and seniors do remarkably well in treatment when they do get help from their loved ones. They are far more likely to finish initiated therapies, and maintain a full participation in aftercare, and have a better than average success rate of abstinence. Therefore by understanding the importance of <strong><a rel="nofollow" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/article_exit_link');" href="http://www.freshstartprivate.com/alcohol-addiction-treatment/">addiction treatment</a></strong> of our seniors we can prevent them going to a wrong way and help them live a more comfortable life.</p>
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<p>Mary John is a Senior Alcohol Abuse Treatment counselor and therapist at a leading Fresh Start Private and alcohol abuse treatment center. She has expertise in alcohol addiction treatment, alcohol abuse, <strong><a rel="nofollow" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/article_exit_link');" href="http://www.freshstartprivate.com">alcohol abuse treatment</a></strong> and alcohol abuse effects. She has written a number of articles and journals on alcohol drinking problem, stop drinking and addiction treatment.</p>
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