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Recognize Withdrawal Symptoms from "Study Drugs" when College Students Return Home
Domestic Violence - The Hidden Side Of Substance Abuse
Understanding the Emotional Carnage that Accompanies the Public Betrayal of a Wife's Trust and Marriage
Parents: Health Risk for Teens in Lazy Cakes and Bath Salts
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Promises Treatment Centers | June 21, 2011
Elements Behavioral Health warns parents that more and more college students are abusing study drugs and provides information on how to recognize withdrawal symptoms and signs of addiction when their children return home for the summer. Many college students are exposed to illicit drug use and to prescription drug abuse while they are away at school, which can lead to risky behavior, injury, disease, addiction, and even death.
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Addidtion Treatment Magazine | June 20, 2011
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) cautions that trauma, violence and abuse of women is more common that you may think. One frightening statistic is that nearly one-fourth of all women are raped or physically abused at some point in their lives.
The effect of this trauma may appear right away or take a long time to surface after the initial crisis is over. These effects may affect how women act with their family and friends and be a major factor in how they raise their children. Trauma, violence and abuse can also lead to substance abuse, depression, panic disorder, or post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD).
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Sexual Recovery Institute | June 16, 2011
By Robert Weiss LCSW, CSAT-S
Congressman Anthony Weiner's wife, Huma Abedin, is probably receiving all kinds of advice on what to do right now. Adding to the weight of whatever decision she makes is the news that she is pregnant with the couple's first child. While the advice given by friends and family to spouses on the wrong end of sexual addiction and/or porn addiction is often to quickly end the relationship, cut your losses and move on, experience has shown that in the early stages of such kinds of emotional trauma it is usually best for spouses to not take any actions right away.
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Elements Behavioral Health | June 20, 2011
As summer approaches and children are out of school, parents should take the time to warn kids about the dangers of legal "drugs" that are for sale and readily available. These include bath salts, which are anything but safe, as well as a product called Lazy Cakes.
Both are legally for sale at convenience stores, truck stops and smoke shops in many states. But just because they can be sold doesn't mean that they are safe to use - especially for children.
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