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Drug Abuse Treatment Center: Problems
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Drug abuse ... plays a role in many major social problems, such as drugged driving, violence, stress and child abuse. Drug abuse can lead to homelessness, crime and missed work or problems with keeping a job. It harms unborn babies and destroys families. There are different types of treatment for drug abuse. But the best is to prevent drug abuse in the first place.
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Research has proven that in the past decade there is a significantly larger number of alcohol and narcotic abusing adolescents participating in various modalities of treatment at Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment Centers. There is ... evidence to conclude that the percentage of girls in therapy is increasing as compared to boys, and the median age is falling at a rather accelerated rate. The tendencies of street youth to abuse cocaine and narcotics requiring therapy have accelerated, while the cases which involve alcohol and cannabis are on the way down. The utilizations of the various therapeutic and residential community programs is modifying to include patients with a series of problems which do not directly link to their substance abuse. The research also indicates that the situation with street youth is trending away from hospital and inpatient programs to and shifting to a variety of more informal outpatient and day clinic Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment Center programs.
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The first consideration regarding drug abuse is whether there is indeed a problem. Admission of a problem is the first step in getting help. Thus it is important to take an honest look at some very basic questions. Is use of prescription drugs greatly exceeding the amount recommended by doctors? Are several types of drugs being used at once, despite medical advice to the contrary? What is the frequency of drug use?
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The ADATP has a tradition of carrying out clinical research, much of it aimed at developing and studying new treatment approaches for patients with alcohol and drug abuse problems. Those interested in more information about the ADATP research program can call 617.855.2588.
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The study is a response to the growing national problem of prescription drug abuse in this country. According to the 2005 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, the incidence of new nonmedical users of pain relievers is now at 2.2 million Americans aged 12 and older, surpassing the number of new marijuana abusers (2.1 million). In 2005, more than six million Americans reported current (in the past month) nonmedical use of prescription drugs — more than the number abusing cocaine, heroin, hallucinogens, and inhalants, combined.
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Care NZ provides drug and alcohol counselling, treatment, education and awareness programmes in New Zealand for abuse and dependency problems. Care NZ specialises in individual, group and family drug and alcohol counselling and drug and alcohol education programmes for the workplace and individual.
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