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Thursday, January 20, 2011

Drug Rehab Financing

In our current medical industry, unfortunately the best rehabs are not the cheapest rehabs. In fact, the old adage “you get what you pay for” is indeed applicable to drug rehab to a certain degree. While families shouldn’t expect that they need to sell their home and get second and third jobs, sometimes saving someone’s life does require a sacrifice like, as an example, parting with the old and rarely used bass boat.

And for some families, bass boats aren’t readily available and they are just simply doing their best to make ends meet. When the unexpected and unprepared for addiction presents itself in a family, it can be tough for families to know where to turn. Families do not want to sacrifice the quality of care for their loved one for any reason, especially for a financial reason.

Fortunately, the ability to finance treatment is available at most of the top centers. Financing treatment can be available often through structured payment plans or even through the ability to get a loan for the balance of the program. Most admissions counselors at the top facilities will be very educated on how to help families maximize their financing and lending potential including helping to identify credit scores and credit-worthiness and even extending to knowing which external lending companies to shop with, depending on each specific circumstance.

Because financing is so readily available for treatment, most of the centers including the top centers are no longer cost-prohibitive to most families. This means that a family does not have to have to worry about getting their loved one the best help possible and ultimately saving their lives.

Our rehab center offers a wide range of financing and payment options for clients.

Call us today at 800-468-6933 for more information.

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Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Vaccine for Cocaine Addiction May Cause Body to Attack the Drug as an Invader

A new vaccine may bring new possibilities for people who hope to break free from cocaine addiction.

Researchers say the vaccine, recently studied in mice but planned for human clinical trials, could essentially cause the user to create immunity to the drug – cancelling out cocaine’s pleasurable and addictive effects.

Published in Molecular Therapy, researchers from Weill Cornell Medical College, genetic medicine department, say the vaccine could bring hope for cocaine addicts where other possibilities have failed. Weill Cornell researchers are especially hopeful because the process is one that could rapidly be adapted for trials for humans, leading the vaccine down a quicker path to FDA approval for cocaine addicts. Currently no formally approved vaccine is available for treating people with addictions to drugs.

Funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, ingredients in the vaccine tested on mice include pieces from the virus that causes the common cold and a particle that acts similar to cocaine. These ingredients created an immune response in mice, an antibody reaction that adheres to the cocaine before it goes to the brain. The vaccine causes the body to believe that the cocaine is an invader that must be stopped, an effect boosted by the cold virus. Over time, a person’s biologic immunity to cocaine could grow stronger and stronger until any attempts to use the drug are blocked by the body.

While the vaccine shows promise, it may not be perfect, warn experts. Cocaine addicts may attempt to bypass their body’s immune response by taking in even larger amounts of cocaine. Additionally, people’s immune responses vary, and there may be unique challenges for the vaccine for people whose immune systems are already weakened.

Cocaine users are drawn to its quick stimulating effect, which is known to contribute to dangerous behaviors. Like other drugs, cocaine causes changes at the brain level that make it highly psychologically addictive. The new vaccine prevents the boost of stimulation from cocaine, because the body begins to attack the drug as it would a virus. The immune-block effects of the vaccine endured for a considerable amount of time in the mice – more than three months, another favorable element of the vaccine.

The researchers have utilized only the elements of the cold virus that trigger an immune reaction, leaving behind those that are linked to symptoms of the illness. Overall, the mice that were injected with the vaccine and then given cocaine were not as active and stimulated as the mice who did not receive the vaccination. These results held true even when the mice took in continuous, larger amounts of cocaine, similar in proportion to the level a cocaine addict might consume.

Researchers associated with the study say the vaccine may have the strongest benefit for people whose cocaine addiction is already in full swing, but who want to recover. Clinical trials with humans are planned, and could lead to a new tool cocaine addicts could use along with other forms of addiction treatment.

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Saturday, January 15, 2011

Inpatient Drug Rehabilitation vs. Detoxification Treatment: Which One Is Most Effective For Addiction?

With the ever increasing abuse of powerful opiates, such as heroin, OxyContin and other opioid drugs, there has become a great need for effective drug rehabilitation that works for this type of addiction.

The most recent addition to the drug trade can easily be identified as prescription medications such as OxyContin and other pain pills classified as opioids. Around the country, more and more addicts are being prosecuted for falsely obtaining prescriptions.

Some doctors are under investigation for writing illegal scripts. There are also those who start out abusing prescriptions and turn to heroin. With this problem turning into an epidemic, there are many who are trying to get help only to find that some types of drug rehabilitation are not effective for treating this type of addiction.

To reveal which type treatment is more effective, doctors from the University of Birmingham and the National Addiction Center, both in London, England, conducted a 2 year study where numerous opiate addicts were recruited as patients. These patients were split into two controlled groups. One group entered inpatient treatment and the other group went through a detoxification process then entered outpatient treatment.

As a result of this study, it was determined that, inpatient long term drug rehabilitation was by far the most effective route for someone struggling with drug addiction.

Experts from the study go on to say that, “long-term treatment offers the most promising route to reduction in drug dependence.” In addition, the report stated that, “Detoxification is not a treatment in its own right, but rather the first (and often necessary) step in a pathway to recovery.”

In a recent survey done by the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, it was found that the nonmedical use of prescription drugs, like OxyContin, rose 12 percent in the past two years. All around the United States, people are becoming dependent on powerful prescription opiates, which, once addicted, are almost impossible to quit using without the right drug rehabilitation.

“During the time following detoxification, a recovering addict will be very vulnerable, mentally and physically,” explains Derry Hallmark Certified Chemical Dependency Counselor and Senior Director for Expansion for Narconon Arrowhead. “They will need time to adjust to a sober lifestyle so oftentimes a more long term approach is needed for treatment to help the addicted person get through this adjustment period.”

Hallmark goes on to say that, “An inpatient environment will give the recovering addict a break from the people and places associated with the addiction, allowing them to focus on their rehabilitation and future of staying sober long-term.”

Narconon Arrowhead, one of the world’s largest drug rehabilitation centers, is a long-term, inpatient treatment facility that achieves over a 70% success rate for permanent sobriety from addiction.

For more information on Narconon drug rehabilitation or to help someone who is struggling with an addiction, contact Narconon Arrowhead today at 800-468-6933 or log onto www.stopaddiction.com.