Facts
- Opiate addicted individuals should receive professional opiate detox services to help them through the potentially dangerous withdrawal process.
- Research indicates that when compared with individuals not involved in drug abuse and addiction, substance-abusing employees are more likely to change jobs more often, be tardy or absent from work, be less productive, be involved in more accidents, file workers' compensation claims
- The chronic use of anabolic steroids has been reported to negatively affect the reproductive system, in both men and woman alike.
- LSD research conducted in the 50's and 60's tried to find the potential therapeutic properties of the "psychedelic" LSD experience in relation to being able to help patients that were dying of terminal illnesses to be able to accept death.
Persons with HIV/AIDS - DecaturDrug addiction takes its toll on even the healthiest persons. When persons in Decatur with HIV/AIDS abuse drugs or alcohol it can take a deadly toll on them. Since they suffer with a decreased immune system, a thing as simple as the typical cold can become a dangerous sickness. They expose themselves to other deadly infections too: Hepatitis C, pneumonia and tuberculosis just to list a few. Entering a drug rehabilitation program that specializes in treating persons with HIV/AIDS is essential. The addicted person will be able to restore their sobriety and boost their quality of life profoundly. Science today has been able to produce many medications that not only help persons with HIV/AIDS but make their life healthier and longer.