Comments on: Treating Drug Addiction with Prometa http://healthychoices.askahealer.com/2007/12/10/treating-drug-addiction-with-prometa/ Practical Wellness and Spirited Tips for Vibrant, Passionate, Healthy Living....Ask your question about healing, spiritual awakening or natural remedies. Post your own wisdom for the benefit of others. Subscribe to the wellness blog to be notified of new health and spirit postings. I'm glad you are here and hope that the holistic health and natural healing information gathered here will be a blessing in your life today. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:24:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: admin http://healthychoices.askahealer.com/2007/12/10/treating-drug-addiction-with-prometa/#comment-4494 admin Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:35:16 +0000 http://healthychoices.askahealer.com/2007/12/10/treating-drug-addiction-with-prometa/#comment-4494 I agree that the factors creating drug addiction are a composite yet I do not feel it's a sickness as much as a series of choices based on imbalance that lead to physical need for continuing the drug of choice. Emotional factors, in my own thinking, are just as important as addressing the physical components of addiction. Unless a person balances whatever emotional struggle led them to try drugs in the first place, just getting through withdrawal symptoms and getting weaned off the drug will be a temporary measure. I agree that the factors creating drug addiction are a composite yet I do not feel it’s a sickness as much as a series of choices based on imbalance that lead to physical need for continuing the drug of choice.

Emotional factors, in my own thinking, are just as important as addressing the physical components of addiction.

Unless a person balances whatever emotional struggle led them to try drugs in the first place, just getting through withdrawal symptoms and getting weaned off the drug will be a temporary measure.

]]> By: Drug Addiction http://healthychoices.askahealer.com/2007/12/10/treating-drug-addiction-with-prometa/#comment-4486 Drug Addiction Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:27:39 +0000 http://healthychoices.askahealer.com/2007/12/10/treating-drug-addiction-with-prometa/#comment-4486 Drug addiction is a composite brain sickness. It is characterized by habitual, at times out of control, drug hunger, and use that persevere still in the face of extremely negative consequences. The addiction is most common in the newest generation and its cure is extremely important for the future of the world.<br /> admin note: promotional link removed. Drug addiction is a composite brain sickness. It is characterized by habitual, at times out of control, drug hunger, and use that persevere still in the face of extremely negative consequences. The addiction is most common in the newest generation and its cure is extremely important for the future of the world.

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]]> By: Intervention treatme http://healthychoices.askahealer.com/2007/12/10/treating-drug-addiction-with-prometa/#comment-4306 Intervention treatme Fri, 31 Oct 2008 07:22:55 +0000 http://healthychoices.askahealer.com/2007/12/10/treating-drug-addiction-with-prometa/#comment-4306 <p>Process of intervention can be organized by any caring supporter or family member of the addict. Drug intervention is the step that comes before a person enters the recovering process. Bringing addicts to treatment remained the main goal of drug interventions for a long time.</p> admin note: promotional link deleted. Want me to add your site as a resource? Then add meaningful, original content for my readers. Thanks. Process of intervention can be organized by any caring supporter or family member of the addict. Drug intervention is the step that comes before a person enters the recovering process. Bringing addicts to treatment remained the main goal of drug interventions for a long time.

admin note: promotional link deleted. Want me to add your site as a resource? Then add meaningful, original content for my readers. Thanks.

]]> By: drugs recovery http://healthychoices.askahealer.com/2007/12/10/treating-drug-addiction-with-prometa/#comment-3863 drugs recovery Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:55:59 +0000 http://healthychoices.askahealer.com/2007/12/10/treating-drug-addiction-with-prometa/#comment-3863 <p>Abuses can change their dependency towards illegal substances with help of rehabilitation center. They offer various excellent drug addiction treatments which help them to recover from disorder. The atmosphere in center is fresh and healthy.</p> admin note: promotional link removed. note, they will ALWAYS be removed unless you add significant and original content about recovery from drug addiction, for my readers. Abuses can change their dependency towards illegal substances with help of rehabilitation center. They offer various excellent drug addiction treatments which help them to recover from disorder. The atmosphere in center is fresh and healthy.

admin note: promotional link removed. note, they will ALWAYS be removed unless you add significant and original content about recovery from drug addiction, for my readers.

]]> By: admin http://healthychoices.askahealer.com/2007/12/10/treating-drug-addiction-with-prometa/#comment-3658 admin Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:04:30 +0000 http://healthychoices.askahealer.com/2007/12/10/treating-drug-addiction-with-prometa/#comment-3658 Thanks for your comment Julee but I found it a bit vague. If you'd like to submit more information that might help my readers evaluate prometa, or to submit specific information about your drug recovery program that is original and would be enlightening, I would welcome such a post and would be happy in that case, to link to your drug recovery resource. Thanks for your comment Julee but I found it a bit vague. If you’d like to submit more information that might help my readers evaluate prometa, or to submit specific information about your drug recovery program that is original and would be enlightening, I would welcome such a post and would be happy in that case, to link to your drug recovery resource.

]]> By: julee http://healthychoices.askahealer.com/2007/12/10/treating-drug-addiction-with-prometa/#comment-3655 julee Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:12:12 +0000 http://healthychoices.askahealer.com/2007/12/10/treating-drug-addiction-with-prometa/#comment-3655 <p>Doctors prescribe and patients take a combination of safe drugs every day…<br /> A patient receives treatment with the Prometa protocol from a doctor during the suspended pilot program in Pierce County, Wash.<br /> A trial of a controversial drug cocktail designed to treat meth and cocaine addiction has been halted after an audit found that the treatment’s success rate had been “greatly exaggerated.”<br /> ============================================<br /> julee<br /> admin note: promotional link removed</p> Doctors prescribe and patients take a combination of safe drugs every day…
A patient receives treatment with the Prometa protocol from a doctor during the suspended pilot program in Pierce County, Wash.
A trial of a controversial drug cocktail designed to treat meth and cocaine addiction has been halted after an audit found that the treatment’s success rate had been “greatly exaggerated.”
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julee

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]]> By: samflutch http://healthychoices.askahealer.com/2007/12/10/treating-drug-addiction-with-prometa/#comment-3385 samflutch Sat, 20 Sep 2008 02:54:33 +0000 http://healthychoices.askahealer.com/2007/12/10/treating-drug-addiction-with-prometa/#comment-3385 <p>Discovered PROMETA, a new medical protocol that is bringing hope and breakthrough to many who had given up on a clean and sober life. This addiction recovery program has received a lot of press, learn the facts about how combining PROMETA with an addiction recovery program can be the key to successful addiction recovery. PROMETA is a unique blend of three pharmaceuticals, administered by an addiction treatment specialist MD, which restores mental clarity and greatly reduces or eliminates cravings in many alcoholics and Meth/Cocaine addicts.<br /> ------------------------------<br /> Samflutch<br /> admin note: promotional link removed</p> Discovered PROMETA, a new medical protocol that is bringing hope and breakthrough to many who had given up on a clean and sober life. This addiction recovery program has received a lot of press, learn the facts about how combining PROMETA with an addiction recovery program can be the key to successful addiction recovery. PROMETA is a unique blend of three pharmaceuticals, administered by an addiction treatment specialist MD, which restores mental clarity and greatly reduces or eliminates cravings in many alcoholics and Meth/Cocaine addicts.
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]]> By: drugs rehabilitation http://healthychoices.askahealer.com/2007/12/10/treating-drug-addiction-with-prometa/#comment-3177 drugs rehabilitation Mon, 08 Sep 2008 06:51:30 +0000 http://healthychoices.askahealer.com/2007/12/10/treating-drug-addiction-with-prometa/#comment-3177 <p>Drugs are generally a chemical substance which can alter the function of normal body. This change may be positive or negative and it can help or harm us according to use. Drug rehab centers provide treatments for people who are interested in withdrawal. </p> admin edit: promotional link removed Would welcome an original article with true content and would link resources in that case. Drugs are generally a chemical substance which can alter the function of normal body. This change may be positive or negative and it can help or harm us according to use. Drug rehab centers provide treatments for people who are interested in withdrawal.

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Would welcome an original article with true content and would link resources in that case.

]]> By: Alcohol Awareness http://healthychoices.askahealer.com/2007/12/10/treating-drug-addiction-with-prometa/#comment-2641 Alcohol Awareness Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:14:42 +0000 http://healthychoices.askahealer.com/2007/12/10/treating-drug-addiction-with-prometa/#comment-2641 <p>If we talk about symptom of alcohol then there are many symptom, but the main thing is that if the addicts are mentally affected much. Then they should try to take help from any persons who are experience in treating these types of diseases. </p> admin note: obvious advertising links removed I'm open to hearing from people with drug addiction websites but only when they have something to contribute to the discussion besides just keywords that are linked in a sentence made for keyword linking. If we talk about symptom of alcohol then there are many symptom, but the main thing is that if the addicts are mentally affected much. Then they should try to take help from any persons who are experience in treating these types of diseases.

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I’m open to hearing from people with drug addiction websites but only when they have something to contribute to the discussion besides just keywords that are linked in a sentence made for keyword linking.

]]> By: joe http://healthychoices.askahealer.com/2007/12/10/treating-drug-addiction-with-prometa/#comment-2362 joe Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:34:02 +0000 http://healthychoices.askahealer.com/2007/12/10/treating-drug-addiction-with-prometa/#comment-2362 ******This post removed by admin because of negative tone***** However, I will address the poster's concern. Joe had mentioned the fact that one of the people providing a lot of info on this thread, Jim, is also involved with the Hythiam company that provides prometa and promotes prometa for drug addiction. It felt to me as if Joe felt that my saying Jim was "in the medical community" might have been misleading. If so, I apologize. I meant only that he was working with doctors who were actively using prometa. That information is already present in the posts, I will also confirm it for those who may have missed the post where Jim said he was a prometa provider and that he was sharing things he had heard from doctors who were using prometa. When I first heard about Prometa, it was the same way a lot of you heard about it. On tv, on 60 minutes. I was left with a bad taste in my mind about it, because it was pointed out that Hythiam investors and particularly Pizer, stood to make a LOT of money on Prometa. I also have my bs sensors up whenever anyone involved in a company like Hythiam makes a post. That caution doesn't mean I don't want to know more about it. And who better to discuss Prometa than the people who are actually in communication with the doctors who are actively using prometa for drug addiction. The best option would be to have a doctor weigh in here, and I hope that happens. Til then, in my opinion, Jim has shared some very helpful information. Yes, he also shares his own feelings about the results he's seen with prometa and each person will have to take that information with whatever appropriate grain of salt. The fact that someone will make money on something does not necessarily mean that "something" is bad. However, I always caution people to investigate any claims or information themselves, in addition to whatever I post here. When I said that I was happy to have someone from the "medical community" posting about prometa, I did not mean to indicate that Jim, the person who has been providing information on prometa, was a medical doctor. In fact, in one of his posts, he clearly says he is a prometa provider. However, in case someone might have missed that detail, it should be noted. If you feel that a person who is a prometa provider cannot be unbiased in what they say about it then I would seek other sources of information. There certainly is a lot of it out there. I've had several additional personal email communications with Jim and am convinced that he believes in what he is doing, money issues aside. Each person reading this must come to their own conclusions. I want to stress that this blog thread is about promoting understanding. I am certainly not supporting the use of prometa to treat drug addictions; nor am I condemning it. Anyone who knows me knows that I would opt for natural treatment whenever possible. I'm not a big fan of the prescription drug, period. I posted a thread on prometa safety concerns early on and continue to look for new information on this treatment and any cautions that people considering prometa might need to consider: http://healthychoices.askahealer.com/2007/12/16/prometa-safety-concerns/ However, I am trying to understand more about how prometa works and hope to hear from people who have been through the program too. I have opened a thread for those responses here: http://healthychoices.askahealer.com/2008/06/24/prometa-personal-experience-stories-sought/ I also hope to receive feedback from doctors using prometa in their drug treatment programs. Thanks for the comment Joe and I welcome future comments as long as we keep the tone positive. ******This post removed by admin because of negative tone*****

However, I will address the poster’s concern.

Joe had mentioned the fact that one of the people providing a lot of info on this thread, Jim, is also involved with the Hythiam company that provides prometa and promotes prometa for drug addiction. It felt to me as if Joe felt that my saying Jim was “in the medical community” might have been misleading. If so, I apologize. I meant only that he was working with doctors who were actively using prometa.

That information is already present in the posts, I will also confirm it for those who may have missed the post where Jim said he was a prometa provider and that he was sharing things he had heard from doctors who were using prometa.

When I first heard about Prometa, it was the same way a lot of you heard about it. On tv, on 60 minutes. I was left with a bad taste in my mind about it, because it was pointed out that Hythiam investors and particularly Pizer, stood to make a LOT of money on Prometa. I also have my bs sensors up whenever anyone involved in a company like Hythiam makes a post.

That caution doesn’t mean I don’t want to know more about it. And who better to discuss Prometa than the people who are actually in communication with the doctors who are actively using prometa for drug addiction. The best option would be to have a doctor weigh in here, and I hope that happens. Til then, in my opinion, Jim has shared some very helpful information.

Yes, he also shares his own feelings about the results he’s seen with prometa and each person will have to take that information with whatever appropriate grain of salt.

The fact that someone will make money on something does not necessarily mean that “something” is bad. However, I always caution people to investigate any claims or information themselves, in addition to whatever I post here.

When I said that I was happy to have someone from the “medical community” posting about prometa, I did not mean to indicate that Jim, the person who has been providing information on prometa, was a medical doctor. In fact, in one of his posts, he clearly says he is a prometa provider. However, in case someone might have missed that detail, it should be noted. If you feel that a person who is a prometa provider cannot be unbiased in what they say about it then I would seek other sources of information. There certainly is a lot of it out there.

I’ve had several additional personal email communications with Jim and am convinced that he believes in what he is doing, money issues aside. Each person reading this must come to their own conclusions.

I want to stress that this blog thread is about promoting understanding. I am certainly not supporting the use of prometa to treat drug addictions; nor am I condemning it. Anyone who knows me knows that I would opt for natural treatment whenever possible. I’m not a big fan of the prescription drug, period.

I posted a thread on prometa safety concerns early on and continue to look for new information on this treatment and any cautions that people considering prometa might need to consider:

http://healthychoices.askahealer.com/2007/12/16/prometa-safety-concerns/

However, I am trying to understand more about how prometa works and hope to hear from people who have been through the program too. I have opened a thread for those responses here:

http://healthychoices.askahealer.com/2008/06/24/prometa-personal-experience-stories-sought/

I also hope to receive feedback from doctors using prometa in their drug treatment programs.

Thanks for the comment Joe and I welcome future comments as long as we keep the tone positive.

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