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'Undertreatment of Pain' vs. Prescription Drug Addiction and Death
Salem-News.Com
Recently the below was printed regarding the consumption of narcotics in epidemic proportion throughout the world -- very interesting read -- Addiction Journal The United States makes up only 4.6 percent of the world's population, but consumes 80 ...
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Cahill dies of heroin overdose
ESPN
She thinks his drug and alcohol addiction were self-medication. Fondiler said, "He tried to quit all by himself, sometimes." Josh Persoff remembers living in his own busted white Toyota truck. He was a block from the ocean, but might as well been in ...
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Erie City Mission celebrates 100th anniversary, builds for future
GoErie.com
Shelton Williams' life was spiraling downward in the throes of drug addiction and alcoholism. After 18 months in the City Mission's New Life Program, Williams was clean, sober and a changed man. "This place is inspirational. They taught me how to live ...
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Limerick drug addict is jailed for possession of heroin
Limerick Leader
By David Hurley A DRUG addict was sentenced to nine months in prison after he pleaded guilty to possession of heroin for the purpose of sale or supply at his home on the southside of the city earlier this year. Limerick District Court was told the ...
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Drinking is dangerous
Independent Online
Beneath the fancy bottling, packaging and slick advertising linking alcoholic products to sporting prowess, business savvy and overwhelming sexiness, lies a drug called ethanol. Ethanol is the drug found in beer, wines and spirits similar to the active ...
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The horror of tik and its addiction
The New Age Online
A 27-year old mother of children aged eight and three broke down while telling The New Age how she abandoned her daughters and twice attempted murder because of drugs. Gafeetha Santon has been clean for the past three months after being on tik for the ...
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Ways to Help a Chronic Alcoholic
By mrsmith
Responding effectively to chronic alcoholism is a key part of the services provided by long term drug and alcohol rehabilitation facilities, such as Burning Tree in Texas. Addiction specialists here treat chronic alcoholics from all 50 states with a ...
Burning Tree
Addiction is an illness
Peace Arch News
We need to stop thinking of addiction, in all its forms, in terms of it being a choice. These people may have made the initial “choice” to try a drug or drink/eat to kill emotional or physical pain in their life, but the addiction itself is not a ...
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Cumbrian alcoholic abused paramedics and police - court
News & Star
An alcoholic who abused paramedics, refused to leave an ambulance and shouted at police officers has admitted being drunk and disorderly. Stuart Farish, 35, of School Close, Maryport, appeared before West Cumbria Magistrates. Jane Mackrill, prosecuting ...
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Suspect blames burglary on porn addiction, Minn. police allege
Kansas City Star (blog)
I'd have said it was to pay for my running shoes because I'm such an endorphin addict. Might as well pick a phony addiction that won't be too difficult to kick during that court-ordered rehab. Of course Elrond is right. She's a beautiful "Just Say No" ...
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Stockport heroin addict ignored ban on visiting parents
Manchester Evening News
A woman banned from contacting her own parents after persistently pestering them for cash to feed a heroin habit has breached the order. Former nanny Gillian Carden, 31, was forbidden by a court order early this year, from visiting or talking to ...
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CAMH study links specific gene to suicidal behavior
DigitalJournal.com
Scientists from Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) have confirmed a genetic link to suicidal behavior in a review of studies that also combines new research. The finding may someday help with interventions that specifically target the gene ...
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