addiction
Ordinary Doctor? Or Drug Pusher?
Living with a debilitating illness may cause pain. In some cases, extreme pain. Presently in our society, the only legal person to turn to in those times of pain is a physician. A physician is someone expertly trained, governed by the American Medical Association and sworn to do no harm. A safe harbor… Some residents, [...]
Suboxone: Wonder Drug?
Or “Wonder Why This Happened to Me” Drug??? For many years, the only alternative available medically for opioid addiction was Methadone. Though it was quickly apparent that Methadone became an addiction in a class by itself. Methadone causes horrific withdrawals, the extent of which is hardly ever realized as the user becomes aware they may [...]
Synthetic Marijuana in Baton Rouge
Synthetic marijuana has made its way into the Baton Rouge area. Last year about this time Governor Bobby Jindal paid a lot of attention to synthetic marijuana in Louisiana. It was being marketed just as the bath salts were and was declared illegal by the legislature. On Friday January 13, 2012 officers from the Baton [...]
Rapper Lil’ Boosie Sentenced
You would think that being incarcerated would make it tough to commit crimes, but if you’re Baton Rouge rapper Lil Boosie, you find a way. On November 29, local hip-hop star Torrence Hatch, known by his stage name Lil Boosie, plead guilty to conspiring to smuggle codeine syrup, marijuana, and ecstasy into two Louisiana state [...]
Drugs Cause a Dwindling Spiral of Life Problems
An addict is involved in what is called a dwindling spiral. This is a downward path into further and further depression, out of control feelings and hopelessness. Now is the time to do something before the addicted person winds up in jail or dead from an overdose or accident. In the past there have been [...]
Heroin User Gets Clean
Heroin is a highly addictive drug. Users of heroin start and then they cannot stop because the urge to continue is strong and you just can’t fight it. So you keep taking the drug so you don’t feel the withdrawals. Take for instance one heroin addict we’ll call her Miss A. She started using heroin [...]
Education on Heroin
About Heroin Addiction Heroin is a highly addictive narcotic. This year alone, it has been reported that there are 810,000 Americans addicted to heroin. What is the cost of that figure to society? The price is in the billions. Let’s divide where this money goes. Heroin abuse gives an individual health problem like heart infections, [...]
Maryland Marijuana Drug Threat Assessment
Marijuana is the most available, commonly abused illicit drug in Maryland. Most of the marijuana in Maryland is produced in Mexico, but some of it is produced in Maryland. Some local dealers cultivate cannabis indoors and outdoors. Those who do marijuana are usually not violent, but violence in Maryland is up because of marijuana distribution [...]
Narconon graduates find the way to happiness
Do you know what true happiness is? Being able to live a happy life does not have to be a challenging experience. By the end of the program at Narconon Riverbend, our student has gone through withdrawals with 24/7 assistance. He or she has gone through a detoxification program which has cleansed drugs and toxins [...]
Our Clients Graduate Able to Solve Their Own Problems
What is a condition? It is a state that something is in. As we live our lives we have problems we make choices and decisions and so our life is lived. Sometimes we don’t make the right decisions and we end up spinning our lives out of control. Now what we get with that is [...]
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