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This is the last game of the season, the stands are packed and everyone has come out to see if we can make it. It’s 4th and long, there’s 30 seconds to go, we are down by a field goal. The crowd is in a roar, an exact divide between going for the touchdown or tie it with a field goal. Our star running back has had the best season of his life, heck, of the entire league and our kicker has missed his last two attempts.

Victory Addiction Recovery Center is joining The Knowledge Effect to help put on their 7th annual Family Friendly Mardi Gras on February 17, 2015. The Knowledge Effect is a coalition based in Lafayette. Their main goal is to make our community a safe place for families to live through raising awareness of and preventing substance abuse.

Mardi Gras is a time for revelry and celebration. It’s the final hoorah before many in South Louisiana practice moderation and fasting in observance of the Lenten season. Over indulgence is what Fat Tuesday is all about, food, family, parades, beads, and unfortunately, alcohol and drugs as well. The festival season is definitely a test on your sobriety, whether you’re early on in your recovery or have years under your belt, we’ve come up with tips for staying sober during Mardi Gras and to help you avoid relapse.

Recently we here at Victory Addiction Recovery Center have seen an increase in calls concerning the use and abuse of synthetic marijuana. According to reports it’s happening across Louisiana.

Even though synthetic marijuana is illegal in our state, like real marijuana, it seems to be the new drug of choice for many. People use it because they feel it’s a safe, modified version of marijuana, with users also under the assumption that it will not show up on a drug screen. In reality, chemical compounds, which are not even identified on packaging, are sprayed onto grass or any other “smokeable” material.

>On Wednesday, June 11th, Victory Addiction Recovery Center hosted a workshop for Lafayette Parish School System social workers and mental health professionals. The training was provided to increase the staff’s knowledge and understanding of addiction to better serve students and their families.

The presentation done by Katie Buller, Victory’s Director of Clinical Services, focused on three specific areas: the disease of addiction, educating students about substance abuse, and skills when substance abuse is identified in a student or family member. First, LPSS social workers were introduced to the disease model/concept of addiction. Buller explained how and where addiction can manifest along with its effects on the brain.

With the end of the school year approaching, final exams and testing are more than likely consuming student’s lives. During this time, it’s not uncommon for some to seek out anything that will help keep their focus and stamina.

Traditional methods usually consist of coffee, caffeine, or energy drinks for full throttle studying. However, stimulant medications used to treat ADHD have now become the “performance enhancing” drugs of the academic world.

A recent poll released by the Pediatric Academic Society found nearly one in five students at Ivy League universities said they misused ADHD drugs like Ritalin, Adderall, and Concerta to improve their performance. It’s not just students at some of America’s top universities abusing them, it’s happening all across the country as well as in high schools.

This is a reminder about the upcoming parenting forum that we here at Victory are really looking forward to. John…

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While there are a lot of scary drugs out there with addictive qualities, meth is one of the scarier ones. It tends to be very destructive physically, mentally, and socially. The long-term and short-term effects can be drastic, and it is not a substance to be taken lightly. That’s why, in today’s blog, we are going to cover the side effects of meth.

Meth is short for methamphetamine or methadone. While these two drugs operate very similarly, they have quite a few major differences. Methadone is a legal medication that is prescribed by a doctor for either pain or at a Methadone clinic for treating addiction to opiates. Opiates are drugs like morphine, heroin, Oxycontin, and Vicodin. Methadone itself has some addictive properties, so it is important for users to be aware of this and alert to the symptoms of addiction.

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