Alcoholics Anonymous saved my life

Alcoholics Anonymous saved my life, but not by curing a 'disease'
The Guardian
Tanya Gold has accused me of writing "a poison pen letter" to Alcoholics Anonymousin my new book about addiction, The Fix. Since AA saved my life, that seems a very ungrateful thing for me to do. And, indeed, I've done nothing of the sort.

The Guardian

Unemployed alcoholic Dennis Rodman sentenced to 104 hours of community service...
Daily Mail
She also said Rodman's alcoholism has tarnished his image and made it difficult for him to obtain corporate endorsements and other work. Rodman was a bad-boy star of the Detroit Pistons and won three NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls.

Daily Mail

Treating Recalcitrant Nicotine Addiction: the EBM Way
MedPage Today
While addiction to nicotine is every bit as strong as that for heroin and cocaine, smoking-related diseases are not caused by nicotine, but by the products of tobacco combustion -- the smoke -- inhaled many times a day. Our CDC, FDA, and associations ...

Leading Clinical Researcher Frank Vocci Joins Journal of Addiction Medicine
Newswise (press release)
Newswise — Philadelphia, PA (May 30, 2012) – Dr. Frank Vocci has been named as the third Co-Editor of Journal of Addiction Medicine, the official journal of the American Society of AddictionMedicine (ASAM). He joins Senior Editor Dr. George F. Koob ...

Marvel boss: 'No alcoholism story in 'Iron Man 3''
NME.com
Iron Man 3 will not explore Tony Stark's alcoholism, Marvel Studios boss Kevin Fiege has confirmed. Ever since Iron Man hit the big screen with Robert Downey Jr in the lead role, there has been speculation that the movie series would adapt the comic's ...

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Narconon Spokesperson Reports: Arrests Alone Won't Curtail Addiction Issues
PR Web (press release)
While this provides a certain degree of justice for the family of the deceased person, it is unlikely to have much of an effect on the substance abuse and addiction problems themselves. In St. Louis in the fall of 2011, dozens of people were arrested ...

PR Web (press release)

Former meth addict shares story in hopes of helping others
WRBL
(more) A former Methamphetamine addict tells her struggle of abuse in hopes that those in need will seek help. Rosemary Andrews has been clean for seven years, but said every day is still a struggle. Andrews started doing drugs when she was 12.

4% of teenagers in Korea at risk of Internet addiction: study
Jakarta Post
Four in every 100 Korean teenagers are at risk of Internet addiction, a government study showed Wednesday. The survey of 1.74 million youths, conducted by the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family in cooperation with the Education Ministry, ...

Internet addiction: A hoax now proved to hold staggering truth – Part 3
News Pakistan
Anyone who replied in a YES to five out of eight was segregated as an addict. The rest were labelled normal or in-control. Then families and academic instructors of these subjects were contacted to note their social lives.

News Pakistan

Montreal to Host 54th International Conference on Alcohol, Drugs, Tobacco, and ...
MarketWatch (press release)
During his speech, Mr. Vamos presented the various critical issues surrounding substance abusewhich will be broached during the conference, held at Montreal's Palais des congres from November 12 to 16, 2012. Featuring some forty internationally ...

Sex, Drugs, and Alcohol—Addiction Levels Rising as Boomers & Seniors Approach ...
Senior Housing News
While they're not quite rock stars, the number of people aged 50+ in treatment for addiction to be “drastically on the rise,” a recent survey found. Previous studies have found that as many as 80% of adults aged 50 to 90 remain sexually active, ...

Drug addict snatched Blackburn boy's phone
Lancashire Telegraph
A HEROIN addict who snatched a 13-year-old boy's mobile phone has been jailed for 13 months. Patrick Leggatt convinced the teenager and his friend to help him look for a puppy in Blackburn town centre which had apparently run off.

How Long Is 'Long-Term' Drug Rehab?
PsychCentral.com (blog)
By David Sack, MD As a result of numerous outcome studies conducted in the past decade, there is a growing consensus that for those who can manage it, long-term addiction treatment is the most effective option. We frequently meet the addict who bounces ...

The Relationship Between Substance Abuse and Adolescence
By Behavioral Health Matters
According to a study conducted by the National Center of Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University in 2011, substance use by teens is the most significant public health problem in the United States . In addition to the ...
Behavioral Health Matters

Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Substance Abuse | Beck Institute Blog
By Cognitive Behavior Therapy News | Beck Institute Blog
Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Substance Abuse. Posted on May 30, 2012 by Cognitive Behavior Therapy News | Beck Institute Blog. In this clip from a recent 3-day workshop at the Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Dr. Aaron ...
Beck Institute Blog

'Iron Man 3′ Won't Explore Tony Stark's Alcoholism, Kevin Feige Says
By Terri Schwartz
"Iron Man 3" seems like it will be tackling a lot of important elements of Iron Man's mythology, but there is one subject matter it won't be touching: Tony Stark's alcoholism. That means that "Iron Man 2" is as close as we're going to see Stark ...
Splash Page

Letting go of an alcoholic boyfriend - SoberRecovery : Alcoholism ...
By HurtAgain
I have been in a relationship for 2 1/2 years with an alcoholic. Before him were two others; one for 6 1/2 years and ... I have learned he's been an alcoholic over 20 years and he's 39 years old now. What's worse is the lies that he tells me and ...
SoberRecovery : Alcoholism Drug...

Treating Addiction as a Disease, not a Crime
Because our drug policies emphasize a punitive rather than rehabilitative response to substance abuse and addiction, they fail to address the actual cause of ...
www.aclu.org/blog/.../treating-addiction-disease-not-crime

Addiction Technology Transfer Centers - The Substance Abuse and ...
FY 2012 RFA Grant Applications Information: (PBHCI) PPHF 2012 Primary and Behavioral Health Care Integration.
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Understanding Food Addiction w/ Dr. Vera Tarman 05/22 by ...
How dieting can lead to substance abuse. * How to naturally boost feel-good chemicals in the brain. * The most effective treatments for food addiction. Be sure to ...
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Addiction and Renewal in the Hoopa Valley (video)

Fixin' Up Hoopa: A Community's Struggle with Meth Addiction
New America Media
He spent the next 21 years incarcerated or on the run, battling an addiction that swept his youth away like powder in the wind. Today, Michael is 38 years old with long black hair, salted gray. With 11 children and another on the way, he surrounds ...

Michael W. Miller Responds to New Insights into Neuroscience and Addiction
MarketWatch (press release)
New research has emerged that clarifies the role the brain plays in addiction and "bad habits"--and it has won the praise of researcher Michael W. Miller. NEW YORK, May 29, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- For many, bad habits are thought to be matters ...

Leading Addiction Center Responds to Sweeping Changes to Key Manual Used by ...
PR Web (press release)
Addiction rehab center warns public of potential dangers surrounding changes to DSM as well as the life saving benefits. The Farley Center at Williamsburg Place is preparing its Admissions Department to handle an influx of patients that could be ...

Proposed Changes To Psychiatric Manual Could Impact Addiction Diagnosis
Gant Daily
That's a question that experts are wrestling with as they prepare to revise the diagnostic manual that spells out the criteria for addiction and other substance-use problems. The catalyst for this discussion is a set of proposed changes to the ...

Jailed: Painkiller addict who tampered with packets of Neurofen caused £2.4 ...
Daily Mail
By Jill Reilly A codeine addict who replaced pills in a Neurofen Plus pack with his own schizophrenia medication to fund his habit was jailed today for 18 months. The contaminated packs ended up in the hands of unsuspecting members of the public.

Daily Mail

Nurofen addict jailed: Pill switcher cost drugs maker £2.4m to save himself £7
Mirror.co.uk
Nurofen addict Christopher McGuire, 31, cost the drug's maker £2.4million and saved himself just £7 by slipping anti-psychotic medicine into the boxes. Judge Alistair McCreath told him at Southwark crown court in London: "Your acts caused very ...

Is addiction a moral defect or a mental illness?
The Guardian
IDS is considering docking the benefits of addicts who decline "help"; it seems they must attend Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) or Narcotics Anonymous (NA), or risk greater poverty and, inevitably, chaos. This is a tax on mental illness that will apply only ...

The Guardian

Ex-addict took giant overdose
Reading Post
By David Millward A former drug addict was found dead in his flat after taking an extremely high dose of methadone. The body of Andrew Wilmot, a dialysis patient, was discovered by a nurse who was concerned when he failed to turn up for a hospital ...

JAILED...ADDICT WHO TAMPERED WITH NUROFEN
Express.co.uk
By John Twomey A CODEINE addict who sparked a nationwide alert after swapping Nurofen painkillers for anti-psychotic pills was jailed for 18 months yesterday. Christopher McGuire, 31, switched the tablets at four London chemists to feed his “severe ...

Dr. Phil's Common Sense Advice on Drug Addiction Is Kinda Sexy
Philadelphia Magazine (blog)
But no, I wasn't having heat stroke—he was speaking intelligently on the subject of substance abuse. Not only that, but his interaction with a female heroin addict and her parents demonstrated great empathy and understanding of both her struggle and ...

Sentence cut for a heroin addict convicted of a brutal attack
The Daily Telegraph
THE heroin addict who viciously bashed Samantha Barlow has received a sentence cut - but not because of the brutal attack on the policewoman. Roderick Holohan appealed against the 21 year sentence he received in the District Court in late 2010 for ...

Codeine Addict Imprisoned for Exchanging Nurofen Plus Packets with Other Drugs
TopNews New Zealand
As per reports, it has been notified that a codeine addict, who had been accused of exchanging packets of Nurofen Plus with other anti-psychotic drugs, has been imprisoned for 18 months. It has been reported that Christopher McGuire, of Edzell Drive, ...

TopNews New Zealand

Drug Court helps addicts
Sentinel and Enterprise
By Lisa Redmond AYER -- Looking out at a sea of familiar faces, Ayer Drug Court Judge Michael Brooks smiles as he asks "Kelly," a recovering heroin addict, how she is doing with her sobriety. "Great," she says, stuffing her hands in the pockets of her ...

Q&A: Award touts teacher's impact
Norwich Bulletin
By JOHN PENNEY Scotland Elementary School teacher Karen Schenck recently received the Judith Nilan Award by the Northeast Communities Against Substance Abuse group. She talks about her years as a teacher — the rewards and challenges.

Drug addict found eating man's face in US
A drug addict in the US state of Miami was shot dead after police found him chewing a man's face by the roadside. Rudy Eugene, 31, had eaten about 80 per cent of the man's face by the time police officials noticed the horrific scene next to a ...
Daily Other News News

US Looks to Other Nations for Addiction Treatment Ideas: Kerlikowske
He said the approach to drug addiction in Portugal was somewhat successful. ... He urged the international community to work together on substance abuse ...
www.drugfree.org/.../u-s-looks-to-other-nations-for-addiction-...

Nurofen tampering: codeine addict jailed for 18 months - The Guardian
A codeine addict who contaminated packets of Nurofen Plus to swap for uncontaminated ones to ...But after losing his job he struggled to pay for his addiction.
www.guardian.co.uk/.../nurofen-tampering-codeine-addict-jail...

Proposed Changes To Psychiatric Manual Could Impact Addiction ...
According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, people are at ... who directs the substance abuse, mental health and criminal justice studies ... however, doesn't require insurance because it's free: Alcoholics Anonymous.
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Is addiction a moral defect or a mental illness? | Tanya Gold ...
'In seeking to soothe addiction, IDS will imperil one of the only known means of arresting it. ... they must attend Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) or Narcotics Anonymous (NA), ... of Physicians, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. ..... Every addict is different, so their addictions have different bases, be that ...
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'Bill W.' Traces the Early Life of Alcoholics Anonymous

'Bill W.' Traces the Early Life of Alcoholics Anonymous
New York Times
Alcoholics Anonymous has tens of thousands of groups worldwide today, but it had an identifiable beginning with its co-founder Bill Wilson. In their documentary, “Bill W.,” Kevin Hanlon and Dan Carracino recount Wilson's biography, ...

Drug Addiction Is a Disease, Not a Crime
The Root
Drug addiction should not be grounds for a lifelong prison sentence, argues Global Grind founder Russell Simmons on the Huffington Post. Challenging a New York Post opinion piece that pointed to what Simmons says is unrealistic evidence of crime in New ...

Addiction: the coming epidemic
Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
As I argue in my new book The Fix, the line between consumption, habit and addiction is becoming dangerously blurred. It's not difficult to find evidence that appetites are spinning out of control. At Victoria Station, young commuters pant like elderly ...

Alcoholic died after drinking CD cleaner - coroner
New Zealand Herald
By Matthew Theunissen An alcoholic man with a history of mental illness died after drinking CD cleaner, a coroner has ruled. Barry John Morris, known as Baj Morris, was found dead at a Dunedin boarding house in November, 2010.

De-addiction to be part of Punjab school
Deccan Chronicle
By Tanveer Thakur Losing out its young generation to the menace of drugs, the Punjab government has decided to tackle the problem at the grassroots level by introducing the issue of drug de-addiction at the school level. In a latest directive issued by ...

Portrait of an addict
Telegraph.co.uk
I'm 24. I had five kids. Three of my kids are going up for adoption. One of them I have a chance to get back. I didn't start using until I lost my children. I'm staying in an abandoned place – no water or electricity, but not bad.

Telegraph.co.uk

Cocaine addict beaten over stolen scrap iron, body dumped
Demerara Waves
A cocaine addict was beaten after he allegedly stole scrap iron and his body was dumped behind the old Georgetown incinerator, relatives said. Dead is 36-year old Keith Bowen of 51 Norton Street , Lodge. His mother, Sylvia Kishore, said her son used to ...

Demerara Waves

Will bill capping MaineCare reimbursement for methadone treatment jeopardize ...
Bangor Daily News
Opiate addicts say methadone, the synthetic drug used in maintenance treatment of drug addictionin the United States since the 1960s, stops their cravings without creating the effects of a “high.” And that, they say, has been a life-changer.

Mongolia's drowning future
UB Post
Even in the early 1900's, alcohol consumption wasn't widespread in Mongolia and there was no term for 'alcoholic' in Mongolia. A report carried out by the Health Ministry of Mongolia notes that alcohol abuse could be Mongolia's biggest stumbling block ...

Pete Doherty Admits Drug Addiction Struggle, Used Heroin on Film Set
AllMediaNY
English musician Pete Doherty has opened up about his struggle with drug addiction and time in prison last year. The former Libertines frontman, who is currently promoting his new movie and acting debut Confession of a Child of the Century, ...

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Addicted Maine inmates have no choice but to go off drugs 'cold turkey'
Bangor Daily News
By Leslie H. Dixon, Sun Journal WINDHAM, Maine — In prison, there is no methadone, no Suboxone, no one to give an opiate addict going through withdrawal symptoms words of comfort or even a warm blanket. It's cold, so cold that an addict's skin erupts ...

Clinicians say giving addicts maintenance methadone serves them and society best
Bangor Daily News
If Tomaselli believed he could lick his drug habit in just a week, why wouldn't — or shouldn't — every drug addict do the same? The answer, according to experts, is as complex as the subject of drug addiction itself. The good news for Tomaselli, ...

Johnny Tapia, five-time boxing champion, dies
New York Daily News
ALBUQUERQUE, NM -- Johnny Tapia, the five-time boxing champion whose turbulent career was marked by cocaine addiction, alcohol, depression and run-ins with the law, was found dead Sunday at his Albuquerque home. He was 45. Authorities were called to ...

New York Daily News

Obsession or Addiction? | Psychology Today
By kschreiber
Addiction is a condition that results when a person ingests a substance (alcohol, cocaine, nicotine) or engages in an activity (gambling) that can be pleasurable but the continued use of which becomes compulsive and interferes with ordinary ...
Psychology Today Features

Dangerous addiction – should doctors be tested for drug use ...
By Edwina Light
Dangerous addiction – should doctors be tested for drug use? The Conversation, online 25 May 2012. Author: Moira Sim “Doctors, just like the rest of the population, make personal choices about drug use. Some choose to use legal drugs ...
Ethics & Health Law News

Living With an Alcoholic | Drug Abuse Reviews
By zanisa
Alcoholic people are kind of introverted and that is what makes the addiction grow. Living with an alcoholic spouse has several consequences like; children may be under a bad impression because parents are the only ones who show them ...
Drug Abuse Reviews

Could use a little help on where to start. - SoberRecovery ...
By alxndr
A spending addiction if you will. Needless to say I found out at this same time that she was also a pretty good liar. I understand I was blind and I am an idiot for not seeing this. However, I was, and still am, totally in love with this woman. ... I did not cause the addiction. I cannot control the addict. I cannot cure the addict. The 3C's are very frustrating and very freeing--all at the same time. One of our members tells the story of how she went to Al-Anon thinking "Just give me the tools so I can ...
SoberRecovery : Alcoholism Drug...

Ask A Therapist: Low Self-Esteem, Technology Addict, and Fear of ...
By Julie Hanks, LCSW
Ask A Therapist: Low Self-Esteem, Technology Addict, and Fear of Relationships. May 28, 2012 | Author Julie Hanks, LCSW. Q: I feel like nothing I do matters and nobody really understands who I am. Every time I reach out to someone they let ...
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Drug conviction mars recovering addict's rental application

Drug conviction mars recovering addict's rental application
Los Angeles Times
Under fair housing law, landlords can't refuse to rent to an applicant solely because of a history of drug addiction if the person is in recovery. A criminal record, however, complicates the matter. By Martin Eichner Question: I started drinking ...

Drug addict tenants do £30k of damage
Retford Today
A COUPLE who rented out their home in Worksop were left with a repair bill of almost £30000 after a drug addict tenant and her boyfriend removed every scrap of metal - 'ripping the heart' out of the house. A hole had been made in the kitchen ceiling to ...

Retford Today

Afghans' poppy profit addiction hard to kick
Sacramento Bee
By Alissa J. Rubin and Matthew Rosenberg KABUL, Afghanistan – For years, US officials have struggled to curb Afghanistan's opium industry, rewriting strategy every few seasons and pouring in more than $6 billion over the past decade to combat the ...

Mental Illness & Addiction, a Revealing Look in Broken Into One Peace ...
PR.com (press release)
There is scientific research to suggest that there is a physical component to addiction. I believe I am genetically wired to be an alcoholic. Generation to generation, it has existed in my family. Additionally, I learned from my dad how to drink in ...

EX-Addict David Hopes To Make A Difference As Youth Worker
Inverclyde Now
YEARS of heroin addiction brought David Harper to rock bottom but now he is set to use his nightmarish experience -- and the faith which helped him escape -- in his new role as a Christian youth worker. David (34) was homeless and weighed just ...

'Teen Mom' Amber Portwood -- I Need Prison to Save My Life
TMZ.com
"Teen Mom" star Amber Portwood thinks prison is the only way to save her life from a brutal drug addiction, TMZ has learned. Sources tell us, immediately following the reality TV star's incarceration, her last drug test came back positive for the ...

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Bobby Brown's Children Were 'Completely Oblivious' To His Drug Addiction Battle
Starpulse.com
The New Edition singer, a father of five, has long struggled with addiction issues and he has been arrested numerous times on charges including DUI. However, the 43 year old insists he did his best to keep his personal battles a secret in a bid to ...

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Amber Portwood's Shocking Addiction Might Not Be Her Fault After All
The Stir
According to TMZ, the Teen Mom star's drug problem is so severe that "Amber believes prison is the only way to get clean because it will force her to kick the addiction cold turkey." Sources told TMZ that "immediately following the reality TV star's ...

The Stir

A message of hope
Wayne Post
From the website of the Council on Alcoholism and Addiction of the Finger Lakes where services are available for those seeking help. By Tammy Whitacre, staff writer There was nothing he could do but watch when Wayne County Child Protective Services ...

Serial arsonist, sniff addict faces year in jail
Winnipeg Sun
Guimond, a homeless 54-year-old chronic sniff addict, spent last fall and winter behind bars after inexplicably setting alight a homeowner's blue box on Langside Street late last August. Court heard Guimond lit the fire after a house cat crossed his ...

Family: Man in Billings shootout had meth addiction
KPAX-TV
However, she suspects that it was his addiction to methamphetamine which ultimately cost him his life. "Methamphetamine was the biggest factor in this," said Brandon. "My nephew was on drugs. It was an action that needs to be blamed.

Oklahoma's new workplace drug testing laws relax employer requirements
NewsOK.com
BY PAULA BURKES | Published: May 27, 2012 Leave a comment Oklahoma's new laws that give employers greater latitude for workplace drug testing can help the state address its substance abuse epidemic, according to workplace advocates.

Kuwaiti man turns addict son in
Kuwait Times
Kuwait: A Kuwaiti man reported his son to the police after growing too desperate of helping him to stop his drug addiction. The youngster was arrested inside the family's house in Al-Qasr. The man gave police the address and allowed the security ...

Spindletop client triumphs over mental illness, drug addiction
Beaumont Enterprise
By Sarah Moore A few years ago, Byron Hughes was homeless and not getting treatment or medication for his schizophrenia disorder. A Spindletop Center mental health caseworker found him living beneath this 7th Street overpass of IH-10.

W.Va. ground zero in fight against addiction
Martinsburg Journal
Drug abuse by itself takes too many lives and plunges others into chaos. But crimes related to it - addicts stealing money to get a fix or gunfights among pushers - often take innocent lives. Ironically, crackdowns on sales of prescription drugs, ...

Horror of heroin descends on Clark County
The Columbian
Adam Hurd struggled with a two-year heroin addiction before dying of a drug overdose on Aug. 24, 2011. By Laura McVicker Terry Hurd, the father of 24-year-old Adam Hurd, who died last summer of a heroin overdose, remembers his son on May 15, ...

The tobacco conundrum
Deccan Herald
Tobacco is an addiction. Ask over eight million people in the State who chew tobacco, breathe tobacco and swear by its rivetting attachment. But when you find 80000 of them are children under 15 years, and an equal number in the age group of 15 to 24 ...

Punjab: NYKS to launch de-addiction in 10...
Punjab Newsline
By Sukhpal Kaur CHANDIGARH: As the drug abuse and alcoholism is spreading in Punjab like an epidemic, Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan(NYKS) is all set to launch a special pilot project in the state. NYKS an undertaking of union ministry of youth affairs is ...

Long-term risks exist for youth seeking jolt of energy drinks, warn experts
London Free Press
A report by the US-based Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration noted a sharp increase in the number of ER visits associated with energy drinks (from 1128 visits in 2005 to 13114 in 2009.) Scarier still was the realization that almost half of ...

Front and Center, Indiana REALTORS® Answer the Call
nwitimes.com
While attending a recent Lake County Substance Abuse Council meeting, Habitat for Humanity of Northwest Indiana executive director Dan Klein explained to Pastor Emmett Willis of Descending Dove Ministries how the organization acquired a six-unit ...

Oglala Sioux tribal members are proud of Pine Ridge Reservation
Denver Post
While poverty and alcoholism are critical issues on the reservation, she says it's also a place of hope and pride in this e-mailed interview. Lone Hill is author of an upcoming book, "Pointing with Lips." Q: What's your opinion of the Oglala Sioux ...

Pete Doherty Admits He's 'Struggling' With Drug Addiction
By Chad Childers
Doherty ran into a little trouble with the prison guards, who viewed him as “a scumbag drug addict.” He says they didn't care for it when they read his fan mail from kids that admired his music and lyrics. He recalls, “They put me in with the ...
Diffuser.fm

Video Game Addiction is a Real Thing - Summit, NJ Patch
An addict who admits to playing 16 hours a day tells his story. ... When people think of addiction, usually they think of some kind of substance abuse like drugs or alcohol. However, psychiatrist Dr. Michael Brody describes the criteria for video ...
Summit Patch

Husband's porn addiction is ruining us
By newwife123
We've been together three years, married one. Six months after dating my husband left his laptop signed on to his email. I snooped and discovered he belonged to three (that I know of) "meet people porn sites." I got on to one of them through ...
Talk About Marriage

Drug conviction mars recovering addict's rental application ...
By By Martin Eichner
Under fair housing law, landlords can't refuse to rent to an applicant solely because of a history of drug addiction if the person is in recovery. A criminal record, however, complicates the matter.Question: I started drinking alcohol and using ...
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First Rehab Visit - SoberRecovery : Alcoholism Drug Addiction Help ...
By Gr8ful37
Your ABF (alcoholic boy friend) is in the care of professionals. He is getting the support he needs from ... It's also okay for you to use this time to focus on your own recovery of life with activealcoholism. Exploring your feelings during this time ...
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Could a tough intervention have saved Mary Kennedy?

Could a tough intervention have saved Mary Kennedy?
New York Daily News
You know, Dave, our mention last week of Mary Richardson Kennedy's suicide over her mounting addiction troubles touched a chord. "Why did some judge send her to alcohol education and psychiatric appointments," writes Harry T, "instead of [or at least...

New York Daily News

Recovered teen drug addict graduates among top research students at CSULB
Long Beach Press-Telegram
By Kelly Puente Staff Writer Recovered drug addict and CSULB graduate Sarah Clingan has won honors as a top research student at the university. (Photo by Tracey Roman) LONG BEACH - As a homeless teenager addicted to drugs, Sarah Clingan never thought ...

Drug addiction reaches every level
Morehead News
By Noelle Hunter - Staff Writer The Morehead News May 25, 2012 — A Kentucky Supreme Court justice freely shared his family's struggle with drug addiction last Thursday at a celebration honoring five graduates of the Rowan, Bath and Menifee drug courts.

Addiction by any name
New Jersey Jewish Standard
The Teaneck resident added that texting and shopping are other examples of issues that can reach the level of addiction, and that have begun to plague the religious community. “In the old days, kids had teddy bears. Now they go to sleep with the phone ...

Addict who stabbed woman in $100 robbery to serve eight years in prison
Royal Gazette
A drug addict who viciously attacked an elderly woman leaving her with stab wounds and a broken ankle has been jailed for eight years. Jamar Dill accosted Cleta Burgess, 63, as she waited for a taxi to take her home from a friend's house on Berkeley ...

Addiction makes smokers easy game for tax hike - Treasury
New Zealand Herald
By Martin Johnston Smokers' "addictive nature" makes them easy game for a tax hike, according to the Treasury's regulatory impact statement on the pros and cons of raising the excise on tobacco that was announced in this week's budget.

Addict accused of shed murder 'stole £10000 in burglary'
News Shopper
A HEROIN addict accused of murdering his dealer and burying him in the back garden had recently stolen £10000 in a burglary, the Old Bailey heard today (May 25). Fellow heroin and crack user Leslie Ashton, giving evidence from behind a screen, ...

Film Reviews: Compelling 'Oslo, August 31' portrays a man trying to resist ...
New York Daily News
"Oslo, August 31" — 4 stars A recovering drug addict tries to survive on his first day out of rehab (1:36). Not rated: Drugs, language, sexuality, violence. In Norwegian with subtitles. IFC, City Cinemas 1 2 3. With only two films, Danish director ...

New York Daily News

Raise prices of caffeinated alcohol drinks, report urges
CTV.ca
It also suggests governments should discourage or even ban sales of regular energy drinks or pre-mixed caffeinated alcoholic beverages in high-risk settings like bars and clubs. The report is from the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse and the Centre ...

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Pete Doherty: the challenge of making a film as a heroin addict
The Guardian
Making a movie as a "heroin addict" is a challenge, Doherty mentions almost in passing. "It's poison but it's also medicine. When you're in that state, you can't function unless you have your fix." There was talk of him going away to rehab before ...

The Guardian

Life after Oxy: Addiction services see a rise in client numbers
Hamilton Spectator
“The silver lining in all this is people are talking about it,” says Debbie Bang, executive director of Womankind Addiction Services at St. Joseph's Healthcare. “Suddenly it's OK to tell your family and friends you are addicted to Oxy.

Drive for drug addict kids' rehabilitation soon
Times of India
BHOPAL: In a bid to bring drug addict children usually seen at the railway station into the mainstream, district administration, MP police, Woman and Child Development and Child Line Advisory Board are initiating a campaign for rehabilitation of these ...

Group for spouses, parents of addicts offers education, support
Ahwatukee Foothills News
Years of working as a substance abuse counselor taught Mike Speakman that overcoming addiction isn't just about treatment for the individual, but that it takes support from the family as well. “A good example is diabetes,” Speakman said.

Advances in addiction therapy
The Imperfect Parent
These advances may do for addiction what Prozac did for anti-depression treatment in the 1980′s. That is, it may allow primary care doctors to treat addiction without having to refer patients to substance abuse specialists. So speculates writer Sharon ...

A Shameless Recovery: Transforming Regret into a Learning Opportunity
PsychCentral.com (blog)
In its healthiest form, regret drives the addict to ask, “What can I do differently right now to right the wrongs of the past and make better decisions in the future?” Focus on the Present. The only day anyone can do anything about is today.

The University of Texas Researchers Win Grant to Develop Drug to Treat Addiction
University of Texas at Austin News
AuSTIN, Texas — Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin are teaming up to develop medication to treat alcoholism and drug addiction that could target individual genes or brain signaling systems. They have received a $3.3 million, ...

Porn addiction can be 'unlearned'
Jagran Post
Australia:Indian origin researchers have shed light on the severe impact of porn addiction on users and their families. In the first study of its kind in Australia, researchers Professor Raj Sitharthan of the University of Sydney's Department of ...

Jagran Post

Social worker: Williford is sex addict
abc11.com
RALEIGH (WTVD) -- A social worker testified Thursday that a man accused in the brutal 2010 rape and murder of Kathy Taft is a sex addict. Patricia Catanio told jurors that mental health professionals use a scale of one to 20 to rate the severity of ...

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Gambling Addict Steals Thousands from Best Friend
BingoSupermarket
An online gambling addict admitted stealing £3500 from his friend and employer the Croydon Magistrates' Court was told. Jeffrey Hamblion had known the victim, Colin Thompson, since school and was an usher at his wedding. Hamblion claimed he had spent ...

Facing the Real World Challenges of Substance Abuse - Busted Halo
By Elizabeth A. Elliott
Sarah, who has alcoholism on both sides of her family received treatment from Campus for Hope, a program of Catholic Charities of Omaha. ... “I didn't ask for this addiction, I deal with it and work on it every day,” she said. “It does ... “Felony charges make it nearly impossible for young adults to find employment,” said Catherine Terpstra, MA LLPC and substance abuse therapist at Cristo Rey Behavioral Health and Prevention Services, a Catholic Charities agency in Lansing, Michigan.
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Facebook Addiction [Infographic]
By Arun Prabhudesai
Facebook addiction is a very serious trend, especially among the younger generation. If you find yourself checking Facebook on your phone at every few minutes, there is a high chance that you are afflicted to FAD or Facebook Addiction ...
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Daughter of an Alcoholic Mother... I need help. - SoberRecovery ...
By JBeeHurts
I'm 20 years old, going into my senior year of college and my mother is a severe alcoholic. Problems.... Unfortunately alcoholism is progressive and its so heartbreaking to see someone you love so much deteriorate before your eyes. I wish I ...
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The Fix: Damian Thompson explores the murky world of modern ...
By Milo Yiannopoulos
Thompson explains how an intimate knowledge of human psychology is breeding addiction experts, some of whom are using their power for good, and some for ill, but all of whom are able to effortlessly glide between the worlds of traditionally ...
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Jungian psychology and the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous

lecture deals with Jung, Alcoholics Anonymous
Aspen Times
ASPEN — An analyst from the New Orleans area will provide a free lecture Friday in Aspen and conduct a professional workshop Saturday about the relationship between Jungian psychology and the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. 

Both sides now: Judy Collins on life after alcoholism
Baltimore Sun
She'd been an alcoholic for 23 years — "and I was proud of it." She'd toured and made records, but she knew the ride she was on — her father had been an alcoholic — and "as long as I was on it, I was going to enjoy every minute.

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Abuse of Authority or Addiction?
Patch.com
Experts in the substance abuse treatment field share insight on what may have led decorated Hatboro police officer John Becker to be arrested for thefts and misuse of drug informants. By Theresa Katalinas The painkiller OxyContin was prescribed to ...

Drug addiction blamed in crime spree
Kennebec Journal
By Betty Adams badams@centralmaine.com AUGUSTA -- Ricky Allen Lane said Wednesday that an opiate drug addiction led him to take part in a dozen crimes in nine days, including an armed home invasion in Manchester. All four co-defendants in the Sept.

Mental health and substance abuse: Prevention is key
Greenville Daily Reflector
By Debbie Sudekum Many of us are aware of the impact of mental illness and substance abuse on individuals, families and our community. Youth will often self-medicate to cope with symptoms of underlying mental health needs. Young people have not learned ...

Prevention Fair tackles substance abuse
Maryville Daily Forum
By Tony Brown A spirit of mission was evident Tuesday afternoon during Maryville's inaugural Prevention Fair, an event centered on preventing substance abuse and violence among young people staged at the Courter Pavilion in University Park.

Iain Duncan Smith's plan for 'suspected' alcoholics won't work
The Guardian
Nonetheless, anyone who is a "recovering" alcoholic, or who has known a problem drinker intimately, will be aware that there are innumerable stops on the way down to the skid-row terminus where intervention is effective. American employers and families...

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Substance Abuse Policy Changes in the Works at Verona Schools
Patch.com
By Ellen Coughlin Board Vice President Joseph Bellino discusses the ad hoc committee's findings on the district's policy regarding substance abuse and student code of conduct. Does the Verona school board have jurisdiction over its students in regard ...

Deep concerns over government plans to cut benefits for alcoholics and drug ...
The Independent
Doctors and addiction charities today expressed deep concerns over government plans to cut the benefits of people suffering from alcoholism or drug addiction who refuse treatment. In the latest step in Iain Duncan Smith's controversial reforms of the ...

Coalition analyzes effects of drug addiction on crime
WWL
Leaders from all corners of society have banned together to produce a master plan, based on science, to fight the many problems and crime caused by addiction. It started nearly two years ago with people who want change, people who realized one thing is ...

'Addict girls put society at risk'
Pakistan Daily Times
LAHORE: Drug addiction among college- and university-going girls is a serious threat to society, and parents should keep a check on the pocket money and the bad company of their children, said Bilquis Edhi, a renowned social worker and the wife of ...

CRC Health Group Introduces New Substance Abuse, Eating and Weight Management ...
MarketWatch (press release)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, May 23, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- CRC Health Group, the nation's largest provider of behavioral health and addiction treatment services, headquartered in Cupertino, CA, has announced a new, free Assessment and Resource Center ...

TN can't get grip on pill problem
The Tennessean
Across Tennessee, families measure the state's pain pill epidemic in terms of loved-ones lost to overdoses and loved-ones battling addiction. Pain pill epidemic takes toll on Tennessee familie... Legislators want to regulate pain clinics in Tenne.

Jersey Shore star Mike 'The Situation' opens up about harrowing drug addiction
Examiner.com
"Jersey Shore" star Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino, a workout fanatic who was known for his rippling physique, is grateful to be alive after a harrowing ordeal with a crippling drug addiction. Sorrentino, 29, became addicted to prescription pain ...

The Situation Opens Up About Addiction & Rehab
TheInsider.com
Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino is speaking out for the first time about his recent stint in rehab for prescription drug addiction that forced him to temporarily halt his hard-partying ways that made him famous on Jersey Shore.

Hyndburn drug addict jailed for taking extra cash from sick OAP's wallet
Lancashire Telegraph
A DRUG addict who stole cash from a 74-year-old Parkinson's Disease sufferer on his own doorstep has been jailed for 12 weeks. Toni Walker, 25, left her vulnerable victim, who has four carers a day to look after him, very distressed.

Take it from an ex-addict, outlawing drugs does not work
The Age
Whether you view drug addiction as illness, affliction, vice, symptom or destiny, my experience was that I never intended to become a heroin addict. Legality wasn't my concern when I was addicted. And my suffering was truly punishment enough, ...

Drug addict's slide ends in jail
Stuff.co.nz
But after being introduced to methamphetamine, Southee's casual use turned into a full-blownaddiction which cost him dearly, Mr Hewson said. Judge Les Atkins sentenced Southee to two years and three months in prison and ordered him to pay $250 ...

Recovering and helping others recover
Brattleboro Reformer
And he understands where the clients are coming from because he is a recovering alcoholic himself who is now helping others rebuild their lives. "When you are an addict, everyday is a challenge," Colleran said during an interview in his office.

A New Day Rehab Launches New Alumni Program to Offer Ongoing Recovery Help
PR Web (press release)
Relearning to live life as a sober person is no easy task, which is why the regular attendance of twelve step meetings at Narcotics Anonymous (NA) or Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) continues long after treatment is over. This is the time when relapse...

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The Situation admits pill addiction, Snooki evicts self from - Celebitchy
While it's easy to assume that Sorrentino was in for coke addiction, he now ... Shore's Mike Sorrentino opens up to MTV's Sway about the substance abuse that ...
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Sounds of Addiction - The Discovering Alcoholic
Sounds of Addiction. by Screedler on May 19, 2012. This video is making the rounds today. A compilation of sounds taken from Darren Aronofsy's films. No one ...
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