Reel Recovery Film Festival starts Friday

Reel Recovery Film Festival starts Friday
Los Angeles Times
Writers in Treatment works to bring recovery out of the closet, and the film festival details both the horrors of addiction and the life-saving gift of recovery. This year's films showing at the Beverly Garland Hotel Theater include "The Secret World ...
First Alcoholic Drink at Age 5? Reservation Counselor Says It's Happening
ABC News (blog)
Watch the full story on “Hidden America: Children of the Plains,” a “20/20″ special with Diane Sawyer, Friday at 10 pm ET. abc pine ridge alcohol jef 111013 wblog FirstAlcoholic Drink at Age 5 ? Reservation Counselor.
I've Finally Conquered My Coke Addiction
TMZ.com
DMX tells TMZ, he has finally kicked the drug addictions that kept him behind bars for years -- and he has his children to thank. X tells us, coke was his greatest demon after his latest prison release in July -- "Everyone was taking advantage of me ...
Addiction specialist, TV personality to speak in OKC
NewsOK.com
She said her latest work, like many self-help addiction books, offers a step-by-step guide to attaining sobriety. “'The Law of Sobriety' shows you how to combine the power of positive thinking with definite action steps to create and maintain a better ...
Man hopes to develop addiction treatment programme
Royal Gazette
By Jonathan Bell Bruce Gibbons is trying to raise funds for an addiction treatment alternative to the prison programme. A recovered alcoholic is appealing for help in raising $1 million to finance anaddiction treatment programme for Bermuda's young ...
Two-Question Screen Can Help Doctors Spot Teen Alcohol Problems
TIME
Children who start drinking before age 15 — outside of culturally appropriate settings like religious ceremonies or family meals in wine-drinking cultures — are four times more likely to develop alcoholism than those who start later. ...
Recovering heroin addict died from overdose
Messenger Newspapers
The 38-year-old unemployed labourer, who began drinking and smoking cannabis in his teens, was a registered alcoholic and had been taking the heroin replacement methadone for a number of years. But in the months before his death, Spencer stopped taking ...
Scott Hall Needs WWE's Help in Order to Conquer Personal Demons
Bleacher Report
Hall has battled addiction for many years, and while it cut his wrestling career short, it is now threatening to cut his life short as well. In a snippet of his interview with ESPN, Hall says that he doesn't "want to die," but that he isn't "afraid to ...
Duff McKagan book tells about addiction, early Guns N Roses
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
“The book details his rise to fame and fortune, struggles with alcoholism and drug addiction, transformation, his time at SU, business successes and his journey to becoming a loving husband and father,” SU reports. In a recent interview with ...
Facing Hunger, Mom's Addiction, Lakota Sioux Girl 'Stands Against the Wind'
ABC News (blog)
By ASTRID RODGRIGUES Twelve-year-old Louise Clifford savors riding her horse, Glory Bee, up in the hills of the Pine Ridge Reservation. It's a spiritual connection to a land she loves. “Everything is sacred. The sage, the sweet grass, the dancing, ...
Alcoholic who crashed her car was nearly three times drinks limit
Plymouth Herald
AN ALCOHOLIC crashed her car into an oncoming vehicle while nearly three times the legal alcohol limit, a court heard. Caroline Blair, aged 40, veered on to the wrong side of the road and mounted the kerb along busy city roads, Plymouth magistrates ...
Occupy Wall Street: An Ex-Addict's Plea
TheFix.com
While attempts to de-stigmatize addiction by painting it as a disease that doesn't discriminate by race, class or gender are well intentioned, the fact is that while addiction may not discriminate it certainly does tend to cluster geographically, ...
Heroin Addiction Information And Facts
Eva-News (press release)
All contributors will be affected if there is a heroin addict in their society. An addiction developed when a member come from outside with addiction to a prescription like heroin. In this case responsible society member may take effort taking the ...
Reformed Bacup heroin addict could avoid jail
The Bolton News
By Wendy Barlow » Court reporter A 50-year-old heroin dealer who has kicked drugs while on remand might win his freedom instead of serving up to three years. Burnley Crown Court heard how Eugene Goodwin, who has had a heart attack while locked up, ...
Morphine Addiction Information
Eva-News (press release)
Really, addiction is broadly behavioral with someone taking more of the medicine than is prescribed for him or her or using it for purposes other than relieving pain. Knowing that morphine is highly addictive, it is known to activate the brain's reward ...
Drug Addiction Plagues Australian Defence Force
TopNews Arab Emirates
"While any positive test results for prohibited substances are disappointing, it is heartening to see the rate of positive results is declining”, said a Spokesman for Defence Personnel Minister Warren Snowdon said. Drug Addiction Plagues Australian...
Chronic alcoholic gets another four months
Perthshire Advertiser
A SIX-MONTH jail sentence for shoplifting has helped sober up a chronic alcoholic, Perth Sheriff Court head. Kenneth Donald – who has been drinking for more than 20 years – was caged in August, but is facing a forced abstinence from booze for even ...
Former Wrexham FC player opens up on cocaine addiction
Daily Post North Wales
by Steve Bagnall, DPW West A FORMER Wrexham FC player has opened up about the cocaineaddiction which blighted the latter years of his career. Jeff Whitley made about 30 appearances for the Dragons in 1999 and 2007/08 in a career which also saw him ...
Harvard Wife, Mother, Heroin Addict: A Survivor's Story ...
By Rachel Zimmerman
While she was certainly more Bohemian than my own mother, I had no clue that she was an addict. I never would have guessed at the suffering that was going on in my friend's home. Surrender.Addiction is a disease with enormous financial ...
CommonHealth
Recover from Drug Addiction | Sythix.com
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Freedom from drugs and alcoholism is what every addict craves deep inside, even though some of them have family members and relatives who are both concerned and caring, they may not always be able to help them recover properly. ...
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Types of Drug Treatment Programs for Addiction Recovery ...
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Drug rehabs appoint the teams of licensed addiction recovery counselors, therapists, nutritionists, psychiatrists and caring medical staff. All types of services and treatment programs are prescribed by the professionals so that addiction ...
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Blog - Today on Appetite for Distraction: The Addiction Trend - CBC ...
Case in point today: “Scarlett Johansson Hacker Was 'Addicted' to Spying on Celebrities” and also: “Video games an addiction for kids” Now I'm not saying that control issues aren't a real problem, but I do think there's a big difference between ...
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How Did A.A. Get Started? - Alcoholism - About.com
Free Alcoholism Newsletter! ... Who came up with the idea that one alcoholic working to help another was the key to keeping yourself sober and finding recovery ...
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Gambling - Addiction Or Choice (Part 4)
GhanaWeb
They overestimated their will power before they realised they were actually gambling to fund an addiction. Some continue to live in denial of this situation. In essence or to reiterate, nobody is born as an addict and like everything, ...
Jewelry store killings accomplice dies in prison
Wall Street Journal
She was a horrible addict and got caught up in that severe addiction and this relationship," her attorney, Robert Berke, said Friday of Pearce and DiMeo. "They used drugs to unlimited amounts and ultimately made some rather significant decisions that ...
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