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		<title>Who Should Help Her Son?</title>
		<link>http://sobering-thoughts.com/2010/07/28/who-should-help-her-son/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:26:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sigal  Adini</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heroin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[My Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[addiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heoin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[insurance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Occasionally, I get that call that just stops me from being able to think. My mind just gets all twisted and I am not sure what to say to this confused person on the other end of the phone line. A mother called today about her 34 year old son. He has been having problems [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Should You Do a Professional Intervention?</title>
		<link>http://sobering-thoughts.com/2010/07/27/when-should-you-do-a-professional-intervention/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sigal  Adini</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Intervention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[addiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug user]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sobering-thoughts.com/?p=483</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At anytime during the process of getting a drug addict to treatment you can do an intervention. Honestly, I have seen so much time and thousands of dollars wasted and more importantly, death, due to delayed interventions, that at this point, I say just cut to the chase and do an intervention. I know it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Elderly Unwittingly Get Caught in the Trap of Addiction</title>
		<link>http://sobering-thoughts.com/2010/07/27/the-elderly-unwittingly-get-caught-in-the-trap-of-addiction/</link>
		<comments>http://sobering-thoughts.com/2010/07/27/the-elderly-unwittingly-get-caught-in-the-trap-of-addiction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:40:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sigal  Adini</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Drug Effects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[detox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doctor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elderly prescription drug abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FDA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pain medications]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prescription drug abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quit the drug]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[xanax]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sobering-thoughts.com/?p=469</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I just got off the phone with a very nice elderly gentleman who unwittingly became the victim of prescription drug abuse. This is so common that it just boggles the mind that doctors who prescribe the pain medications and who are aware that addiction could develop, don&#8217;t closely monitor their patients or have a plan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drug Abuse Prevention &#8212; Should We Even Bother?</title>
		<link>http://sobering-thoughts.com/2010/07/23/drug-abuse-prevention-should-we-even-bother/</link>
		<comments>http://sobering-thoughts.com/2010/07/23/drug-abuse-prevention-should-we-even-bother/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sigal  Adini</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Drug Abuse Prevention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[addiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug abuse prevention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drugs]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sobering-thoughts.com/?p=457</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the past 13 years I have been working in the drug abuse prevention field as well as the drug rehabilitation field. I know one thing for sure: drug rehabilitation alone, will NEVER handle the drug problem in our society. Drug users are being created daily. Per the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Florida to FDA: No Foster Kids in Psychotropic Trials</title>
		<link>http://sobering-thoughts.com/2010/07/22/florida-to-fda-no-foster-kids-in-psychotropic-trials/</link>
		<comments>http://sobering-thoughts.com/2010/07/22/florida-to-fda-no-foster-kids-in-psychotropic-trials/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:09:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sigal  Adini</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[My Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychiatric Drugs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drugs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FDA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foster care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mood-altering drugs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[over prescribing]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sobering-thoughts.com/?p=452</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For some time it has been known that children in foster care are victims of over-prescribing by doctors and psychiatrists. The CCHR website says that “42 percent of all kids in foster care are taking three or more mood-altering drugs.” Does that mean that nearly half of foster care children are “mentally ill”? Is that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prescription Abuse by Doctors</title>
		<link>http://sobering-thoughts.com/2010/07/21/prescription-abuse-by-doctors/</link>
		<comments>http://sobering-thoughts.com/2010/07/21/prescription-abuse-by-doctors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:35:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sigal  Adini</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Drug Abuse Prevention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychiatric Drugs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[addiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drugs]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sobering-thoughts.com/?p=437</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So often I receive calls from people that went for help only to find themselves in a worse situation after going to a detox or rehab. Why? Prescription drugs. These people wanted to get OFF drugs only to find themselves on five, six or even nine medications, all of them addictive. How is a person [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marc&#8217;s 12-Year Heroin Addiction Ended</title>
		<link>http://sobering-thoughts.com/2010/07/19/12-year-heroin-addiction-ended/</link>
		<comments>http://sobering-thoughts.com/2010/07/19/12-year-heroin-addiction-ended/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:26:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sigal  Adini</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Heroin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[addiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[detox and rehab]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug replacement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug-free approach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heoin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heroin addiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[overcome heroin addiction]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sobering-thoughts.com/?p=420</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the field of drug rehab it is often believed that heroin addiction cannot be overcome. Many drug detox and rehab programs have given up trying to help heroin drug addicts to overcome their addiction and have turned to replacement drugs as a &#8220;solution&#8221;. There are several theories behind drug replacement but the bottom line [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What You Should Know About the Bipolar Drug User</title>
		<link>http://sobering-thoughts.com/2010/05/19/what-you-should-know-about-the-bipolar-drug-user/</link>
		<comments>http://sobering-thoughts.com/2010/05/19/what-you-should-know-about-the-bipolar-drug-user/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 23:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sigal  Adini</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[My Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bipolar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug addiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[enable]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[enabler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[illegal drug]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[prescriptions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social security disability]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sobering-thoughts.com/?p=382</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the last couple of weeks I have gotten an alarming increase of phone calls for detox and rehab where the addict is getting benefits from Social Security Disability Insurance because they have been labeled “bipolar”.  In one instance, three people in one household are unemployed and on government aid due to bipolar and other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;BENEATH MY ADDICTIONS&#8221;  Poem by Bonnie Roberts</title>
		<link>http://sobering-thoughts.com/2010/05/12/beneath-my-addictions-poem-by-bonnie-roberts/</link>
		<comments>http://sobering-thoughts.com/2010/05/12/beneath-my-addictions-poem-by-bonnie-roberts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 19:24:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sigal  Adini</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[My Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[addiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[addiction help]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug addiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drug Effects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drugs]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sobering-thoughts.com/?p=342</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I continue to be touched by the people I talk to every day. There is so much love and compassion out there; one just has to reach out when in need and someone will reach back. Bonnie Roberts is a lovely person that I had the pleasure of being it touch with while she was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enabling and Sympathizing &#8212; A Parent Trap</title>
		<link>http://sobering-thoughts.com/2010/03/19/enabling-and-sympathizing-a-parent-trap/</link>
		<comments>http://sobering-thoughts.com/2010/03/19/enabling-and-sympathizing-a-parent-trap/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:59:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sigal  Adini</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[addiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug addiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[enable]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[enabling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Treatment]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sobering-thoughts.com/?p=323</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When you are dealing with an addict you are not dealing directly with the person himself. While it is hard to separate the addict from his/her addiction, it is vital that the family understands that by allowing the addict to control the family with guilt and fear, they are fueling the fires of their addiction. 
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