David Williams' Survival Through Drug Addiction


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National voice on drug abuse research leaving her state post
Minneapolis Star Tribune
A drug abuse expert whose understanding of addiction has made her one of the nation's most respected voices in her field is retiring from service in Minnesota state government, the Department of Human Services announced Thursday. Carol Falkowski, the ...

Professional addiction the first step is admitting the problem
Dentistry IQ
During this time, they will be randomly drug tested and must provide 30 consecutive days of negative drug testing before being considered to return to work. The Diversion Evaluation Committee (DEC) will then determine whether he or she may safely ...

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Millennium Laboratories Launches New Assay to Detect Use of Kratom
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
30, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ -- Millennium Laboratories, the leading research-based clinical diagnostic company dedicated to improving the lives of people suffering from pain and/or addiction, announced today the introduction of a new urine drug test ...

Canton Pharmacy hit amid growing addiction problem
Hometownlife.com
Canton Pharmacy has been broken into for a second time this summer — among several local pharmacy burglaries — as national experts point to a growing problem partly fueled by prescriptiondrug addiction and sales. The latest burglary occurred between ...

The End of Morphine & Heroin Addiction?
Care2.com
An international team of scientists has discovered a key mechanism that causes opioidaddiction — and there's a drug that can selectively block that addiction response, without damaging the brain or interfering with pain relief. According to a study ...

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GWSMHS professor to study correlation between genetics and susceptibility to ...
News-Medical.net
With this grant, they will be able to determine which genes the miRNAs are dampening or turning off and which are important for drug addiction. By combining their expertise to study drug addiction, Lee and Elmer hope to find a way to therapeutically ...

Early cannabis addiction can cause mental decline
Windsor Star
She said the decline in IQ could not be explained by alcohol or other drug use or by having less education, and Meier said the key variable was the age people began to use pot. Meier said the study's message was clear: "Marijuana is not harmless, ...

Health Ministry to examine pupils for prevention of alcoholism and drug addiction
ForUm
This year, a new part of preventive work on early detection of risk factors of child's consumption of alcohol, drugs and tobacco will be introduced, head of maternal and children's health department of the Health Ministry Olena Tereshchenko told a ...

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Narconon Freedom Center in Michigan Holds Grand Opening of New Women's ...
Midland Daily News
Opening the new wing increases the number of students the facility can serve and help recover fromdrug addiction. The Ribbon Cutting participants were left-to-right: Sr. Executive Dir. Administration David Magdan, President Greater Albion Chamber of ...

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Heroin addiction leads 2 'good kids' to armed robbery, attorneys say

Heroin addiction leads 2 'good kids' to armed robbery, attorneys say
Yorkdispatch.com
It took just about a year for two good kids to fall down the rabbit hole of drug addiction, which led them to commit an armed robbery at Papertown Dairy Bar in Spring Grove, their attorneys said. Megan Alexis McDaniel and her then-boyfriend, Shane ...

The changing face of American addictions
San Jose Mercury News
A study released by The Partnership at Drugfree.org in March showed that 10 percent of American adults, ages 18 and over, consider themselves in recovery from drug or alcohol abuse. The organization's president, Steve Pasierb, described the findings as ...

Drug addiction flourishing in Makwanpur
Himalayan Times
Following flourishing drug addiction in the district, the District Development Committee Makwanpur has launched a campaign aimed at motivating drug abusers to give up their habit and get involved in income generating works like mushroom farming ...

Wendy Williams compares her drug addiction to Whitney Houston's struggle
Examiner.com
Wendy Williams has been candid about her past with drugs in the past, but was a bit more forthcoming when speaking about the late Whitney Houston recently. Claiming she was raised better, Williams says it all stopped when she realized she wanted better ...

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Are Drugs & Alcohol a Problem at Brookline High?
Patch.com
Roughly 17 percent of American high school students engage in smoking, drinking or doing drugsduring the school day, according to a new study by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (NCASA). The NCASA study also indicates that ...

Why Are More Women Dying From Drug Abuse?
Huffington Post UK
But young men are becoming less likely to die as a result of a severe drug addiction or drugabuse, deaths are at their lowest since records began. The number of 18 to 24-year-olds entering treatment for heroin and crack use has halved over the last ...

Attacking the issues of addiction means taking action on root causes
Net Newsledger
THUNDER BAY – Solving the issues of alcoholism or drug abuse means taking action on the root causes of the problem(s) which cause it. When you talk to a person who is deep in despair, and attempting to use alcohol or drugs as a solution they already ...

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Drugs devoured a kid from 'The Corner'
Minneapolis Star Tribune
He played bit roles on HBO in "The Wire" and in the miniseries "The Corner," which chronicled his life in the drug trade at the age of 15. He had survived the inner-city ... "What was the trigger that sent him back to addiction?" Simon asked. "It's the ...

Community helps group kick addiction to the curb
CottageCountryNow.ca
Community helps group kick addiction to the curb. In July the District of Muskoka gave former drugaddicts who were on Ontario Works an unheard of opportunity — they would be provided with everything they needed for two months to regain their health.

Study: Teen marijuana use leads to IQ drop
NECN
Addiction Psychiatrist at McLean Hospital's Drug Abuse Treatment Program Dr. Kevin Hill joined "The Morning Show" to discuss the recent findings. (Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, ...

Peace with Family Vital for Youngsters' Recovery from Drug Addiction
By Satish Karat
Peace with Family Vital for Youngsters' Recovery from Drug Addiction. There are a number of reasons that make youngsters to get into drugs and drinking habit. There could be family issues, depression and addiction adopted through friends.
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Drug Addiction | Overdose Las Vegas | Solutions Recovery
by R. Gil Kerlikowske Director, White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. As a former police chief, I have seen the devastating effect that substance ...
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Writing a novel about drug addiction
Hey! I've been working on a novel recently that basically chronicles the life of two heroin addicts. The point of the thing was to sort of adress the stigma related to ...
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drug addiction – Nat Geo TV Blogs
The popularity of heroin has fluctuated throughout decades depending on its price, availability, and even how fashionable it is at the time. Derived from the ...
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Deaths Highlight Prescription Drug Epidemic

Celebrity Overdoses: Deaths Highlight Prescription Drug Epidemic
Huffington Post
Houston is hardly the first celebrity to have battled a deadly prescription drug addiction. In the past decade, Heath Ledger, Brittany Murphy, Anna Nicole Smith and Michael Jackson were just four of the most famous stars to overdose on legal medication.

Swollen Members' Madchild riffs on the drug addiction that nearly killed him
Vancouver Sun
Shane Bunting spoke with Vancouver Sun Driving reporter Andrew McCredie for the feature Big Wheels, in which local celebrities test drive their dream vehicles. During the drive, which will be featured in The Vancouver Sun Aug. 31, Bunting also shared ...

Bipartisan Support as California Legislature Passes Bill to Help Prevent Drug ...
eNews Park Forest
“The demographic of addiction and drug overdose has gone through a sudden transformation in California,” said the bill's author Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco). “In suburban areas, the emergency rooms and addiction centers are seeing more and more ...

Scientists Are One Step Closer to an Addiction-Proof Painkiller
Mashable
The scope of painkiller abuse nationally and globally is often debated. The latest report by the U.S.Drug Enforcement Administration, released in April 2012, states nearly 7 million Americans grapple with prescription-drug addiction. The CDC reports ...

NM Medicaid to cover methadone treatment
San Francisco Chronicle
A Human Services Department official says the change in policy should help in fighting a drug addiction epidemic. New Mexico has the nation's highest death rate from drug overdoses. The DrugPolicy Alliance said Monday that New Mexico joins about 30 ...

Ex-Hatboro cop admits using badge for drug-related crimes
phillyBurbs.com
John Becker, 43, of the first block of Saw Buck Circle, Horsham, pleaded guilty to charges of possessing drugs, stealing drugs, cash and guns from the department's evidence locker that he would then sell to pay for his addiction, and to coercing ...

How Big Of A Problem Are Drugs/Alcohol At Andover High School?
Patch.com
According to a new study by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, roughly 17 percent of American high school students engage in smoking, drinking or doing drugs during the school day. The study also indicated that approximately 86 ...

Cannabis is not an innocent drug, teenagers addicted to it risk damaging their ...
Daily Mail
A magistrate, Yvonne Davies, when sentencing a cannabis grower to community service, urged him to stay away from the drug – after revealing that addiction to cannabis had killed her brother. She spoke about the 'living hell' her family had been through.

Daily Mail

Every Drug Overdose Is Preventable
Huffington Post (blog)
As a former police chief, I have seen the devastating effect that substance abuse and addiction can have on individuals, families and communities. Almost 16,000 overdose deaths involved prescription painkillers in the United States in 2009. That is ...

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We're on vacation. He's drinking on meds. I just let the ambulance take him, am staying at hotel with my dd (she is sleeping) and I feel guilty for.
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Tackling alcohol, drug addiction | gbcs
Alcohol and drug addiction are serious matters confronting every community. A recent article cites research that over 70% of young people are underage ...
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Prescription drug overdoses now kill more people than car accidents

Prescription Drug Addiction: Rise Endangers Celebrities, Teens, and Us
Forbes
Would it surprise you to learn that prescription drug overdoses now kill more people than car accidents? Somehow that message doesn't seem to be getting out, says the CDC, which now calls prescription drug abuse an epidemic. Over the past 20 years, the ...

National Survey Outlines Drug Use in Schools
Education Week News
titled “National Survey of American Attitudes on Substance Abuse XVII: Teens,” was produced by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. The results of the survey were garnered asking questions to 1,003 teens, ...

Drug addiction drags girls deep into crime
Times of India
SURAT: The arrest of seven youths, including two girls from Amroli on Sunday with drugs, has thrown up startling revelations about how girls in Surat are resorting to crime after crime to satisfy their drug addiction. Heena Safiwala (23) had ...

Yoga Aids in Recovery from Drug and Alcohol Addiction
Yahoo! Sports
Colin Farrell, a 36-year old actor, recently went public about his love for yoga and how it has helped him to recover from drug and alcohol addiction. Farrell is not the only person who has turned to yoga as a means to recovery. In fact, some addiction ...

Demi Moore Writing Tell-All Book: Ashton Kutcher Marriage, Drug Addiction, More
Books & Review
The years may have been kind to Demi Moore, but with the announcement that she's currently writing a tell-all book, it doesn't look as though she'll be returning the favor. The actress, who split from Ashton Kutcher in November 2011 after seven years ...

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New drug, Vivitrol, helped woman finally kick her addiction
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Jackie D. says Vivitrol dramatically changed and perhaps even saved her life after she spent the better part of eight years addicted to opiates, pouring every penny of her paychecks into drugs with which she was obsessed. Vivitrol is the newest weapon ...

Madchild Admits Wasting 3 Million Dollars On Drugs, "Dope Sick" & Letting ...
HipHopDX
Madchild: Well, after losing three million dollars to my drug addiction and being flat broke, 55 pounds overweight, my left arm was numb and my lips were purple. I remember driving around, feeling like I was about to have a heart attack. I looked in ...

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It takes 730 prescription drug addicted babies to get political attention
Examiner.com
In fact, cannabinoids receptors in the human brain are designed to absorb the psychoactive properties of marijuana, which has been found by doctors to help curbaddiction to other drugs (pg. 46). "The Endocannabinoid System (ES) is a physiological ...

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Pink Almost Died From Drug Overdose In 1995?!
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... soon-to-be released album The Truth About Love, which whets America's musical appetite September 18th! [Image via WENN.] Tags: 1995, addiction, death, drugs, new album, overdose, pink, sad, singer, sobriety, teenager, the truth about love. Email...

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Activist Rodney King Dies After Long Battle With Alcohol And Drug ...
Most famous for stating just five simple words after he was savagely beaten by members of the Los Angeles Police Department, Rodney King, died more than ...
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Can Marijuana Successfully Treat Drug Addiction Withdrawal ...
Should marijuana be legalized for medical purposes? It's a questions that been asked and answered – differently – across the country for years now.
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Kentucky sees surge in addicted infants

Kentucky sees surge in addicted infants
USA TODAY
More than half the babies in University Hospital's neonatal intensive care unit one day this month were suffering from drug withdrawal — one sucking licorice-flavored morphine to ease his tremors and near-constant crying, another so sensitive to light ...

Drug abuse by elders often a hidden problem
Boston Globe
SCITUATE — At the Catherine McGowan Senior Center, Florence Choate, director of Scituate's Council on Aging, offers a variety of programs for seniors, but she rarely talks with them aboutaddiction to prescription narcotics. “If we held a discussion ...

Bay County veterans official sees many returning veterans battling ...
The Saginaw News - MLive.com
BAY CITY, MI — When Benjamin O. Green came home from his third tour in the Middle East with a virulent addiction to prescription painkillers, he was far from a rare case among veterans. Art Schupback, a service counselor and certified service officer...

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Narconon CEO: Facility pays recruiters to find patients
Tulsa World
Drug addiction counselors and former students of Narconon also confirmed they make tens of thousands every year from finder's fees and more from interventions. All said a finder's fee has no bearing on where they recommend a drug addict go for rehab.

'Wet' users a threat to selves, others
Cherry Hill Courier Post
“The market for the drug has become more widespread and accordingly, arrests have increased.” As a case manager for Bensalem, Pa.-based addiction counselors Steps to Recovery, Corey Furlan has been in contact with people stuck in various types of ...

No crutches whatsoever - SoberRecovery : Alcoholism Drug ...
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I am in recovery from alcoholism for a fairly long time now. ... I know a lot about addiction, and I realise cross-addiction is fairly normal and hard to counter. When I put down the alcohol, the smoking increased. When I put down the sugar, the caffeine increased. Like a weird seesaw, balancing my fixes! Although I'm very proud of where I am with my alcoholism recovery, I have a feeling that I'll never be totally 'free' unless I put down all of my crutches and walk unaided through life.
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Are there any drug addiction treatment plans made especially for autistic people? I've heard people with Asperger's can have a harder time getting clean than ...
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Report: Millionaire's Suicide Linked To Money Trouble & Drug Addiction
CBS 11
HIGHLAND PARK (CBS 11 NEWS) – Financial troubles and a secret drug addictionmay have motivated a Highland Park multimillionaire to stab himself last month, according to an autopsy report released Friday. The report by the Dallas County Medical ...

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Combating prescription drug abuse is the topic of conference for Kalamazoo ...
Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com
Drug abuse is a major public health problem that impacts society on multiple levels. Directly or indirectly, every community is affected by drug abuse and addiction, as is every family. Drugs take a tremendous toll on the health of our society at many ...

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Solid step forward toward stemming drug abuse
The Patriot Ledger
Step by step, we are putting together a social policy and government rules to help stem the terrible tide of drug addiction and deaths in our local communities, state and nation. Another piece of that work was done this week when Gov. Deval Patrick ...

EDITORIAL: Bragg fitting replacement for Ash on Drug Court
Greenville News
The Rutherford County Drug Court, a 12-month program that includes counseling, family therapy and random drug screens for non-violent offenders who commit crimes due to their addiction, started 12 years ago under the leadership of Judge Don Ash. The ...

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Drug-Addicted Doctors: California Debates How Best To Protect Patients and Help Physicians

Drug-Addicted Doctors: California Debates How Best To Protect Patients And ...
Huffington Post
Five years ago, a state program to help doctors struggling with addiction was shut down after repeated audits found it failed to hold addicts accountable and fell short in protecting the public. While there is widespread support for current legislation ...

Could an Addiction-Proof Painkiller Finally Be on the Horizon?
TIME
Such behaviors typically occur when rats and mice are exposed to the same kinds ofdrugs that people tend to enjoy that have a potential for addiction. When these behaviors don't manifest, it suggests that the animals aren't feeling pleasure from the ...

TIME

Drugs contributed to Rodney King's death, coroner concludes
Los Angeles Times
Rodney King's struggles with addiction thrust him into public consciousness more than two decades ago, as a drunk driver bludgeoned by Los Angeles police. ... Last year he appeared on VH1's "Celebrity Rehab," trying to tackle his fight withalcoholism.

Los Angeles Times

Major drug bust reveals heroin addiction in local kids
KOAA.com Colorado Springs and Pueblo News
A major drug bust announced by the Colorado Springs Police Department on Thursday took more than $5.65 million dollars worth of heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, and marijuana off the streets of southern Colorado. Fourteen people are behind bars, ...

AA's co-founder thought LSD might help cure alcoholics. So what?
The Guardian
(2) You have a back problem which is causing you extreme pain, and you're trying to kick an addiction to prescription drugs, what do you do if the doctor prescribes you Vicodin ("hillbilly heroin") to ease that pain? (3) You're a heroin addict, you ...

The Guardian

I have never seen my dad in that much pain
The West Australian
The Police Commissioner's son Russell O'Callaghan has spoken about his descent into drug addiction, his involvement in a drug laboratory explosion and life behind bars in WA's toughest jail in the hope his story will deter others from a similar life of ...

The West Australian

My brother was killed by cannabis, jack it in: Magistrate tells addict of her ...
Daily Mail
... out about the dangers of cannabis while sentencing an offender. Mrs Davies, a magistrate of 12 years' standing, told stunned Duncan how her brother, Glen Harding, had died aged 34 from an addiction to the drug, causing a 'living hell' for her family.

Daily Mail

Narconon Eslov's Thirtieth Anniversary Celebrated with Awards, Music and Friends
Midland Daily News
It was in 1982 that this Narconon center first opened its doors to those who had lost their way to alcohol, amphetamine, heroin, cannabis or other drug addiction. This festive occasion was marked with music from well-known rock musician Hank von Hell ...

More teens using drugs at school, study shows
Danbury News Times
The 17th annual back-to-school survey just released by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse focused this year on use at school -- and it's not good. For the sixth consecutive year, 60 percent or more of teens in the survey reported that ...

600 students attend drug de-addiction workshop
Times of India
Chandigarh: Attended by over 600 students, the Post graduate government college 46 organized an orientation workshop on Drug De-addiction in multimedia hall. A PowerPoint presentation highlighting the dangers of getting oneself addicted to drugs.

InsureBlog: Drug Addiction
Drug addiction can be a real problem, and the pharmaceutical manufacturers know that. To preserve profits, they want to make sure you stay addicted to their ...
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Learn about Drug Addiction, Alcohol Abuse and Recovery , get help today, ... Drug Addiction and Alcoholism Help: For People Personally Struggling With A ...
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Affordable Drug Addiction Treatment South Florida Rehab | Blog
At the Florida House experience we work hard to make drug addiction treatment affordable to individuals in need at all levels of care.
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Drug Addiction in Oklahoma Costs More than Entire State Budget ...
Oklahoma is facing a crisis of drug abuse among its residents. The problem is so widespread that the annual cost of drug addiction is estimated to be $7.2 billion ...
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Are Athletes Primed for Prescription Drug Addiction?

PsychCentral.com (blog)
During Olympic season, the public watches in awe as talented athletes from around the world compete, secretly waiting to see which ones are going to test positive for steroids. But steroids aren't the only drug problem plaguing elite athletes. There is ...

'Frightening' levels of drug addiction revealed in report
Scotland Courier
Information released by the Alcohol and Drugs Partnership shows that more than 80% of inmates entering Perth Prison over a six-month period tested positive for illegal substances, well above the Scottish average of 56%. A further 18 outgoing prisoners ...

Scotland Courier

Illicit Drug Use By Teenagers On The Rise In US Schools
RedOrbit
A new survey by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (CASAColumbia) in New York City found that 90 percent of high school students in the U.S. are aware of fellow students using illicit drugs, like alcohol and ...

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Greenbrier tackles drug abuse and addiction issues
Beckley Register-Herald
MAXWELTON — Representatives from social service agencies, the medical and religious communities, law enforcement and the courts, along with public officials shared their frustrations about the growing drug problem in Greenbrier County during an open ...

LSD could help alcoholics stop drinking, AA founder believed
The Guardian
Lattin found letters and documents revealing that Wilson at first struggled with the idea that one drug could be used to overcome addiction to another. LSD, which was first synthesised in 1938, is a non-addictive drug that alters thought processes and ...

The Guardian

The opiate Trap
Boston.com
Dr. Wayne Pasanen, vice president for medical affairs at Lowell General Hospital, said addiction is a “raging epidemic,” and more people die of opiate overdoses in the United States than from firearm injuries. “There's been an eightfold increase of ...

Boston.com

Many Teens Drinking, Taking Drugs During School: Survey
Philadelphia Inquirer
"If kids know who is using drugs, why don't the staff?" he asked. Feinstein concluded, "Preventingaddiction is all about preventing teen substance use because the developing brain is more vulnerable. We really need to look at this as a health care ...

'Designer' drugs are kids' latest craze
Washington Examiner
Kids would come to school acting unusually hyperactive or agitated, said Saul Levin, a senior deputy director of D.C.'s Addiction Prevention and Recovery Administration. Some, he said, would become so psychotic they'd require an emergency room trip.

Fraud witness admits to drug addiction - www.phillyburbs.com ...
A major witness against an Upper Southampton man who is accused of defrauding hundreds of seniors in a home health care insurance scam Wednesday ...
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Elton John Reflects on Drug Addiction
Elton John is the latest celebrity to talk about his struggles with drugs. Learn what Elton said about his life addicted to cocaine.
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New Strategy For Treating Cocaine Addiction
The Biological SCENE
For recovering cocaine addicts, even the slightest reminder of their past drug use, such as people they used cocaine with, places they bought drugs, or even music they listened to while using, can trigger a relapse. Addiction researchers call this cue ...
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Almost 1 in 5 teens smokes or uses drugs at school, US students report

Almost 1 in 5 teens smokes or uses drugs at school, US students report
Christian Science Monitor
That's among the most significant findings of an annual survey of teenagers about their perceptions of drug use, released Wednesday, by the National Center on Addictionand Substance Abuse at Columbia University (CASAColumbia) in New York. The latest...

Christian Science Monitor

Local Drug Summit Helps Fight Pill Addiction
WSAZ-TV
IRONTON, Ohio (WSAZ) -- It's no secret the prescription pill epidemic has our region in a chokehold; destroying lives and ripping families apart. A local group is fighting back against drug abuse, giving addicts knowledge to take back their lives and ...

The thriving black market for suboxone speaks volumes about how hard life can ...
Salon
As a recovering drug addict, 23-year-old Joe has spent almost three years successfully managing his former oxycontin addiction with suboxone, a prescription medication that reduces cravings and withdrawal symptoms for drugs like heroin and prescription ...

Citizens' group emerges to eradicate drugs in Eldon
Lakenewsonline.com
Matt Golden's drug addiction could have ended his life. It did end his military career. It was destroying his family. And it almost ended his marriage. Now he wants to help others avoid the same mistakes he made. Joining forces with likeminded people ...

Scientists find switch in the brain that could cause psychosis and addiction ...
Daily Mail
However, developing drugs from cannabis to treat these conditions is hampered by the fact that such drugs will have psychoactive side effects - and smoked cannabis can cause addiction and psychosis in up to 12 per cent of users. Dr Alasdair MacKenzie...

Daily Mail

Fall River's synthetic drug ordinance gets a push as gov. signs anti ...
Fall River Herald News
Deval Patrick on Saturday signed a “prescription drug diversion, abuse and addiction” bill, which includes a small portion (Section 9) that bans 16 chemical compounds as Class C controlled substances. Those chemicals are commonly used in the treated ...

Overcoming addiction: How to get there
Durham Herald Sun (blog)
Few of us don't know someone whose life has been affected by drug and alcohol abuse. Our local communities, state and nation continue to struggle to come to grips with addiction and its terrible consequences. The costs are great, in human suffering and ...

Awareness campaign to prevent drug abuse
Kuwait Times
In the social arena there is a shortage in the role of community, NGOs, Coops and other organizations that are not very active in providing awareness to society regardingdrug addiction. This addiction is not only limited to drugs and alcohol, it also ...

Kuwait Times

Former RI Hospital surgeon sentenced in pill scheme
Providence Eyewitness News
There is no evidence that either men profited financially from the scheme, but rather it was to feed an addiction to prescription drugs. Particularly for Villarreal who admitted to consuming up to 20 Adderral pills a day; an amphetamine used to treat ...

Preckwinkle backtracks on comments about Reagan
Chicago Daily Herald
Preckwinkle is in hot water with GOP officials after saying that Reagan deserves “a special place in hell” for his part in politicizing and criminalizing drug addiction. Advertisement. “I regret my earlier comment regarding former President Ronald ...

NJ Students Share Stories Of Prescription Drug Abuse [SERIES]
By Stacy Proebstle
Prescription drug addiction could happen to anyone. Flickr User p_x_g. Jesse is a 20 year-old ... His drug abuse caused him to skip going to college his freshman year in Connecticut and do anything to support his addiction. “I was spiraling downward, I had ... The Governor's Council on Alcoholism andDrug Abuse Task Force on Heroin and Other Opiate Use by New Jersey's Youth and Young Adults will hold a third public hearing at 10 a.m. Aug. 29th at the Monmouth County Library ...
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Are there any drug addiction programs/techniques or anything ...
My boyfriend had a really serious drug problem for years, mostly with heroin ... have some really nice people to come to him and they will not force him but ...
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Suburban Junkies - Why Prescription Drug Addicts Turn to Heroin (video)


In California's Orange County, some young prescription drug addicts are turning to heroin for a cheaper high. This growing problem appears to hit hardest in affluent communities around the state.

Suburban Junkies: Why Prescription Drug Addicts Turn to Heroin
Patch.com
The video above by California Watch tells the story of how four "normal" young adults in Orange County got hooked on heroin after first being addicted to prescription ...

Driver Aaron Fike reinstated; heroin use spurred NASCAR's drug-testing policy
SportingNews.com
Driver Aaron Fike was reinstated Tuesday by NASCAR, five years after he was arrested on heroin charges. It was Fike's admission of using heroin on the days he raced that brought into question NASCAR's previous suspicion-based drug-testing policy.

'Drug addiction number one social scourge in Malaysia'
New Straits Times
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian Crime Prevention Foundation (MCPF) vice-chairman, Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye lamented that drug addiction has been the number one social scourge in Malaysia for the past three decades. In a statement here today, he said the ...

Yale study: Marijuana may really be gateway drug
Stamford Advocate
The Yale study, which appears online in the Journal of Adolescent Health, showed that alcohol, cigarettes and marijuana were associated with an increased likelihood of prescription drug abuse in men 18 to 25. In women of that age, only marijuana use ...

Governor signs anti-prescription drug abuse bill
Enterprise News
John Keenan, D-Quincy, say they're not expecting big costs, and that the new law will result in long-term savings on courts, jails and drug treatment programs where addicts often end up. In a letter to lawmakers, Patrick said he “strongly” supports the ...

Drug Free in Dublin, NH
NPR (blog)
As a volunteer at the Phoenix House Academy of Dublin, 21-year-old Sofia Capria helps teenagers battle drug and alcohol addiction — just as she did herself three years ago. "Right away, I was hooked," Sofia says of her own drug use, which began at age ...

Children suffer most from prescription drug epidemic
Daytona Beach News-Journal
prescription drug abuse. Florida has finally declared war on prescription drug abuse, but the state needs to do more to help those hurt most by the explosion in pill addiction -- children. Armed with a new prescription-drug database and tougher laws ...

Overcoming addiction: How to get there
Durham Herald Sun (blog)
Few of us don't know someone whose life has been affected by drug and alcohol abuse. Our local communities, state and nation continue to struggle to come to grips with addiction and its terrible consequences. The costs are great, in human suffering and ...

NFL suspends Chiefs LB Tamba Hali for 1 game for violating substance-abuse ...
Washington Post
Pro Bowl linebacker Tamba Hali will miss the Sept. 9 game against the Falcons without pay after violating the NFLs substance-abuse policy, the league said Monday. Hali will be fined an additional game check and be eligible to return in Week 2. Loading.

NT Opposition wants alcoholic offender prison farms
ABC Online
The ABC can reveal the Country Liberal Party opposition in the Northern Territory plans to introduce prison farms for chronic alcoholic offenders. The CLP's policy also calls for the possible scrapping of restrictions on alcohol sales and reinstatement ...

Living with Children: Teen's media addiction
Kansas City Star
We think, however, that she has become a media addict. She spends entirely too much time in her.... In the 12-Step world, that's known as enabling, and in the real world, that's how problems go from bad to worse. Q:I know you think children as young ...

Being in a gang is an addiction like any other
The Guardian
You've probably put me in the bracket of a former drug addict, or an alcoholic. But my addiction was to gang culture. And like so many addictions it started out as nothing more than a pastime: recreational, it was a way to socialise with other boys. It ...

The Guardian

Rufus Wainwright on Addiction, His Mother, His Wedding This Week ...
By Andy Towle
Rufus Wainwright on Addiction, His Mother, His Wedding This Week in Montauk: VIDEO. Wainwright. Rufus Wainwright was profiled yesterday on CBS Sunday morning. He talked candidly about his career, being an out artist, his mother Kate ...
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Ex-drug addict now helps reunite families

Ex-drug addict now helps reunite families
Statesman Journal
She panicked, took a bus back to Des Moines and threw herself into an addiction-treatment program. She'd gone through treatment before, but never with such a serious incentive to succeed, she said. "I was ready." She appreciates now that department ...

Internet Addiction: I Guess There's No Pill for That Yet
Business Insider
China has more than 1500 counselors who can provide psychological treatment for children or teenagers addicted to the Internet, the Beijing Morning Post reported on Aug 20. Currently, 1567 therapists in 83 cities provide help to young people who spend ...

New West Windsor outpatient addiction treatment facility answers call to serve ...
The Times of Trenton - NJ.com
It has intensive outpatient programs, uniquely designed recovery plans for each patient, and space for groups like Alcoholics Anonymous to meet. Over time, the ... He's not alone. According to numbers compiled by the National Council on Alcoholism and ...

The Times of Trenton - NJ.com

A Typical History
PsychCentral.com (blog)
... inpatient stabilization followed by Suboxone maintenance/addiction therapy. When I entered treatment I maintained the belief that I was not an addict, and my doctor initially supported this attitude. ... When I began taking the pain medications I ...

Internet Addiction And Loneliness
PsychCentral.com (blog)
ai The use of the internet is pervasive in our culture. So much that the American Psychiatric Association is recommending further research on the condition called “Internet Use Disorder” in the upcoming diagnostic manual DSM V. The disorder primarily ...

Alternatively Speaking: A healthy addiction
Jerusalem Post
A. There are indeed certain herbs which can help to treat the effects of alcoholism on the liver, therefore easing the withdrawal symptoms helping to curb alcohol cravings. A wonderful liver tonic for those fighting alcoholism is Milk Thistle. Taking ...

Scientists can now block heroin, morphine addiction
In a major breakthrough, an international team of scientists has proven that addiction to morphine and heroin can be blocked, while at the same time increasing pain relief. The team from the University of Adelaide and University of Colorado ...
Breaking World Pharma News
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What Hepatitis C May Tell Us About Drug Use And Addiction

What Hepatitis C May Tell Us About Drug Use And Addiction
NPR (blog)
And it seems to run counter to some pretty widely shared ideas that we have about drug use andaddiction. Public service announcements aimed ... And the medical establishment insists that once an addict, always an addict. Addiction, after all, they say ...

Treating Addiction: A Top Doc Explains Why Kind Love Beats Tough Love
TIME
I think childhood trauma or emotional loss is the universal template for addiction. It also depends on how you want to define trauma: if you want to define it as something bad happening, then it's true that not every addict [has experienced trauma], in ...

TIME

Ex-drug addict now helps reunite families
USA TODAY
Davis once loved crack cocaine more than she loved her daughter. She was forced to choose between them seven years ago, and, for a time, she chose crack. The Iowa Department of Human Services took her 11-year-old daughter away in 2005, after Davis...

USA TODAY

I would rather be an addict than love one, Part 1
Chestnut Hill Local (blog)
The addict is a sad person who often sits with his loved ones – just before or after the crest of a “high” – and vows to quit his addiction. Tears flow. Repentance is expressed. Promises are made. His or her parents, children, spouses, friends ...

Dealing with work addiction
Midland Daily News
It's a 12-step program based on the principles of Alcoholics Anonymous for individuals who feel their work lives have gotten out of control. It offers mutual support in solving problems related to compulsive overworking, and it also helps families and ...

Addict Inmate-to-Community Supervised Virtual Communication
NJ.com (blog)
All state prison or jail addict inmates that comply with prison or jail regulations should expand their approved list of (virtual) visitors to those people and agencies who will help them on their return. Theaddict inmate will develop his or her own ...

Don't be nice to addicts. Be fair
The Guardian
But compassion is irrelevant to the categorising of addiction. Accepting it's an illness doesn't mean you have to care. They say heroin feels good to begin with. Smoking doesn't. But, if you're a natural addict, you press on. Once you're hooked, it ...

The Guardian

Westford schools taking aim at substance abuse
The Sun
Superintendent of Schools Everett "Bill" Olsen Jr. unveiled a plan at last week's School Committee meeting designed to address substance abuse in the school system. "It is here, as we all know," he said. "We've been dealing ... on appropriating the ...

Doctor reveals positivity is more effective when dealing with addiction
Examiner.com
He concludes that an addict's past was filled with unpleasant and tough situations and being harsh and demanding to an addict has no effect. Addiction is an instance that a person uses anything to make them feel better and it becomes a ... Addiction ...

Examiner.com

RIP Joey Kovar: Star Of MTV's 'The Real World' & Addict [EXPERT ...
By sherrygaba
I know only too well, both professionally and personally, that the disease of addiction is out to get addicts and alcoholics, especially when there is no recovery in their lives. Those I treated on Celebrity Rehab were just as serious about ... Whether it is your children, spirituality, life balance, faith, 12 steps, psychotherapy, or life coaching, every addict or alcoholic must find that anchor if there is any hope of remaining sober. Staying on course with positive action is essential for successful ...YourTango - Smart Talk About Love

Addiction and Immortality: Bolt Chooses Addiction | Psychology Today
Addiction in Society. Addiction—the thematic malady for our society—entails every type of psychological and societal problem. by Stanton Peele, Ph.D., J.D. ...
www.psychologytoday.com/.../addiction-and-immortality-bolt...
Sex Addiction Should Not Be a "Get out of jail free" Card ...
Should the claim "I'm a sex addict, it's not my fault" stand up in court? By David J. ... Repeated efforts to declare sex addiction a legitimate diagnosis have failed.
www.psychologytoday.com/.../sex-addiction-should-not-be-ge...
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