Monsters and Critics.com
The drug with the innocuous street name "bath salts" is actually illegal designer street drugs that are linked to addiction, violent delusions and death. This week, Rudy Eugene, 31, became so agitated and hot he stripped naked and was driven by ...
Monsters and Critics.com
Is Pathological Video Gaming A Failed Solution Or An Addiction?
Forbes
But not everyone, me included, thinks the addiction model applies. In the approach that makes sense to me “addiction” is metaphor not diagnosis. ”Video game addict” works as metaphor because it captures the out-of-controlness and abject misery of the ...
Drug addiction cited in Pekin check forgery case
Peoria Journal Star
By Anonymous A North Pekin man told police his addiction to prescription drugs led him to embezzle nearly $83000 since October from the small Pekin company he served as a bookkeeper. Sean McCain, 39, of 119 Sunset Boulevard was charged in Tazewell ...
Police: Suspect's porn addiction led to attempted hotel rape
WBRC
By Jennifer Phillips - bio | email Police said a man's porn addiction led him to try to kidnap and rape a woman at a Travelers Rest hotel. Travelers Rest police said a clerk at the Hampton Inn and another man tried to rape a female guest Monday.
Report warns of risk from nicotine addiction
Jakarta Post
Smoking habits have barely changed over the past decade and lack of knowledge about damage caused by nicotine addiction poses huge challenges, a landmark report said. According to Health Hazards of Smoking, issued by the Ministry of Health on Wednesday ...
Narconon Louisiana Contributes To Ongoing National Alcohol Awareness Campaign
Houston Chronicle
Narconon Louisiana contributes to the ongoing National Alcohol Awareness Campaign sponsored by sharing a recent graduate's story of how they overcame alcoholism that started with underage drinking. Narconon Louisiana supports the National Council on ...
Friends Remember Matt Kent, Talk the Dangers of Prescription Drug Addiction
Patch.com
Those who knew him best talk about "the best kid they knew" and the disease of addiction. By Jessica Remo Matt Kent's friends list the things they'll miss most: Matt's humor, the way he could pick you up if you were down, boxing together, his honesty, ...
School kids addiction to tobacco alarming in Meghalaya
IBNLive.com
PTI | 02:05 PM,May 31,2012 Shillong, May 31 (PTI) Tobacco use and addiction by school children in Meghalaya is "alarming" even as officials said the usage of the substance by parents and teachers is equally "high", officials said today.
Rising number of PCP users raising concerns among substance abuse counselors ...
The Republic
LOUIS — Substance abuse counselors in St. Louis are expressing concerns about the growing use of the hallucinogenic drug PCP. Dan Duncan of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse told KMOX Radio (http://cbsloc.al/Kx4acj ) that PCP seems to ...
GreeneStone Secures New Clinic and Hires VP, Aftercare & Outpatient Services
MarketWatch (press release)
TORONTO, May 31, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- GreeneStone Healthcare Corporation (OBB:GRST) , provider of Executive Healthcare services and operator of several mental health clinics, today announced the expansion of its Addiction Treatment service.
Is being a shopaholic truly an addiction?
Daily Mail
Of course we do: by borrowing, as it does, from 'alcoholic', it deliberately implies that the two problems have something in common. This is not mere over-indulgence, the name insists; this is a disease. A condition, a syndrome, whose 'victims' — just ...
Daily Mail
Parents And Addiction Experts Call For I-STOP Legislation
Garden City Life
Maria Basmas recalls those heartbreaking words that her son, Christopher, spoke to her while he was in the throes of an addiction to prescription medication, specifically Xanax and Oxycodone. She recalls the painful ordeal that her family went through ...
Breaking the smoking addiction: Personal testimonies
Zambia Daily Mail
By LINDA NYONDO Smoking is an addiction many people find hard to break even when they know that tobacco is the leading cause of cancer. For some, it is only when faced with life-threatening choices that they make a decision to quit.
Zambia Daily Mail
Addict Samantha Scott sent back to luxury rehab centre
Kent Online
Judge Williams praised Scott for making “significant progress” in tackling her drugsaddiction during the eight month – but added: “She would throw that all away if she does not return to complete the programme. “She faces the stark reality of an ...
Kent Online
Is addiction a disease?
BBC News
Is the idea of treating addiction as a disease preventing addicts from overcoming their problems? Daily Telegraph writer and recovering alcoholic Damian Thompson, who has written a new book on the subject, explains that what worries him is the way ...
Dominion Diagnostics to Host a Free Continuing Education Symposium for ...
MarketWatch (press release)
SAN FRANCISCO, May 30, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- A free, one-day continuing education symposium for addiction treatment professionals, "Treatment, Intervention & Innovation: Challenges and Solutions in the Addiction Field Today", will be held at ...
Drug Lit Takes Another Hit
Huffington Post (blog)
The voyeuristic impulse to watch the horrifying train wreck of addiction and despair, cruelty and sickness is a big motivator, followed by -- a dear reader can hope -- watching the delicate craft of him or herself putting their life back together, ...
Blue Island addiction recovery home shut down
SouthtownStar
The facility offers rooms and meals, and hosts Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous meetings. Now this work is being put on hold until the nonprofit can get its business affairs in order, according to Blue Island Mayor Don Peloquin.
Gambling addict admits to stealing £800 from Norwich pub he was working at
Norwich Evening News
A gambling addict has been ordered to completed 100 hours of unpaid work after admitting stealing £800 from the Norwich pub he had been working in. To send a link to this page to a friend, simply enter their email address below.
Norwich Evening News
'Tortured' drug addict 'got what he deserved'
Burton Mail
The heroin addict was thrown out after he put water instead of urine into a drug test Kevin had given him. A week later, however, Kevin asked him to work for him at his workshop — an offer which, the prosecution claims, set the trap for his ...
Burton Mail
Tennessee commissioner compares obesity to drug addiction ...
NASHVILLE - Tennessee's health commissioner says obesity is a relapsing disease that should be fought like a drug addiction. According to The Tennessean, Dr. John Dreyzehner spoke at a joint health summit in Nashville on Tuesday and ...
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Drug Addiction: Is It Myth or Fact? : : Angie's Blog
By admin
I thought I should write about this serious condition and maybe exchange some ideas or opinions. What is a drug addiction, after all? Addiction is a chronic, often relapsing brain disease that causes compulsive drug seeking and use, in spite of the damaging consequences to the addicted individual and to those around him or her. Although the initial decision to take drugs is a voluntary act, over time the addict can lose self-controlas the urge to use increases in intensity. The ability to ...
Angie's Blog
TRAINING OF FEMALE TREATMENT PRACTITIONERS ON ...
By bian.howtay
Furthermore, the first GROW curriculum provided an overview of the addiction, treatment model, and research on women in substance abuse. A specific focus was placed on relational-cultural theory (RCT), which emphasized the importance of ...
The Colombo Plan Secretariat
'Bath salts' addict warns of street drug's dangers -Drug and Alcohol ...
'Bath salts' addict warns of street drug's dangers -Drug and Alcohol Dependence News- ... Injection Drug Users in Greatest Need of Substance Abuse Treatment · 29000 Ontario students report problem gambling—drug use and suicide a ...
Mental Health news from Armenian...
ALCOHOL REPORTS: Study on the affordability of alcoholic ...
By Loran Archer
An international website dedicated to providing current information on news, reports, publications,and peer-reviewed research articles concerning alcoholism and alcohol-related problems throughout the world. Postings are provided by ...
ALCOHOL REPORTS
By Loran Archer
An international website dedicated to providing current information on news, reports, publications,and peer-reviewed research articles concerning alcoholism and alcohol-related problems throughout the world. Postings are provided by ...
ALCOHOL REPORTS
Daily Reflections - SoberRecovery : Alcoholism Drug Addiction Help ...
By Veritas1
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 151. The "Light" to freedom shines bright on my fellow alcoholics as each one of us challenges the other to grow. The "Steps" to self-improvement have small beginnings, but each Step builds ...
SoberFeed...Live!
Dying Chinese Drug Addict Wu Guilin's Last Days – chinaSMACK
Startling photos of Wu Guilin, a young Chinese drug addict in Guangdong, ... Do you personally know someone close to you who has suffered from drug addiction ? ..... counseling and 12-stepprograms as I find them completely obnoxious.
www.chinasmack.com/.../dying-chinese-drug-addict-wu-guilin...
