National Institute on Drug Abuse: Drug Abuse
Use of illicit drugs like marijuana, cocaine and heroine and overuse of prescription drugs has been responsible for creating serious medical complications, destroying many family lives and creating problems for schools and communities. Teenagers and young people are particularly prone to excessive drug use and once they succumbed to the lure of drugs, they involve themselves in crime and accidents leading to poor performance in schools and society. It is needless to remind that the law punishes reckless drug users heavily.
I Am Looking for a Faith Based Drug Rehab. Center in Illinois?
Question by mikesmuts: I am looking for a Faith based drug rehab. center in Illinois?
Best answer:
Answer by Rebekah
Spencer Recovery Centers offers a Christian drug and alcohol treatment track for individuals who are having difficulties with alcohol and drug dependence. Christian treatment is different from typical rehabilitation facilities because it emphasizes Jesus Christ as the Higher Power referred to in all other 12 step recovery centers. In an effort to please their clients who do not believe and have not read the bible, many facilities do a disservice to their clients by not emphasizing that it is God alone who has the power to relieve you from your addiction to drugs and alcohol.
Christians: How to Correctly Deal With Drug Addiction/anxiety/depression?
Question by Luke: Christians: How to correctly deal with drug addiction/anxiety/depression?
I’m unfortunately addicted to a degree and have problems with drugs. Nothing illegal, thank god, I’m not that stupid, but I’ve been taking prescription drugs for anxiety, etc, and all sorts of other supplements, etc, caffeine being the least of my problems.
Drugs for depression, mostly over the counter, drugs for anxiety, mostly prescription, and other supplements/vitamins ,etc.
The problem is, It’s REALLY hard to distinguish what’s anxiety, to what’s depression, and to what’s spiritual weakness and lack of faith. It’s hard separating emotion from instinct and spirituality.
Prescription Drug Abuse: Prescription Drug Abuse and Pill Withdrawal
Prescription Drug Abuse, or pill addiction as it is commonly called, and, ultimately, ‘pill withdrawal’ have been with us since doctors began prescribing drugs, but has become more widespread since the advent of the ‘repeat prescription’ or ‘refill’, whereby patients can have a prescription renewed without having to visit their doctor. This can be as simple for many people as visiting a pharmacy and filling out a form giving their name, address and the drug they want. This is then returned to the surgery for the doctor to countersign. The problem is that these can often be signed as routine, rather than consideration being given to the need, and so facilitating prescription drug abuse.
Drug Rehabs in Arkansas: Needing Drug Detox Is Not the Only Downside of Prescription Drug Addiction
Looking over the current news about the opioid painkiller OxyContin, we can see there’s not much change today from any other day in the last year or so. This is a drug that, despite its usefulness for helping serious chronic pain sufferers, has created a dark side of prescription drug addiction and crime, and led thousands of people to need drug detox, if not an undertaker.
If anyone doubts that we have a problem in America with crime connected to narcotic prescription drug addiction, just take a look at today’s top headlines about OxyContin, as reported by Google news. The name of the drug may not appear in every headline, but the stories are all about OxyContin: