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Helping Your Loved Ones with Drug Addiction
It is difficult to assist loved ones who are struggling with drug addiction, let alone encourage them to seek substance abuse treatment. While you may not have a magic formula or a button that would make them stop what they are doing, there are a few...
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How Addiction Can Affect Your Life
We can become addicted to a wide range of activities and substances, including gambling, sex, narcotics, technology, and many more. Addiction can alter the chemistry of our brain, making it difficult to quit the cycle. Drug addiction can cause you to...
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Discover the Types of Stigma That Surrounds Addiction
Stigma is when people negatively view other people or things due to a particular attribute. Individuals with substance abuse disorders experience stigma and discrimination regularly. This can make it more difficult for them to access the resources th...
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Join Us This Addiction Treatment Week
In 2019, only 10% of the 20.4 million people who needed substance use disorder (SUD) treatment in the past year had received it. Alarmingly, nearly 90% of rural counties lack a sufficient number of opioid treatment programs. A community-based addicti...
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Drug Overdoses in Hamilton, Ontario
The provisional drug overdose death statistics for 2020 confirmed the addiction field’s worst fears. More people died of overdoses in the United States last year than in any other one-year period in our history. More than 93,000 people died. The in...
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Unregulated Opioids in Hamilton, Ontario
By Lianping Ti and Samuel Tobias Canada has seen a drastic shift in the unregulated drug supply with the emergence of benzodiazepine-adulterated opioids (also known as “benzo-dope”). Benzodiazepines have been detected in as many as 60% ...
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