Drug Addiction: Methadone Facts

drug addiction - Important information about methadone uses in drug rehabs and drug addiction detox.

For those in recovery from alcoholism or drug addiction how many AA or NA meetings do you attend a week?
Also do you like them. I am new to sobriety almost 4 months in. I enjoy going to meetings I attend daily. I am just asking others.

How can I find purpose and substance to my life after drug addiction?
I was addicted to oxycontin and xanax for a long time and got arrested for drug possession and lost my carreer in the computer field. Now I am on pretrial intervention for a first time offense and cannot do drugs for 18 months. Drugs were my way of escape and a way to entertain myself. Now I am trying to get a job and keep getting rejected because of my pending charges.I am finding it hard to cope with my life. I just watch TV and suft the web and play games all day and get bored so easily. I no longer have any motivation or energy to hang with old friends or play music, its like everything is so stale to me now ive only been sober for 3 months .My dad isnt successful and I am scared that I will not be either if I cant get my head around this lack of substance to my life.I am a fairly enlightened and smart person but I think drugs have severly hindered my normal coping mechanizms.

How long does it usually take to die of crack cocaine drug addiction?


What is the alcohol or drug addiction process?
What are the specific steps someone should take if they know of a person who is a drug addict or alcoholic. explain some of the treatment programs available to addicts.how does an alcoholic or drug addict affect family members?

How can a society free from drug addiction be formed ?


What can be done to help someone with a drug addiction?
These days almost everyone has a friend or relative with an addiction problem, what would you do to help them?serenityranch.ca

Questions about drug addiction?
Anyone that has any questions about drug addiction feel free to ask and I will answer your question to the best of my ability but please leave your email address so that I can respond to you. Thank you.Well I have to be able to get a hold of the person asking the question.I am not trying to do that, I am just trying to help people get some answers, and if you do not have a question please, do not post here.

Am I setting myself up for a potential prescription drug addiction?
I have tried my friends ADHD medications Dexedrine and concerta to increase my attention span. They have worked wonders and I would like to exaggerate my symptoms to a doctor in order to obtain my own prescription. I have heard that 1 in 5 college students have been using ADHD medications without ADHD, I am mostly concerned about the long term effects this may have on my brain chemistry. I am aware it may not be morally correct but " unfair" means very little in today's society. We must do what needs to be done to get ourselves ahead, isn't that the first rule of capitalism anyways? My school work is loading up and my body is already so hyped up on coffee 24 7, so I need to look elsewhere for unlimited energy. I excersice, eat healthy, get enough sleep.. But with everything in my day this " normal energy" just isn't enough.

Have you ever heard of this drug addiction cure?
I read this in the newspaper some time during the early 2000's. This guy was supposedly in Africa in the 1980's. He found this tree bark or root that the natives used for a stimulant. He found it cured his addictions to many things. He brought it back to the US, gave it to his friends and it worked for them. He tried to market this but the drug companies seem to block his production of this. Later, I read in an article, I think it was this same product was being advertised by some pharmaceutical companies. Have you heard anything like this? I really read a several page article on this in the paper.

Any good tips on how to overcome drug addiction?
im addicted to the recently banned drug mephedrone mcat I do it usually about twice a week and all my money goes on it. But I just havent had the money for it recently so ive been clean for 2 weeks. This coming friday though I will be able to afford it and im quite sure that im going to do it, but i dont want to, i wanna kick but when im off it for this long i just crave it so much. My health, friends and family don't matter..until the day after when I feel depressed and guilty, and I vow to quit, then a few days go by and im back on it. So without going to rehab or meetings are there any useful tips you can give me to break this cycle.

Should drug addiction be considered a disease?
Put a brief explanation.

Can someone overcome there drug addiction at home without going to rehab?
My daughter has been taking drugs for a while now and I really want her to get help. But she refuses to go to rehab and I can't force her because she's 19. But she has agreed to stop taking them. But can you come off drugs successfully at home ? What do I expect while helping her through this ? How can we do this ?

How to get over drug addiction?
I don't know what to do. I've been using dramamine about once every week or two for at least a few months now and have done it sporadically before then. I take about 6 8 tablets each time. Not enough to hallucinate but enough to get confused and get a nice body high. I'm starting not to recognize myself. I haven't been acting the same. I'm slightly more outgoing, but I'm really weird now. I've been so irritable and so much more depressed. I've stopped caring about school I used to be an overachiever . I'm dizzy a lot of the time. I forget what I'm talking about more than usual. I get confused easily. I just get really spaced out a lot. When I'm not using dramamine, I just like to read about it, like other people's experiences with it, and imagine that I'm high then. One of my friends is trying to help me. He's slowly hinting to another friend about my drug use. Hoping that will help, I guess. I'm not one hundred percent sure I want to quit though. I just feel like I need to take it. But I don't want to cause brain liver kidney stomach damage. No one knows about this except for the one friend. I can't tell one of my friends because then she won't like me anymore. She hasn't talked to a friend of mine since she found out he was started smoking pot that was a year or two ago . So what do I do?

Til what point your brain recovers from drug addiction and alcoholism?
If you do a lot of exercise and healthy habits, could you recover from the brain damage caused by drugs and alcoholism?