The headline for the cover story in Newsweek magazine of July 16, 2012 blares “ iCrazy: Panic. Depression. Psychosis. How Connection Addiction is Rewiring ...
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Adolescents in substance abuse treatment report using someone else's medical marijuana
EurekAlert (press release)
Washington D.C., July 31, 2012 – A study published in the July 2012 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry found that diverted medical marijuana use among adolescents receiving treatment for substance abuse is ...
Seebohm blames her social media addiction
Stuff.co.nz
They might not be setting the benchmark they expected in the pool, but Australian gold medal favourite Emily Seebohm has set a new precedent for explaining underachievement at the Olympics by blaming her social media addiction for failing to win the ...
Stuff.co.nz
Alcohol, drugs, sex addiction: Ervin's rocky road to an Olympic comeback
Sydney Morning Herald
American swimmer Anthony Ervin has revealed how he spiralled into a life of alcohol, drugs and sex addiction after he won gold in Sydney in an extraordinary interview coinciding with his Olympic Games comeback. The 31-year-old Californian won a gold ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Bradenton woman's fiction deals with drug addiction
Bradenton Herald
As she was writing about her anger and hurt, a character appeared -- Nicole, the fictional young heroin addict who became the protagonist in Mann's first novel, "Memoirs Aren't Fairytales: A Story of Addiction," published last December by Booktrope.
Bradenton Herald
Drug addict denies he dumped clothes after killing widow Nellie Geraghty in ...
Manchester Evening News
A drug addict accused of killing an elderly widow who died after resisting a mugger's bid to take a bag containing her husband's ashes has protested his innocence. Mark Royle is alleged to have caused serious head injuries to 79-year-old Nellie Geraghty in ...
South Korea's cyber addiction risking health, national security
Radio Australia
"There are patients hospitalised in this clinic who were playing games at internet parlours for five days straight, even for a week," says Doctor Lee Jae-won, the head of a government operated online addiction centre. "There are definitely health risks, even the ...
Police: Addict admits stealing copper to pay for drugs
Danville News
Police: Addict admits stealing copper to pay for drugs. By Evamarie Socha The Daily Item The Daily Item Tue Jul 31, 2012, 01:00 AM EDT. MILTON — A Milton man has been charged in Union and Northumberland counties for his alleged role in a recent slew ...
Transplant pioneer from Beverly helped launch the Betty Ford Center
Chicago Sun-Times
In 1975, the longtime Beverly resident helped Monsignor Ignatius McDermott found Chicago's Haymarket Center, a pioneering facility for the treatment of substance abuse. “He was the original 'Most Interesting Man in the World,' ” said his son, William J. West.
KSLA News 12 Special Report: Gambling Addiction
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KSLA News 12 Shreveport, Louisiana News Weather & SportsKSLA News 12 Special Report: Gambling Addiction. SITE SEARCH .... To kick off Responsible Gaming Week, we talked to one recovering gambling addict in Shreveport. She didn't want to be ...
Russell's Addiction
This is Staffordshire
My addiction began to rear its ugly head at the age of 14 which saw me drinking small amounts of Hooch at Cresswell Park in Stafford. This progressed to a 20/20 habit which sort of hit the spot. I drunk more to impress the opposite sex, but because of my ...
Alcoholic breached his Asbo
This is Plymouth
AN ALCOHOLIC breached his Anti-Social Behaviour Order by entering a prohibited area to look for spare change in telephone booths, a court heard. Nigel Thomas, aged 39, strayed a few metres into the city centre where he was banned, Plymouth ...
Charlie Skinner and 'The Newsroom's Inconsistent Approach to Alcoholism
ThinkProgress
And it came in an episode where we learn that Will's father was a physically abusive alcoholic. It was an interesting kernel of a revelation, meant to tie together Will's response to the sorority girl questioner from the pilot and Will's treatment of a black, gay aide ...
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Porn addict jailed
Midweek Herald
A child pornography addict has been jailed for sending revolting images of sadistic child abuse over the internet under the alias of Mr Grippy. Adrian White, aged 52, lived with his 85-year-old mother a mile from the nearest village in rural Devon and started to ...
Midweek Herald
How Parkinson's drugs can turn you into a sex addict: Nearly a fifth of patients ...
Daily Mail
While a bargain-hunt addiction is more socially embarrassing than financially harmful, Liz has made more damaging decisions. Five years ago, she persuaded Eric to buy a Tenerife apartment — a disastrous move as they recently sold it for half the price.
Daily Mail
New Pleasure Circuit Identified In Brain, Could Change Addiction Treatments
iScienceTimes.com
They described the role the liking/wanting region of the brain plays in drugaddiction for in an article for the academic journal "Social Research" two years ago. "At extreme, the addict may come to 'want' what is neither 'liked' nor expected to be liked, ...
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Doctor prescribed nearly 6000 pills to patient with known addiction
Westmoreland County Times
United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that a doctor pleaded guilty to violating federal drug control laws. Dr. Anita Dawson, 55 years of age, originally of West Virginia, pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting in obtaining controlled substances by ...
Alcoholic who plagued police smashed up his flat
Burton Mail
POLICE threatened to Taser an alcoholic as he wielded a baseball bat after trashing his own flat. Burton Magistrates' Court. Jason Redfern, of Church Street, Tutbury, also made malicious 999 calls in which he claimed he was going to stab his neighbour.
Burton Mail
Joint effort aims at awareness of gambling addicts
Toledo Blade
Officials expect to see an increase in gambling addiction tied to the introduction of casinos to the state. County Commissioner Tina Skeldon Wozniak said approximately 5 to 6 percent of individuals who visit casinos are likely to become problem gamblers.
Animal-Assisting Therapy for Addiction « The Ranch | Drug Rehab ...
By Vera
While the focus in animal- or pet-assisted therapy is on the addict or alcoholic, and on what animals can do for them, in animal-assisting therapy the primary emphasis is on what addicts can do for animals, or perhaps more correctly on what ... As an adjunct to more traditional types of addiction treatment, animal-assisting therapy works by helping those who have been battling the demons of substance abuse find a way to step outside of themselves and discover deeper meaning and ...
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New Pleasure Circuit Identified In Brain, Could Change Addiction ...
Researchers are looking into how the stimulation of the newly discovered hotspots of pleasure can be used to treat mental illness and addiction. "Higher brain regions receive information from these pleasure and reward circuits to consciously ...
Signs of the Times
Researchers are looking into how the stimulation of the newly discovered hotspots of pleasure can be used to treat mental illness and addiction. "Higher brain regions receive information from these pleasure and reward circuits to consciously ...
Signs of the Times
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I have made it through multiple bad cravings and uncomfortable situations but have now crossed into double digits. Again, the Small Book and the concepts put forth by Rational Recovery along with this board have been of so much help to me ...
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Olympic swimmer blames social media addiction for failing to win ...
By Vlad Savov
Emily Seebohm, the Australian swimmer that set a new Olympic record in qualifying for the 100m backstroke final but narrowly missed out on the gold, has admitted that spending too much time on Twitter and Facebook may have affected her ...
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Doctors Disagree On How To Define Addiction: Proposed Changes ...
Treating addiction is comparatively new in the annals of medical history; even how ... Significant proposed changes in the definition of addiction planned. ... He contends that many cases ofsubstance abuse don't ever lead to addiction. ... in need of treatment — millions more people would fall under the definition of addict .
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Treating addiction is comparatively new in the annals of medical history; even how ... Significant proposed changes in the definition of addiction planned. ... He contends that many cases ofsubstance abuse don't ever lead to addiction. ... in need of treatment — millions more people would fall under the definition of addict .
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