Burning Tree Lodge Addiction Library
As a potential client or family member of potential Burning Tree Lodge clients, it is important to understand addiction, drugs of addiction and the recovery process. Burning Tree Lodge offers the following articles on treatment and recovery to assist our clients and their families in understanding drug and alcohol addiction and treatment.
Alcoholism Facts and Treatment People who are not alcoholic sometimes do not understand why an alcoholic can't just "use a little willpower" to stop drinking. However, alcoholism has little to do with willpower. Alcoholics are in the grip of a powerful "craving," or uncontrollable need, for alcohol that overrides their ability to stop drinking. This need can be as strong as the need for food or water...
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Cocaine Addiction
Pure cocaine was first used in the 1880s as a local anesthetic in eye, nose, and throat surgeries because of its ability to provide anesthesia as well as to constrict blood vessels and limit bleeding. Many of its therapeutic applications are now obsolete though due to the development of safer drugs...
READ "COCAINE ADDICTION" Finding Effective Drug and Alcohol Treatment
If you or someone you care for is dependent on alcohol or drugs and needs treatment, it is important to know that no single treatment approach is appropriate for all individuals. Finding the right treatment program involves careful consideration of such things as the setting, length of care, philosophical approach and your or your loved one's needs...
READ "FINDING EFFECTIVE DRUG AND ALCOHOL TREATMENT" Heroin Addiction Facts
Pure heroin, which is a white powder with a bitter taste, is rarely sold on the streets. Most illicit heroin is a powder varying in color from white to dark brown. The differences in color are due to impurities that have been left from the manufacturing process or the presence of additives. Another form of heroin known as "black tar" heroin is available most often in the western and southwestern U.S. This heroin, which is only produced in Mexico, may be sticky like roofing tar or hard like coal, and its color may vary from dark brown to black. The color and consistency of this type of heroin result from the crude processing methods used to illicitly manufacture this substance...
READ "HEROIN ADDICTION FACTS" Understanding Drug Abuse and Addiction
Many people view drug abuse and addiction as strictly a social problem. Parents, teens, older adults, and other members of the community tend to characterize people who take drugs as morally weak or as having criminal tendencies. They believe that drug abusers and addicts should be able to stop taking drugs if they are willing to change their behavior...
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