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Posted by admin at 5 June 2010

Category: Health

This is a basic drug rehabs in Florida course which rehabilitates an individual’s ability to confront, control, and communicate. It has been found that through the cycle of addiction these skills are lost or suppressed. These skills are rehabilitated through simple drills that are done in a course room setting. Upon completion students find that they are better able to exist comfortably in the present moment, communicate in a much more rational manner, and control themselves in situations that they would previously lose control in.

Many people mistakenly think that drugs and alcohol are the problem, and focus all their energies on handling the substances, rather than the true problem. Time and again, we see addicts removing themselves from their drug of choice (jail, treatment, hospitalizations) and yet they return to active addiction. The drugs are no longer in their system, we like to think…therefore the drug problem should be gone. But, of course, it is not and dual diagnosis treatment.

And, in addition, if their “drug of choice” becomes less available (moving to another area, lack of finances, needing to take drug tests, etc) then many substance abusers will switch from their drug of choice to another more available or cheaper substance. This includes addictive behaviors such as gambling or sex. Again the drug problem doesn’t seem to be much of a drug problem, but a behavioral or thinking problem.

If the drugs aren’t even the problem, what is the problem then? In its simplest form, the problem with a substance abuser isn’t so much the drugs, but a problem of avoiding uncomfortable feelings, things and situations. Drugs alleviate uncomfortable feelings, they make us feel better. But so do other behaviors that we see common to supposed “drug addicts”. We need to be conscious to our health, love our body and also don’t abuse our body.

Posted by admin at 2 June 2010

Category: Health

Psychologically, women who become addicted have a different narrative and profile than men who become addicted. As an often-underestimated rule, women have a greater tendency to have developed that addiction to cope with trauma and emotional pain than men. Women also have a range of social and cultural pressures and issues that men do not experience. There alcohol and drug rehab program of healing encourages women to explore and heal the issues and traumas that underlie the addiction. Counseling is conducted in an environment of trust and safety, where a woman’s voice is heard and respected.

At The sober living, special attention is paid to the issue of trauma. Accounts of physical, sexual and emotional trauma are particularly common among women in addiction. We believe that until this trauma is effectively addressed and healed, that emotional pain will continue to threaten a woman’s ongoing sobriety. For that reason, sober living counselors are especially focused on helping women uncover and recover from their trauma.

Therapeutic techniques used at the Sober living include not only the conventional one-on-one cognitive behavioral therapy treatment, but also additional forms of treatment that allow women to safely explore and address their personal issues. Dynamic experiential group work, family sculpting, psychodrama treatment, art therapy and group counseling sessions enable women to experience and express their emotions in a variety of different ways. During these therapies, the all-women atmosphere encourages women to speak honestly and openly in ways that the presence of men might inhibit.

At The Sober living Recovery Center, there staff is acutely aware that many women addicted to alcohol and drugs often have another psychiatric condition as well. The most common psychiatric conditions affecting females with addictions include mood disorders such as depression, bipolar disorder and generalized anxiety disorder. Eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa or bulimia are also common, as are personality disorders such as borderline personality disorder.

The best way to past this problem is to do rehabilitation. There is a company that offers rehab for women and do some women’s drug treatment.

Posted by admin at 20 October 2009

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Say “tyrannosaur” and most people picture a clunky, heavy-set beast with huge teeth and a brutish character. But the latest member of the team was built more like a ballerina. The largely intact skeleton of Alioramus altai was excavated from 6s-million-year-old rocks in the Gobi desert in Mongolia (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, DOl: 10.lo73/pnas.og06g11106). All the other tyrannosaurs discovered to date conform to the familiar chunky body plan with short, deep skulls, massive jaws and heavily built bodies. Alioramus broke the mould with its long thin head, weak jaws and slender, air-filled body. Were it not for the eight small horns protruding from its snout and head, it might have been dinoelegance personified. Fully grown individuals would probably have been up to 8 metres long to T. Rex’s 13 metres. Its long head and puny bite didn’t equip it for crunching through bones in the way other tyrannosaurs could.

But what it lacked in strength and power it made up for in speed and agility. Alioramus had air sacs running through the vertebrae in its neck and spine which it used for ultra-efficient breathing. Modern birds which are descendants of the order of dinosaurs to which tyrannosaurs belong, are similarly designed. Air fills these cavities when birds inhale, and then flows from the bones into the lungs when they exhale. This means that the lungs have a constant stream of fresh air and can extract up to two-and-a half times as much oxygen per breath as a mammal.

Posted by admin at 12 September 2009

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Already the prized as engines of repair, stem cells have now been engineered to contain a gene that enhances their healing properties by summoning extra blood of vessels to newly formed of tissue. Using the same technique, it should be possible to add other genes to stem cells to make them more efficient at different tasks.

Stem cells have the potential to repair the most tissues in the body. However, new tissue needs new blood vessels to feed it, and stem cells don’t always produce enough of the proteins that encourage blood vessels to grow. So Daniel Anderson at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology exposed human bone marrow stem cells to biodegradable nanoparticies carrying the human gene for vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), which attracts blood vessels to injury sites.

When the modified cells were injected into mice whose hind limbs had been injured, the tissue that regrew to repair the damage had three times the blood vessel density of similar tissue in mice given unmodified cells. Four weeks later, only 20 per cent of the mice given modified cells had lost limbs, compared with 60 per cent in mice that received unmodified cells.

Anderson says the nanoparticies could be used to ferry other genes into stem cells to make them more efficient at repair. “It represents a proof of principle for gene enhancement strategies,” agrees Duncan Stewart of the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute in Canada.