Teens graduate to sobriety at the Wolfe Center
In chairs facing a 90-person audience were blonde-haired Ashley, who had moved from addiction to a straight-A report card and a budding artistic talent; Brandon, black tie draped jauntily over a plaid shirt, his aspirations set toward a college degree …
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As heroin use spikes, focus shifts to drug that saves addicts
… Travis Leavitt, whom she lost to a heroin overdose. She is now an advocate for parents who have an addicted child or who have lost a child to addiction through a support group called SOLACE that she co-founded. ROD VEAL, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER …
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How to save the American Dream
Because the higher a country's income inequality, the higher its infant mortality rates, obesity rates, homicide rates, illiteracy rates, mental illness rates, teenage births, incarceration rates, drug addiction rates, social immobility and lower life …
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Kentucky addicted babies increasing despite pain-pill crackdown
Have you taken pain medications from friends or family members without their knowledge? • Have you ever stolen property … mistakes the way Trinity did. Trinity is part of a heartbreaking surge in babies born dependent on drugs because of their …
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Fundraiser to help East TN Children's Hospital treat babies born
… Children's Hospital, which treats up to 30 or more NAS babies at a time. Members of local military attended the fundraiser in support. … KNOXVILLE (WATE) – Thousands of babies across the country are born each and every year addicted to the drugs …
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Community Services for March 16
JOURNEY THROUGH THE VALLEY grief support group, sponsored by Lawley Premier Hospice Care, meets from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. the first and third Tuesday each month at 101 Church St., Rainbow City. … Al-Anon Family Groups, a fellowship of relatives and …
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Officials: County addiction treatment system making strides
In 2010, 183 people were on waiting lists for county-funded drug treatment, facing wait times of two to four months, according to Todd Campbell, addiction services manager for the Department of Human Services. Four years later, the number of people …
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TCU Recovery Support Group helps students struggling with addiction
The Alcohol and Drug Education Center formed the group to support students who are already in recovery and those who are questioning whether or not they have a problem, Leshner said. The program is also intended to be an outlet for students to escape …
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Lawsuit filed over drug rehab center in St. George
GEORGE, Utah — A group of St. George residents is suing the owners of a drug rehabilitation center, claiming their property values have taken a hit since it recently opened in their neighborhood. The $ 1 million-plus complaint, filed last week in 5th …
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Support groups in the area are ready to help in various ways
LOOK GOOD FEEL BETTER: Abingdon, Va., Johnston Memorial Cancer Center, 26079 Lee Hwy.; first Monday, 1 p.m.; free program for women cancer patients in active treatment; register at 276-628-8861. LUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: Johnson City, …
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Question by CreatioN: Is past extensive cocaine use and alcohol abuse treatable?
Im sorry if my question did not come out right, i’ll do the best i can to explain my situation.

My mother is 54 going on 55. In the past back in the 80s up to the 2000s, she did extensive coke use and was(or is) an alcoholic. She appears to be lack confidence and can be so controlling at times. She can never calm down nevertheless hold a job i think. When you do alot of cocaine, i know you lose your mind. You go a bit insane and paranoid. Is there any long-term treatments or options that i should take that can calm her down? She smoke cigarettes every day, so many packs and it will not improve her heart and medical conditions at all. Im very very close to sending her to a nursing home or have her seek counseling, but im trying to find out what other options that i can take that dont involve her leaving the house. Im so extremely lost, please help and God bless.

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Answer by Techwing
It sounds like she has a personality that is very prone to addiction. She sounds like she may have other issues as well, which might benefit from professional help.

You can recover from addictions, but they don’t really go away, in the sense that you cannot resume use of a substance to which you’ve previously been addicted without running the very real risk of falling into addiction again. Thus, alcoholics (for example) remain alcoholic for life, even though they may recover from their alcoholism by abstaining permanently from alcohol. A recovered addict is, for all practical purposes, the same as anyone else, except that he can never touch the substance to which he was previously addicted without the risk of a major relapse.

Answer by rikki k
hi rolfe
your mom sounds so like a girl i know, she is 52, 2 girls, 22 and 20, she was/is into cocaine, loves her beer and smokes cigarettes and pot. she claims to be “”clean”” for months but you can never rely on that, you can’t or have a hard time believing them. she claims to want CA cocaine anonomous, and AA alcohlics anonomous, but she meets and befriends people that enable her behaviour.

this girl is also paranoid and can not hold down a job or does she want to, sounds a lot like your mom. the thing i’m noticing is that you sound like you are developing or are into a co-dependant relationship. if you don’t have the support group or haven’t looked into co-dependancy, then you need to do some research into the subject. its pain full and frustrating as i’m sure you love your mom, as i do this friend but i couldn’t “”help”” her. i say “”help”” because we can’t help them, we get sucked into the whole addiction , ocb < obsessive compulsive behaviour, i would say that you rolfe need to know that you may be enabling your mom out of sincere love, but she is using your good nature to justify her own behaviour. i'm not saying you don't love her and she you, but its an addicts mind here, forget who she was, because she's not that person all the time, maybe she is that person some of the times and that is what we hope they will become again. i know that with my friends continued drinking and pot smoking and maybe even cocaine use, i had to distance myself, even though when we got together it was nice for a few days, her behaviour went to the familiar. she was constantly threatening "i want drugs", cocaine, cuz she was smoking the pot. in any crisis that was her refrain,"i want drugs" , was that her cry for help or was it real? in additon to her addiction and ocb's, she claims many medical conditons, fibromyalgia, arthritis, thinning hair, insomnia, low appetit, constipation, hemmoroids, she feared being around people. she was not capable of simple chores, clothes washing, cleaning the house, shopping, even going out. recently a good fiend of mine has been seeing a guy with gambling ""addiction"" whichhe doesn't see as a problem, and is self treating bi polar disease, she feel into the enabling hole with in 2 months. as we talked she realized that she was changing and becoming the enable co-dependant, she had no clue at the time we spokee, but slowly she's realizing what was beccoming of her. good luck with that and take care of YOURSELF as you attempt to care for mom ..

Question by sweety: Do you think my ex will stop doing drugs?
I was in a ten year relationship I used to do drugs but I have quit now for almost three years. I left my ex bc it eventually made me sick watching him still do it and be gona all the time doing it bc I no longer allowed it in the house. We have kids and have been seperated for about two years. I’m pretty happy an feel really great since changing my life around:) he still wants to be with me but he keeps lying about still doing drugs. He says he quit now for real and wants to be with us but I’m still really not trusting hom bc he has lied to my face about it so much over the years. I also feel really resentful toward him since he hasn’t really raised the kids with me he just has basically play dates and sleepovers at his parents now every other weekend. Is it worth it for me to not move on ? Do people like him never really quit? Am I wasting my time hoping he will change? Te kids want us together and that’s what is bothering me but I will never if he is still doing drugs bc he is not a nice person as soon as he runs out even if it’s only weed.

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Answer by C.R
dont look good.

Answer by patrick
Weed? Really I thought this would be about meth way to over react.

Supporting families coping with drink and drug issues
Brave mums have told how they are coping with their sons alcohol and drug abuse thanks to a new support group for families. Claire Wadsworth is a family support development officer in East Dunbartonshire for the charity, Scottish Families Affected by …
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US Sen. Bob Casey, in Easton, supports bill that fights heroin gateway of …
Prescription Drug Abuse Press Conference View full sizeU.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., speaks today in Easton about a federal bill that aims to help the country better address prescription drug abuse. Easton Sal Panto Jr., left, and Northampton County …
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million sought for drug addiction treatment programs
ALBANY >> New York's growing heroin problem is being fueled by the state's crackdown on abuse of prescription pain medication, drug abuse experts said Tuesday, calling on legislators to provide $ 15 million for treatment programs. One of experts who …
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