Drug Rehab Finder

Saturday, December 19, 2009

Drug addiction is everyone’s problem that we should be more alert and avoid any chances that may lead us into such bad experiences caused by such addiction. Many countries have declared war against the drug abuse practices, but still such problem is always appeared to the surface and treating more people as the victims. If there appear to be one of your relatives caught on such drug addiction, there you can visit Thedrugrehab.com to ease you in finding the right drug rehab facility for him.

This site is dedicating its time and efforts to help those people in deep need of qualified Drug Rehab facility to apply. We all know that there are thousands of the facilities around the country in nowadays, and finding the one that exactly matched his need is really a hard thing to do, but with TheDrugRehab website’s help, you will be able to narrow your options into several competent options to explore and compare.

You can define the type of drug rehab you’d likely to apply, and their well trained persons will then helping you in giving you some recommendations and advices of the best matched facilities as you desired. Don’t worry, all the facilities being recommended are considered as the safe and qualified facilities that choosing among all these great options would give you the expected beneficial.

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Comfort Place and Best Program of Drugs Addiction Curing

Thursday, August 20, 2009

All of us definitely have known about the danger effects of someone when he/ she has been addicted to something dangerous and harm such as alcohol, drugs, gambling, sex and many more. In the aspect of social; such addiction certainly will affect their productivity that makes them lose spirit of working, do not care of family, get trap in many debts and many more. While in the aspect of health; it is so dangerous and can cause kinds of serious illness; moreover the addiction to opiates and alcohol, it can easily harm vital organs of body and cause fatal.

Of course, no one is willing to see the beloved one get addicted to drugs and other dangerous things for it can damage the future and even cause death. That is why an intensive care and good education have to be given well to al of your children because some addiction in many people usually happen in someone who needs care and friends to share problems of life. But, if it has happened in your beloved one; don’t let it continue and make such an addiction intervention to them before everything has been too late.

Just visit Chapmanrehab.com and find the information about the qualified rehabilitation house inside. Yes, it is the official site of Chapman House Inc that has been handling and treating addiction for 30 years. You can bring your addicted beloved one here and get the best drug detox system that is usually used to cure the patients. The detoxification is the process of the cleaning from drugs so there is no remaining that can cause more drugs needs. Beside, you can also be sure about the curing program here for your beloved one will not feel like in the prison while having treatment here. It has nice place as the drug rehabilitation center; comfort place like home. So, don’t wait too long till you get a fatal cause of the drugs addition. Visit the site and find more information inside.

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The tendency to hallucinations and consumption of coffee link found

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Increased consumption of caffeine may be associated with a greater tendency to have hallucinations, a new study suggests. People with higher levels of consumption of caffeine from sources such as coffee, tea and energy drinks containing caffeine are more likely to report the experience of hallucinations, such as hearing voices and seeing things that are not present, according to a study by the University of Durham .

"An increase in caffeine users - those who have more than the equivalent of seven cups of coffee a day - three times more likely to have heard the voice of man, if there is none, compared with the low-caffeine users consume less than the equivalent cup of coffee in day.

Researchers say the results will contribute to a better understanding of the principles of nutrition for the hallucinations. Changes in consumption of food and beverages, including caffeine consumption may be people in a better position to evaluate the influence of hallucinations or, perhaps, on how often they occur, say scientists.

The study, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and the Council for Medical Research, 200 students asked about their normal consumption of caffeine-containing products such as coffee, tea, energy drinks, chocolate and caffeine pills. His tendency to experience hallucinations, as well as the tension is also evaluated. Things that are not there, I hear voices, and to detect the presence of the dead belonged to the experience of some participants.

The researchers, whose work in the science journal Personality and individual differences, for example, could be the conclusion of a convention that caffeine aggravates the physiological effects of stress. When under stress, your body makes the stress hormone called cortisol. Most of the stress hormones in response to stress, when people caffeine. This will give additional impetus to cortisol may link caffeine consumption with increased tendency to hallucinate, say scientists.

Lead author, Simon Jones, a PhD student at Durham University's Psychology Department, said: "This is a first step towards looking at the wider factors associated with hallucinations. Previous research has highlighted a number of important factors, such as childhood trauma, which may lead to clinically relevant hallucinations. Many such factors are thought to be linked to hallucinations in part because of their impact on the body's reaction to stress. Given the link between food and mood, and particularly between caffeine and the body's response to stress, it seems sensible to examine what a nutritional perspective may add."

Co - author Dr Charles Fernyhough, also from Durham University's Psychology Department, noted "Our study shows an association between caffeine intake and hallucination-proneness in students. However, one interpretation may be that those students who were more prone to hallucinations used caffeine to help cope with their experiences. More work is needed to establish whether caffeine consumption, and nutrition in general, has an impact on those kinds of hallucination that cause distress."

Mr Jones added: "Hallucinations are not necessarily a sign of mental illness. Most people will have had brief experiences of hearing voices when there is no one there, and around three per cent of people regularly hear such voices. Many of these people cope well with this and live normal lives. There are, however, a number of organisations, such as the Hearing Voices Network, who can offer support and advice to those distressed by these experiences."

Research in this area continues and the public can take part in studies at www.dur.ac.uk/s.r.jones

Facts about caffeine (Source: Wikipedia)

• Caffeine is a central nervous system stimulant, having the effect of temporarily warding off drowsiness and restoring alertness.
• With ninety per cent of North Americans consuming some of form caffeine every day, it is the world's most widely used drug.
• In its pure state, caffeine is a crystalline white powder.
• Caffeine is completely absorbed by the stomach and small intestine within 45 minutes of ingestion.
  

When taken in moderation, studies have shown that caffeine can increase the capacity for mental or physical labour.

• Caffeine use can lead to a condition called caffeine intoxication. Symptoms include nervousness, irritability, anxiety, muscle twitching, insomnia, headaches, and heart palpitations. This is not commonly seen when daily caffeine intake is less than 250mg.

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Neuroscience 2008

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

What: "Neuroscience 2008," the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting - Find out the latest news about the brain and its complexity from the world's top experts. Several Institute Directors and program leaders from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will be available to discuss success stories and new directions in neuroscience research during this year's Society for Neuroscience meeting. This is a rare opportunity to meet and interact with several NIH directors and other leading neuroscientists. Topics include mental health, substance abuse, brain issues related to aging, eye health, and stroke and neurological disorders.

When: Sunday, November 16, 2008 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Where: Walter E. Washington Convention Center 801 Mount Vernon Place, NW Washington, DC 20001

The following NIH Institute Directors and program leaders will discuss recent advances and directions in neurological research:

• National Institute on Drug Abuse - Dr. Nora Volkow, Director
  
  
• National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke - Dr. Story Landis, Director
  
  
• National Institute of Mental Health - Dr. Thomas Insel, Director
  
  
• National Eye Institute - Dr. Paul Sieving, Director
  
  
• National Institute on Aging - Dr. Marcelle Morrison-Bogorad, Director, Division of Neuroscience
  
  
• National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders - Dr. Christopher Platt, Director, Hearing and Balance Program

Source: Dorie Hightower
NIH/National Institute on Drug Abuse

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Most children are drug-Americans

Sunday, September 28, 2008

American children in approximately three times more likely to appoint psychotropic medications for children in Europe. A new study published in the BioMed Central open access journal Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health said that differences could be considered for the management of cultural practices and beliefs about the role of drugs on the emotional problems and behavioral problems.


Julie Zito led a group of researchers from the U.S., Germany and the Netherlands investigated that the recipe in the three countries. She said antidepressants and stimulants prevalence of three or more times higher in the U.S. than in the Netherlands and Germany, while the anti-psychotic prevalence was 1.5 to 2.2 times higher. "

The use of antidepressants Prozac, as well as stimulants like Ritalin in children has been under great controversy, and the study of quantitative differences in practice between the U.S. and Western Europe. The authors argue that the difference may be partly due to different classification systems for diagnosis, "the U.S. growth trend bipolar diagnosis in children and adolescents are not in line with European practice." The authors also noted the limitations of public spending in Europe, the largest number of child psychiatrists per capita in the United States and the use of two or more psychotropic drugs for one year in the U.S. children as a possible explanation.

Zito to the conclusion that "direct consumer advertising of drugs in the United States, it is also to address some differences. The increasing use of drugs in the U.S. also reflects the individualistic and activist therapeutic mentality in the U.S. medical culture."

Source : http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/123025.php

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52 percent of new diagnoses of bipolar disorder patients receiving antidepressants in the first-line treatment

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms focusing on pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that 52.3 percent of new patients diagnosed with bipolar disorder are prescribed antidepressants province.

The new report, entitled "Algorithms for the treatment of bipolar disorder is of the opinion that such a high preponderance of first-line use of antidepressants has made primary care prescribing doctor. Surveyed primary care physicians indicate a selective inhibitor of serotonin reuptake (SSRIs), Including Forest laboratories "Lexapro, as first-line treatment of patients with bipolar I disorder with major depression (51 percent of physicians), bipolar disorder II with severe depression, with hypo mania (52 per cent of doctors) and bipolar disorder II with severe depression, with hypo mania (46 percent of physicians).

"The number of doctors of primary health care, diagnosis and treatment of bipolar patients has been in recent years, but still treated differently structure interviewed psychiatrists," said Madhuri BORDE, Ph.D., analyst Decision Resources. "Nearly half of patients who receive SSRIs forefront of these drugs as monotherapy, despite the recommendations of management for patients with bipolar depression antimanic province."

The report also notes that GSK Lamictal is the largest agent in the first, second and third-line therapy cumulative 18 per cent, 13.8 per cent and 16.3 per cent stake in each line of patient care would be. Lamictal proportion of patients in the first-line therapy is used mostly psychiatrists' belief that the therapy is effective in patients with bipolar depression.

source : Decision Resources

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