Paying for Addiction Treatment with Health Insurance

Private health insurance plans can help families to cover the high costs of drug and alcohol rehabilitation treatment programs. Residential rehab centers usually run in the tens of thousands of dollars for the recommended length of stay to be successful in maintaining long-term addiction recovery, which is ninety days.

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Rebuild Your Body in Addiction Treatment Center

Of course, beating your addiction to drugs or alcohol should be your primary focus in a treatment center. Individual counseling, support groups, and classes are the main activities you’re there for. Working out can be an important part of addiction treatment too, though.

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Methadone Addiction Treatment

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Methadone is a prescription drug that sometimes causes an addiction in individuals who begin using it for a legitimate reason, usually as a method of treatment for another drug addiction or as a pain medication. Many people are able to take it effectively without developing a dependence on it. However, it can cause a very strong physical and psychological addiction in individuals who abuse it. Continue reading

About Cocaine

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In the beginning cocaine abuse doesn’t seem as bad is it ends up being. A little bit seems to put a nice spin on everything you do. But cocaine turns that spin into a fast moving spiral. That bump that you wanted becomes the line that you need. Then it becomes constant use, all day long. No longer are you using cocaine while you are doing other activities. You are now managing to do other things while you use cocaine. Finally you are using cocaine in places, and around people, that you never thought you would. No matter how much you increase your use, you will never get back to the feeling of the first high. Continue reading

Cocaine Addiction Study

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A recent study has shown that cocaine addiction and abuse can dull the brain’s sensitivity to rewards. This means that the individual will no longer feel as much pleasure from things in life that make most people happy. This research was conducted at the United States Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory. The participants included eighteen adults who were cocaine addicts along with a control group of eighteen adults who were not addicts. Similar studies have been performed in the past and discovered the same results of cocaine addicts’ brains not reacting to rewards as strongly as a healthy brain would. Continue reading