Facts
- Long term marijuana users typically site lower levels of satisfaction on measures of quality of life.
- Studies indicate that active participation in drug treatment is an important component for achieving abstinence from drug use and can benefit even the most severely addicted individuals.
- 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
- Lortab and is extremely easy to get, a primary reason it is abused, and an estimated 136 million prescriptions for hydrocodone products such as Lortab were dispensed in 2008 alone.
Kenton - Persons with Co-Occurring Mental and Substance Abuse DisordersMany treatment programs in Kenton, Kentucky address persons with co-occurring mental and substance abuse disorders. A client who struggles with a psychological disorder(s) and substance abuse needs to work through both issues concurrently. Failing to address the client's mental disorder(s) during their drug treatment will leave them susceptible to relapse once they leave treatment. Issues with mood disorders, anxiety disorders and other psychiatric disorders (schizophrenia, personality disorders, etc.) will surface once back in their day to day life. If the individual does not have a grip on how to handle their mental disorder they will most likely fall back into their old ways of abusing drugs or alcohol as a means of coping and self-medicating.