I have weekly supervision with my supervisor and we need other topics besides talking about specific clients. Any suggestions? Thanks.

i want to work in a rehab for and Drug and alcohol abusers what schooling do i need to get into do i need to get my full rn or just my cna?

In my town, one person in four is now registered disabled with drug or alcohol problems. Most have never worked and did this after leaving school. This is very worrying and how do you think it should be addressed? I personally think a drop in benefits until the person completes a detox programme and has clean tests and regualar monitoring. if it pays £250 a week and rent payed to be a drug addict why work???

I have a family member checking into a 3-5 day rehab program to treat alcoholism and a perscription drug addiction. I have never heard of a program this short and I am uncertainof its effectivness. Will it help?

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I am interested in others views on this subject. I personally think that these centres have a great plan of action. The flaws are that grouping lots of codependent individuals with each other in a closed ‘big brother’ type environment is creating lots of ‘relationships’ between patients who pair off and enable each other to drink/do drugs again.
I am amazed at how people enter services to do the detox for their husband or wife and kids only to forget them in a few days and start a sexual relationship with another user.
What is your opinion on such services and do you have any better ideas?

ALP/209, AST/118 ALT/66 BILIRUBIN 1.7, PLT 43,PROTHROMBIN TIME 13.0 INR NORM/RATIO 1.3 ALCOHOL LEVEL WAS 365. It’s for my father, he is in detox now and I’m afraid that he has cancer, I need to make sure I get him to a Dr. that can help, he is in Florida and Dr. there is not very good. will these level go down after detox? Does he have cancer? They will not do a biobsy in fear of bleeding? Please I need help with this, he is very confused.

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The concept of detox diet is not new. People always believed that not all the ingredients of our foods work for our body’s nourishment. A substantial amount of harmful substances also enter our body through the foods that we consume. These harmful substances get deposited in our body and eventually result in the severe illnesses. That is why we require detoxifying our body from time to time with help of detox diets. But the question is how far these detox diets are effective to reduce the toxin level of our body? Let’s examine it systematically.

Before going to find out the answer to the question, whether detox is truly effective, let’s explain simply what is meant by a detox diet. Detox diet involves the consumption of a group of foods that boosts up body’s natural elimination procedure. In general, a detox diet advocates the intake of such foods as raw vegetables, juice, plenty of water, fruits and likes and strongly restricts the intake of meat, alcohol, caffeine etc.

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