By LYLE R. FRIED, CAP, ICADC, CHC In Addiction Recovery, Addiction Withdrawal, Street Drug Encyclopedia, Tools for Recovery
Posted December 3, 2018
While news coverage focuses on the U.S. heroin epidemic, cocaine use and cocaine overdose deaths are also on the rise. In [...]
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By LYLE R. FRIED, CAP, ICADC, CHC In Addiction Recovery, Tools for Recovery
Posted June 10, 2018
In 2016, according to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, about 19 million adults aged 18 or older met the criteria for a [...]
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By LYLE R. FRIED, CAP, ICADC, CHC In Addiction Recovery, Heroin Addiction, Opioid Addiction, Tools for Recovery
Posted May 16, 2018
With the United States in the grips of an opioid crisis, researchers and scientists are seeking solutions. One of the latest developments [...]
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By LYLE R. FRIED, CAP, ICADC, CHC In Addiction Withdrawal, Tools for Recovery
Posted May 12, 2018
In 2016, an estimated 2.1 million people in the United States were addicted to prescription pain medications. An additional 626,000 people had substance abuse disorders [...]
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By LYLE R. FRIED, CAP, ICADC, CHC In Addiction Recovery, Tools for Recovery
Posted April 26, 2018
In addition to counseling and rehabilitation, medication is commonly used to treat addiction. These medications can help clients overcome the pain of [...]
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By LYLE R. FRIED, CAP, ICADC, CHC In Addiction Recovery, Tools for Recovery
Posted April 23, 2018
Millions of Americans spend time in prison due to drug offenses, and many other crimes involve substance abuse as well. Incarceration temporarily [...]
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By LYLE R. FRIED, CAP, ICADC, CHC In Tools for Recovery
Posted April 23, 2018
According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, only 10.8 percent of the 21.7 million people who needed treatment for substance abuse [...]
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By LYLE R. FRIED, CAP, ICADC, CHC In Addiction Recovery, Tools for Recovery
Posted March 30, 2018
Typically, when people measure “success” in recovery from addiction, it’s with the number of days an individual has maintained sobriety. While [...]
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By LYLE R. FRIED, CAP, ICADC, CHC In Opioid Addiction, Tools for Recovery
Posted January 27, 2018
In 2016, drug overdose deaths in the United States reached 64,000. This number is greater than the number of Americans killed during the Vietnam [...]
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By LYLE R. FRIED, CAP, ICADC, CHC In Addiction Recovery, Relapse Prevention, Tools for Recovery
Posted January 22, 2018
When I first sat down to write this, I couldn't decide what my focus should be. Most of the testimonies I've read [...]
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