Worcester Telegram
The infant is going through drug withdrawal and is being treated with the same narcotic prescribed for her mother to fight addiction to powerful prescription painkillers. Disturbing new research says the number of US babies born with signs of opiate ...
Addiction up sharply among US newborns
Fort Worth Star Telegram
By Robin Erb DETROIT -- An increased reliance on prescription painkillers and the resultingaddiction has now been passed on to America's newborns, according to a report released Monday. Addicted babies -- many suffering from respiratory problems, ...
Are Some Teenagers Wired for Addiction?
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Moreover, different brain networks appear to be involved in the self-control problems ofsubstance abuse among teenagers than those associated with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, even though both problems stem, in part, ...
Obsessed internet child porn addict amassed 250000 images over 12 years from...
Daily Mail
By Emma Reynolds A child porn addict who began looking at indecent images when he was just 15 amassed almost a quarter of a million pictures by the time his addiction was uncovered. Daniel Hylands, 27, began looking at indecent pictures of children ...
Daily Mail
Addict spent payout on drugs
NW Evening Mail
A HEROIN addict handed a £3000 government payout after complaining about his treatment in prison spent the lot on a bulk-buy of drugs when he was released. Barrow dad-of-one Gerard George McBlain, 31, won the taxpayer-funded compensation from the Home ...
Crisp addict sheds 14 stone after ditching his 20 packs-a-day habit
Scottish Daily Record
A FORMER fitness trainer has lost more than half his body weight after kicking his addiction to crisps. James Quinn ballooned to 27 stone after eating 20 packets a day – along with four burgers, bacon, fried eggs, countless biscuits, a loaf of bread ...
Animal Hoarding: When a love for animals turns into addiction
KSPR
Their obsession with animals has become an addiction – so much so that this type of hoarding may soon be classified as a mental disorder. Some of them have come from a rough past of starvation and squalor, and there is really only one person to blame: ...
CBC's Scott Oake shares story of his son's fatal addiction
Globe and Mail
Known to millions as the host of Hockey Night in Canada, Scott Oake has been keeping something quiet for more than a year now: the loss of his eldest son Bruce to a fatal spiral of addiction. Thirteen months ago, Bruce died in Calgary of an accidental ...
Globe and Mail
'Not My Kid': When Parents are in Denial
Huffington Post
Addiction. It permeated the room; we all felt it and some of us understood it. She continued to talk about the challenges of her ex being unaware of her daughter's drug use and his insistence that she was fine. I listened as my friend quietly said, ...
Dramatic Rise in Babies Born with Opiate Addiction, Study Finds
MyFox Chicago
Fox News - ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The rate of mothers abusing opiates during pregnancy has increased nearly fivefold in the past decade, according to a new study, which also found the number of newborns with drug withdrawal symptoms has multiplied by ...
Number of babies born with addiction increases
KPRC Houston
Doctors said they can tell which infants are experiencing withdrawal symptoms just by listening to their cries. "They'll cry frequently, maybe even constantly," said Dr. David Fisher of Carolinas Health Care System. "They're very difficult to console.
Addict died after medication denial
This is South Wales
Heroin addict Mr Vaughan – known to his family as Leigh – died just hours after staff at Llanelli's Asda store refused to give him Subutex, a heroin substitute prescribed to addicts, because they believed he had been drinking alcohol.
Breaking Free from Addiction | Psychalive
By Lisa Firestone, Ph.D.
I watched, a bit skeptically, as the choreographer explained how she wanted the contemporary dance to symbolize a person's struggle with addiction. The upbeat intro showed the young male and female dancer, she as the addict, and he, ...
Psychalive
Alcoholism Awareness Month | ICDC College News And Information ...
By Dan Jacobs
According to the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence[1], 1 in 12 Americans, or 17.6 million, suffer from alcohol addiction â “ some do not even realize theyâ ™re addicted. Nearly 80000 people die each year from ...
ICDC College News And Information...
Breaking the Addiction to Incarceration: Weekly Highlights
Today, the U.S. has the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. With over 2.3 million men and women living behind bars, our imprisonment rate is ...
www.aclu.org/.../breaking-addiction-incarceration-weekly-hig...
Today, the U.S. has the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. With over 2.3 million men and women living behind bars, our imprisonment rate is ...
www.aclu.org/.../breaking-addiction-incarceration-weekly-hig...
