What you can learn from one family's painful journey with drug addiction
Detroit Free Press
PATRICIA BECK/Detroit Free Press The symptoms of drug abuse and addiction vary depending on the person and the type of drugs being abused. Look for these warning signs of drug use: • Families Anonymous, with meetings in Bay City, Birmingham, Canton, ...
Witnesses tell how addict disappeared
The Register-Guard
Moline, who battled a heroin addiction, was staying at Portland's refurbished Martha Washington Hotel, a federally funded low-income housing facility. There, he met Lockwood and Dean, who were staying overnight at the Martha Washington with a friend. ...
Unlikely former addict helps combat heroin epidemic
KSDK
St. Louis (KSDK) - A St. Louis area man is hoping to help battle the area's growing heroin epidemic by sharing his own story of addiction. Jude Hassan grew up in a wealthy suburban neighborhood in Chesterfield as the son of supportive parents. ...
Former Celtics player speaks about addiction recovery
Boston Herald
By KC Myers / Cape Cod Times FALMOUTH — Celebrity drug and alcohol abuse is a tabloid staple. The story told less often is how many recover. Chris Herren, 36, a basketball phenom from Fall River who went on to briefly play for the Celtics [team stats] ...
Plan for center to treat addicts creates unease
The Boston Globe
By Jaclyn Reiss A Western Massachusetts-based medical practice that provides treatment for drugaddiction hopes to open an office in downtown Natick this month, but neighbors worry the facility could burden parking and hurt the town's image. ...
Addiction support group Learn 2 Cope coming to Quincy
The Patriot Ledger
“It's a great source of information and guidance,” said Kathy Deady of Quincy, founder of End Drug Abuse Now and the parent of an addict. “When you first find out your kid has (a problem), you really are in shock. And to find out that there's a lot of ...
Alcohol Addiction
Manila Bulletin
Definition. When you lose control over your drinking and your body becomes dependent on alcohol, then that is alcoholism. You are an alcoholic if you: Are unable to limit the amount of alcohol to drink. Develop tolerance to alcohol (need more and more ...
Secret Santa inspires heroin addict to clean up
CBS News
Thomas Coates, 30, struggles with drug addiction in Reading, Pa. "I haven't worked in over a year," Coates said. "I spent so much time in and out of treatment facilities." Why his girlfriend hasn't left him and taken their son is a mystery - even to ...
ADHD and Addiction Recovery: 12 Steps to Better Living with Alcoholism and ...
ADDitude (blog)
For my life, be it with ADHD or alcoholism, simple is sanity. One of the great and simple tools I've learned to help me manage my ADHD is the to-do list. I'm not super-organized (obviously) and am very low tech. My lists at work are usually scratched ...
'Addiction Incorporated' investigates 'Big Tobacco' from the inside out
HollywoodSoapbox.com
Addiction Incorporated, the new documentary from director Charles Evans Jr., teaches us why it took so long to realize that sucking on a cigarette is so harmful. The 102-minute film, which is currently playing at New York City's Film Forum, ...
Maine Voices: Setting arbitrary deadline would undermine treatment for addiction
Press Herald
Suboxone helps patients with few resources to kick addiction to painkillers such as Dilaudid, left, and OxyContin, center and right. 2002 file photo/The Associated Press I have been a family physician in a Maine rural health center for 31 years. ...
Press Herald
Kwankwaso Laments Rampant Cases of Drug Addiction
THISDAY Live
Expressing dismay over the rampant cases of drug addiction in the states, Kwankwaso stated that besides the institute, the government was taking other proactive measures to check the tendencies of the youths to take part in negative activities as a ...
Following One Woman's Fight Against Prescription Drug Addiction
WUSF 89.7 News
The story of one young-woman's fight against her addiction to prescription painkillers ran in a special Sunday section of the St. Petersburg Times and is available online as well. You've probably heard before that Florida has one of the highest rates ...
Police beat: Car theft, prize scam and sex offender at high school
TheNewsTribune.com
She sponsored a drug addict in a recovery group. The addict, a 40-year-old Tacoma woman, had called at 4 am, begging for a ride to see “a very ill friend.” The sponsor agreed to come over. She picked the addict up from a motel in the 8800 block of ...
Rise in amphetamine addicts seeking help
Ninemsn
Mr Pitts said there was often a time lag of 18 months to two years after a person started using amphetamines before they sought help for addiction. "The first year, everything's great and then it's like, uh-oh this isn't so good," he said. ...
Live Wire: Foreclosure help just a phone call away
Fayetteville Observer
But he struggled with a drug addiction that began in his teens when he was treated for lymphoma. In 1995, as the final episodes of "In the Heat of the Night" were airing, he despaired of conquering his addiction and killed himself. He was just 32. ...
What are our Priorities in the Supply and Demand Equation for Drugs?
NJ.com (blog)
In most if not all cases, crimes become essential to supply money to feed an addict's habit. It becomes a vicious cycle and the link between crime and addiction has become more and more obvious. While continuing our robust supply side efforts, ...
Polk tours Cuba's substance abuse programs
Morris Daily Herald
Polk went with an organization to which she belongs, NAADAC, an association for addiction professionals. “The purpose was to exchange information with other addiction professionals,” she said. “We wanted to find out what's going on here. ...
Mahoning Valley neighbors living in poverty
Youngstown Vindicator
Shadowed by a harrowing drug addiction, a 53-year-old Mahoning County man has only memories of what life used to be like to comfort his nights sleeping alone on a cot at a rescue mission. A Wayne County divorcee supports her three kids on $1280 a month ...
Achievements: Volunteers recognized by advisory committee
NJ.com
By Star-Ledger Staff UNION COUNTY — Several Union County residents were lauded for their community service efforts by the Local Advisory Committee on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse at the group's annual volunteer recognition dinner in Clark. ...
A year of tears: a victim's widow grieves
Vancouver Sun
People struggling with alcoholism, drug addiction, mental illness and homelessness. Mayor Stephen Mandel says a common thread running through many of the cases is economic, meaning the response has to focus on social issues. ...
Job crisis lingers as unemployment dips
Middletown Journal
Staff photo by Kareem Elgazzar Casey Deaton, 24, of Hamilton, is a homeless single mother and a recovering drug addict trying to study for a GED and attend nursing school. Deaton, pictured at CHOSEN homeless shelter in Hamilton, has been clean almost ...
Snark Bites: Reality checks recommended for officials benefitting from ...
Knoxville News Sentinel
He said if you receive government benefits, you should be willing to pay for a drug test to preemptively prove you are innocent of being a drug addict before you are proven guilty of it. "I have no problem violating the Fourth Amendment's restriction ...
Addiction can happen to ANYONE
By davidtoddloffert
My ignorance would cause me to lose almost a decade of my life and would bring me close to death many times as a result of my severe drug addiction. Although Dr. Suter lost his medical license for over prescribing controlled substances and not monitoring that ... Hello everyone, I have been anaddict since I was 14 years old when I started taking my dads valiums and darvocets. A year later I was introduced to Qualudes and all kinds of different drugs. I lik… user avatar · Rural Teens ...
Support Groups
Detroit Free Press
PATRICIA BECK/Detroit Free Press The symptoms of drug abuse and addiction vary depending on the person and the type of drugs being abused. Look for these warning signs of drug use: • Families Anonymous, with meetings in Bay City, Birmingham, Canton, ...
Witnesses tell how addict disappeared
The Register-Guard
Moline, who battled a heroin addiction, was staying at Portland's refurbished Martha Washington Hotel, a federally funded low-income housing facility. There, he met Lockwood and Dean, who were staying overnight at the Martha Washington with a friend. ...
Unlikely former addict helps combat heroin epidemic
KSDK
St. Louis (KSDK) - A St. Louis area man is hoping to help battle the area's growing heroin epidemic by sharing his own story of addiction. Jude Hassan grew up in a wealthy suburban neighborhood in Chesterfield as the son of supportive parents. ...
Former Celtics player speaks about addiction recovery
Boston Herald
By KC Myers / Cape Cod Times FALMOUTH — Celebrity drug and alcohol abuse is a tabloid staple. The story told less often is how many recover. Chris Herren, 36, a basketball phenom from Fall River who went on to briefly play for the Celtics [team stats] ...
Plan for center to treat addicts creates unease
The Boston Globe
By Jaclyn Reiss A Western Massachusetts-based medical practice that provides treatment for drugaddiction hopes to open an office in downtown Natick this month, but neighbors worry the facility could burden parking and hurt the town's image. ...
Addiction support group Learn 2 Cope coming to Quincy
The Patriot Ledger
“It's a great source of information and guidance,” said Kathy Deady of Quincy, founder of End Drug Abuse Now and the parent of an addict. “When you first find out your kid has (a problem), you really are in shock. And to find out that there's a lot of ...
Alcohol Addiction
Manila Bulletin
Definition. When you lose control over your drinking and your body becomes dependent on alcohol, then that is alcoholism. You are an alcoholic if you: Are unable to limit the amount of alcohol to drink. Develop tolerance to alcohol (need more and more ...
Secret Santa inspires heroin addict to clean up
CBS News
Thomas Coates, 30, struggles with drug addiction in Reading, Pa. "I haven't worked in over a year," Coates said. "I spent so much time in and out of treatment facilities." Why his girlfriend hasn't left him and taken their son is a mystery - even to ...
ADHD and Addiction Recovery: 12 Steps to Better Living with Alcoholism and ...
ADDitude (blog)
For my life, be it with ADHD or alcoholism, simple is sanity. One of the great and simple tools I've learned to help me manage my ADHD is the to-do list. I'm not super-organized (obviously) and am very low tech. My lists at work are usually scratched ...
'Addiction Incorporated' investigates 'Big Tobacco' from the inside out
HollywoodSoapbox.com
Addiction Incorporated, the new documentary from director Charles Evans Jr., teaches us why it took so long to realize that sucking on a cigarette is so harmful. The 102-minute film, which is currently playing at New York City's Film Forum, ...
Maine Voices: Setting arbitrary deadline would undermine treatment for addiction
Press Herald
Suboxone helps patients with few resources to kick addiction to painkillers such as Dilaudid, left, and OxyContin, center and right. 2002 file photo/The Associated Press I have been a family physician in a Maine rural health center for 31 years. ...
Press Herald
Kwankwaso Laments Rampant Cases of Drug Addiction
THISDAY Live
Expressing dismay over the rampant cases of drug addiction in the states, Kwankwaso stated that besides the institute, the government was taking other proactive measures to check the tendencies of the youths to take part in negative activities as a ...
Following One Woman's Fight Against Prescription Drug Addiction
WUSF 89.7 News
The story of one young-woman's fight against her addiction to prescription painkillers ran in a special Sunday section of the St. Petersburg Times and is available online as well. You've probably heard before that Florida has one of the highest rates ...
Police beat: Car theft, prize scam and sex offender at high school
TheNewsTribune.com
She sponsored a drug addict in a recovery group. The addict, a 40-year-old Tacoma woman, had called at 4 am, begging for a ride to see “a very ill friend.” The sponsor agreed to come over. She picked the addict up from a motel in the 8800 block of ...
Rise in amphetamine addicts seeking help
Ninemsn
Mr Pitts said there was often a time lag of 18 months to two years after a person started using amphetamines before they sought help for addiction. "The first year, everything's great and then it's like, uh-oh this isn't so good," he said. ...
Live Wire: Foreclosure help just a phone call away
Fayetteville Observer
But he struggled with a drug addiction that began in his teens when he was treated for lymphoma. In 1995, as the final episodes of "In the Heat of the Night" were airing, he despaired of conquering his addiction and killed himself. He was just 32. ...
What are our Priorities in the Supply and Demand Equation for Drugs?
NJ.com (blog)
In most if not all cases, crimes become essential to supply money to feed an addict's habit. It becomes a vicious cycle and the link between crime and addiction has become more and more obvious. While continuing our robust supply side efforts, ...
Polk tours Cuba's substance abuse programs
Morris Daily Herald
Polk went with an organization to which she belongs, NAADAC, an association for addiction professionals. “The purpose was to exchange information with other addiction professionals,” she said. “We wanted to find out what's going on here. ...
Mahoning Valley neighbors living in poverty
Youngstown Vindicator
Shadowed by a harrowing drug addiction, a 53-year-old Mahoning County man has only memories of what life used to be like to comfort his nights sleeping alone on a cot at a rescue mission. A Wayne County divorcee supports her three kids on $1280 a month ...
Achievements: Volunteers recognized by advisory committee
NJ.com
By Star-Ledger Staff UNION COUNTY — Several Union County residents were lauded for their community service efforts by the Local Advisory Committee on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse at the group's annual volunteer recognition dinner in Clark. ...
A year of tears: a victim's widow grieves
Vancouver Sun
People struggling with alcoholism, drug addiction, mental illness and homelessness. Mayor Stephen Mandel says a common thread running through many of the cases is economic, meaning the response has to focus on social issues. ...
Job crisis lingers as unemployment dips
Middletown Journal
Staff photo by Kareem Elgazzar Casey Deaton, 24, of Hamilton, is a homeless single mother and a recovering drug addict trying to study for a GED and attend nursing school. Deaton, pictured at CHOSEN homeless shelter in Hamilton, has been clean almost ...
Snark Bites: Reality checks recommended for officials benefitting from ...
Knoxville News Sentinel
He said if you receive government benefits, you should be willing to pay for a drug test to preemptively prove you are innocent of being a drug addict before you are proven guilty of it. "I have no problem violating the Fourth Amendment's restriction ...
Addiction can happen to ANYONE
By davidtoddloffert
My ignorance would cause me to lose almost a decade of my life and would bring me close to death many times as a result of my severe drug addiction. Although Dr. Suter lost his medical license for over prescribing controlled substances and not monitoring that ... Hello everyone, I have been anaddict since I was 14 years old when I started taking my dads valiums and darvocets. A year later I was introduced to Qualudes and all kinds of different drugs. I lik… user avatar · Rural Teens ...
Support Groups
Meth Abuse | Meth Addiction Rehab Treatment Center
By Addiction Treatment
With just one use, many users are hooked, and being a meth addict is as dangerous and damaging as any substance addiction can be — and perhaps even more so. Crystal Meth Abuse. Meth is usually made in the home, in “labs” such as ...
Alcoholism: The Wreckage In Its Wake | JewishPress
By Adina Kutnicki
... the disease of alcoholism. In its essence, the wreckage laid bare on all our roads, due to this insidious disease, is basically a final stop (hopefully) for the alcoholic, a point in which their disease can no longer be ignored, nor hidden behind closed (family) doors. ... Specifically within many traditional Jewish circles, the stigma attached to addiction (whether alcohol, drugs, sex, gambling) often serves as the excuse needed to cover up the addiction, by both the addict and their enablers....
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Everything Addiction | Addiction Treatment Research - Drug Rehab ...
By Everything Addiction
Parvaz noted that while studies have been done in the past at Brookhaven and other locations, the research conducted focused on exploring the prefrontal cortex to understand structural integrity when drug addiction is present, as well as the ...
Everything Addiction
Mobile, AL Rehab Programs – Alabama Drug and Alcohol Addiction ...
By Kristin
Mobile is the third largest city is the state of Alabama with a total population of 195111 according to the 2010 United States Census. The city is located in the Southern part of the state on the Mobile River and.
Rehab Programs
By Kristin
Mobile is the third largest city is the state of Alabama with a total population of 195111 according to the 2010 United States Census. The city is located in the Southern part of the state on the Mobile River and.
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Enforcing boundaries when away - SoberRecovery : Alcoholism ...
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Keep in mind that an alcoholic can not drink. But once they pick up a drink they can't stop. Denial is part of the disease of alcoholism -- he may say and believe he'll control his drinking but, if he's analcoholic, he can't. NYCDoglvr is offline ...
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Secret Santa inspires heroin addict to clean up - CBS News
CBS Evening News: Secret Santa inspires heroin addict to clean up - After ... " Maybe that gave him the hope that he needs to break his addiction," Secret Santa said. ... Once for a heroin addicted sister and again for an alcoholic husband. ...
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CBS Evening News: Secret Santa inspires heroin addict to clean up - After ... " Maybe that gave him the hope that he needs to break his addiction," Secret Santa said. ... Once for a heroin addicted sister and again for an alcoholic husband. ...
www.cbsnews.com/.../secret-santa-inspires-heroin-addict-to-cle...
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