Articles By addiction professor

Methamphetamine is the primary drug threat in California not to mention the easy availability of cocaine, heroin, club drugs and illegally obtained prescription drugs indicating an urgent need for drug education and inpatient rehabilitation.

California’s Proposition 36 is saving taxpayers hundreds of millions dollars by sending drug offenders to treatment instead of prison.

Los Angeles is a major storage and transshipment point for illicit drugs, which in turn makes drugs readily available for Los Angeles residents signifying an urgent need for effective drug and alcohol education along with effective inpatient rehab.

In Los Angeles County California in 2006, 300 people were killed and 7,718 people were injured in alcohol related accidents showing a dire need for alcohol education and effective alcohol rehabilitation.

In 2005, 516 juveniles and 34,859 adults were arrest for DUI in Arizona indicating an urgent need for alcohol education and effective alcohol rehabilitation.

In 2005, there were 79,419 emergency department visits, 6,641 hospital discharges, and 624 deaths as a result of motor vehicle-related injuries in Maryland indicating a dire need for alcohol education and rehabilitation.

Alcohol, cocaine and heroin are the most commonly reported drugs of abuse of the 531 homeless people in Pennsylvania with alcohol being the most commonly reported substance of abuse both individually and in combination with other drugs indicating an immediate need for effective alcohol education and rehabilitation.

The fact that both powder and crack cocaine remain among the most available, popular and abused drugs in Pennsylvania indicates an urgent need for effective drug and alcohol education along with effective inpatient rehab.

Houston Harris County, which has more drunk driving deaths per capita than any other county in Texas, desperately needs effective alcohol abuse education and rehabilitation to bring this statistic down.

As the Dallas area sees a rise in alcohol addiction, the need for alcohol rehab in the area becomes a hot topic.

Alcohol related crashes are ranked higher in Texas than in any other state. More than 1,500 Texans lost their lives in traffic crashes in 2005. The holiday season clams more lives to alcohol related deaths than any other time of the year and statistics show that the days immediately after Christmas are the worst for traffic deaths.

Many rehabs use methadone to prevent painful withdrawal symptoms when treating opiate addiction, but this is not the only solution. A successful rehab program offers a holistic alternative that is drug-free.

More than 20 million people are addicted but many who try rehabilitation are disappointed by the low success rates common to this kind of treatment. Long-term holistic programs often hold the key to success.

In the last twenty years, figures for methamphetamine consumption and addiction have skyrocketed. One young man’s story of his life will illustrate how addiction can spread and destroy one’s life, and how it can be resolved.

Abuse of prescription drugs by teens has been increasing, and teens are often obtaining these drugs from home medicine chests or their friends. When a person gets addicted, the answer is an effective rehabilitation program that eliminates the desire to use drugs.