Action is needed today on the Addiction epidemic

Addiction is killing our youth and adults more so today than ever before. Chris Christie is back working with Trump to take on the opiate epidemic. Click here for more news on today's discussion. 

Tolerance

You have been taking x amount of drug x over a certain amount of time and pleasure decreases or plateaus, in order to get same pleasurable sensation, or experience you must take more or escalating dosages.

Suboxone Treatment in Long Island

Name	Address	City	State	Zip	Phone	Url
Alternatives Counseling Services, Inc	540 East Main Street	Riverhead	NY	11901	(631) 369-1200
Alternatives Counseling Services, Inc	291 Hampton Road	South Hampton	NY	11968	(631) 283-4440
Brookhaven Memorial Hospital/Medical Center	365 East Main Street	Patchogue	NY	11772	(631) 854-1222
Brookhaven Memorial Hospital/Medical Center	550 Montauk Hwy	Shirley	NY	11967	(631) 852-1070
Hope For Youth, Inc.	201 Dixon Avenue	Amityville	NY	11701	(631) 842-7900 X6523	http://www.hfyny.org/
Outreach Development Corporation	11 Farber Drive	Bellport	NY	11713	(631) 286-0700	http://www.opiny.org/
The Pederson-Krag Center, Inc	55 Horizon Drive	Huntington	NY	11743	(631) 920-8000	http://www.pederson-krag.org/
The Pederson-Krag Center, Inc	11 Route 111	Smithtown	NY	11787	(631) 920-8300	http://www.pederson-krag.org/
The Pederson-Krag Center, Inc	240 Long Island Avenue	Wyandanch	NY	11799	631) 920-8042	http://www.pederson-krag.org/
Seafield Center	7 Seafield Ln	Westhampton Beach,	NY	11978	(631) 288-1122	http://www.seafieldcenter.com/%20Seafield/index.cfm
Hauppauge Intake and Maintenance Program	200 Wireless Blvd.	Hauppauge	NY	11788	(631) 853-7373

Deaths from Opiates in Rhode Island

Four more people have died of suspected drug overdoses in Rhode Island in the last week, bringing the total this year to 49, according to the state health director last Wednesday. The number of people who have died of accidental overdoses in the first eight weeks of 2014 is about 2 X the normal rate. Overdose deaths have been associated with fentanyl mixed with heroin. In Rhode Island in 2009-2010 most deaths from accidental drug overdose were Men between the ages of 40-49. In 2011 Men between ages of 50-59. In Rhode Island in 2009-2012 deaths from accidental overdose was more common among Women  between the ages of 50-59. According to data most have been associated with opioids alone and not alcoholic. Fatal overdoses from prescription painkillers have reached epidemic proportions, according to a new report from the CDC. In 2008, the report showed, drugs like OxyContin and Vicodin claimed almost 5,000 lives. That's almost three times as many lives as in 1999, the Associated Press reported. Fatal overdoses are especially common among middle-aged men, whites, and American Indians, according to reports

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