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Internet Sales Fuel Addiction WASHINGTON - Kelly Knable, a 34-year-old mother of three from the Richmond, Va., suburb of Powhatan, didn't have time to be sick.So when Knable was recovering from surgery that fused several vertebrae in 1998, her doctor minimized her downtime by placing her on a regimen of prescription drugs: first a narcotic called Lortab, then a non-narcotic painkiller called Ultram.For more than two years, she took two 50-milligram Ultram tablets three or four times a day, which allowed her to maintain her busy schedule.Then her doctor moved. Unable to

When Addiction Is A Click Away WASHINGTON -- Kelly Knable, a 34-year-old mother of three from the Richmond, Va., suburb of Powhatan, didn't have time to be sick.So when Knable was recovering from surgery that fused several vertebrae in 1998, her doctor minimized her downtime by placing her on a regimen of prescription drugs: first a narcotic called Lortab, then a non-narcotic painkiller called Ultram.For more than two years, she took two 50-milligram Ultram tablets three or four times a day, which allowed her to maintain her busy schedule.Then her d

In The Grip Of A Deeper Pain They were invented to stop pain, the kind that travels up the spinal cord, and they’re remarkably effective at it: the synthetic opioids developed since the 1970s can mute the agony of slipped disks, deteriorating joints, tooth decay and even terminal cancer.IF THAT WAS ALL they did, then it wouldn’t be much of a problem; most people acquire the drugs innocently enough by prescription and take them only as long as they need to, and even the risk of dependence may be worth running, if the alternative is lifelong pain. The problem with painkillers is they also work on existential pain, the kind that originates in the m

Prescription Painkiller Addiction: In Defense Of Prescription Drug AddictsIt wasn't hard to detect the glee last week when the National Enquirer published allegations that Rush Limbaugh was addicted to prescription painkillers. Al Franken, liberal un-funnyman, sneered that if the allegations were true, he was "looking forward to the perp walk." The ultra-liberal Web site DemocraticUnderground.com smirked, "Yup, if the rumors are true, Rush Limbaugh is a big fat junkie." Tony Norman, columnist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, wrote that Limbaugh was "a mere notch or two above a low-rent crack addict."Shame on them. Shame on Al Franken for his contemptible chortling. Shame

Drug AddictionThousands of Americans rely on prescription painkillers for the relief of pain and discomfort from ailments such as headaches, menstrual cramps, surgery recovery or lingering pain from an injury. Unfortunately however, for many, this reliance on medication can easily and unknowingly turn into physical dependence. The scary fact is that the most commonly prescribed drugs including OxyContin, Vicodin, Methadone, Darvocet , Lortab, Lorcet and

Oxycontin Addiction: Hillbilly HeroinAddicted to Oxycontin? Contact Waismann Method of Rapid Detox now if you or someone you care is addicted to Oxycontin.Only an addict can describe the euphoria that comes from that first outlaw hit of Oxycontin. Only an addict can describe the sheer torture of trying to quit the narcotic painkiller known as "Hillbilly Heroin." Jon Riley Hays, M.D., knows about both. Hays, formerly a family practice physician in the Southern Illinois town of Herrin, first took Oxycontin three years ago when

Getting Mommy Off DrugsSheila never imagined her stress-related migraines would end up making her a pill-popping junkie. The Ventura County mother of three started getting headaches and having trouble sleeping due to the unending juggle of going to college for a teaching degree and raising newborn twins. For her symptoms, her doctor prescribed Lortab, a widely distributed pill that contains a powerful opiate ingredient called oxycodone. Gaining a nasty reputation for its junkie-creating potential, oxycodone has recently been billed in national magazines as the “white-trash heroin,” but it has also found fans in upper-class neighborhoods by being m

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Painkiller Addictionpages: 1 | 2 | 3A growing number of women are becoming addicted to the prescriptions their M.D.'s insist will heal them. Here's why - and how to tell if you could get in trouble with your next Rx. After having back surgery in May 2001, Vicky, 34, was prescribed OxyContin, a powerful pain reliever. But the drug did more than merely alleviate her discomfort. The Tennessee native was out of bed within a few days and in a sta

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Painkiller Addictionpages: 1 | 2 | 3 While Berry would like to enroll in an inpatient or outpatient drug rehabilitation program, neither is covered by her health insurance - a common predicament with prescription-drug abuse, says Steven Juergens, M.D., an addiction expert at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle. "Prescription-drug withdrawal can take up to three weeks, while withdrawal from alcohol and cocaine can happen in a few days," says Juergens. "That time difference amounts to a lot of mon

Painkiller Addictionpages: 1 | 2 | 3 Another factor that's leading patients down the path to addiction, says Colvin, is that many doctors don't check in with patients after those patients start taking these drugs. Use of OxyContin, for example, should not exceed seven days without reassessment by a doctor; use of Xanax should not exceed two weeks without reassessment, according to The Essential Guide to Prescription Drugs 2003, an annually published reference manual for patients. But in some states, doctors rarely hold patien

Medical BreakthroughsFast recoveries are the focus for the Waismann Institute's Accelerated Opiate Neuro-Regulation program. Opiate dependency has risen dramatically in the last several years due to an increase in addiction to prescription painkillers. The Waismann program helps patients kick dependency through a three-day treatment process, submitted in a hospital setting."These are patients, they're not drug addicts," says the institutes co-medical director, Clifford Bernstein.On the second day

Accidental Addict Recounts Ordeal Sherry Heuel was up to 20 painkillers a day when she realized she wasn't getting any better. In fact, the Camarillo mother of three felt much worse than she had on the day 18 months earlier when she walked into Dr. Michael Huff's office suffering from migraines and poor sleep. But she couldn't bring herself to stop popping Lortab, an opiate similar to Vicodin. When she tried, she vomited and ached all over and had an unbearable craving for the drug, the 36-year-old teacher's aide recalled.

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More CHS Students Arrested In Drug CaseCEDAR CITY -- Two more Cedar High School students have been arrested in connection with the series of drug charges filed since Friday, bringing the latest total to eight. A 15-year-old boy was arrested Tuesday and charged with theft for allegedly stealing some Lortab tablets from a friend's house. A 14-year-old boy was arrested at the school Wednesday on drug-related charges, but exact charges against him have not yet been announced. An investigation began when the school resource officer, Dustin Orton, received an anonymous tip that a student was distributing the painkiller in the school

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Rapid Detox: Clean And Sober In 48 Hours? October 28, 2002Clean and Sober in 48 Hours?by Daniel Costello, Special to The TimesLisa Hill, a 27-year-old prescription drug addict, lies in a hospital bed in Tustin, about to undergo her third detox attempt. A few minutes later, doctors give her anesthesia, stick a breathing tube down her throat and then administer a liquid dose of Naltrexone. During the next few hours, the drug cleans Hill's body and brain of any remnants of the painkiller Vicodin that she has been hooked on since a car accident in 2000.If Hill were awa

Winona Ryder's Defense PlansWhen Winona Ryder last went to court, the prosecution dropped the drug charge against her. Deputy District Attorney Ann Rundle explained that the prescription came from a doctor. When Ryder was arrested for shoplifting at Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills, she was caught with a painkiller called endocet, in the same drug family as percocet and vicodin. Dr. Clifford Bernstein says they are powerful narcotics. He says, "They're all in the morphine family." Ryder's defense team has told "CJ" that e

A Prescription For Pain: Opiate Dependency On The Rise October 14, 2002A Prescription for Pain: Opiate Dependency on the Riseby Clare W. KavinWhen Americans think of drug abuse, they often picture junkies lurking in alleyways and drug dealers peddling their merchandise from the shadows of inner-city avenues. Many would be surprised, then, to learn that hundreds of thousands of Americans line up to get their fix under the harsh fluorescent lights of the neighborhood pharmacy.The 2001 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA) reveals that pre

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OxyContin Addiction: Addicted August 23, 2002Addicted: Troy Tries to Get Clean CBS News"I never said I want to grow up to be a junkie, ever," says 22-year-old Troy Swett. But he did, and he now he is ashamed of it.Like tens of thousands of people around the country, he breaks the law every day, abusing a powerful painkiller called OxyContin. "If I were to go without Oxys, I’d feel violently sick," he says. Harold Dow reports on Swett's struggle to free himself of addiction.

Addicted: Troy Tries To Get CleanRead: Troy Tries to Get Clean Troy couldn’t go more than a few hours without OxyContin before his body would begin feeling the painful effects of withdrawal. After enlisting help from Waismann Method, the young man is seen recovering in this clip from 48 Hours. The medical procedure takes less than two hours and completely reverses opiate addiction. After a few days of monitoring, Troy is released from the hospital and returns home with a daily prescription for a medication that will block cravings for the drug. He is shown two months later, still sober and moving on with life. This video shows

'Rapid Detox' A Quick Fix For Opiate Addiction? August 13, 2002by Robert DavisAndy Sachs is not the stereotypical opiate junkie. He gets his drugs from a pharmacy, not a street dealer. He began taking his medicine for severe pain, not for the high. And the drug he's hooked on is more widely used than heroin. Six million people a year take OxyContin.His way out of addiction may be unusual as well: He chose a controversial treatment designed to rid him of his drug dependence in two days.Sachs, 26, a Las Vegas mortgage banker, is among the newest breed of opiate junkies

Young And Wild July 16, 2002Teen idol Leif Garrett's world came crashing down when he drove a car over the side of an 80-foot hill in a drug-fueled stupor and paralyzed his passenger for life.The scandal and ensuing $7.1 million judgment against him sent the I Was Made for Dancing heartthrob spiraling down into the depths of heroin addiction."I was a junkie," admits Garrett, 40. "Heroin became my lover, friend and life."But in 1999, the fallen superstar tried a revolutionary, one-step detox program at the Waismann Institute in Beve

Is This The End Of The Hollywood Hangover? (Excerpt) March 6, 2002by Toby MooreRapid Detox has become the celebrity health craze.The system is replacing the traditional cold turkey and 12 steps in Hollywood. Doctors at the Waismann Institute in Beverly Hills give patients an anesthetic before draining their bowels to flush out any drugs and toxins. They claim "film and music celebrities" among those they treat."Sixty per cent of rehab patients will walk out early because they can't go through the suffering of

Celebrity Heroin Addicts Opt For Ultimate Quick Fix As if life weren't enough of a coast for celebrities, along comes a quickie rehab method that allows addicts to sleep through withdrawal - and drink booze once it's over.Rapid detox, the trendiest health fad in Hollywood, sidesteps the traditional 12 steps in favor of what sounds like a medical miracle: weaning those hooked on heroin and other opiates while they snooze.Doctors at the Waismann Institute in Beverly Hills anesthetize patients, many of them film and music celebrities, and drain their stomachs and bowels, which helps flush out the drugs.Patients are then given shots of an opiate-blocking me

The Unexpected Dangers Of Pain Relievers December 2001by Leslie PepperWe gobble them like candy, but they can do more harm than good. Here are the risks you need to know. The Rising Tide of Prescription AbuseCourtney Love calls them the new LSD, or "lead singer's drug." Rapper Eminem has a tattoo of one on his bicep. David Spade even joked that they were in the goody bags given away at the Golden Globes. Hollywood is gripped by a new addiction: prescription painkillers.

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OxyContin Addiction - Addicted: Troy Tries To Get Clean December 12, 2001Addicted: Troy Tries to Get Clean CBS NewsIn California, Troy Swett arrived at the Waismann Institute for Opiate Dependence. Troy was hooked to a morphine drip to keep him from withdrawal."Troy Swett is a very typical patient we treat. If he doesn't get his opiates, he’ll be very sick. After that he'll crave these drugs. It's a physical phenomenon," says Dr. Clifford Bernstein, the Institute’s Medical Director.Many legitima

OxyContin Addiction: How One Little Table Causes Such An Uproar June 30, 2001How One Little Tablet Causes Such an Uproarby Rachel Dissell, News-Record Staff WriterDoctors who specialize in pain management and cancer treatment are cursing recent media coverage that trumpets only the alleged evils of OxyContin, an opiate that burst onto the market in 1996 after approval by the Food and Drug Administration.Pain practitioners praise the drug as a miraculous leap forward in the pain-management field because it delivers a continuous dose of medication with few side effects to patients. But

OxyContin Addiction: Patients Tell Both Sides Of Drug DebateSome tout the prescription painkiller OxyContin as a lifesaver that enables them to cope with chronic pain and live a "normal life." Others who have taken the drug call it a "hell pill" that is highly addictive, even if taken as directed. Jeanette Murray, a registered nurse from the New River Valley area in Southwestern Virginia, takes OxyContin for an injury she suffered to her right arm in 1999. Chronic pain has plagued her since then. After taking OxyContin, she was able to return to a normal life as a mother of two. "If people take it [OxyContin] as prescribed

Hollywood's Vicodin Dependency Vicodin, it's the hot new drug for pain and pleasure and, now, more Southern Californians than ever are popping handfuls of these pills becoming Vicodin junkies. Some say it's harder to kick Vicodin than heroin. So, why are they doing it? And how are they getting it? Unit 13's going undercover to find out. For a migraine, there's Vicodin. For back pain, Vicodin. And for the hottest parties, more Vicodin. Doctors are prescribing these little white pills for all kinds of pain but somehow they're popping up on the party circuit. They're so addictive, many will do anything to get them. "At the height of my addiction I

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Addicted To Vicodin Vicodin is the trendy pain pill that is getting Hollywood high. People are popping the drug at parties like candy. David Spade joked about the painkiller at the recent star- studded Golden Globe Awards. Controversial rapper Eminem includes lyrics about Vicodin in his music and even tattoos it on his arm. Courtney Love, quarterback Brett Favre and Cindy McCain, wife of Senator John McCain, have come forward to address their addictions. And "Friend" Matthew Perry beat Vicodin three years ago but checked back into rehab last month for unknown reasons. And Vicodin consumption is not just occurring in Hollywood. Recovering Vicodin addict 'Ter

'Friends' Star's Matthew Perry Addiction To Vicodin Is Latest Painful Hollywood ViceMatthew Perry, who entered rehab almost two weeks ago, can't seem to kick it. Eminem has a Vicodin tattoo on his arm and a picture of a Vicodin tablet on his Slim Shady LP. David Spade cracked a joke about it on the Golden Globes telecast. And Darryl Strawberry has had problems with the pills. "Who isn't doing them? Everyone who makes it starts popping them," says rocker Courtney Love in the new Us Weekly, which features a special report on the drug. "I did it. I loved it. I also ended up in rehab."

Hope Beyond Heroin Treating opiate dependency as a central nervous system disorder has opened up new alternatives for coping with "addiction." Substance abuse unquestionably is a major health concern in the U.S. and the world, with annual treatment costs in the billions of dollars. The social impact in relation to crime, family life, and lost productivity is immeasurable. Diseases such as hepatitis C and AIDS have become common in many communities. Heroin, one of many opiate drugs, is the key player in this rapidly growing dilemma. Opiate-dependent babies, have become an everyday reality in many cities, and heroin use among 8th-, 10th-, and 12th-graders

Kicking Smack With Leif Garrett by Dave Wielenga"And . . . we . . . are . . . rolling!" says the guy pointing the Entertainment Tonight camera toward the hospital bed on which a bedraggled Leif Garrett is sitting for his latest way-too-closeup. The long-ago teen idol is 37 years old. His shoulder-length hair is greasy, his goatee is surrounded by unshaven stubble, and his ragamuffin getup-cloth cap, blousy shirt, weathered jeans, and moccasins with no socks-goes far beyond faux-boho fashion statement. This is the look of a bona-fide drug addict. Garrett is coming off heroin.It's