February 26th, 2010
Lindsay Lohan has been all over the news lately discussing her history with drugs and alcohol. Lindsay claims that she knew she needed to check into rehab when she began hallucinating from Ambien.
Ambien is a benzodiazepine that is prescribed for sleep problems. When most people don’t realize is that pills like Ambien, Xanax, and Klonipin are highly addictive and have serious withdrawal symptoms. People who attempt to get off of Ambien will experience sleeplessness, body aches, headaches, depression, anxiety, and in some cases seizures.
The best way to handle a benzo addiction is to check into a drug and alcohol rehab. If you or anyone you know is in need of help please call Narconon Louisiana at 866-422-4650.
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February 23rd, 2010
A mother in Tampa, Florida is being charged with child neglect and violation of probation after taking Xanax pills and couldn’t find her 3-year-old daughter.
Lisa Flores took 25 Xanax pills on Saturday night, fell asleep and couldn’t find her daughter at 6 pm on Sunday night. Flores told investigators that she couldn’t remember the events that occurred after taking all the pills. Police found the 3-year-old at a next door neighbor’s.
Besides the obviously serious neglect Lisa Flores showed to her daughter, it’s clear that she has a serious Xanax addiction. Xanax, a benzodiazepine, is an extremely dangerous and addictive drug that is currently being likened to a heroin addiction. Anyone who has a Xanax addiction needs to enroll in a drug and alcohol rehab. Please call Narconon Louisiana at 866-422-4650 for more information.
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February 16th, 2010
REsearchers in the U.S. and Switzerland have found that a benzo addiction is equaled to a heroin addiction. Both heroin and drugs like Xanax, Ambien, and Valium which are all benzos work with the neurotransmitters in the brain, releasing dopamine. This new comparison sheds some new light on benzo addiction.
A common misconception among users of benzodiazepines is that if it is prescribed by a doctor then it’s safe. That is simply not the case. The withdrawals from benzos can last for months. Users can suffer from seizures insomnia, anxiety, migraines and a vibration sensation throughout the body. Whereas heroin withdrawals last for a shorter amount and there is no risk of seizures.
Someone that is suffering from a benzo addiction needs to enroll in a drug and alcohol rehab. If you or anyone you know is in need of help please call Narconon Louisiana at 866-422-4650.
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February 9th, 2010
Nowadays people are always complaining about their anxiety and their sleeping problems. But no need to worry there’s an easy fix – benzos! Benzodiazepines are powerful drugs that come in the form of Xanax, Klonipin, and sleeping pills like Lunesta and Ambien. Most people think that what they’re getting is sleep or calmness in a tablet, but what they’re really getting is a variety of different health problems, often times culminating in a benzo addiction.
Dependance on benzos is the same as any other drug addiction, the person begins to feel dependent on the drug, they experience withdrawal symptoms when they don’t take their prescription and eventually the symptoms that they were trying to handle in the first place get worse.
What most people don’t realize is that benzo withdrawal are very dangerous. People who have all of a sudden stopped using the drug can experience insomnia, body aches, seizures, high blood pressure, anxiety, and depression. The only safe way to detox off benzos is under the supervision of an M.D.
Drug and alcohol rehab has been found to be the only real solution to eliminating people’s dependence on these drugs. Narconon Louisiana is a long-term, inpatient rehab that was designed to handle the cravings as well as the traps in one’s mind that force the individual to resort to drugs in the first place.
If you or anyone you know is in need of help for a benzo addiction please call Narconon Louisiana at 866-422-4650.
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February 1st, 2010
Paul Michael Merhige is suspected of killing his twin sisters, 79 year old aunt and his six year old cousin on Thanksgiving. Reports also indicate that Merhige was under the influence of Ativan.
Ativan is a benzodiazepine usually prescribed to calm someone down and handle anxiety disorders. While a lot of people are under the impression that Ativan, or any medication is safe, there are some serious side effects. Some include; thoughts of suicide, confusion, hyperactivity, agitation, and hostility. These types of side effects are not only dangerous, but may be the answer as to why Merhige would have killed his family.
People who are addicted to Ativan or any other benzos need to seek a drug rehab immediatley. Narconon Louisiana is a long-term facility that specializes in handling a person’s life to the point where they no longer need to resort to drugs. If you or anyone you know is in need of help please call Narconon Louisiana at 866-422-4650.
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January 27th, 2010
While thousands of people are abusing benzos like Xanax and Klonipin, it’s time to focus on effective rehab. Benzo addiction has the ablility to take over the body after as little as a few uses. Some withdrawal symptoms include; sleeplessness, body aches, vibration sensation in extreminities, depression and headaches. One of the biggest hurdles that people who are abusing benzos have to face is overcoming these severe withdrawal symptoms.
Narconon Louisiana is a long-term, inpatient drug and alcohol rehab that focuses on handling addiction permanently. Boasting a 76% success rate for permanent recovery. Clients who come in with a benzo addiction receive one on one care to ensure that the severe withdrawal symptoms are handled effectivaly.
If you or anyone you know is in need of benzo rehab please call Narconon Louisiana at 866-422-4650.
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January 20th, 2010
In the last few years the amount of benzo abuse has skyrocketed. According the White House Office of Drug Policy, illegal use of prescription drugs is now second only to marijuana use. And many are asking, why such an increase? One of the reasons is that addicts now have the help of online pharmacies like Xanax or Klonipin making it clear that nowadays you can buy almost anything on the internet, even benzodiazepines.
A recent study performed by the Department of Health and Human Services States that there are almost 800,000 of these online pharmacies in operation making the purchase of illegal prescription drugs easily accessible to anyone that knows how to operate a computer.
“I used to pride myself on my ability to communicate with my children, and I always thought that I knew what they were doing.” says Sharon Lewis, a mother who recently found that her son was abusing Xanax he purchased off the internet. “When he finally broke down and told me about his addiction, I was devastated.” explains Sharon.
“I had millions of questions, one of them being, where did he get all these pills? When I found out that he was buying them over the internet I was furious. I felt like my home had been invaded by drug dealers,” she says. Determined to solve the problem, Sharon began researching different drug rehabilitation programs. “I knew that he could not beat this addiction on his own. I did not was to chance relapse.”
Eventually Sharon came across a drug and alcohol rehab called Narconon Louisiana. Narconon Louisiana is located just outside of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In a business where the most popular saying is “addiction is a disease” Narconon Louisiana stands out with their belief that addition an be fully overcome with successful treatment. With a 76% success rate that far surpasses the industry norm for drug rehabalitation, Narconon Louisiana is proving everyday that people do not have to live with the burden of addiction forever.
Jeff Lukas, Executive Director of Narconon Louisiana, explains what makes the Narconon program successful. “We allow people to change. We believe that drugs were once a solution to a problem, and then the drugs became the problem.” Lukas has seen countless numbers of people come off benzos and successfully recover from their addiction through Narconon.
Xanax addiction, or any other benzo addiction, does not have to go unhandled, if you or anyone you know needs help please call Narconon Louisiana at 866-422-4650.
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December 16th, 2009
Benzo addiction is rapidly becoming an epidemic in our culture. In 2007 doctors in the U.S. wrote more than 82 million prescriptions for benzos. As more and more people depend on these types of drugs it’s becoming apparent that the withdrawal symptoms and the doctors quickness to prescribe are crippling our society. Drug rehabilitation centers like Narconon Louisiana, are seeing a huge influx of benzo abusers.
Benzodiazepine is a type of tranquilizer that is most commonly prescribed for depression and anxiety. Often times patients will go to their doctors and or psychiatrists and after a few minutes leave with a prescription for Xanax or Klonipin. In addition to those who unkowingly become addicted to benzos, there is a huge group of people that “doctor shop” (going from doctor to doctor with fake or exaggerated ailments until they are prescribed their desired drug) in order to obtain the highly addictive drug. Most people are naware of the severe withdrawal symptoms for benzodiazepine use.
It is evident that prolonged benzo withdrawal prevents people from coming off the drug. Narconon Louisiana understands that one of the biggest reasons for prolonged benzo withdrawal is the fact that the drug metabolites adhere to the fatty tissues in the body. When this occurs the person experiences symptoms like insomnia, pain, depression, numbness, racing thoughts, and irritability. An effective way to combat those withdrawal symptoms is the unique sauna detoxification process used by Narconon Louisiana. The sauna program allows the body to sweat out the dangerous toxins that cause users to experience the withdrawal effects from benzo for months at a time. Using this technique, benzo withdrawal can be cut down to just a few weeks.
Narconon Louisiana does not subscribe to the idea that addiction is a disease. Instead, they focus on what problems the drugs were handling for the client. Upon completing the sauna detoxification program, clients work one on one with a counselor to locate and handle these problems. This type of therapy allows the client to permanently handle the underlying problems that spurred the drug addiction in the first place. Instead of being on medication for the rest of their life, the client is able to move past those barriers and live a life free of drugs.
In addition to the one on one counseling and detoxification that clients receive, they also do extensive work with breaking the “habits” that come along with drug use. These habits can manifest themselves in several different ways, some of the most common are; running away from problems, using other people to get what they want, leaving when things get too hard, laziness and avoiding confrontation. It is vital to sobriety that these behavioral patterns are broken in order for the client to maintain sobriety.
Narconon Louisiana’s intensive rehabilitation is the answer to benzo use. They have found a way to show addicts how to take back control of their lives. Benzo addiction is extremely dangerous and the withdrawals can last for months. If you or anyone you know is in need of help please call Narconon Louisiana at 866-422-4650.
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December 12th, 2009
Benzodiazepine, or Benzos, are a form of anti-anxiety medicine. In the last few years drug addicts have discovered that they can use benzos along with other drugs and increase their high. Someone with an addiction to alcohol, heroin or methadone will gravitate towards benzos as another way to get high.
This form of drug use is extremely dangerous for many reasons. The side effects of benzos turns into quite a long list, some of them include drowsiness/dizziness, unsteadiness, slurred speech, blurred vision, and impaired thinking, memory and coordination.
When a person pairs benzos with alcohol, opiates, or antidepressants both the benzos and the other drug can impose risks on the individual. This is called Polydrug use (when a person is using more than one drug at a time). In a two year study by NIDA (National Institute of Drug Abuse) 73% of heroin users also used benzos more often than weekly.
Benzodiazepine abuse does not have to go unhandled. If you or anyone you know is in need of help please call Narconon Louisiana at 866-422-4650.
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November 23rd, 2009
Demonstrating the need for effective drug rehabs, the Charleston Daily Mail ran a news story November 20, 2009, where Kanawha County Sheriff’s deputies out of West Virginia say they arrested a Campbells Creek man for possession with intent to sell a prescription drug, Clonazepam to a juvenile moments before.
Clonazepam is in a group of drugs called benzodiazepines. It affects chemicals in your brain that may become unbalanced and cause seizures. The drug typically is used to control certain types of seizures in the treatment of epilepsy and panic disorders.
The Deputies interviewed the juvenile who confirmed the purchase of five tablets of Clonazepam for $10 at which point the suspect was arrested and taken into custody.
Benzodiazipines is a dangerous family of depressants with an ever increasing amount of people becoming addicted to these prescription drugs. Repeated use of large doses or; even in some cases, daily use of therapeutic doses of benzodiazepines is associated with amnesia, hostility, irritability, and vivid or disturbing dreams, as well as tolerance and physical dependence. But with more and more teens buying benzos on the street from contemptible drug dealers, it becomes more and more necessary to intervene and a drug rehab program may become necessary.
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