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Welcome to the Drug Rehab Wiki. You can use the left search box to find articles on specific topics. Each week we add new articles on topics related to drug rehab, addiction, intervention, treatment, and related co-occurring disorders such as depression, PTSD, and eating disorders.
The Drug Rehab Wiki is the first wiki to focus primarily on drug rehab related topics such as substance abuse, drug addiction, alcoholism, and the co-occurring psychiatric disorders and underlying psychological issues that often accompany addiction. The goal of the Drug Rehab Wiki is to define various terms and phrases that you might come across in researching drug addiction or other addictions. In searching for drug rehab treatment, you should be well informed about the various psychiatric issues that can be treated in drug rehab because many addicted people have a dual diagnosis or co-occurring disorder or addiction.
The Drug Rehab Wiki also covers types of abused drugs, psychiatric issues, government organizations that focus on addiction research and treatment, the history of alcohol use and attitudes toward drug use, and just about any topic that has some relation to the use of alcohol or drugs.
Featured Article: The History of Drug Abuse
We know from archaeological evidence that humans have been using psychoactive substances for at least 10,000 years. While many of the same drugs continue to be used in modern times - such as cannabis, tobacco, and opiates — the context has changed dramatically. Archaeological and textual evidence indicates that drug use in antiquity was devoted to ritual and medicinal purposes. As the substances were routinely used in the service of spiritual and physical well-being, drug use in ancient times was socially acceptable and even considered a vital part of society.
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Featured Drug: bath salts
Bath salts are a new designer drug that are increasingly the target of statewide emergency bans and federal considerations because the substance is linked to severe hallucinations and acts of self-harm or suicide. Known chemically as MDMA, bath salts have a stimulant effect and create anxiety, paranoia, and mind-altering effects that have been compared to methamphetamine and heroin.
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Featured Drug: oxycodone
Oxycodone is rapidly becoming of the United States' most commonly abused drugs, based on the number of admissions to centers that treat addictions and emergency room statistics.
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Featured Drug Class: Opiate
Featured Treatment Article: Neurofeedback
Featured Dual Diagnosis Articles: PTSD, sex addiction, love addiction
Featured Drug Rehab Wiki Articles
Drug abuse - From Early History to Today
History of Warning Labels on Alcoholic Beverages
Michael Jackson overdose death
Ibogaine-Whatever happened to potential as cure for heroin addiction?
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- 20:20, 27 January 2012 Dry drunk (hist) [3,294 bytes] Drugrehabwiki (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A "dry drunk" is a person who has stopped drinking (or drugging) but has not made the psychological and emotional changes necessary to achieve a complete recovery from alcoholism...")
- 02:27, 22 December 2011 Alcoholic dementia (hist) [2,780 bytes] Drugrehabwiki (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Alcoholic Dementia is a mental disorder characterized by confusion, inability to remember things that happened a short time ago, inability to make connections and decisions, diff...")
- 19:13, 24 November 2011 Christian drug rehab (hist) [5,351 bytes] Drugrehabwiki (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Christian drug rehab is an addiction treatment program that integrates the Christian faith into the treatment process. The Christian drug rehab should still offer therap...")
- 00:24, 24 November 2011 Glutamate (hist) [1,575 bytes] Drugrehabwiki (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Glutamate is in an important neurotransmitter that plays a role in learning and memory and is vital to the functioning of the brain. Most people know the word "glutamate" as par...")
- 00:22, 24 November 2011 Kleptomania (hist) [3,397 bytes] Drugrehabwiki (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Kleptomania is a mental disorder characterized by a compulsion to steal items that you don't need and may have little value. Doctors classify kleptomania as an impulse control di...")
- 00:11, 24 November 2011 Baclofen (hist) [1,373 bytes] Drugrehabwiki (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Baclofen is a muscle relaxant used to treat multiple sclerosis. It controls spasms, cramps, and tightness of muscles, but it does not cure these conditions. The drug is sold in t...")
- 00:09, 24 November 2011 Opiate painkillers (hist) [8,095 bytes] Drugrehabwiki (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Opiate painkillers are drugs that contain narcotics and are used to relieve pain. The legal definition of narcotic is opium, opium derivatives, and their manmade substitutes, bu...")
- 00:04, 24 November 2011 AA Grapevine (hist) [1,309 bytes] Drugrehabwiki (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The A.A. Grapevine is the official international journal of Alcoholics Anonymous. It is available for the price of a subscription either online or in print, as well as in Sp...")
- 00:03, 24 November 2011 Amends (hist) [2,615 bytes] Drugrehabwiki (Talk | contribs) (Created page with ""Amends" refers to Step Nine in the 12-step program invented by the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous in 1935. By now millions of people have used the process to recover not o...")
- 00:01, 24 November 2011 Alcohol withdrawal (hist) [5,152 bytes] Drugrehabwiki (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Alcohol withdrawal refers to what happens when a person who is physically dependent on alcohol stops drinking. If the person was not a particularly heavy drinker, or has not been...")
