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Families constantly struggle with alcohol or drug addiction, and it can tear them apart. But some families pull together and help each other through drug detox, drug rehab and whatever else they need to fully recover – as is the case with one recent Novus client.

“Ms. Hayes, many thanks for the wonderful treatment you and the Novus staff have provided our family over the last four months. I never thought I would have to assume the role of parent for my Mother. The difficult task was made much easier through communication from Novus counselors. When she was admitted to your facility I thought it would break my heart. The small home like setting and the energy of the young people who met us and hugged her took so much of the pain away for both of us. She has struggled with her drug problem but the turnaround your facility provided to start in the recovery direction has provided so much peace to our family. The follow up of staff calling to ask how she was doing, weeks after returning home, meant so much to her. And last but certainly not least….the timely assistance and information you provided helping her with insurance filing before and after treatment was way beyond our expectations.

”Please convey our thanks to your staff and we wish all of you a joyous holiday season and are certain the joy you have given will be returned.”

If you have a friend or family member who needs an alcohol or drug detox program, give us a call at Novus. We’ll take care of them.

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Have you ever noticed that most people who take a lot of prescription drugs are generally unhealthy? They take speed to control their weight or their mood, antidepressants to make them happy, painkillers to relieve their pain, drugs to help them sleep or wake up, improve their grades or enable them to pay attention in class. And more drugs to counteract the side effects from those. What they need isn’t another drug, they need drug detox.

The next time you’re in the park, stop one of the robust, fit and healthy runners out for their morning jog and ask them how many prescription drugs they’re taking to get so healthy. Chances are, they’re not taking any.

Now check with someone who’s obese, depressed, foggy and in pain, and there’s a good chance they’re on drugs that are supposed to handle each one of those symptoms.

What does this tell you? We’re being scammed. Prescription drugs don’t do what manufacturers and marketers say they do. If they did, we’d all be healthy, happy and productive. The fact is, in most cases, no matter how long you take them, your situation won’t improve. In fact, it will probably get worse.

What’s the answer? Do a drug detox program, get off the drugs, and avail yourself of the many alternatives that lead to good health.

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When doing a little research this morning I ran across an organization called The National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS). They’re motto is “Creating a Healthier Future.” They may be creating a healthier future for the drug detox and drug rehab programs that will never have a shortage of people who need their services, but unless you’re looking at the vitamin shelves, they don’t have much to offer someone who wants to get healthy.

Let me see …there are toxic cosmetics and skin care products, coke and all the other sodas, chocolate and candy galore, some now carry packaged processed food completely free of any nutrients, bathroom tissue – okay, I’ll give you that one on the health side - over the counter painkillers that kill 40,000 people every year and, oh yes, almost forgot the pharmacy.

The NACDS site doesn’t contain much info on cosmetics, coke, candy, food, or even over-the counter medicines, but it does proudly detail the prescription drug sales in the pharmacy.

In 2005, they filled 3.28 billion prescriptions at a cost to the consumer of $232 billion. And they did even better in 2006 – the number of prescriptions went up to 3.42 billion and the income went up to $249.8 billion. Growth statistics anyone would be proud of.

At this rate, no drug detox program or drug rehab center will ever go out of business! They may even have trouble keeping up with the demand. Anyone choosing a career in drug detox or drug rehab is assured of a job forever! Looking for work?

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Prescription drugs, and the alleged problems they allegedly treat, have turned the human experience into one big ‘disorder’. Just about any problem you have can now be solved with prescription drugs. Unfortunately, you may need drug detox or drug rehab to get off the drugs but, in the meantime, you at least you don’t have to cope with that pesky thing called “the human experience.”

No longer do you have to toss and turn in bed after an evening of coffee with friends. No longer do you have to upset your marriage by disagreeing with your spouse about whether or not a child should be grounded. No longer do you have to put up with a child who argues with you when you tell him to go to bed or stop playing his music so loud. There are drugs to handle all those problems.

And if you’re concerned about the fact that your child is having trouble with math, or can’t choose a career, you can get the prescription drug help your child needs.

If I didn’t cover your problem, check How Many of These Ridiculous “Disorders” Do YOU Suffer From? for more. Better still, check out the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders for a full list.

Psychiatrists and the drug companies have teamed up to make just about every experience you ever have that is not to your liking into a mental disorder – yours, or someone else’s.

If you’ve fallen for this ploy, check into a medically supervised drug detox program to help you get off the drugs. Get addicted to life, not drugs.

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I read an article today in which the author compared drug company CEOs to the terrorists who flew the planes on 9/11 – with the noteworthy difference that drug company CEOs kill enough Americans every year to do the damage of 25 9/11s. I don’t know how many of those deaths and injuries could have been prevented by drug detox, but I do know that if I were taking prescription drugs, I’d certainly want to find out if I could live without them.

The article, entitled, If prescription drugs are so good, where are all the healthy drug takers?, was written in 2004, at which time the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) released statistics saying that 100,000 people were killed by prescription drugs each year and another two million plus were injured.

The death and injury toll was actually much higher as it did not include death and injury caused by errors, which some estimates say would double the number of deaths from the medication errors in hospitals alone. Nor did it include much of the prescription drug abuse, dependency and addiction that now account for a major percentage of people going into drug detox and drug rehab programs.

Are things getting any better? In 1992, 2.03 billion prescriptions were dispensed in retail pharmacies alone. That figure reached 2.78 billion in 1998, 3.28 billion in 2005, and 3.42 billion in 2006.  So, no, things aren’t getting any better. If over two million people are injured by those drugs (and that was back in 2004, the situation is worse now), that means that over half of those prescriptions put the drug taker at risk.

The fact is, there are usually other solutions. And they don’t kill you, you don’t become dependent on or addicted to them, and they actually make you healthy.

Unfortunately, many prescription drugs are as dangerous to stop taking as they are to take. If you would like to get off some of your prescription drugs so you can live life drug free, contact a medically supervised drug detox program to help determine whether you need drug detox to get a new start.

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In a recent article regarding Florida’s prescription drug addiction problem, Sgt. Lisa McElhaney of the Broward County Sheriff’s office said that although putting drug dealers and unethical doctors in jail will help, the real problem is in your medicine cabinet and you should be locking them up so your drugs don’t get into the wrong hands. However, if the drugs are in your medicine cabinet, they may have already reached the wrong hands – yours – and you may need to find a Florida drug detox.

Billions of dollars are spent by the U.S. every year finding, investigating, staking out, catching and jailing criminals who perpetuate the drug problem. And, recently, more attention seems to be directed towards crime involving prescription drugs.

But right under our noses, the biggest and most dangerous criminals in the prescription drug addiction industry go unidentified as such. Big Pharma – the guys who manufacture and market these drugs, for profit. More of it, in fact, than any other industry.

They are the true criminals – each pill is a bullet, and each dead or addicted consumer is another notch in their gun belt.

If you’re one of the many Floridians locking your medicine cabinet to make sure your drugs don’t get into the wrong hands, have a good, hard look at whether those wrong hands might be yours or the hands of someone you love. And if you suspect that might be the case, find a drug detox program in Florida that can help you or your loved one live life drug free.

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I read an article today about a woman who started drinking and experimenting with drugs when she was thirteen years old. She took drugs for years – marijuana, cocaine, crystal meth and a variety of pills – until she got married and had children. After the birth of her third child, she started again. She went to one drug detox after another, but she did them to keep social services from taking her kids away, not because she really wanted to get off drugs.

Then she was introduced to OxyContin and even her efforts to keep her kids came to a dead stop. She spent six years on OxyContin – nothing was more important to her than getting that drug. After all she’d been through all those years, nothing compared to the addictive powers of OxyContin. She eventually was sentenced to five years in prison.

Fortunately, within a few months she was given the opportunity, through drug court, to do another drug detox and drug rehab. This time, she was serious. She knew she’d hit rock bottom and really wanted to change. And she did. Today she’s been clean for over 1 ½ years.

OxyContin is not a drug you should mess around with. Purdue Pharma was fined $634.5 million for lying to the public about the addictive potential of OxyContin. This woman’s story is just one of many and, frankly, as bad as her story is, she’s one of the lucky ones. Thanks to her hard work and her determination to get off the drug, she finally made it. For others, their journey ended in the morgue.

If someone you know is taking OxyContin, get them into a good drug detox program fast. Don’t let them risk ruining their lives – they may not be so lucky.

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