CNN
Washington (CNN) -- The US government's drug strategy should focus more on treatingaddiction and less on imposing harsh prison sentences, the White House said Tuesday. "Outdated policies like the mass incarceration of nonviolent drug offenders are ...
Obama Stresses Treatment in New US Drug Policy
Voice of America (blog)
Kerlikowske says the policy will approach drug addiction as a treatable disease rather than a crime, and bring an end to what he calls the “revolving door” of drug use, crime, incarceration and rearrest. Kerlikowske says it is time to realize the US ...
Depression, Anxiety Ups Addiction Among Older Americans
PsychCentral.com
By Traci Pedersen Associate News Editor The number of older adults who reported using illegal drugs within a year nearly doubled between 2002 and 2007, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
PsychCentral.com
R. Gil Kerlikowske
Huffington Post
Most important, it is based on the premise that drug addiction is a chronic disease of the brain that can be prevented and treated. Simply put, we are not powerless against the challenge ofsubstance abuse -- people can recover, and millions are in ...
Recovering heroin addict: “I fight it every day”
Aurora Beacon News
But she was the only addict on stage who could take the crowd on that raw and personal journey through addiction. A decade into recovery, Brummel has a police record and plenty of scars, both physical and emotional, to remind her of that descent.
Opioid addiction poses highest death risk
Zee News
Alcohol dependence was related to the highest number of deaths overall, a new study by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) found. The study is the largest North American study to compare mortality rates among different drug users with the ...
Zee News
New US drug strategy targets addiction
UPI.com
The Obama administration Tuesday released the outline of its new anti-drug strategy, which leans heavily on preventing and treating addiction. WASHINGTON, April 17 (UPI) -- The Obama administration Tuesday released the outline of its new anti-drug ...
ESSENCE: Pageant winner breaks 'code of silence' about growing up in an ...
Fond du Lac Reporter
Patrick Flood/The Reporter Here are some online resources for those dealing with a family member with a drinking or drug problem. n Addiction Is a Disease: Children need to know that their parents are not "bad" people, they are sick people who have a ...
Increase Sanity for Earth Day: Psychologists Offer Nature-Connected Health and ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The connection helps us cure our whiskey-nipple addiction. For this reason reconnecting-with-nature activities help us recover from the disorders that deteriorate our personal, social and environmental well-being." Project NatureConnect has placed ...
Parker Brown winning addiction battle
ESPN (blog)
and the marijuana addiction that started when he was 12 years old had grown out of control. He was getting high a dozen times a day, and he had gotten himself kicked off his Balboa Bay club team after he showed up high for the 2011 Junior Olympics ...
ESPN (blog)
Morning Rounds: Focus On Treating Addiction, Not Prison – White House
HealthyState.org
By Kimberly Vlach - In Wednesday's rounds, White House officials say the focus on prescription drug addiction should be on treatment, not prison sentences; Warren Buffett reveals he has stage 1 prostate cancer; scientists are developing a blood test to ...
Woman hoping to rid father of alcohol addiction duped
Times of India
INDORE: A woman, who wanted to rid her father of alcohol addiction, was duped of gold jewellery worth lakhs of rupees, allegedly by a man posing as a seer here on Tuesday. According to Sanyogitaganj police, the victim, Sapna, came in contact with one ...
White House Drug Policy Shifts Strategy
MSN Health & Fitness
Instead, he said, the new blueprint calls for more community programs along with changes to the probation-and-parole system that would send non-violent offenders to substance abusetreatment. "This is nothing short of a revolution in how we approach ...
New tip service targets substance abuse
The Forecaster
By Alex Lear Gathered at an unveiling of the "eTip" service April 10 at Morse High School in Bath are Heidi Tucker, left, coordinator of Communities AgainstSubstance Abuse; Phippsburg Police Chief John Skroski; Cumberland County Sheriff's Department ...
The Forecaster
Former Addict, Dealer Says Heroin Is Big Business In Colorado
CBS Local
A former addict told CBS4′s Kathy Walsh it is now the drug of choice for many users, often the next high after abusing prescription drugs gets too expensive. The former addict and dealer says heroin is big business in Colorado.
CBS Local
Cat Marnell Uses Makeup To Conceal Debauchery -- I Used It To Hide My Eating ...
Huffington Post
I don't have any personal experience with drug or alcohol addiction, two-cocktail makeovers being about as much of a party gal as I get. But I do know that makeup and other forms of artifice took on added responsibility when I was at my worst with my ...
Cost and Addiction Partly to Blame for Increase in Heroin Use
WBAY
"In the voice of one addict, they said if you catch that high, you're not going to get away until something bad happens to you," says Tom Ritchie, Clinical Supervisor at Libertas Treatment Center. Police say that powerful addiction, combined with cost, ...
An Addiction in the Family
Express from The Washington Post
By Andrea Bonior Posted on April 17, 2012 My sister is a drug addict. She was hospitalized for heroin withdrawal, quickly signed herself out of rehab and recently had a blood clot in her lung. She doesn't seem to realize how serious a blood clot can be ...
Express from The Washington Post
Prescription painkiller addiction spreads across Tennessee Valley
WAFF
Madison County Sheriff's Deputies said the prescription pill abuse and addiction problem is rampant. "The prescription pill problem is big. It's big in our area," said Sgt. Brian Chaffin, Madison County Sheriff's Department Investigations Supervisor.
The Slippery Slope of Making Gambling an Official Addiction
AVN News (press release)
Addiction expert Stanton Peele says labeling gambling an addiction will 'open the floodgates' to other similar misdiagnoses. By Tom Hymes THERAPY LAND—While most people have probably never heard of The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental ...
Porter County Substance Abuse Director for Hire
PortageLife
Candidate will also be required to coordinate coalition activities. There will be some in-state travel that is required. Bachelor's degree preferred. Send resumes to : Porter County Substance Abuse Council, 155 Indiana Ave, Suite 102, Valparaiso, ...
Gambling Addict Steals from Employer to Fund Habit
BingoSupermarket
She had not told her husband about the addiction until after she was arrested. The offences occurred between August and December last year and the court was told how her gambling habits went back to 2007. She used high street loans to fund her online ...
'Chemotherapy-induced' drug addict avoids prison
Lancashire Evening Post
Preston Crown Court heard the landscape gardener, who is recovering from cancer, developed an addiction to cocaine while undergoing chemotherapy in prison. However, once released, he could not afford to fund his habit and agreed to transport drugs from ...
Lancashire Evening Post
New US anti-drug policy stresses treatment, prevention
Turkish Press
Officials said the new approach looks at drug addiction as a treatable disease rather than a crime. "For US drug policy, this is nothing short of a revolution in how we approach drug control," Gil Kerlikowske director of the National Drug Control ...
Recovery Center in Smoky Mountains Remains Open Despite Fire Threat
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Knoxville, TN (PRWEB) April 17, 2012 An addiction treatment facility in the Great Smoky Mountains has managed to avoid closure despite the threat of wildfires in the region. English Mountain Recovery, a 36-bed residential center in Tennessee, ...
Two community programs scheduled to help prevent child substance abuse
Westlake | Bay Village Observer
As a substance abuse professional residing in Bay Village, I am acutely aware of how drugaddiction and alcoholism can impact an individual's life. Every day I see the struggles of people faced with addiction. Most of them started using marijuana and ...
Narconon Louisiana Celebrates National Alcohol Awareness Month by Supporting...
PR Web (press release)
In recognition of National Alcohol Awareness Month, sponsored by the National Council on Alcohol and Drug Dependence (NCADD), Narconon Riverbend Louisiana will spotlight past graduates who overcame alcoholism and the successes they have had since their ...
PR Web (press release)
2 Red Herrings of Powerlessness ... or am i crazy? - SoberRecovery ...
By emmanuel2012
SoberRecovery : Alcoholism Drug Addiction Help and Information > Alcoholism Information >Alcoholism-12 Step Support ... The references to self will run riot is not the only case the will of an alcoholic or addict's will shall ever be in. ... The " completely" part of letting go should not be confused in the 3rd step of giving our will to a higher power the 3rd step being a commitment to do all 12 steps, as far as i understand it.. it is NOT a commitment to give up our will to another entity in every ...
SoberFeed...Live!
Are a "Sensible" and a "Scientific" View of Addiction the Same ...
Addiction—the thematic malady for our society—entails every type of psychological and societal problem. ... addictive that doesn't involve substance abuse—gambling—has opened the floodgates. ... Is "Almost Alcoholic" a Useful Concept? ... Lowering the threshold for alcoholismcan make us mindful, or hobble us ...
www.psychologytoday.com/.../are-sensible-and-scientific-view...
Working Out And Addiction - The Link Between Addiction And Fitness
Could being devoted to exercise make it harder for you to break an addiction? Researchers think so. A new study at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science ...
www.refinery29.com/working-out-addiction
Painkiller sales soar around US, fuel addiction - News from The ...
Sales are also being driven by addiction, as users become physically dependent on painkillers and begin "doctor shopping" to keep the prescriptions coming, ...
hosted.ap.org/dynamic/.../US_PAINKILLER_NATION?...
Viewpoints: An 'Easy' SCOTUS Case?; Is Painkiller Addiction Really ...
The New York Times: 'Embarrass the Future'? Nothing in the Supreme Court arguments in the health care case last week, or in the subsequent commentary, has ...
www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Daily.../06/Friday-opinions.aspx
Voice of America (blog)
Kerlikowske says the policy will approach drug addiction as a treatable disease rather than a crime, and bring an end to what he calls the “revolving door” of drug use, crime, incarceration and rearrest. Kerlikowske says it is time to realize the US ...
Depression, Anxiety Ups Addiction Among Older Americans
PsychCentral.com
By Traci Pedersen Associate News Editor The number of older adults who reported using illegal drugs within a year nearly doubled between 2002 and 2007, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
PsychCentral.com
R. Gil Kerlikowske
Huffington Post
Most important, it is based on the premise that drug addiction is a chronic disease of the brain that can be prevented and treated. Simply put, we are not powerless against the challenge ofsubstance abuse -- people can recover, and millions are in ...
Recovering heroin addict: “I fight it every day”
Aurora Beacon News
But she was the only addict on stage who could take the crowd on that raw and personal journey through addiction. A decade into recovery, Brummel has a police record and plenty of scars, both physical and emotional, to remind her of that descent.
Opioid addiction poses highest death risk
Zee News
Alcohol dependence was related to the highest number of deaths overall, a new study by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) found. The study is the largest North American study to compare mortality rates among different drug users with the ...
Zee News
New US drug strategy targets addiction
UPI.com
The Obama administration Tuesday released the outline of its new anti-drug strategy, which leans heavily on preventing and treating addiction. WASHINGTON, April 17 (UPI) -- The Obama administration Tuesday released the outline of its new anti-drug ...
ESSENCE: Pageant winner breaks 'code of silence' about growing up in an ...
Fond du Lac Reporter
Patrick Flood/The Reporter Here are some online resources for those dealing with a family member with a drinking or drug problem. n Addiction Is a Disease: Children need to know that their parents are not "bad" people, they are sick people who have a ...
Increase Sanity for Earth Day: Psychologists Offer Nature-Connected Health and ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The connection helps us cure our whiskey-nipple addiction. For this reason reconnecting-with-nature activities help us recover from the disorders that deteriorate our personal, social and environmental well-being." Project NatureConnect has placed ...
Parker Brown winning addiction battle
ESPN (blog)
and the marijuana addiction that started when he was 12 years old had grown out of control. He was getting high a dozen times a day, and he had gotten himself kicked off his Balboa Bay club team after he showed up high for the 2011 Junior Olympics ...
ESPN (blog)
Morning Rounds: Focus On Treating Addiction, Not Prison – White House
HealthyState.org
By Kimberly Vlach - In Wednesday's rounds, White House officials say the focus on prescription drug addiction should be on treatment, not prison sentences; Warren Buffett reveals he has stage 1 prostate cancer; scientists are developing a blood test to ...
Woman hoping to rid father of alcohol addiction duped
Times of India
INDORE: A woman, who wanted to rid her father of alcohol addiction, was duped of gold jewellery worth lakhs of rupees, allegedly by a man posing as a seer here on Tuesday. According to Sanyogitaganj police, the victim, Sapna, came in contact with one ...
White House Drug Policy Shifts Strategy
MSN Health & Fitness
Instead, he said, the new blueprint calls for more community programs along with changes to the probation-and-parole system that would send non-violent offenders to substance abusetreatment. "This is nothing short of a revolution in how we approach ...
New tip service targets substance abuse
The Forecaster
By Alex Lear Gathered at an unveiling of the "eTip" service April 10 at Morse High School in Bath are Heidi Tucker, left, coordinator of Communities AgainstSubstance Abuse; Phippsburg Police Chief John Skroski; Cumberland County Sheriff's Department ...
The Forecaster
Former Addict, Dealer Says Heroin Is Big Business In Colorado
CBS Local
A former addict told CBS4′s Kathy Walsh it is now the drug of choice for many users, often the next high after abusing prescription drugs gets too expensive. The former addict and dealer says heroin is big business in Colorado.
CBS Local
Cat Marnell Uses Makeup To Conceal Debauchery -- I Used It To Hide My Eating ...
Huffington Post
I don't have any personal experience with drug or alcohol addiction, two-cocktail makeovers being about as much of a party gal as I get. But I do know that makeup and other forms of artifice took on added responsibility when I was at my worst with my ...
Cost and Addiction Partly to Blame for Increase in Heroin Use
WBAY
"In the voice of one addict, they said if you catch that high, you're not going to get away until something bad happens to you," says Tom Ritchie, Clinical Supervisor at Libertas Treatment Center. Police say that powerful addiction, combined with cost, ...
An Addiction in the Family
Express from The Washington Post
By Andrea Bonior Posted on April 17, 2012 My sister is a drug addict. She was hospitalized for heroin withdrawal, quickly signed herself out of rehab and recently had a blood clot in her lung. She doesn't seem to realize how serious a blood clot can be ...
Express from The Washington Post
Prescription painkiller addiction spreads across Tennessee Valley
WAFF
Madison County Sheriff's Deputies said the prescription pill abuse and addiction problem is rampant. "The prescription pill problem is big. It's big in our area," said Sgt. Brian Chaffin, Madison County Sheriff's Department Investigations Supervisor.
The Slippery Slope of Making Gambling an Official Addiction
AVN News (press release)
Addiction expert Stanton Peele says labeling gambling an addiction will 'open the floodgates' to other similar misdiagnoses. By Tom Hymes THERAPY LAND—While most people have probably never heard of The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental ...
Porter County Substance Abuse Director for Hire
PortageLife
Candidate will also be required to coordinate coalition activities. There will be some in-state travel that is required. Bachelor's degree preferred. Send resumes to : Porter County Substance Abuse Council, 155 Indiana Ave, Suite 102, Valparaiso, ...
Gambling Addict Steals from Employer to Fund Habit
BingoSupermarket
She had not told her husband about the addiction until after she was arrested. The offences occurred between August and December last year and the court was told how her gambling habits went back to 2007. She used high street loans to fund her online ...
'Chemotherapy-induced' drug addict avoids prison
Lancashire Evening Post
Preston Crown Court heard the landscape gardener, who is recovering from cancer, developed an addiction to cocaine while undergoing chemotherapy in prison. However, once released, he could not afford to fund his habit and agreed to transport drugs from ...
Lancashire Evening Post
New US anti-drug policy stresses treatment, prevention
Turkish Press
Officials said the new approach looks at drug addiction as a treatable disease rather than a crime. "For US drug policy, this is nothing short of a revolution in how we approach drug control," Gil Kerlikowske director of the National Drug Control ...
Recovery Center in Smoky Mountains Remains Open Despite Fire Threat
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Knoxville, TN (PRWEB) April 17, 2012 An addiction treatment facility in the Great Smoky Mountains has managed to avoid closure despite the threat of wildfires in the region. English Mountain Recovery, a 36-bed residential center in Tennessee, ...
Two community programs scheduled to help prevent child substance abuse
Westlake | Bay Village Observer
As a substance abuse professional residing in Bay Village, I am acutely aware of how drugaddiction and alcoholism can impact an individual's life. Every day I see the struggles of people faced with addiction. Most of them started using marijuana and ...
Narconon Louisiana Celebrates National Alcohol Awareness Month by Supporting...
PR Web (press release)
In recognition of National Alcohol Awareness Month, sponsored by the National Council on Alcohol and Drug Dependence (NCADD), Narconon Riverbend Louisiana will spotlight past graduates who overcame alcoholism and the successes they have had since their ...
PR Web (press release)
Alcoholic Sunday :: Hollywood Elsewhere
Black Sunday came right after Frankenheimer's relatively decent French Connection II, but I've always believed it was the first significant manifestation of his alcoholic downswirl period. His Wiki page says the following: "Black Sunday tested ...
Hollywood Elsewhere
Black Sunday came right after Frankenheimer's relatively decent French Connection II, but I've always believed it was the first significant manifestation of his alcoholic downswirl period. His Wiki page says the following: "Black Sunday tested ...
Hollywood Elsewhere
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Overcoming Substance Abuse With Prescription Drug Rehabs
By admin
Overcoming Substance Abuse With Prescription Drug Rehabs. There are many individuals who are unaware of the pitfalls of prescription medication. Medication, such as painkillers, stimulants and psychiatric drugs, can be easily procured ...
Juvan`s Health Blog Page
Overcoming Substance Abuse With Prescription Drug Rehabs
By admin
Overcoming Substance Abuse With Prescription Drug Rehabs. There are many individuals who are unaware of the pitfalls of prescription medication. Medication, such as painkillers, stimulants and psychiatric drugs, can be easily procured ...
Juvan`s Health Blog Page
2 Red Herrings of Powerlessness ... or am i crazy? - SoberRecovery ...
By emmanuel2012
SoberRecovery : Alcoholism Drug Addiction Help and Information > Alcoholism Information >Alcoholism-12 Step Support ... The references to self will run riot is not the only case the will of an alcoholic or addict's will shall ever be in. ... The " completely" part of letting go should not be confused in the 3rd step of giving our will to a higher power the 3rd step being a commitment to do all 12 steps, as far as i understand it.. it is NOT a commitment to give up our will to another entity in every ...
SoberFeed...Live!
Are a "Sensible" and a "Scientific" View of Addiction the Same ...
Addiction—the thematic malady for our society—entails every type of psychological and societal problem. ... addictive that doesn't involve substance abuse—gambling—has opened the floodgates. ... Is "Almost Alcoholic" a Useful Concept? ... Lowering the threshold for alcoholismcan make us mindful, or hobble us ...
www.psychologytoday.com/.../are-sensible-and-scientific-view...
Working Out And Addiction - The Link Between Addiction And Fitness
Could being devoted to exercise make it harder for you to break an addiction? Researchers think so. A new study at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science ...
www.refinery29.com/working-out-addiction
Painkiller sales soar around US, fuel addiction - News from The ...
Sales are also being driven by addiction, as users become physically dependent on painkillers and begin "doctor shopping" to keep the prescriptions coming, ...
hosted.ap.org/dynamic/.../US_PAINKILLER_NATION?...
Viewpoints: An 'Easy' SCOTUS Case?; Is Painkiller Addiction Really ...
The New York Times: 'Embarrass the Future'? Nothing in the Supreme Court arguments in the health care case last week, or in the subsequent commentary, has ...
www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Daily.../06/Friday-opinions.aspx
