Thousands in Wash. could lose addiction recovery services
A sudden and unintended consequence of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is threatening outpatient programs for those who are poor and in recovery for alcohol and drugs. This month, executives of the dozens of publically funded addiction recovery centers …
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Ruling: Recovery home on 36th must close
Those recovering from alcohol and drug addiction are legally considered disabled. The city is now considering whether to petition the United States Supreme Court for a review of that decision, Finnigan wrote in a statement. Because that case probably …
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Australian Olympic swimming star Grant Hackett in US for prescription drug …
Grant Hackett's father says the Olympic swimming champion is 'in denial' following his arrival in the United States to enter rehab over his addiction to the prescription drug Stilnox. Retired policeman Neville Hackett told Nine News today Grant will …
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US Drug "War" Destroys Rain Forests
It seems that the drug war in Mexico, fueled by the misguided anti-drug policies of the United States and the Mexican government (relying on military action and violence instead legalization and reform) has driven the drug gangs deep into the remotest …
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Denise Crosby: Heroin fight is slowly gaining momentum
… nasal spray Narcan device. The DuPage County Health Department has helped form a program to address the heroin epidemic by training police officers in the use of Narcan, a drug that can reverse a heroin overdose. | Jon Langham~for Sun-Times Media …
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EXCLUSIVE: Australian Olympic swimming star Grant Hackett flies to USA to …
Olympic swimming champion Grant Hackett is on his way to the United States to enter rehab over his addiction to the prescription drug Stilnox, Mail Online can exclusively reveal. Hackett left Australia on Tuesday afternoon for America to undergo a …
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Hackett heads to US to treat drug addiction
Australian swimming great Grant Hackett has flown to the United States to have treatment for an addiction to a sleeping medication, his manager has confirmed. Hackett heads to US to treat drug addiction – Swimming PA Photos. Hackett, who won 1,500 …
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Beckley psychiatrist pens article on opiate drug abuse
The article, “Opiate Drug Abuse: Discovering Problematic Patients in the Office and What to Do About It,” written by Dr. M. Khalid Hasan, discusses risk factors for abuse, signs of addiction and recommendations for proper treatment. According to the …
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Letter: Treat drug addiction as a health-care issue, not a criminal one
The article on how the marijuana revolution is gathering force in the United States and how more states are turning their backs on the “war on drugs” could force Canada to take a look and a new stance on a humane way to treat drug addiction as well as …
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Question by datdudeyahknow: Question about self harm treatment?
I have a friend who cuts herself and she has asked me about what can she do to get better and if there are any treatment places but I don’t know much about the topic. Um she lives in the Phoenix, Arizona area if that helps any. Thanks for the answers!

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Answer by anna unff
I’m not sure about treatment places, but I’m positive there must be some sort of Mental Rehabilitation center near you and her tha can offer self-harm treatment but a big deal of getting over her addiction (which is pretty much what it is) is for her to get to the bottom of why she cuts. Some people think you can get over your mental issues on your own (depending on the degree of the issue) and some i’m not sure if they believe that but I am one of the people who believes our own mind and thoughts are the answers. I’ve pulled through a lot, as well as self-harm which is a work in progress but currently going strong, and honestly the best thing i can think to tell her is to realize why she cuts. Is it a family problem? An ex-boyfriend who hurt her so badly? Childhood bullying? For me it was my bullying and then later on a family problem and then my ex reintroduced me to it. I had to realize that even though it took the pain away, it wasn’t helping with my problems.

See if you have a school consellor for her to talk to if she’s comfortable, that would be a good place to start. They can probably give you more information about where to go from there. They may be able to talk her to her parents if she was comfortable with that, but honestly I can say that going to a school consellor would be a great decision as it was the first step for my recovery. By the way, you’re a great friend just because you didn’t turn your back on her and leave her to deal with this alone, she’s lucky to have you 🙂

http://www.rehabcenters.com/categories/Arizona
^ you need to sign up i think or enter a postal code, but i just googled “Self-harm rehabilitation centers Pheonix, Arizona” and this came up,

message me if you have something else to ask if you want

Answer by Frank Thomas
I believe there are generally two ways in which self-harm is treated. A lot of people on Yahoo Answers seem to view it as an addiction. If your friend is religious and believes that self-harm is an addiction over which she is completely powerless, she can check out http://selfmutilatorsanonymous.org/, the website for Self-Mutilators Anonymous (a 12 step program based on Alcoholics Anonymous) that views self-harm as a disease and an addiction. I used to attend AA meetings, but they never did me any good. I have since quit on my own. It is a religious program, even if the people at the meetings say that no, it’s a spiritual program. That’s like saying that it’s a lemon, not a citrus fruit. In 2003 the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that AA is actually a religious program. So, your friend must believe in God, and she must believe that only God can help her with her problems. Not friends, not family, not herself, but only God. Alcoholics Anonymous reports a success rate of about 6% to 7% of people who have attended for over a year. The rate of remission of alcoholism, that is stopping without doing anything, is 5% during any given year. So, AA has about a one or two percent success rate, and those are their own numbers. I expect the same from Self-Mutilator’s Anonymous.

The other approach would be a psychiatric approach. Cutting is a symptom, not a disease. If cutting is a symptom, then a therapist would try to get to the bottom of the reasons why your friend cuts herself and helps her deal with it, and a psychiatrist prescribes medication for your friend to reduce her desire to cut herself. Most cutters have bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, major depression, or eating disorders, or any combination thereof. They would try to work with your friend’s impulse control.

I think she needs to be in an inpatient psychiatric facility so that she can’t find any sharp objects to mutilate herself with. She’ll be able to see a psychiatrist about three times a week and therapists every day. It’s not like a prison sentence. It’s a place to get better.

I hope this helps.

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Buffs have 20-20-20 vision, top UW
The blow opened a cut on his forehead and trainers helped him off the floor and into the locker room for treatment. He returned in the second half with a bandage … (2) Arizona 76, Oregon State 54: Aaron Gordon had 17 points, Rondae Hollis-Jefferson …
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Florence case praised as good example of teen-suicide intervention
The administrators intervened, sending him for treatment after they found a Japanese comic book glorifying suicide and a list of 10 students he wanted to harm written in a homemade journal. Although the incident is troubling, the intervention is a …
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Question by emma: how painkillers are abused?
i am curious about the fact that people could get high on painkillers, how is that so?

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Answer by Because I said so!
but taking more then your supposed to

Answer by Dalton
Yeah, a lot of people find the smallest excuse to have it prescribed to them so they can legally have a drug.

Pain Killer Addiction A National Epidemic
The United States makes up just five percent of the world's population, yet we consume more than 80 percent of the world's pain-killing medications. "I don't want to say lackadaisical attitude about these drugs for pain management, but they were used …
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Super Bowl pomp countered by retired NFL players' painkiller abuse
Mattiace, from Montville, is now executive director and a substance-abuse counselor at the New Pathway Counseling Service based in New Jersey. In the past two months, he has counseled six former NFL players with painkiller addictions. He is teaming …
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Efforts underway to fight epidemic of prescription painkiller abuse
Every day, 45 Americans die from an overdose of prescription pain medication. Prescription drug abuse now ranks as the fastest growing drug problem in the United States. More people die from prescription drug overdoses than from traffic-related deaths …
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