Rise in number of alcohol and drug addicts over 50

As the number of substance-abuse related treatment admissions for individuals over fifty increases throughout the nation, experts have begun to express their concern over the growing numbers of baby boomers succumbing to alcohol and other substances in order to carryout everyday tasks.

In 2008, one out of every eight individual seeking help for substance abuse was an older adult; implying that their share of treatment admissions had doubled over a sixteen year period while the number of admissions for other age groups had decreased.

Experts studying substance abuse amongst baby boomers believe that this group of individuals seeking help for their addiction has historically high rates of substance abuse that has often been acquired in up to three or four prior decades.

And while the number of treatment-seeking individuals seems to increase in almost every age group, it is unfortunate that only few treatment facilities designated to take in older adults, leaving them forlorn in their lingering battle against substance abuse.

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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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The New Highs - Purple Drank, Kill, BZP and Opium Tea

In 2009, colored ecstasy pills started popping up around the country in the shape of President Barack Obama’s head. Those came on the heels of yellow smiley-faced marijuana gum balls appearing at a Howard County school, THC candy bars called “Stoners” marketed underground in California, and turtle-shaped chocolate psychedelic mushrooms in Oregon. Every year, it seems, people think up new ways to get high. According to the feds, below are some unusual drugs the DEA says saw spikes in usage in the past year and others that are making a resurgence.

PURPLE DRANK
What is Purple Drank?: Prescription-strength cough syrup combined with lemon-lime soda and pieces of hard candy. Variations include using juice or sports drinks.

Effects of Purple Drank: It’s a sedative and gives users a “woozy” feeling of “swooning euphoria.” The feds say Purple Drank is “highly addictive” and has contributed to overdose deaths, including that of the Texas man widely credited with popularizing the mixture.

Street names: Lean, syrup, Texas tea, purple jelly, purple tonic, sip-sip, player potion, purp and sizzurp.

Rise in Popularity: Used since the 1960s, the mixture has enjoyed a revival as Lil Wayne, Eminem, Kanye West, Fast East Movement and other acts have included references in their music.

Legal Status: With a cough syrup prescription from a doctor, this drink is a combination of legal substances.

KILL
What is Kill?: A narcotic, such as heroin, laced with another substance, such as fentanyl, a synthetic opiate, approximately 50 times more potent than heroin.

Effects of Kill: Results in irrational behavior and is extremely dangerous to the user’s health.

Street names: Kill or keel.

Rise in popularity: Used among hard-core junkies drawn in because of its reputation for being more powerful than heroin.

Legal status: Illegal.

BZP
What is BSP?: Originally a parasite treatment for cattle, tablets containing the synthetic stimulant drug BZP (N-benzylpiperazine) are often combined with caffeine. BZP is typically pressed onto logo-embossed tablets or shaped into cartoon-character tablets.

Effects of BZP: BZP produces euphoria and cardiovascular effects similar to those of amphetamine, but much less severe. Effects generally last six to eight hours.
Street names: A2, Benny Bear, Benny, Frenzy, Legal E, Legal X, Molly and Nemesis.

Rise in popularity: Law enforcement agencies have reported a spike in usage as the drug is sold as ecstasy to unsuspecting buyers.

Legal status: Illegal in the United States but legal in some parts of Europe.

OPIUM TEAWhat is Opium Tea?: A tea brewed with various parts of opium poppy plants.

Effects of Opium Tea: Users initially experience a warm feeling and a state of euphoria and sleepiness. At high doses, death can occur through respiratory depression. Effects of the tea begin within 30 minutes and may last up to eight hours. According to medical examiners in several states, five men ingested poppy tea shortly before their deaths.

Street names: Opium tea or poppy tea.

Rise in popularity: Users can find legal ingredients to make the tea at farmer’s markets or on the Internet.

Legal status: Poppy seeds are legal in the United States, but other parts of the plant are illegal.

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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.

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Why Can't Drug Addicts Quit On Their Own?

Nearly all addicted individuals believe in the beginning that they can stop using drugs on their own, and most try to stop without treatment. However, most of these attempts result in failure to achieve long-term abstinence. Research has shown that long-term drug use results in significant changes in brain function that persist long after the individual stops using drugs. These drug-induced changes in brain function may have many behavioral consequences, including the compulsion to use drugs despite adverse consequences. This is the defining characteristic of addiction.

Long-term drug use results in significant changes in brain function that persist long after the individual stops using drugs. Understanding that addiction has such an important biological component may help explain an individual's difficulty in achieving and maintaining abstinence without treatment. Psychological stress from work or family problems, social cues (such as meeting individuals from one's drug-using past), or the environment (such as encountering streets, objects, or even smells associated with drug use) can interact with biological factors to hinder attainment of sustained abstinence and make relapse more likely. Research studies indicate that even the most severely addicted individuals can participate actively in treatment and that active participation is essential to good outcomes.

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Prescription Drug Addiction Treatment - Treatments for Opioid Addiction

Individuals who abuse or are addicted to prescription opioid medications such as OxyContin, Percocet, Vicodin, Demerol, and Fentanyl can be treated sucessfully. Initially, depending on the level of addiction, the individual may need to undergo medically supervised detoxification to help reduce withdrawal symptoms; however, that is just the first step. Options for effectively treating addiction to prescription opioids are drawn from research on treating heroin addiction. Behavioral treatments, usually combined with medications are extremely effective.

For all addiction treatment needs and levels of care, Cove Center for Recovery – Drug Rehab, employs a team of qualified and caring addiction treatment professionals, offering a Treatment Program for Young Adults and Adults, who are addicted to prescription drug medications.

Cove's goal in addiction treatment is to treat the disease, build the individual's self confidence showing them how to take charge of their lives and reunite the family.

Cove's prescription drug addiction treatment programs are designed around a positive environment to boost the individual’s self-esteem and produce long term results. Therapy aka psychotherapy and counseling, helps patients develop coping skills that can help them to avoid relapse and has been shown to significantly improve the likelihood of long-term treatment success.

Other therapeutic modalities of treatment are helpful in resolving ongoing, interpersonal struggles. Trauma Therapy, Grief Therapy, Anger Management, Stress Management, Art Therapy, Music Therapy, and Meditation, are important therapeutic techniques each recovering individual receives at Cove Drug Rehab Center.

Cove Prescription Drug Addiction Treatment Program provides education on the cycle of addiction, in an effort to help each individual identify behaviors in the cycle and side-step relapse before it occurs. When an individual recognizes behaviors such as non-compliance with medication, excessive stress, denial or reduced effort in recovery groups such as NA, then the individual can STOP the relapse before it begins.

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Drug Rehab Programs Offering Family Workshop

Alcohol and drug addiction are major problems in our society. Addiction disrupts not only the individual using chemicals, but every person associated with that person. Addiction can lead to financial ruin, broken families, criminal behavior and even death.
The Family Workshop program was created to help these in need (addict and family). It is our primary focus to assist our patients and their families return to a healthy lifestyle.

One of the most important factors of the patient’s sobriety and future recovery is the understanding and support of the family. We offer a monthly intensive two-day Family Workshop. Using the family systems approach, the family and/or significant others are given education and therapy to help them cope with the impact of the problem in their own lives.
Patient and family members are taught to be respectful and to communicate openly and directly with each other. The family is given insights regarding boundaries and self-care as they relate to their relationship with the patient.

The program concludes with the family members exchanging positive affirmations and setting of future goals. The newly sober patient practices, develops, and strengthens their recovery behaviors while using their alliance with The Family as a therapeutic and supportive resource. This is an opportunity to develop a sense of comfort in their sober lifestyle before being discharged from treatment. Family workshop is extremely valuable to families as it greatly enhances the patient’s recovery process.
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Intensive Outpatient Programs for Substance Abuse Treatment

An Intensive Outpatient Program is a day or nighttime treatment program that employs an integrated and individualized schedule of recognized substance abuse and mental health treatment modalities.

An Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) is designed as an alternative to inpatient treatment or as an aftercare program, upon the successful completion of an inpatient program. An intensive outpatient program begins with a psychological evaluation, a psychosocial assessment, and other assessments used to identify individual needs.  The therapeutic approach includes an individual treatment plan specifically designed to address the issues each person brings to treatment.  Individual, group, and family therapy are the cornerstone of a comprehensive program.  Additional therapeutic services are offered including Trauma, Self-Harm, Eating Disorders, Marriage and Family, Adolescent Behavior, Mental Health and Depression Therapies, as well as other therapeutic approaches as needed. 

The goals of the Intensive Outpatient programs are to provide psychiatric and/or substance abuse treatment to individuals in a less restrictive setting than an inpatient unit. The benefits of this type of care include: lessening the disruption of social, family, and community ties; allowing the patient to test new skills in a more neutral environment than an inpatient hospital setting; providing treatment milieu that provides flexibility in the numbers of treatment days per week, thus allowing a patient to pursue other activities, such as shortening of the inpatient stay, or preventing the need for full hospitalization.

An effective Intensive Outpatient Program will provide a positive experience geared toward enhancing self-esteem and promoting effective patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving.

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Drug Addiction Can Happen to Anyone, Even Doctors

Over the years there has been an increase in substance abuse which has led to an increase in substance and drug addiction. A popular trend, especially amongst teens is the attitude that addiction will not happen to them. However, no one can guarantee to fully control their substance abuse, not even a doctor.

Richard, a chief of neurosurgery at a Chicago hospital, found himself relying on prescription drugs to keep him carrying on and stimulants to make it throughout his rounds. He built up a tolerance by his second year to taking seventy pills a day to hamper withdrawal affects. He was so dependent on the drugs that while he was at work he would steal the drugs from the hospital and keep them in his coat pocket to ingest throughout the day. Richard acknowledges that he struggled with this addiction constantly having to feed it, just to have his body feel normal and prevent the negative side effects of coming down. He knew that he was putting him and his patients at risk.  He says that he thought he could handle it but admits that when using substances, you become delusional about what you think you can control.

The doctor stated that his stress triggered his substance abuse, but that is only one reason why people use drugs. If doctors and successful people in society can become addicted and struggle with addiction, so can anyone else. If successful and smart people cannot control an addiction most other individuals do not have control either. Addiction and substance abuse is not to be taken lightly. The attitude of it cannot happen to you or you can control it is the wrong attitude to have. Addiction can happen to anyone and no one has complete control when it comes to substance abuse.

Drugs in general are highly addictive and addiction is a medical condition. 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 one use of a drug to become addicted. It only takes one use to overdose or die. Like all medical conditions, treatment is necessary. If you or someone you know is struggling with drug abuse or addiction, call Cove Center for Recovery – Addiction Treatment Centers. The Cove offers a one of a kind addiction treatment program that is flexible to fit the needs of the client. It is never too late to prevent and/or stop an addiction.

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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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Predicting Factors of Addiction

Drugs were originally made to benefit the public by improving human health; introducing the notion of modern medicine. However, there is a side effect of having this new form of modernism that was not foreseen: abuse of prescription drugs. When these prescription medicines are used improperly they cause problems for the drug user and society.

So what causes someone to become addicted?

The answer is complex just like the causes that contribute to drug addiction. Some causes are still unknown and unclear. Some factors of drug addiction are known, such as your environment, heredity, and biochemical reactions inside your brain. Repeated drug use, usually for drugs that are easy to get a hold of like prescription drugs, causes the user to become dependent, addicted. Tolerance to these drugs plays a large role and constitutes physical dependency. To feel the same effect of the drug, the drug user has to take larger amounts each time. When an addiction cannot be controlled and the drug abuser cannot get a hold of the drug, they will experience what is known as withdrawal symptoms. When there is no physical dependency, there can a psychological dependency on the drugs, especially with drugs such as marijuana. The drug user will develop an emotional compulsive need to get a hold of the drug. Addiction is usually defined by a combination of compulsion to use the drugs and being preoccupied to get the substances.

All of this talk of physical and psychological dependency leads to try to uncover the truth of the rumor of an addictive personality. The truth is that drug addiction can be genetically inherited. The theory is that a person most likely inherited several factors that increase their risk for drug addiction to occur. Psychological and environmental aspects also play a part in the addiction. Some of these factors that can cause someone to use drugs are stress, anxiety, family disorders, lack of self-esteem, peer and social pressures, and bad living conditions.
 
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