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|  | Exclusive: Canada's illicit drug export boom
TORONTO - Canada has joined Colombia as a leading exporter of synthetic or designer drugs, flooding the global market on an almost unprecedented scale, police say. The RCMP have seized tonnes of illicit synthetic drugs that include Ecstasy and methampheta »Read more |  | All aboard the Cocaine Express: Deadly cocaine trade reaches new depths
It might have been a spaceship from some distant galaxy — that’s how incongruous it seemed — but it was just a submarine, somewhere in the South American jungle. When it was discovered by law-enforcement agents in February 2011, the vessel was »Read more |  | Family can play powerful role in helping loved ones addicted to prescribed drugs
"The person with the drug problem is not necessarily a teenager shooting up in a dark alley or snorting cocaine at an all-night party," writes Barbara Gordon in "I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can" (Beaufort Books), her newly rereleased memoir of a life unravel »Read more |  | Alcohol has dizzyingly different effects on women and men
If you are adolescent and female: consume four drinks at one sitting, and you leave yourself vulnerable to compromising what is know as your spatial working memory. Binge drinking in adolescence can interrupt normal brain cell growth, particularly »Read more |  | Addiction as a Family Disease: Reverberations Throughout the Family System
Although addiction is an individual issue, it rarely affects just one person. Today, addiction such as co-dependency, alcoholism, and substance abuse, as well as mood disorders, are ever increasingly seen as a family disease. The genesis of the actual add »Read more |  | Calgary health authorities confirm Ecstasy batch tainted by lethal chemical
CALGARY — Alberta’s Chief Medical Examiner has confirmed that a batch of the street drug Ecstasy believed to be behind a spate of recent deaths may have been tainted with a lethal chemical. Calgary police and provincial health authorities have renewed »Read more |  | Treating the tiny victims of Canada’s fastest-growing addiction
Hours after his birth, stiff-limbed and trembling, Carter was whisked away to a bassinet in a neonatal intensive care unit and fed morphine through a dropper. He broke out in sweats, a fine sheen clinging to his neck and scalp, when, weeks later, nurses »Read more |
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| | Medical Community News – "Dedicated to inform, inspire & new understanding" | .gif) | Does Inability To Express Emotions Affect Treatment In Substance Abuse?
Alexithymia describes a person's state of deficiency in understanding, processing, or describing emotions, and even though the rate for alexithymia in those with substance use disorders is reported to be almost 67%, there are few studies that have evaluat »Read more |  | No Safe Level Of Alcohol During Pregnancy
The authors of a study published online on Tuesday that was designed to overcome the difficulties of obtaining accurate and reliable data in Fetal Alcohol Syndrome research, say their findings reinforce the warning that there is no safe level of alcohol c »Read more |  | Brain response to cannabis
Brain imaging studies have allowed scientists to differentiate the effect on the brain of specific chemicals found in cannabis. The findings, published in the January issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry, provide the first experimental evidence of »Read more |  | Health professionals discuss harm reduction for drug users
When asked if abstinence from using drugs or alcohol is suggested to patients Adams answered, "Abstinence is always a part of the equation. Harm reduction is neutral when it comes to drug use," stated Adams. "Harm reduction was never »Read more |  | Generation Rx - The Role of Doctors in Opioid Abuse
According to the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care,in Ontario alone, prescriptions for medications containing Oxycodone paid for on the province's Drug Benefit Program have risen nine hundred percent since 1991. Along with the increase in prescription »Read more |
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|  | Grieving mom supports RCMP anti-drug message
Lori Davis, the mother of a Winnipeg man who was caught up in the drug trade — and brutally murdered over a drug debt — has joined the RCMP in their fight against illegal drugs. Chad Davis was murdered, his body stuffed into a barrel and then thrown i »Read more |  | New Research Shows How Neurons Interact And Could Lead To New Treatment For Addiction
Harvard scientists have developed the fullest picture yet of how neurons in the brain interact to reinforce behaviors ranging from learning to drug use, a finding that might open the door to possible breakthroughs in the treatment of addiction. The findin »Read more |  | Vancouver’s Drug Treatment Court credited with reducing drug-related crime
“Today is a celebration of alternative ways that we have success in the justice system,” said B.C. Attorney General Shirley Bond. “It is a momentous milestone. “It’s about collaborative solutions, not revolving doors.” An SFU study found a 50- »Read more |  | Addictions counselling cut in Saskatoon
[Insane thinking lays not just with those addicted! - By now you would think they would understand how addiction grows! It's the nature of the beast. David Paur - Addiction News] A union is raising concerns about a plan to cut one of three addiction couns »Read more |  | Fresh Start Recovery Centre offers renewed hope
On the 30th Avenue hill above Edmonton Trail N.E., a new three-level facility that will house, treat and support people with addictions is in the final stages of construction by a Kanas Construction crew. The result of many long months of hard work, dedic »Read more |  | ‘Radically different’ court strives to treat the addiction behind the crime
It’s graduation day in Kitchener’s drug treatment court. Pizza and cupcakes are sitting out on a table at the front of the courtroom. Prosecutors, police officers and social workers are mingling with offenders. There’s a bit of business to finish be »Read more |  | Despite recent ecstasy-related deaths, Vancouver dealer says business is booming
Most nights of the week, a host of twenty- and thirtysomethings call Sam’s work phone throughout the evening and into the early morning looking for ecstasy and cocaine. Despite recent headlines about the deadly PMMA-laced ecstasy pills, Sam’s phone st »Read more |
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| Counsellor’s Corner
|  | Anxiety Recovery - New Solutions to an Old Problem
If you suffer from chronic anxiety you already know it's a negative and undermining experience. What you may not know is how anxiety gets control of your life. Anxiety uses fear to hook you. Fear that you can't trust yourselves to cope with a world »Read more |  | Drug and Alcohol Addiction Treatment: What Happens at an Intervention?
"Intervention is usually undertaken because the family is tired of watching a loved one destroy himself," "The addicted person is often the last one to know their condition. Denial can be thought of as an acronym for Don't Even Notice I Am Lying. Addicts »Read more |  | The Box
Do you have a box? Or a closet? Or a hole? Not sure what I mean by that? Let me explain it a bit more. “The box” is the description I use for that place in our minds and hearts where we put the hardest stuff. It’s the place that holds our deepest pa »Read more |  | Drug Addiction, Alcoholism and Malnutrition
Malnutrition is not limited to the long-term substance abuser. Anyone who fails to eat, or eats food of low nutritional value, for a few days can suffer malnutrition. In chronic alcoholics malnutrition often presents itself in behavior that is characteris »Read more |  | Family Recovery at Edgewood
Addiction experts and researchers often talk about the risk factors for developing addiction (aka alcoholism, chemical dependency, the disease of addiction). A risk factor is something that is present in a person's life, physically, emotionally, socially »Read more |  | Who’s Special? – YOU!
What does special mean? Of the five definitions given in Webster’s New World College Dictionary, one finds the following descriptions: “of a kind different from others, distinctive,unique exceptional, extraordinary highly regarded or valued specific.. »Read more |
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| | Highlights & Special Mentions | | | Inspirational Thoughts - Courtesy of the Angels Recovery Community
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Let love and faithfulness never leave you;
bind them around your neck,
write them on the tablet of your heart.
Proverbs 3:3
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One cannot be pure without being humble,
because there is no greater impurity than ego. Author Unknown ____________
"Some want to live within the
sound of church or chapel bell;
I want to run a rescue shop
within a yard of hell."
C.T. Studd
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