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Category: Addiction

Addiction can affect anyone. We often associate addicts and alcoholics with those living on the streets, but in reality, drug and alcohol addiction can affect anyone. At Duffy’s we recognize the reality that your addiction has become a disease in your life and needs to be treated. Therefore, we embrace the medical model that your addiction is a disease, and we use the social model—which includes education, counseling, and peer support—to treat it. The following blog posts and articles are designed to help you to better understand the disease of addiction.

Prescription Drug Abuse: Up 430%

A Tennessee judge was having sex and buying pills during courtroom breaks from convicts he had previously sentenced, read an article from the Associated Press last week. Published the same day, an article from Press-Citizen revealed how a former Iowa City nurse was charged with stealing her patient’s medications from the hospital’s drug dispensing machine. These are only two … Read More

Top 10 Most Commonly Abused Drugs and Their Effects

Update: the content in this blog has been modified as of January 2018 to reflect the most recent national survey.* Although it is impossible to measure the extent of drug use, drug use is everywhere. From bathrooms and refrigerators to cars and street corners, alcohol and drug use touch every part of our culture. Recent national data from the Substance … Read More

Top 5 Most Common Designer Drugs

Designer drugs are drugs created by changing the chemical structure of a pre-existing drug often bought for recreational uses. Because there are no laws against these newly synthesized drugs, many designer drugs are considered legal—until law enforcement catches up. Over the years, certain designer drugs have have grown in popularity and now rank among the most … Read More

Shopping Addiction

“Anyone who believes the competitive spirit in America is dead has never been in a supermarket when the cashier opens another checkout line.” (Ann Landers) We know it. Shopping is among the most favorite hobbies of Americans. From Macy’s to Sears, everyone has their favorite department store. But some people say that shopping is becoming … Read More