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Re: Fifth Graders Learn Sobering Facts of Alcohol
Started Mar. 30, 2009
Vivitrol/Naltrexone
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vanaken demailo said:Yvonne Smith said:My daughter used Naltrexone for 4 months in the pill form several years ago. While she was taking the medication, she felt great and seemed to be very happy, however, she was not participating in counseling or…
Yvonne Smith said:My daughter used Naltrexone for 4 months in the pill form several years ago. While she was taking the medication, she felt great and seemed to be very happy, however, she was not participating in counseling or meetings (and often t…
Percy Menzies, who has posted here, has alerted me to this story about naltrexone and other medication-assisted treatment that ran on the CNN site earlier this week: With Anti-Adiction Pill: 'No Urge, No Craving'. He is quoted toward the end of the…
Just got a release from SAMHSA titles "SAMHSA Releases Video on Ending Chronic Homelessness." Here are the details and a link to order page (it's free).
The DVD video series, Transformation Through Partnerships: Systems Change To End Chronic Homele…
Interesting item in Join Together roundup this morning. Reuters reports that heavy social drinkers who took naltrexone were more likely to cut down on their smoking as well as drinking, according to researchers from the University of Chicago.
This is just a hunch on my part, but It seems to me that drinking and pot smoking is more widespread at an earlier age than previously and that it's extremely important to engage parents at this age group (before they become jaded and/or defensive).…
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In the mid 90's, our outpatient chemical dependency treatment agency was selected as one of the sites to participate in the Dupont-Merck open-label study of the use of naltrexone (it was called "Trexan" then) for the treatment of alcoholism. I was t…
I am delighted to join this discussion group set up by Thom Forbes.
I came into this rather accidentally. As a trained pharmacists I started working for DuPont Pharmaceuticals that developed a wide range medication obtained by modifiying an ingredi…
My daughter used Naltrexone for 4 months in the pill form several years ago. While she was taking the medication, she felt great and seemed to be very happy, however, she was not participating in counseling or meetings (and often times over the cour…
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- At 3:11pm on March 26, 2009,
Kerry Washburn said…
- hi thom, i am a psychotherapist with a license in addictions as well. The one thing i know is that families need to be educated by hospitals, clinics or addiction specialists on the cycle of addiction and the fact that the family gets as sick of sicker than the addict. The mental health message is so important as many of our adolescents and adult addicts suffer from untreated mental illness; therefore, they mask their feelings with drugs. If we got some funds allocated for addiction, i would like to see more treatment centers for adolescents and more family work with parents and siblings.
- At 6:00pm on March 23, 2009,
Kerry Washburn said…
- Hi Thom, i opened my email today and found an invitation to join this website. I congratulate you for starting such a positive way for all sick and suffering people affected by drugs to speak. I am a member of Learn2Cope in Salem, MA. I know joanne peterson well and talk with her often. My son, Casey, died at the end of July (08) from an accidental drug overdose. He struggled for ten years with addiction while we tried to help. He was only 24 years old when he died. I will try to spread the good news that there is a lot of recovery out there and i want to be part of the solution. thanks. kerry
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