Tag: detox

Medicine for Alcohol Withdrawal: Uses, Benefits, and Risks

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Alcohol withdrawal is a serious condition that can occur when someone with alcohol dependence suddenly stops or significantly reduces their drinking. This process can be dangerous and even life-threatening, making proper medical management crucial. Medications play a vital role in ensuring a safe and effective detox process. Alcohol abuse contributes significantly to public health issues, […]

Valium Addiction and Abuse – Diazepam

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Valium, like all benzodiazepines, quickly causes tolerance and dependence. Valium Addiction can advance quickly if the drug is not used in a way advised by a doctor.  Valium taken continuously over a prolonged time can cause a person to become tolerant of a certain dosage, and they need to take more to feel any of […]

What is Cross Addiction?

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The First Step to Recovery – Admission Before we can address any problem, we must, of course, admit that there is a problem. One of the oldest and most established forms of addiction treatment, the 12-step model, invariably has as its first step this admission. This is regardless of the form that the addiction takes. […]

Legal Highs What Are They and Why Are They Banned?

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What is are legal highs? New Psychoactive Substances like Spice, which have resulted in scores of users being hospitalised over the UK, were “expected to leave more people needing emergency medical treatment” than any other drug and resulting in legal highs addiction, the Global Drug Survey 2015 found. By the end of 2017, over a […]