What If My Child Isn’t Motivated to Get Treatment for Addiction?
Suggesting Treatment to a Loved One
Intervention – a Starting Point
Drug Use, Stigma, and the Proactive Contagions to Reduce Both
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So, When Can I Burn My Bridges Again? Dealing With Toxic Relationships in Addiction Spaces
Moving out and on and using lived experience and earned resiliency to be a proactive agent for prevention, not just recovery.
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Abstinence: Not the only option, but clearly the best one for your well-being – In the U.S. in 2016, 54% of adults in recovery reported continuous or current abstinence, and 46% reported current use of a secondary substance, primary substance, or both. Lower risk substance use statuses (i.e., continuous abstinence, current abstinence) were associated with more years in recovery, greater recovery capital, self-esteem, happiness, quality of life, and less psychologcal distress. Higher risk substance use statuses (i.e., current use of secondary substance, primary substance, or both) were associated with younger age of substance use initiation and a greater number of psychiatric diagnoses.
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Alcohol is the most common principal drug of concern for people accessing treatment, according to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW’s) new report.
a) Almost two in five (37%) treatment episodes for people accessing support for themselves were for alcohol, followed by
b) amphetamines (24 %),
c) cannabis (19 %) and
d) heroin (4.6 %).
Between 2011–12 and 2020–21, alcohol was the most common principal drug of concern in treatment episodes provided to people for their drug use. This number has increased by 24 per cent, from approximately 67,000 episodes in 2011–12 to approximately 83,000 episodes in 2020–21
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New study shows that those who had substance use disorder (SUD) symptoms when they were 18 years are more likely to have SUD symptoms in adulthood, more likely to use prescription drugs and more likely to have prescription drug misuse compared to those who had no SUD symptoms at 18 years. The risks are higher with those who had severe SUD symptoms when they were 18 years. (Dalgarno Institute – This is further vital evidence of the need to focus on Demand Reduction in for the emerging generation. Also see Protective Factor Number One in Drug Use Prevention Science)
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E-Cigarettes labelled ‘public health crisis’ A damning Research has warned of the “public health crisis”
E-Cigarettes are creating, putting a new generation at risk of a range of illnesses.
(Australian National University)
