Daily Archives: July 1, 2009

TIP 41: Treatment Improvement Protocol, Substance Abuse Treatment: Group Therapy, presents an overview of the role and efficacy of group therapy in substance abuse treatment. Developed through a collaborative, consensus-based process, TIP 41 provides critical research and clinical findings and distills them into practical guidelines for practitioners who utilize group therapy in substance abuse treatment settings. In illustrating the most commonly used types of group therapy, TIP 41 is designed to help treatment professionals expand their awareness and comprehension of dynamics that commonly occur in treatment groups. These insights will prepare councelors to manage their groups and help individual members.

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Date Added: 7/01/09
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This report presents results from the Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) for approximately 1.5 million discharges from substance abuse treatment in 2006. The report provides information on treatment completion, length of stay in treatment, and demographic and substance abuse characteristics of discharges from alcohol or drug treatment facilities that reported to individual State administrative data systems. Data are presented for specific service types rather than for treatment episodes, which can involve treatment in multiple service types.

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2009 National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month Toolkit

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The Road to Recovery Update keeps you informed about activities leading up to National Alcohol & Drug Addiction Recovery Month (Recovery Month) in September.

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I was addicted to China White heroin and Cocaine for a good bit of time. I won’t go into the details of why I quite or what all I did while I was on it, but coming up on July 3rd it will be one year of sober. Sounds great huh? I still think about it every day though. The psychological addiction hasn’t died down or faded away at all like the physical aspect of it has. Every waking second I just crave it. If I come into visual contact with an off-white powdery substance I get the jitters even if it’s not really Cocaine or China White. Is this normal? Anyone else experiencing this? Would it be easier for me to just fall back into my old ways than have to constantly battle off these inner-demons? Were any of your depression or anxieties relieved fully? Mine have calmed down a little but I’m still constantly depressed and have a unreasonable amount of anxieties. Would it be unreasonable to expect to go a whole day without craving cocaine again with-in my lifetime? Thanks— Chong De 3 13 33
Nicholas- I’ve been smoking weed and drinking since I was a little child. My family was abusers too, but I never has much contact with them. I came into contact with cocaine my first time in either 7th or 8th grade. China White when I was a freshman in highschool. I used them as speedballs. Every day. I spent thousands and thousands of dollars on these two drugs. How I got the money is not legal or important as of now. Does this help? Am I hopeless?

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Im thinking wouldnt it just be smarter to make any drug legal for people over the age of 21? I know kids shouldnt be able to use stuff like cocaine and heroin because they dont have the mental ability to judge consequences from drugs or the willpower to stay off them.

But do people understand that the reason people say drugs are so “bad” is because they make your ass go broke so fast? I mean if people maybe didnt go broke from doing hard drugs, wouldnt that probably lead to re-habilitation faster? Instead people have too sit in an abandonded house with a needle in their arm with nothing, why would anyone even WANT to rehabilitate if they have no material possesions.
In reality it costs like $1 to make a pound of heroin or cocaine which would be enough to supply an addict for say… a year? And can people use their freaking heads? The reason their is so much CRIME is because drug addicts STEAL to support their addictive habbit. THIS WOULDNT HAPPEN IF DRUGS WERE DIRT-CHEAP!!!

All the war on drugs does is make corrupt politicians and drug kingpins rich. You do realize that these corrupt politicians and drug lords LOBBY in Washington D.C to keep this drugs illegal right?

Fast food is unhealthy, but its cheap, so people usually dont have a problem getting it and addiction isnt a problem either since its so easy to obtain. I mean sure they’re probably going to die from a heart attack eventually but that’s their choice, as long as it doesnt affect me.. they can do whatever they want. Why cant other people have this type of attitude?

Aside from the fact that most drugs are easier to get then alcohol… Drug use has actually went up since they were made illegal. What kind of society is this? Why do so many people want to impose their beliefs onto other people because they think its “right” or “moral” or.. “politically correct”? Its when people see others as groups and NOT individuals, thats when things always go bad. Individuals have the right to liberty and pursuit of happiness in whatever form they want if it doesnt effect other people. Thats what is IN the United States Constitution. You dont see any BULLSHIT about how drugs should be illegal in their do you? Thats because our forefathers werent a bunch of arrogant greedy pricks who only care about money and power.

Id write a lot more but i doubt anyone would want to read that much,

Tell me why or why not drugs should be totally legal and sold by our government?

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