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NEWS

Article Touts New Approach and Misses the Point

Contingency management is a system where drug users and alcoholics can get monetary rewards for participating in treatment practices, going to therapy, and passing drug screens. Some treatment providers have started offering the program through a phone...

SOBRIETY

I Fixed My Life and It Was Mind-Blowing

Going to treatment and handling addiction is one of the hardest things a person will ever do. What makes treatment so difficult is the idea of facing one's own demons instead of running from them or drinking or drugging them away. The following is an amazing...

DRUG REHAB

Drug Withdrawal Fears Calmed Without Replacement Drugs

When a drug user has finally had enough of living one high to the next, detox and treatment is the only viable option. The "Catch-22" is that while they need to get off the drugs to save their lives, detoxing is terrifying and seems impossible to do without...

NARCONON COLORADO REVIEWS

I Yelled at the Sky for God to Give Me an Answer. That Answer was Narconon.

One night in May 2014, I was at my wits’ end. I wasn’t far from death. I was drinking a handle and a half of vodka per day. I had a meltdown and was yelling at the sky for God to give me an answer. That answer was Narconon.

FAMILY RESOURCES

Loving An Addict Without Enabling Them

Put simply, the word “enabling” refers to any behavior a family, friend, or co-worker might do that allows an addict or alcoholic to continue drinking or using drugs. The concept of “not enabling” means that any form of support that would prevent...

ADDICTION

Addicts Should Be Helped

Just as the title of this article says, addicts should be helped. Too often I look through social media articles about addiction, only to read the comments section and find myself appalled at what some people are writing.

ADDICTION

Debate Highlights Lasting Stigma of Addiction

The recent debate highlighted not only that addiction is a problem for all of us, but that the stigma of addiction is still a significant roadblock for some. Addiction is not a political issue, and we won’t repeat what was said. The truth is it highlights...

NARCONON COLORADO REVIEWS

I Found Myself at Narconon Colorado

For the previous 4 years, I have struggled with depression and severe substance abuse issues. These things go hand-in-hand and kind of feed each other. I started heavily drinking my freshman year of high school and then started smoking weed.…

FAMILY RESOURCES

Tips For Dealing With a Loved One Trying to Get Out of Going to Rehab

One of the most frustrating things about dealing with a loved one that has an addiction is the denial that occurs.

ADDICTION

Supply and Demand: Drug Dealers Price Gouging Due to Pandemic

Supply and demand is the name of the game when it comes to selling drugs. Beyond anything else, and I hate to say it like this, drug dealing is run like a business.

DRUG EDUCATION

Kids Allegedly Abusing Over-the-Counter Drug in Frightening New Trend

What terrifies me more than synthetic drugs , fentanyl , heroin , and meth are trends where drug users, or most often kids, start abusing common household items as some sort of new “challenge.

ADDICTION

Bath Salts Aren’t a Thing of the Past: New Jersey Arrests on the Rise

Bath salts are an intoxicating substance that exist in a similar realm with “spice.” Years ago, “legal” drugs and substances known as research chemicals became pretty popular. They offered the ability to get a user high without causing them to...

NARCONON COLORADO REVIEWS

Drug Rehab Success Among Chaos

Successes happen in addiction recovery every day. Even though we are living through some historic, dismal times, it is important that we shift gears every so often and look at the wins people are having as they get their lives back together.

ADDICTION

The Stronger the Better: Addicts Purposely Seek out Killer Drug

We currently live in a society where drug use has been completely normalized. Hearing about drug addiction and drug overdoses nowadays is such a normal occurrence that it’s no longer as jarring as it used to be.

NEWS

You’ll Never Guess What Was Found in Fake Adderall Pills in Iowa

For a while now, drug users have known about fake oxycodone pills floating around that contained fentanyl instead of oxy.

ADDICTION

Colorado Emergency Responders Allegedly Dosed Over 900 People with Ketamine

When drug addiction is at an all-time high, the last thing we need is more drugs . With nearly all mental/emotional disorders and addiction having been highly medicalized, the knee-jerk response to drugs has been more drugs, oddly enough.

NEWS

Record Number of Overdose Deaths Feared in Colorado For 2020

The year 2020 so far has been one of the roughest years in modern history. It seems as though all 2020 has done is brought bad news, problems, political unrest, disease pandemics, murderous insects, imminent global war, and conspiracy theories by the bucketful.

ADDICTION

An Ex-Addict Looks at His 39th Birthday

I came into this world on August 14th, 1981. My life wasn’t always easy. I was born into a good family, lived in a great town, had everything I ever wanted and needed.

ADDICTION

The Numbers Are In: 71,000 Overdose Deaths in 2019

So far, 2020 has been one heck of a year and not in a good way. This year has been full of bad news in one form or another. As soon as we think it can’t get worse, it does.

ADDICTION

Potential Wave of Overdose Deaths Expected in Colorado

The Coronavirus has done a number on our society and made parts of daily living as we knew it, unrecognizable. We’re having to wear medical masks in public and we’ve had to get used to this new idea of “social distancing.“