After a person makes the decision to enter a Broward County drug rehab, treatment often involves attempts to reverse or change some habitual factors that come with substance use disorders. Often, various things will trigger a craving or there will be an ‘emptiness’ to a person’s day to day life where there used to be…
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Whether it’s an alcohol rehab in Pompano or a drug rehab in Ft. Lauderdale, people seeking substance abuse treatment in Florida have the daunting task of having to research a company, maybe get lucky by seeing a phone number on a billboard to even know that one exists or take the Google Russian Roulette method…
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Substance abuse treatment in Florida has a unique problem; treating oxycodone withdrawal symptoms has regulation roadblocks that prescribing oxycodone doesn’t have. When a patient comes into a hospital and has a need for pain medication, far fewer regulations are in place to restrict doctors in prescribing addictive substances like opioid-based medications like oxycodone, despite all…
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For a long time, there has been a stigma attached to illicit drug use. Many organizations, such as AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) and NA (Narcotics Anonymous) maintain that for someone to be ‘clean’, they cannot take any drugs, even medications, unlike south Florida drug rehab. However, these groups formed nearly 100 years ago, before the medical…
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A lot of times, the travel of information is simultaneously fast as a Google search and as slow as chronically poor Google search results. In greater media, there is a very heated battle between misinformation and verified accurate information, in addition to biases of media sources. As the old saying goes, ‘knowledge is power’ and…
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Just about anyone reading this can remember a time in which they didn’t realize they were being a complete belligerent jerk, where they were so short sighted in their actions they either severely embarrassed themselves or even were just a pig headed fool that permanently ruined a relationship. It was possibly over something nearly meaningless.…
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With the increasing numbers of people addicted to opioids and other substances seeking drug rehab in Ft. Lauderdale, it’s more likely that some of them will be pregnant women. A study of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) babies born to St. Louis Children’s Hospital found that in the last five years, the number of children born…
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According to various studies backed up by south Florida rehab centers, there is an estimated 25 percent overlap within adolescents that have substance use disorder and also fit the criteria for ADHD diagnosis. ADHD, or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, is a chronic condition that includes a combination of persistent problems such as difficulty sustaining attention,…
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There are few things harder to read and figure out how to pronounce than Quantitative Electroencephalography so we should be thankful it also goes by the shorthand of QEEG. It may be relatively unknown not because of the fact it’s a mouthful to say and looks like a cat jumped on the keyboard when spelled…
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South Florida alcohol treatment, when it takes a holistic approach, offers a wide variety of techniques to reverse the reliance on alcohol in people suffering from alcohol use disorder. While not all south Florida rehab centers are created equal, the better ones will offer various forms of activity and creative based therapy to assist the…
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