Lawmakers warn of growing heroin problem
Legislators and professionals who treat alcoholics and drug addicts convened on Tuesday, March 4 in Albany to participate in the Association of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Providers advocacy day in an attempt to highlight the need for increased … Read more on Legislative Gazette

Prescription-drug battle fuels rise in heroin use
The likelihood that many prescription-drug abusers will switch to heroin because it is much cheaper is widely accepted among addiction treatment professionals and law enforcement officials. Justice Department officials reject any direct linkage between … Read more on Chicago Tribune (blog)

Prescription-drug battle fuels rise in heroin use in US The Drug War
The likelihood that many prescription-drug abusers will switch to heroin because it is much cheaper is widely accepted among addiction treatment professionals and law enforcement officials. Justice Department officials reject any direct linkage between … Read more on Tico Times

Pa. medical professionals address prescription drug abuse 'crisis'
HARRISBURG — Describing prescription drug abuse as a growing “crisis” in Pennsylvania, members of the state medical community announced the formation of a multi-specialty physician panel to address the problem. … a professor within the Department of … Read more on The Reporter

Richard Ross trains lens on incarcerated kids
A 16-year-old boy sits in a segregation cell in the South Bend Juvenile Correctional Facility. He has been here for 11/2 months out of a 6-month sentence. The boy, whose mother lives in Arizona and his father in Philadelphia, was in Indiana visiting … Read more on Indianapolis Star

Official: Hoffman died from toxic mix of drugs
NEW YORK — Philip Seymour Hoffman died from taking a combination of heroin, cocaine and other drugs, the New York City medical examiner ruled Friday, a toxic mix that addiction specialists said is not uncommon in the tens of thousands of overdose … Read more on Indiana Gazette

Jimmy Ryser: Addicts are set up to die by today's medical standards
So the treatment of the two groups must be radically different, and to flippantly treat drug addicts as a person that misuses insulin will continue the string of dead bodies (over 720 from prescription drugs, most of them from prescription narcotics … Read more on Indianapolis Star

Mainland High School: Drug tests 'working'; students disagree
Consequences of testing positive increase in severity with each offense, with strike one resulting in a phone call home and a counseling session. Strike three leads to suspension from all clubs and sports for one full calendar year. The urine samples … Read more on Press of Atlantic City

Orioles fans can breathe easier after late signings
For the past few years, Darryl Strawberry has been providing counseling for troubled souls at his ministry in St. Louis. Now he's taking his mission to help drug addicts to another level. Strawberry and Yankees' substance abuse counselor Ron Dock have … Read more on New York Daily News

Boulder County juvenile courts focus on limiting recidivism
22, 2013: Vehicle theft, residential trespass, possession of drug paraphernalia, open alcohol container. Sept. 23, 2013: Nine counts of vehicle break-in. Oct. 2, 2013: Vehicle theft, vehicle break-in. Defendant 3, age 16. Nov. 18, 2013: 45 counts of … Read more on Longmont Daily Times-Call

We'll send 35 fewer people to prison with new probation
Director of court services Bill Pfalzgraf said he's hired additional staff to handle the expected influx, expand drug testing and increase counseling sessions, in some cases from a monthly to a weekly basis. “We've been working with uncooperative … Read more on LaSalle News Tribune

Berlin's 'Die Garbe' Gives Recovering Drug Addicts A Fresh Start
It's also part of a drug rehabilitation therapy center where all the employees are recovering addicts. Credit Jörg Bennet Wimalasena / NPR Berlin. Enlarge image. Die Garbe is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year, but it's only one of many other … Read more on NPR Berlin

Pleasantville officials don't want drug–recovery clinic moving to shopping center
Tweedle, who sits on the Planning Board that will consider a change-of-use application for the facility next week, said he'd been in discussions to relocate the addiction treatment facility for the past five years. The last time he'd discussed the … Read more on Press of Atlantic City

Question by Mr Psychology: Can you help me, a Christian and a (supposedly) “recovering” sexual (pornography) addict?
I’m 20 years old and male.
I used to watch pornography and pleasure myself about once a day, for roughly 7 years.
I’m also a Christian, so you can imagine just how much of a struggle this has been for a third of my life. I’m an intellectual, I’m not stupid and I don’t try to kid myself. I don’t sugar-coat things and I know what I am doing is wrong.
Last summer I started a journal and recorded my process of fighting this addiction to pornography and (hopefully) overcoming it. I finally did… or so I thought.
Recently (5-6 months later), I’m finding it harder and harder to control the urges that, just a few months ago, I could cast aside with ease. I’ve ruined my streak of 5 months without pornography, and am seeing myself beginning to pleasure myself once again more frequently.
I read passages in the bible, such as “Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love Him.” James 1:12, and it breaks my heart (as I know it breaks God’s).
My feelings constantly turn from shame to frustration and back again.

Please help me, I don’t know where to begin. I’ve overcome this before, but it feels even harder this time. It hurts more than it did before because before I was starting off at the ultimate low (for myself), so anything was an improvement. Now, however, I feel as though I’m going from Great to terrible.

Please, any (constructive/positive/truthful/concrete) advise is greatly welcomed, especially from a Christian perspective (I find that non-Christians, nothing against them, do not quite understand the reason behind or the severity of my feelings).

Thank you.

Best answer:

Answer by 888
Come to know Christ first.

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Heroin addicts who want help face insurance denials
As heroin makes a comeback across the nation, addicts and their loved ones who are searching for help are contending with a shortage of services and constraints placed on care by insurance companies, health care and addiction specialists say. Demand … Read more on USA TODAY

KAREN HERRAND, Cotuit: Drug addicts, their families need more help to recover
Being exposed to heroin/opiate addiction with my now 22-year-old son and having to educate myself throughout the last two years, by any available means, i.e., support groups, literature, research, it has become unbelievably disheartening how many … Read more on The Patriot Ledger

Recovery project to start helping addicts in March
PARKERSBURG – The Latrobe Street Mission on March 3 will launch The Grace Project, a long-term recovery program. "This a comprehensive one-year recovery program designed to help individuals attain and maintain a life of freedom from addiction and … Read more on Parkersburg News

Poll: What is the best way to help drug addicts recover?
The commitment of all in combating this problem must not only include preventing new addicts, but also helping existing addicts on their road towards recovery. With that, Astro AWANI wants to ask you: What do you think is the best way to help … Read more on Astro Awani

Question by I’m gonna start another riot: Can somebody explain why Mexico would even have drug rehab centers since Mexico says its only a US problem?
Even for regular families with addicts, drug centers can be ugly places. Parents commit unruly adolescents or even their adult children against their will for months at a time. Beatings are often part of therapy, hygiene can be poor and lax enforcement of regulations prevails.

No one knows how many drug rehabilitation clinics and treatment centers there are. The Mexican government is expanding a series of Nueva Vida rehab centers for teenagers, erected since 2007 with $ 205 million confiscated from a Shanghai -born drug trafficker.

However, it largely leaves the work of treating hardened addicts to nonprofit associations, some run by former addicts with little training. Many treatment centers are semi-clandestine, hidden behind walls with no signs.

A significant number of centers never register with the government. The former addicts who run them ask few questions of those who arrive for treatment, seeking nominal payment from family members.

Demand is high due to soaring drug use. A U.N. report last year estimated that 1.7 million Mexicans use cocaine, consuming 27.6 tons a year, nearly double the amount in 2002. Mexicans consume 3.9 tons of heroin a year, it added. Some 3 million Mexicans smoke marijuana, also a significant rise from earlier in the decade.

Officials put the number of drug addicts in the nation at 428,000.

President Felipe Calderon said drug cartels focused on Mexico as a market after per capita income tripled since 1993 to more than $ 10,000 last year nationwide and as much as $ 18,000 in Monterrey , a prosperous industrial hub near the border with Texas .

“This new purchasing power in the society has made the criminals modify their plans, turning from low-profile exporters to the United States to distributing and placing drugs in the big and small cities of this country,” Calderon said in a speech June 26 .

Zamudio estimated that more than half of those in drug treatment centers are there against their will, sent by family members with the help of police.

At most centers, hardened addicts are made to go cold turkey.

“There are multiple accounts of abuses occurring in drug abuse treatment centers, suggesting an urgent need for more regulation by the government and a more rigorous certification for the centers that operate. Using fear and the threat of physical abuse is no way to treat an addiction,” said Maureen Meyer , associate for Mexico and Central America at the Washington Office on Latin America , a human rights advocacy group.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/3574384
Why w Mexico has human rights abuse can this be the same Mexico suing AZ over human rights abuse ?

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Answer by Muerto Mujados
Racist la raza nazi KKKlan with a Tan MESSYcans LIE. That’s why.

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