| Online registry seeks strategies to beat addiction The Associated Press "We'd like to know about those." A typical challenge for a recovering alcoholic, for instance, is the holidays when beer, wine and spirits are in abundance. Besides its human toll, addiction in has a huge price tag. Substance abuse costs the United ... | ||
| Lundbeck Considers Partnership for Alcoholism Drug, CFO Says BusinessWeek 9 (Bloomberg) -- H. Lundbeck A/S, the maker of the antidepressant Lexapro, is considering forming a partnership to market an alcoholism treatment the company aims to start selling in about a year, Chief Financial Officer Anders Gotzsche said. ... | ||
| Michael Jackson doctor says superstar patient was a drug addict Vancouver Sun Murray's attorneys had argued during his trial that Jackson was addicted to the painkiller Demerol that he received from another doctor in the weeks before his death, but they barely mentioned any possible addiction to propofol. ... | ||
| Alcoholic sets pregnant wife on fire in Mumbai Daily News & Analysis The Malwani police are looking for her alcoholic husband, Sunil, 31. “The Sonawanes live in MHB colony near Bharatmata School in Malwani, Malad (West). Sunil is an alcoholic and used to often take money from his wife. Whenever, she would refuse, ... | ||
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| Mallick: Jungle medicine for drug addiction Toronto Star Only the addict who truly wants to turn the boat around midstream will dare do it. But the rewards do seem to be remarkable. I talked to Maté in Toronto last week. He is an intelligent man of great warmth. He radiates compassion. ... | ||
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| Marin Alcoholism Recovery Center Offers Targeted Treatment for Chronic Relapse Emailwire (press release) The addiction treatment field has long sought predictors of relapse among alcoholics – a necessity in a field where the road to sobriety generally includes several setbacks. In fact, a recent Yale School of Medicine study established a link between ... | ||
| NIH announces results from first large scale study on treatment of ... News-Medical.net This combination was specifically designed to prevent abuse and diversion of buprenorphine and was one of the first to be eligible for prescribing under the Drug Addiction Treatment Act, which permits specially trained physicians to prescribe certain ... | ||
| Mental Health and Addiction Treatment Leaders Join Forces for a Solution to ... PR Web (press release) Hazelden has joined forces with the leaders in behavioral health, mental health, and addictiontreatment to advance a model of integrated treatment as the solution to the growing co-occurring disorders crisis. Whether it's depression, anxiety, ... | ||
| Max Markson apologises for 'cocaine addict' slur Ninemsn By ninemsn staff Publicity mogul Max Markson has apologised for calling model Didier Cohen a "self-confessed cocaine addict" on Australia's Celebrity Apprentice. Markson, 55, said he was trying to save himself from getting fired when he badmouthed ... | ||
| Heroin addict on theft charges Wexford People Ed King, for Roche, said he has had 'a substantial heroin addiction since the age of 13', but completed a five-month rehab programme in the Cuain Mhuire treatment centre on October 21 and is now in an after-care prorgamme. ' This has been the longest ... | ||
| Voters back seniors, nix mental health Parkersburg News Mike Knapke, 60, said the issue was highlighted for him recently when an individual he knows began seeking treatment for alcoholism and found there was nothing locally for detox services. One example of the loss of services in the area was the 2009 ... | ||
| Addict stored drugs to repay debt to his dealer Bristol Evening Post AN addict caught with 45 wraps of heroin and cocaine at his girlfriend's flat has been jailed for three years. When police raided the home of the partner of Jermaine Phillips, 23, they found the class A drugs in a bedroom along with a quantity of cash. ... | ||
| Artists on Recovery Fundraiser Featuring Rob Lowe Raises More Than $800000 for ... Sacramento Bee Without this option, many addict mothers could face losing their children. In 2009, an estimated 22.5 million people (8.9 percent of the total US population aged 12 or older) were classified with substance dependence or abuse in the past year based on ... | ||
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| OxyContin: Purdue Pharma's painful medicine Fortune (blog) But that changed years ago, and ever since, addiction to painkillers has become a staple of news headlines. There are periodic lurid crimes, such as the quadruple homicide in a Long Island pharmacy this summer committed by an addict desperate for ... | ||
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| Crisis loan used to buy hard drugs This Is Wiltshire A DRUG addict who got a crisis loan from social services so he could buy heroin and crack cocaine has been jailed for 18 months. Timothy Ryan was on his way to see a dealer with an undercover police officer who was trying to infiltrate town centre ... | ||
| Soaring Above Co-Addiction Wins USA Best Books 2011 Finalist Award PR.com (press release) USA Book News announces the winners and finalists of the USA "Best Books 2011" awards, and "Soaring Above Co-addiction: Helping your loved one get clean, while creating the life of your dreams," is named award-winning finalist. Tucson, AZ, November 08, ... | ||
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| Young drug addict jailed after disobeying probation officer Times of Malta Ilona Bartolo, 23, from Pietá had been placed on probation for three years after admitting to being in possession of heroin which was not for her exclusive use. She had been she would be jailed if she did not obey her probation officer. ... | ||
| Alcoholism and OCD - SoberRecovery : Alcoholism Drug Addiction ... By TylerDurden I have been plagued with what many would call "Obsessive Compulsive Disorder" my entire life. When I was young I washed my hands. SoberFeed...Live! | ||
| Shoplifters find hope in addiction treatment - Los Angeles Times For 15 years, Clark has run a shoplifting addiction treatment program in. ... "You hear of people getting DUIs, and people know I'm not an alcoholic. They thought ... articles.latimes.com/2011/oct/30/.../la-me-shoplifting-2011103... | ||
| Yes, Addiction Does Discriminate | The Fix It's important to emphasize that drawing attention to the increased vulnerability to addiction that poverty poses is in no way meant to pit addict against addict or to ... www.thefix.com/.../economic-inequality-and-addiction8202 |
Online registry seeks strategies to beat addiction
