Drug Task Force Created to Combat Addiction

New Drug Task Force Created to Combat Addiction
Long Island Press
Jeffrey Reynolds, executive director of Long Island Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, said he hopes the panel helps find answer as to why there isn't enough detox and rehab beds on LI, as well as difficulties dealing with insurance companies. ...
CRC Health Group Unveils Clinical Advisory Board
PR Newswire (press release)
11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- CRC Health Group, the nation's largest provider of behavioral health andaddiction treatment services, today unveiled the 10 members of a newly established, national Clinical Advisory Board. The Clinical Advisory Board will be ...
My name is Brian and I am a porn addict
The Sun
Here he tells us how he became an addict - and opens up the intimate diary he kept for the first week of his treatment. "I guess like any addiction, mine started with simple curiosity and experimentation when I was a teenager. It wasn't anything out of...
From drinking to alcoholism
Times of Malta
It is the alcoholic himself who has to answer this question but people who know the special attitudes in this sphere say that alcoholism is a condition in which a person is addicted to alcohol. Drinking alcohol is not an addiction but drinking becomes ...
Oxy addiction cost $600 a day
The Sudbury Star
"Miss Robichaud had a serious Oxycontin addiction: eight to 10 80 milligram pills a day." he told the court. "It was costing her up to $600 a day to purchase the pills required." "You have got yourself into a lot of trouble very quickly," Ontario Court ...
Could Amy Winehouse's Death Have Been Avoided?
Huffington Post (blog)
As an addiction progresses, it often changes the person's thought processes, perspectives, morals, behaviors and brain chemistry. Their reality becomes distorted, and they become manipulative and dishonest. In order to "feed" the addiction, the addict ...
New research uncovers role of p38alpha in mood disorders, addiction
News-Medical.net
Stressful experiences increase addictive drug consumption and can precipitate bouts of anxiety or depression in vulnerable people. Although the mechanisms linking stress and human behaviors are not well understood, animal models of some aspects of ...
Women hit harder by alcoholism
The Desert Sun
Alcoholic women die at about five times the rate of death for nonalcoholic women in the general population. This death rate is higher than the mortality rate for alcoholic men, which is about three times the expected rate of deaths for men in the ...
Client talks about his heroin addiction
Danville News
At the monthly meeting of the Middlecreek Valley Chamber of Commerce, the client, Jeremy Matthews, spoke about his heroin addiction, which began when he was 13, followed by a cycle of stints in county and state prisons, release, short-term and ...
Walsall gambling addict forged father's signature to get second mortgage
Birmingham Mail
A THIRTY-three-old gambling addict who forged his father's signature to get a £104000 second mortgage on the family's home has been spared an immediate prison sentence. Judge Jonathan Gosling told Mohammed Azhar: “What you did was thoroughly dishonest. ...
Says Anthony Kiedis
The Sun
But today, the 48-year-old sex symbol says his only addiction is his three-year-old son Everly Bear and that the youngster is keeping him on the straight and narrow. Although clean of drugs and drink since 2000, Anthony says: "As every heroin addict...
DE-Addiction Counselling Centres
Press Information Bureau (press release)
Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment implements a “Central Sector Scheme of Assistance for Prevention of Alcoholism and Substance (Drug) Abuse” under which financial assistance is provided, inter-alia, to Non-Governmental Organisations, ...
Coke addicts prefer money in hand to snowy future
EurekAlert (press release)
Hollywood portrays cocaine addicts as people who will do anything to get their drug and cocaine as the most strongly valued commodity in an addict's life. But research led by Bickel suggests a revision of that view-- cocaine is strongly valued only ...
Salvation Army in KC extends addiction support
Bonner Springs Chieftain
By Staff Report The Salvation Army in Kansas City, Kan., has launched a program to help those in the area struggling with addiction. Overcomers Outreach is a fellowship of men and women who have been affected, either directly or indirectly, ...
Addict learns to live without using drugs
Marlborough Express
I thought if you had a drug addiction you were a drug addict using all the time." Seeing other people complete the programme has been a great inspiration for the reformed Mr Gosney. "You see that people can live a life without drugs," he said. ...
Campus Life 101: Staying Sober
Wall Street Journal
By KEVIN HELLIKER As a high school senior, Aaron Weir decided to attend Texas Tech University in Lubbock, not for any particular academic program but for the hospitality that school extends toward students in recovery from alcoholism and drug addiction ...
Understanding Love and Romance Addiction: Part Two
PsychCentral.com (blog)
Ultimately as the love addict's own emotional needs remain unmet, they may himself act out through verbal or physical abuse of a current partner or though excessive spending, sex addiction, affairs or drugs, experiences that will ultimately reinforce ...
Family History of Alcoholism Tied to Obesity
Natural Standard Blog (blog)
A new study suggests that having a family history of alcoholism may be associated with an increased risk of obesity in women. The researchers analyzed data from nearly 80000 people who participated in the National Longitudinal Alcohol Epidemiologic ...
Author: Even a great marriage isn't enough to help a man recover from porn ...
Beliefnet.com (blog)
Steurer cited three phases of porn addiction recovery: his, hers and theirs. This third aspect of recovery, the couple's, is the one most often neglected: “A common misunderstanding is that if theaddict can just stop, everything else will somehow heal ...
Hazelden Study Validates Tool Designed to Gauge Twelve Step Affiliation Among ...
DigitalJournal.com (press release)
A tool for measuring the extent to which individuals embrace Twelve Step beliefs and practices can help predict success among young adults in early recovery from addiction, according to statistical analyses conducted by Hazelden's Butler Center for ...
Bellwood Launches New Dynamic Addiction Resource Web Site
Online PR News (press release)
Bellwood is celebrating its 25th year of serving Canadians with quality addiction treatment by the launch of a new Dynamic Addiction Resource Web Site providing numerous links, resources and video related to addiction treatment, recovery and special ...
Marathon great Beardsley spreads word on survival
West Central Tribune
Dick Beardsley has had quite a life — dairy farmer, world-class marathoner, pill addict, broken and bloodied accident victim and now a family man. He'll share his stories and serve honorary race director at the 8th Green Lake Triathlon at 8 am Sunday ...
Exactly How To Improve The Four Key Relationships In Addiction ...
By Bill Urell
This week will be looking at four key relationships in addiction recovery. A number of these relationships may have suffered through our actions and behaviors while under the influence of drugs or alcohol. .... The addict will continue to use and twist the relationship as long as it promotes his ability to continue alcohol or drug use. I can't tell you the number of times I have heard: I just want my old ______ (husband, wife, mate, friend) back. ...
Addiction Recovery Basics
Understanding Love and Romance Addiction: What Is an Addictive ...
By ItsCheating
The love addict's denial of the problem can be seen in their externalization of the problem, blaming boyfriend after boyfriend for being problematic rather than looking within. Like the alcoholic who offers up stressful jobs or ...
It's Cheating
Bellwood Hosts an open Public Education Evening; “Is It An Addiction?”
Medicine News Release Wire - Bellwood Hosts an open Public Education Evening; “Is It AnAddiction?” When Drinking Becomes a Problem.
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