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Treatment Terms Re-ha-bil-i-tate: Restore to effectiveness or normal life by training. Ad-dic-tion: Compulsive physiological and psychological need for a habit-forming substance. Drug: A chemical substance, such as a narcotic or hallucinogen, that affects the central nervous system, causing changes in behavior and often addiction. |
News ReleasesProposed Medical Treatment For Cocaine Addiction10/12/2009 Cocaine addiction Many experienced drug rehab professionals are not enthused about the prospect of a new wonder drug that will treat cocaine addiction with any success. It is just history repeating itself in regard to drug addiction. In the 1800's heroin was invented and promoted to treat morphine and opium addiction. Morphine addicts became heroin addicts. Methadone, developed by the Nazi's during World War II, was promoted as a cure to treat heroin addiction in the early 1970's. Subsequently heroin addicts became methadone addicts. Then suboxone was introduced to ‘treat’ methadone addiction which then lead to methadone users getting hooked on suboxone and so the story goes. Developing new drugs to treat drug addiction has not worked, as history has proven. It is well known that a large portion of the addiction treatment industry has settled on substitute medications as a means to prevent addicts from falling back into their unhealthy lifestyle. The problem with this approach is that the ‘solution’ becomes the problem and it certainly does nothing to help the individual discover and deal with the initial problems that lead them in the direction of drug addiction in the first place. We have found that the solution to solving addiction is to help the person rehabilitate themselves as opposed to 'treating’ the symptoms of drug addiction for an indefinite and ongoing period of time. For help with overcoming cocaine addiction go to:
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