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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November 4th, 2009
In a recent article from Medicare Finance entitled, Health Matters: What is Drug Withdrawal?” further evidence of the dangers of benzodiazepine addiction are published. The healthcare agent network states:
“You may be hooked emotionally and psychologically. You may have a physical dependence, too. But if you’re addicted to a drug, whether the drug is legal or illegal, you have a craving for it. You want to use it again. When you stop taking the drug, you may have unpleasant physical reactions.
Drug addiction involves compulsively seeking to use a substance, regardless of the potentially negative social, psychological and physical consequences. Certain drugs, such as narcotics and cocaine, are more physically addicting than some other drugs.
The range of drugs to which you can become addicted is wide. They include:
Cannabis compounds. Contained in marijuana and hashish.
Central nervous system depressants. Barbiturates and benzodiazepines. Benzodiazepines include tranquilizers such as diazepam (Valium), alprazolam (Xanax), oxazepam (Serax), lorazepam (Ativan), clonazepam (Klonopin) and chlordiazepoxide (Librium).”
The article further states, “Drug use or abuse crosses the line to drug addiction when you feel you have to have the drug, and you increase the amount of the drug you take.”
At this point an effective drug rehab becomes necessary.
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October 17th, 2009
The following is a letter written by a student to the psychiatrist he had been seeing for several years.
My name is J.K. I have been in and out of your office many times over the years, starting when I was about 12 or 13 years old to when I was 19 years old. You may or may not remember me, but when I began seeing you, you diagnosed me with clinical depression and prescribed me a medication called Zoloft. Over the period of time that I was seeing you, I was prescribed Wellbutrin XL, generic Atavan, and generic Klonipin. These were prescribed for bipolar disorder, anxiety, and unstable emotions, respectively. Each of these medications were prescribed on the basis of maybe 10-15 minutes of discussing symptoms and possible treatment, and then the rest of my appointment would be spent discussing which pill I would be prescribed that would “manage” my disorder. Never were my symptoms cured, or even helped. In fact, they worsened. Not once before being prescribed Zoloft, did I have suicidal thoughts or tendencies. I had experienced the natural emotions that are associated with being a teenager and also life in general, but I was told by physicians and psychiatrists that there was something wrong with me.
After being prescribed Zoloft, I was switched to Wellbutrin XL. I attempted to kill myself by overdosing on that medication, and would have succeeded had my mother not been home that day due to snow. After Wellbutrin I was prescribed Ativan and Klonopin, which also caused me to attempt suicide by overdose. Again, I was almost successful.
At this point, I began to develop the idea that everything I ever felt was wrong with me could be treated by a pill or a substance. Most times, these substances could be found in my own home, inside little orange prescription bottles. I began developing addictive personality traits by turning to street drugs, like marijuana, cocaine, and pain killers to numb my emotions. Why?
Because, essentially, I had been told that having emotions is a disease that requires treatment, or “management”.
I am now typing this letter from a Life Rehabilitation Facility called Narconon Riverbend in Denham Springs, Louisiana. The reason I am here is because I had let drugs take over my life to such a huge extent that I was no longer able to take care of myself or those around me. I regret that I have been lied to by a multi-billion dollar Psychiatric industry. I regret that I tried to end my own life twice. I’m angry that these events were the “side-effects” of psychotropic medication. I especially regret the effect that these events had on my family.
I have been suppressed by the Psychiatric machine for many years, and I am proud to say that I am now someone who is totally opposed to ingesting any sort of mind-altering substance whatsoever – whether I get them from a dealer on the street, or a dealer with an office and a degree.
I’m still angry. I’m still experiencing the product of your so-called “side-effects”. However, my life is no longer the effect of a pill or a prescription. The biggest difference between now and then? It’s not the scars on my arms, it’s not the mental images I’ll carry with me for a lifetime. It’s not spending four months in a rehabilitation facility away from my home and my girlfriend. It’s not two suicide attempts, seizures, and a damaged family.
The biggest difference is, I am now 100% in control of my life, and no pill, prescription, or psychiatrist can ever take that away from me again. The real difference is, I’m myself. I’ve told you my story. What your pills have done to me. Next time you hand out a prescription for the latest fad in psych meds, remember that your signature could be the worst thing that ever happened to your “patient”.
Sincerely,
J.K.
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October 10th, 2009
In yet another study, this one published recently on New Scientist Health website, more reasons Benzodiazipines should not be used to treat patients has been announced. While citing that giving sleeping pills to soldiers and earthquake victims is common practice, it has been found that doing so may be causing more harm than good according to a study of traumatised rats, which seemed to show that the drugs suppressed the rodent’s natural mechanisms for coping with trauma.
While to the average person, it would be obvious that a person needs their full faculties in order to confront and deal with traumatizing situations. By drugging the individual, their ability is thus hampered to recover.
Once on Benzodiazipines unfortunately, too many individuals find themselves in the grip of this powerful sedative and then become addicted. A drug rehab program may be necessary in order to break the hold of this substance.
It is never recommended that a person go cold turkey when addicted to Benzodiazepines; always do so under the guidance of a doctor, quite possible while attending a successful drug rehab program.
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September 1st, 2009
” During the past week of my drug rehab, I have been able to examine my life and past indiscretions. Throughout the process I experienced several things. At times I felt guilty, sometimes I was angry at myself, sometimes I was saddened by my past behavior, and other times I laughed at how young and stupid I was, but overall I felt a major relief deep in my soul for letting that garbage go. It is off my chest. I can accept it for what it is, and it no longer has an effect on me. I can see that I was doing these things not as the real me, but as a clouded, frightened version of myself.
“I realized that a lot of the things I did stemmed from being insecure about myself, my purpose, and my future. I allowed drugs to cloud me to the point that I was numb to the world and told myself I didn’tcare, when deep down I really did care. This caused me a lot of pain and made me turn to more drugs I got caught in a vicious cycle. I let the fire and drive inside myself to do well and be the best person I can be get dim. I put on a good front so that people didn’t notice how I felt about myself and about life. I lost my self-confidence.
“Now I can see the real me. I feel good about who I am. I feel confident and happy. I am focused and determined to continue on this path. I wake up every morning excited and happy to be me and I look forward to the day. I feel like a weight has been lifted and that I can and willb e the person that I want to be.”
W.B.
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