Increase in ER Visits Due to Drug Use

Ecstasy -- also known as MDMA (3, 4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine) -- is often used at all-night parties called raves. Its reputation as a "club" or party drug belies the medical and mental dangers of even casual use. Addiction, blurred vision, high blood pressure, heat stroke, muscle cramping and kidney failure are all issues that can occur in Ecstasy users, particularly those who use this drug over extended periods of time.

The United States government reports found an increase in Ecstasy-related medical emergencies between the years of 2004 and 2008. According to the report, 17, 865 patients were treated for medical emergencies related to Ecstasy in 2008 which include agitation, heart stroke and heart failure. The study which was released by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) also stated that the number of reported medical emergencies was 10,220 in 2004. According to SAMHSA Administrator Pamela S. Hyde, the amount of Ecstasy that is currently being used is alarming and immediate attention must be directed towards this issue. 

According to Dr. Lewis Goldfrank, chairman of emergency medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City, the use of amphetamines is a significant problem for young adults with a high mortality rate associated with it, mostly due to multiple drug use. A wide percentage of users in 2008 had reportedly mixed the Ecstasy drug with other drugs or alcohol, increasing the harmful effects to a great degree. Researchers found that Cocaine use with Ecstasy is more likely among people twenty one and older. The use of Ecstasy also causes problems in the emergency room where drugs are often used in combination with other drugs. 

SAMHSA is putting aggressive prevention efforts into place in hopes to reduce the use of Ecstasy throughout the nation. This should result in fewer visits to the emergency room for drug related medical issues. 

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Substance Abuse Treatment Can Include Behavioral Therapy, Medications, or their Combination

There are many addictive drugs, and treatments for specific drugs can differ. Treatment also varies depending on the characteristics of the patient.

Problems associated with an individual's drug addiction can vary significantly. People who are addicted to drugs come from all walks of life. Many suffer from mental health, occupational, health, or social problems that make their addictive disorders much more difficult to treat. Even if there are few associated problems, the severity of addiction itself ranges widely among people.

A variety of scientifically based approaches to drug addiction treatment exists. Drug addiction treatment can include behavioral therapy (such as counseling, cognitive therapy, or psychotherapy), medications, or their combination. Behavioral therapies offer people strategies for coping with their drug cravings, teach them ways to avoid drugs and prevent relapse, and help them deal with relapse if it occurs. When a person's drug-related behavior places him or her at higher risk for AIDS or other infectious diseases, behavioral therapies can also help to reduce the risk of disease transmission. Case management and referral to other medical, psychological, and social services are crucial components of treatment for many patients. The best addiction treatment programs provide a combination of therapies and other services to meet the needs of the individual patient, which are shaped by such issues as age, race, culture, sexual orientation, gender, pregnancy, parenting, housing, and employment, as well as physical and sexual abuse.

Drug addiction treatment can include behavioral therapy, medications, or their combination. Treatment medications, such as methadone, LAAM, and naltrexone, are available for individuals addicted to opiates.

Medications, such as antidepressants, mood stabilizers, or neuroleptics, may be critical for treatment success when patients have co-occurring mental disorders, such as depression, anxiety disorder, bipolar disorder, or psychosis.

Treatment can occur in a variety of settings, in many different forms, and for different lengths of time. Because drug addiction is typically a chronic disorder characterized by occasional relapses, a short-term, one-time treatment often is not sufficient. For many, treatment is a long-term process and it might involve multiple interventions and attempts at abstinence.

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What Is Drug Addiction Treatment?

There are many addictive drugs, and treatments for specific drugs can differ. Treatment also varies depending on the characteristics of the patient.

Problems associated with an individual's drug addiction can vary significantly. People who are addicted to drugs come from all walks of life. Many suffer from mental health, occupational, health, or social problems that make their addictive disorders much more difficult to treat. Even if there are few associated problems, the severity of addiction itself ranges widely among people.

A variety of scientifically based approaches to drug addiction treatment exists. Drug addiction treatment can include behavioral therapy (such as counseling, cognitive therapy, or psychotherapy), medications, or their combination. Behavioral therapies offer people strategies for coping with their drug cravings, teach them ways to avoid drugs and prevent relapse, and help them deal with relapse if it occurs. When a person's drug-related behavior places him or her at higher risk for AIDS or other infectious diseases, behavioral therapies can help to reduce the risk of disease transmission. Case management and referral to other medical, psychological, and social services are crucial components of treatment for many patients. The best programs provide a combination of therapies and other services to meet the needs of the individual patient, which are shaped by such issues as age, race, culture, sexual orientation, gender, pregnancy, parenting, housing, and employment, as well as physical and sexual abuse.

Drug addiction treatment can include behavioral therapy, medications, or their combination.
Treatment medications, such as methadone, LAAM, and naltrexone, are available for individuals addicted to opiates. Nicotine preparations (patches, gum, nasal spray) and bupropion are available for individuals addicted to nicotine.

Medications, such as antidepressants, mood stabilizers, or neuroleptics, may be critical for treatment success when patients have co-occurring mental disorders, such as depression, anxiety disorder, bipolar disorder, or psychosis.

Addiction Treatment can occur in a variety of settings, in many different forms, and for different lengths of time. Because drug addiction is typically a chronic disorder characterized by occasional relapses, a short-term, one-time treatment often is not sufficient. For many, treatment is a long-term process that involves multiple interventions and attempts at abstinence.

 If you are looking for a comprehensive addiction treatment program, Cove Center for Recovery premier Drug Rehab Centers is the solution for you. From Intervention to  Recovery After Care, Cove Drug and Alcohol Rehab Centers provides unique programs helping patients  to recognize the origin of the problem that caused the need to self-medicate. Learning how to deal with these problems results in facing situations instead of avoiding them and reduces the chance of relapse. 

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Adult Drug Abuse is on the Rise

New research sheds new light on the increasing rate of drug abuse in America. As adults increasingly participate in the rise of drug abuse, so do the overdoses and the deaths of these adults. The study reported that the rate of overdoses today is ten times higher than the rate in the late 1960s.

This rate increase is not just from the baby boomers and hippies as some would be led to believe, but the rate is higher amongst all age groups. The rate is especially high for white Americans, with this trend on the rise and no appearance of the rate of the drug abuse leveling off any time soon.

This increase or rise of drug abuse among all age groups is said to be accredited to the trend of abusing prescription drugs. These figures and analyzed trends come from the U.S. Census. Compiling these numbers which showed that white men and women are nine times more likely to die from an overdose due to drug abuse in 2005 to 2007 than in the years of 1968 to 1969. Black men and women are three times more likely to die.

Before in the 1960s, the rate of deaths due to drug abuse was 1 in every 100,000 people. In 2007, 15 white women out of every 100,000 died from drug abuse. For black women the rate was 17 out of every 100,000. The rates for black and white men were even larger jumps.

The increasing deaths among these various age groups do not have one cause, however, the abuse of prescription drugs is evident in playing a major role in the rise of these deaths. Abusing prescription medications include painkillers and Vicodin. Which are the most commonly abused prescription drugs. With almost half of Americans taking prescription drugs, the opportunities for these drugs to be abused is increased, which leads to the increase of addiction, all scenarios that come with serious, if not deadly, consequences.

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Are We Winning the Fight Against Drug Addiction?

In the fight against drug abuse and drug addiction, there have been several medications, such as methadone and Suboxone that have been proven effective.

However, unfortunately with the skyrocketing number of addiction cases, the clinics which offer these medications do not have enough available slots to help all in the area who need them. Combining this fact with another statistics that only 10% of addicts seek help, you can get the picture how urgently we need a substantially revised drug addiction prevention and treatment plan. This new plan needs to include all available resources, from the government and the private sector, all the way to the family unit in order to be successful.

By now we know that government money alone cannot solve the ills of the nation. Any urgent national problem should be considered and understood as urgent by the citizens of a society as well as the government of that society. We have poured billions of government dollars in drug addiction treatment and can show very little for it. Time has come to ask for value in return for the money we are spending. We need to identify the best resources for the solution to drug addiction problem and we need to have a way to measure our success. There should be some form of partnership between the government and the private sector to bring this out of control epidemic, at least under control in the short run, and perhaps reduce it to the status of "annoying issue" in the long run. It would be naïve to think there would be a day that drug addiction is completely eliminated. Like any other human vice, addictions have been part of human nature and will stay with us. Our best hope is to make it into a seldom occurring treatable disease.

In this scenario we may be able to eliminate the incidents of neonatal intensive care units treating drug-affected babies who are sick from the drug use of their mothers. We can decrease crimes related to drug use, the number of violent crimes and drug-related traffic accidents. We can reduce the incidents of 14 or 15 year olds invading their parent’s medicine cabinets to get their hands on prescription drugs. These are measurable results which if achieved can save us, as a nation, more than dollars. Achieving these results enhances the quality of life for a whole society.We need to address the American drug addiction problem with American drug addiction solutions that takes into account our specific national issues affecting this problem.

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Drug Addiction is a Disease

We have heard it, read it, and may even told others this fact. But do the majority of people really believe this? I am not talking about those who are addicted to drugs or alcohol, but the general public with no addiction problem.

It seems that more people are grasping the idea that drug addiction is a disease as there has been an increase in getting people involved and educating them by presenting studies done throughout the years supporting this fact.

Recently there was a conference in Pikeville College in Pikeville, Kentucky on drug addiction and the way it should be treated. More than one hundred people, including teachers, students and the general public, attended this event to learn about drug addiction as a disease. The presentation was put on by UNITE Pike, the Substance Abuse Task Force and Pikeville Medical Center. The focus was on drug addiction as a disease.

Samantha Saracino, a reporter writing for Wymtnews.com, wrote “it is no secret that drug addiction is a problem in this area, but after listening to the presentation, people learned that it is a problem everywhere and it is something that needs to be treated in a specific way.”

It was obvious based on her report that the consensus among all who attended was that the education was necessary and useful in giving them direction on how to fight drug addiction problem in the community.

Barry Chaney, UNITE Pike Chairperson was concerned about the fact that there are still many who are struggling with drug and alcohol addiction and hide their addiction thinking it is a moral deficiency as opposed to a disease which it truly is.

A teacher attending the conference emphasized the importance of events like that one for those interacting with children. Mich Justice who teaches at Belfry High School was satisfied that these educational events prepares teachers to recognize teens involved with drug abuse, how to deal with it and how to do their part to prevent it.

But one important comment came from one of the speakers at the event, Dr. Burns M. Brady, who said: "Wrong explanations, so many wrong treatments, so many things that don't work. It's an extremely prevalent problem and we've really garbled some of the best treatment and explanation for the problem."

There is merit in what Dr. Brady said. There are many drug rehabilitation facilities in America. Drug rehab facilities do not provide the same treatment program for addicts.

As far as finding a treatment facility is concerned, it is important for anyone looking for drug rehabilitation facilities to do his or her homework and find the facility based on research.

Cove Center for Recovery - Addiction Treatment Center Centers offer a flexible and affordable addiction treatment program. Their addiction treatment program focus on treating the whole person and not just an isolated symptom. Their counselors and therapist work one on one with each patient to identify the factors that may have contributed to the drug abuse – home, work, relationships and medical history. They also believe that families have a vital role to play in the recovery process, and each addiction treatment program has a place for family participation, to educate them in the treatment process and to equip them for their role as supporters.

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Adults Getting Hooked: Cocaine Addiction

Cocaine is one of the more expensive drugs. Cocaine has been exploited in movies and in the press when celebrities such as models and Lindsay Lohan are caught using it. The street names for cocaine are coca, crack, rock, 8ball, powder, white, blow, sugar, coke, white girl, and crack rock. Cocaine is an extract from the leaves of a bush. Cocaine is very addictive and comes in powder, solid known as rock or crack rock.

Powder cocaine- dissolves in water and users can snort or inject it. When it is snorted users take a “bump” or a “line.”

Crack cocaine- a solid. It is made through a chemical process that leaves it in a “freebase” form that can be smoked. Usually smoked in a pipe or with aluminum foil.
Young males up to 25 are the biggest users, 8% using cocaine in the last year. 14% of adults in the US have used cocaine with one in 40 adults using within the past year. The effects are almost instant, interfering with the chemical messages of the brain. The effects of the high usually last from 30 minutes to 2 hours.

Side effects—increase sense of energy and alertness, irritability, paranoia, anxiety, increased heart rate, feeling of invincibility, addiction, weight loss, withdraws, nose bleeds, deterioration of inner nose, trouble with sexual performance, heart attack, violent behavior, seizures, ulcers, kidney failure, and death.

Sings of cocaine use—dilated pupils, high levels of energy and activity, lack of appetite, excited speech, not sleeping, and lack of appetite.

Coke or Cocaine is highly addictive. A user is trying to achieve the same high that they felt on their first use, however, a user can never get the same high. It only takes a small amount of cocaine to become addicted. It only takes one use to overdose or die. Cocaine in the powder form is usually not pure. It is always “cut,” mixed with other products such as vitamin powder, heroine, laundry detergent, ect. Dealers will buy a small amount of cocaine because it is pricey. Then they cut the coke with other products to make a large amount of cocaine to sell, which earns a profit. If you or someone you know is struggling with cocaine, call the Cove for help. It is never too late to prevent and/or stop an addiction.

If you have come across our article/blog, is because you or someone you love is in need of help for cocaine addiction. Cove Center for Recovery is an Addiction Treatment Center offering a premier drug addiction treatment program that can help you or your loved one. Our aim is to treat the whole person, and not just an isolated symptom. During the addiction treatment process we will work with the client to identify the factors that may have contributed to their addiction– home, work, relationships and medical history. We also believe that families have a vital role to play in the recovery process, and each program has a place for family participation, to educate them in the addiction treatment process and to equip them for their role as supporters.

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Drug Rehab Facilities are Getting Creative, Aggressive and Effective in Treating Individuals with Drug and Alcohol Addiction

It has been many years that drug addiction or alcohol addiction has been correctly labeled as a disease.
As our attitude towards drug and alcohol addiction changed, we as a society became more understanding of the plight of drug addicts and their daily struggle for their addiction recovery.

This changing attitude brought up many different ways of addiction recovery including drug oriented approach such as Suboxone (Semisynthetic Opioid) and Methadone (synthetic opioid developed in Germany in 1937) and non-drug oriented approach like holistic drug addiction recovery or holistic alcohol addiction recovery.

At Cove Center for Recovery, in realizing the many different methods and programs of addiction treatment, and the many different ways that addicted individuals respond to treatment, we apply a combination of therapies.

Our inpatient drug rehab programs deal with addiction, recovery and codependency with the tools of therapy and spirituality. We educate, treat and train men and women inflicted with drug addiction or alcohol addiction, to change their lifestyle in order to first and foremost, break the chain of addiction and just as importantly as treating addiction to reduce the chance of relapse.

The causes of drug addiction or alcohol addiction are different in men and women. Women, for the most part, respond more favorably to treatment of their drug addiction or alcohol abuse when the emotional aspect of their life and lifestyle is factored in their addiction therapy.

Cove Center for Recovery provides gender oriented therapy that addresses special needs of women and men in their journey to drug and alcohol addiction recovery. In reality, when incorporating the underlying causes or issues that contributed to one’s alcohol or drug addiction, the chances of relapse for that person is reduced as well.

Call Cove Center for Recovery and talk to one of our certified drug rehab therapists to find out about our alcohol rehabilitation program, drug rehabilitation program and how they incorporate various proven therapies like the 12 step, cognitive therapy and holistic drug treatment therapy to achieve results.

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