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. Read the rest of this entry »

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.

China has the worlds largest online community with 253 million users. Especially gaming in internet cafés has become extremely popular among young chinese men. Now China may become the first country in the world which classifies internet addiction as a clinical disorder.

Beijing’s Health Ministry is expected to adopt a new manual on internet addiction next year, based on the research of Chinese psychologists. It will recognise the condition as similar to compulsive gambling or alcoholism.

According to estimates, about 10% of young users suffer from addiction and of those more than two thirds are male. Chinese specialists say the condition is often a symptom of deeper psychological problems, and the behavioural problems of child addicts become aggravated by their addiction.

However, the specialist remind, unlike drugs internet addiction does not create physical dependency and thus the addicts can be cured in 70 per cent of times.

Miracles Inc. - organization providing services to treat and prevent substance abuse - is planning to sponsor a parade to honor recovering addicts as part of the National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month. The parade will consist of people in recovery, their families and community social service providers who help battle substance abuse.

The parade will begin at Miracles Inc. on East Second Street and culminate in Old Town Square. Perfect Peace Christian Church Dancers will perform a “Chain of Recovery,” designed to show how addiction affects and recovery unites people.