Huffington Post
Do you know anyone suffering from some kind of addiction or addictive behavior? While most of us think about addiction in the more common uses of the term, such as alcohol or drug addiction, people can also become addicted to emotional patterns, ...
State of Addiction: Substance abuse costs US employers hundreds of billions in ...
NewsOK.com
They have increased health care expenses — costing their employers twice as much as other employees, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. And they are three and a half times more likely to be involved in a ...
Treatment For Addiction: A New National Drug Rehab Locator Site Is Available ...
Houston Chronicle
For those who are just accepting the fact that they need to receive treatment for addiction, or for their family and friends, it can seem to be an almost impossible task to even begin to make a decision about where to go for help.
Mental health and substance abuse monitored in Oil Patch
Jamestown Sun
Health officials are continuing to monitor the Oil Patch for changes in mental health and substance abuse needs, the North Dakota State Hospital Governing Board learned Monday at its quarterly meeting. Health officials are continuing to monitor the Oil ...
Naperville parents hear from addiction experts amid streak of heroin deaths ...
Chicago Tribune
Drug addiction experts sent a message to Naperville parents Monday night that there are steps they can take to keep their children away from the growing heroin problem in the suburbs. "You have a 50 percent chance of keeping kids safe and away from ...
Chicago Tribune
Gambler addiction, suicide among Toronto casino concerns
Toronto Star
Katie Daubs Staff Reporter Related Opinion: A casino in Toronto is a terrible idea that smacks of desperation Toronto casino: Councillors split on gamble, writes Royson James OLG proposal threatens to split council over location Gambler addiction, ...
Toronto Star
Interest in addiction treatment up
Kawartha Media Group
Dr. Jim McGorman (PETERBOROUGH) More local OxyContin users are seeking help fromaddiction clinics now that the drug isn't available in Canadian pharmacies. Dr. Jim McGorman, an emergency department physician who works once a week out of the Ontario ...
Should we use LSD to treat alcoholism?
The Week Magazine
Surprisingly, the sobering effect of the LSD lasted for at least six months before fading, suggesting that regular doses might effectively cure alcoholism. "Given the evidence for a beneficial effect of LSD on alcoholism, it is puzzling why this ...
State of Addiction: Former addict now helping others
NewsOK.com
A recovering addict, who has been clean since 1994, Sue Henson is a Team Leader in the Metropolitan Apartment Program through the Mental Health Association in Tulsa. JOHN CLANTON/Tulsa World John Clanton - Tulsa World “I was not prostituting,” she said ...
Addiction to cocaine and sugar could be caused by the SAME faulty 'circuit' in ...
Daily Mail
By Rob Waugh Addiction to drugs such as cocaine could be caused by a faulty reward system in the brain, scientists have revealed - and the same flaw leads to a weakness for sugary foods. Mice with a 'flaw' in their brain's signalling eagerly sought out ...
Daily Mail
Treat heroin addiction with heroin ingredient: Researchers
Toronto Sun
The active ingredient in heroin is a cheaper and more effective treatment for opioid addiction than methadone, according to research published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. Addicts in a methadone program — the standard treatment ...
Chris Leben talks painkillers addiction, alcohol battle, rehab and fighting ...
MMAmania.com
However, his greatest opponent, it seems, has not been inside the eight-walled cage, but rather outside of it with his addiction to alcohol and painkillers, a battle that has significantly impacted his personal life, as well as his seven-year fight ...
Post-surgery meds leading to addiction
Winnipeg Free Press
With Canada facing what has been called a crisis of prescription painkiller addiction, new Canadian research shows patients prescribed opioids after minor surgery are significantly more likely to become chronic users within a year.
Portraits of Addiction
Mother Jones
—Photos by Chris Arnade/Text by Nicole Pasulka In his portraits of sex workers and the homeless struggling with addiction, photographer Chris Arnade is neither demanding an increase in social services or gawking from the sidelines at others' ...
Mother Jones
Oklahoma agency seeks more funding to help addicts
Tulsa World
The director of the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services rattles off the state's dire statistics and national standings in addiction, health and treatment. That includes being No. 1 in illegal use of prescription ...
Wiping memories to tackle alcoholism
Medical Xpress
With experimental medical trials expected to start in the near future, the research could revolutionise approaches to the treatment of chronic alcoholism and addiction to other drugs of abuse. Researchers at the Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience ...
Morning Report: Chris Leben Talks Addiction, Jose Aldo Spars a Fan
MMA Fighting
As he poured out his mortality on The MMA Hour, accepting full responsibility for his ongoing battle with substance abuse, Leben ceased being "The Crippler" and instead reverted back to Chris, a simple 31-year-old man struggling with the pressures and ...
Heroin cheaper than methadone to treat addiction: study
Vancouver Sun
Addicts in methadone treatment generate an average life-time cost to society of $1.14 million, compared to $1.09 million for an addict in heroin treatment, according to Aslam Anis, director of the Centre of Health Evaluation and Out-comes Sciences.
Heroin addict beggar facing jail after breaching prior sentence
This is Plymouth
A HEROIN addict branded an aggressive street beggar stole some garden lights and tried to sell them to an elderly woman suffering from dementia, a court heard. John Leggett, aged 26, took the lights from a garden and then offered them to a 79-year-old ...
Alcoholic's Asbo 'has cost public thousands'
This is Grimsby
A DEFENCE solicitor has strongly attacked the "nonsense" – and waste of public money – of repeatedly prosecuting Grimsby alcoholic Colin Osborne for breaching his anti-social behaviour order. Geoff Ellis branded the terms of the Asbo "unfair" and said ...
Addiction program for moms hinging on LHIN
Hamilton Spectator
But, the LHIN has said it doesn't have any money for the program, which offers addiction treatment for pregnant or parenting women in the city. “At this point, we're waiting to hear back from the LHIN,” Brown said. “Depending on what we hear from them, ...
Macomb County Seeing Increasing Number Of Substance Abuse ...
By asaunders
MACOMB COUNTY (WWJ) – Officials in Macomb County are struggling to cope with the sky rocketing number of substance abuse cases. The director of the County's substance abuse office, Randy O'Brien, tells WWJ's Sandra McNeill that ...
CBS Detroit
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