Heroin Rehab for Women
Heroin Rehab for Women: Withdrawal Syndrome The main problem that keeps women from getting clean and off heroin is the dread of withdrawal symptoms. Numerous women who are addicted to heroin will endure their addictive behavior long after they want to quit, purely to escape the painful symptoms that withdrawal holds, not knowing that there . . . . Continue Reading
How addiction affects the family
Families where addiction is present are oftentimes painful to live in, which is why those who live with addiction may become traumatized to varying degrees by the experience. Broad swings, from one end of the emotional, psychological and behavioral spectrum to the other, all too often characterize the addicted family system.
Women and Methamphetamine
Methamphetamine is a drug that can cause severe problems in the life of anyone who uses it and that includes women. And unfortunately for women, the rates of methamphetamine use are much higher than for other classes of drugs.
Addiction and Sex Workers
Unfortunately addiction can lead to sex working or in other words prostitution, hooking, stripping etc. Some sex workers use drugs to numb themselves in order to continue working. Others turn to sex working as a last resort to score drug money for an ongoing drug addiction
5 Ways you are Enabling an Addict
Most people don’t want to enable the addict in their life, they only want to help. Yet so many friends and loved ones of the addict end up doing more harm than good by enabling.
Gene Variants Caused by Prenatal Opiate Exposure May Protect Newborns
One of the hardest things a newborn can face is opioid withdrawal related to its mother’s addiction during pregnancy. The baby has to go through all the physical difficulty of withdrawal symptoms with no understanding of what is happening and no ability to articulate its needs. There is new research being conducted with the goal . . . . Continue Reading
Heroin Addiction Picking Up Where Pill Mills Left Off in FL
The war on prescription pills has left a void to be filled among addicts in Florida. Opiate addicts are now turning to heroin as their drug of choice because it’s inexpensive, accessible, and offers effects that are similar to that of opiate painkillers. Patients who began their journey into opiate dependency in their doctor’s office . . . . Continue Reading
Mom Beats Son’s Heroin Dealer with Bat: Judge Throws the Book at Her
When one woman went to the home of her son’s drug dealer with a baseball bat, she had every intention of using it. She steadfastly declared that this 22-year-old adult was providing her underage son with heroin and when her son was unable to kick his addiction due to the continued provision of heroin thanks . . . . Continue Reading
Woman Fakes Cancer to Get Money for Heroin Addiction
Brittany Oxarowski is facing charges for soliciting donations online and from her community to pay for cancer treatments when in fact she was using the money to pay for her heroin addiction. She put up a website that detailed her “struggle” with cancer, the medications and medical treatments she had supposedly undergone and even started . . . . Continue Reading
Teen Mom 2’s Jenelle Evans Admits to Heroin Addiction
Twitter may be one of the downfalls of the young reality star, Jenelle Evans, of Teen Mom 2, but it’s certainly not the only one. For months, rumor and conjecture about whether or not the young mother was fighting a drug problem have been tossed around online, and she recently – if inadvertently – revealed . . . . Continue Reading