Narconon, the drug program started in 1996 in Arizona, now offers free frist step program workshop for Hawaiians who are addicted and abusing substances. The program is totally drug free so there is no risk to getting addicted to substitute drugs.

The first time is free so it is easy to try how it feels to be in an rehabilitation program. The program eases to overcome with physical withdrawal symptoms. Nutritional supplements and communication with family members play important role in the process.

The first step program has had great success in Australia and on the West Coast. The program is designed to help addicted people to get trough the hardest part of rehabilitation process… the start and fear of withdrawal.

Narconon drug rehab and other Atlanta charity groups are assisting an orphanage in Honduras on their mission to help orphan children who live on the streets. Narconon New Life Detoxification Program is dedicated to help addicted street orphans in Honduras.

Narconon of Georgia was founded in 1967. Since then its mission has included drug education and working with children. Many children enter the program severely addicted to drugs. Orphan children as young as five years may already have a drug problem.

The Narconon drug rehabilitation program includes sauna and exercise program as well as social education and rehabilitation therapies. The children are taught life skills essential to success in life and the ability and strength to stay clean.

In Hanoi, Vietnam, the Health Ministry has reported that methadone treatment has helped to reduced frequency and dosage in heroine addicts. After six months 74 percent of the methadone users felt their physical health had improved and over 23 percent had found a job.

Over one thousand drug addicts has taken part in a methadone treatment projects since May 2008. According to the Health Ministry after only three months of the treatment there was only 18 percent of the participants using heroin, and there addicts had dropped their use to once or twice a month.

The deputy prime minister has asked the Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs, and War Invalids to work for helping former drug addicts to find jobs and thus integrate back to society more easily. The study was made in pilot methadone treatment projects in cities of northern Hai Phongand Ho Chi Minh.

A new study based on the Finnish Master thesis says that Internet addiction can easily develop to people who have hard time establishing real life social relationships and are perhaps suffering from depression.

The study is based on almost nine thousand participants, and it was made as an online survey. It is estimated that currently about three to four percent of Internet users in Finland are seriously addicted.

About fourteen percent of Finnish online computer users suffer from some degree of Internet addiction. If you want to review your Internet use you can take an Internet Addiction Test at Center for Internet Addiction Recovery’s pages here

Judge Peter Moss has given a hard criticism against the drug rehabilitation for criminal offenders. He is stating that less than half of the offenders complete the courses they are given, and can’t think of almost any drug rehab programs that have been successful for them.

Moss has a suggestion that he thinks would be the best for addicted criminals. That would be a abstinence-based rehabilitation. “The most appropriate way to deal with drug addicted criminals is to provide robust, abstinence-based rehabilitation which we know is most effective.”

Although he criticizes the current rehab system, he has been giving sentences considering this option. He tells this group of offenders is hard to work with, but the number of offenders who completes the rehab has risen from 28% to 43% in five years.

The number of internet users in China is the World’s largest. It is currently 290 millions and the number is increasing all the time. Seventy percent of them are people under 30 years old, and according to a recent study Chinese spend 44 percent of their free time in the internet.

In a military base outside Beijing there is an chinese internet addiction rehabilitation center. The treatment center was established by Tao Ran a progressive Chinese psychologist. The wake up call is on 6 a.m. sharp, military bearings and formation.

The problem is getting worse, internet addicts can’t adjust to school and society, so they try to escape their difficulties and avoid problems. They lack self-confidence and often don’t have the courage to continue their lives.”

Every year more than 170 000 women in U.S. is died due to smoking related diseases. According to recent studies nicotine addiction is more dangerous for women than for men. Women have a larger set of complications that smoking can affect.

Women for example posses a risk to have certain cancers and pregnancy and fertility problems, that men don’t have. Smoking also seems to make more damage for women’s heart. Statistics have shown that smoking women have heart attacks about fourteen years earlier than women who don’t smoke. For men this value is about six years.

17.4 percent of all adult women do smoke according to current statistics. Good ways to overcome the smoking habit include making a stop-smoking plan with a doctor, asking help from family and friends, and using anti-smoking medication.

Gambling addiction can be a strain for relationships and interfere with responsibilities at home and work. After all it most probably leads to a financial catastrophe. After online gambling was introduced the problem of gambling addiction has risen remarkably.

Recently the government of an European country, Norway, has passed a bill for banning online gambling due to excessive amount of addicts. This would mean that all the financial transactions to and from online gambling sites would be denied.

Studies in Norway have shown that the introduction of slots machines have led to an increase in gambling addiction. This has led the politicians to take the anti-gambling approach as a sure vote-winner. This week Parliament passed the bill to forbid companies to operate online gambling websites in Norway.

Colleges have started to ban energy drinks which contain large amounts of caffeine due to exessive use of students. Recently the college of West Anglia has removed energy drinks from their shops and vending machines.

The popularity of energy drinks such as Red Bull or Relentless has risen exploding during students who use them to boost alertness after a long nights of studying or partying. Some youngsters however have started to use them exessively, and replaced their breakfast with a caffeinated sugar drink.

In some cases the tutors have complained the students becoming hyperactive during lessons after having energy drinks. Health experts have been warning for the high caffeinated drinks because they can cause addiction, chest pains and heart palpitations especially in teenage users.

In a recently released survey it is found out that teens are abusing prescription medication more than any other drug. The report states that even younger children are usign prescriptions drugs to “get high” or to “self-medicate.”

Rowan-Salisbury School System reports they are finding an increasing amount of students, misusing and selling prescription medication to their friends. This is told to be happening on a regular basis and in all social, economic, geographic and ethnic groups.

The reason why students are choosing prescription drugs is because they are more easily available, often stolen from home. Many times it is also thought prescripted drugs are safer than illegal drugs found from the streets. Some students use online pharmacies to buy the drugs.