Amy Winehouse's father says David Cameron is losing the drugs war

Amy Winehouse's father says David Cameron is losing the drugs war
Telegraph.co.uk
“Frankly, the Government isn't doing enough to help people with drug addiction,” he says at the Amy Winehouse Foundation Ball, at the Dorchester hotel in London. “What we've got to do is change the way people think in this country, including the ...

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Chris Nilan had the fight of his life after playing professional hockey: drug ...
Boston.com
Nilan also went to see an addiction specialist in Hawaii recommended by his girlfriend, Jamie Holtz, executive assistant of the The Knuckles Group. “I was embarrassed and ashamed to ... You don't take the drug, the drug takes you.” But this is not a ...

Doctors steering clear of addicts
The Age
Drug policy agencies say the shortage has become so severe they are urging the federal government to list ''drug addiction'' as a specific item for the Medicare rebate, warning that the complexity of the problem and time needed meant doctors were ...

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Help is available for those with substance use disorders
Daily Comet
Many individuals find success with 12-step programs such as Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous. For help, contact your family physician, the Alcohol and Drug Addiction Resource Center at 1-800-390-4056, or for referral information to local ...

Australian Study on Videogame Addiction Finds Evidence of a Phenomenon ...
AusGamers
A PhD student at the Australian National University has reportedly documented some of the first scientific evidence that video game addiction has a fundamental affect on the attention system of sufferers, a phenomenon seen in heroin, nicotine, alcohol ...

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Mother seeks help for son's synthetic drug addiction - 13 WTHR ...
With tears streaming down her face, Sherri Belttari says she fears what her son has fallen into. She says he is hooked on pep spice, bath salts, any number of ...

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Thankful for drug addiction recovery

Lancaster man thankful for drug addiction recovery - abc27 WHTM
By Mark Hall
Randy walked through the doors of the Water Street Ministries hooked on heroin and cocaine, but the rehabilitation program helped him become clean and sober for the past eighteen months. . . .

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Do you think people ever really change? They say everyday you wake you have been changed from the tormenting trauma and desires and unavoidable ...

States fight prescription drug addiction epidemic with patient contracts, data tracking

With prescription drug abuse worsening throughout the country, officials in several states are working aggressively to raise awareness of the problem and ...

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Mother's Battle With Prescription Drug Addiction (video)

Mother's Battle With Prescription Drug Addiction, Doctor says no to abusers
YouTube
The battle against prescription drug abuse is one that is not only being waged by those fighting their addictions but also by doctors, healthcare organizations and law enforcement. Illegal use of prescription drugs has increased so much that, this year ...

Wendy Williams Recalls Her Past Drug Addiction And Compares It ...
Talk show host Wendy Wiliams has spoke on her past drug addiction a while back but had more details on how what and why in her statement recently released ...
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Thankful People: Freedom from drug addiction through Teen Challenge ministry
Southeast Missourian
EDITOR'S NOTE: Thankful People is a group of stories put together every Thanksgiving by the Southeast Missourian that focus on local people who have special reasons to be thankful. Jason Stricklin is thankful for a second chance. After the Arkansas ...

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Accused Attorney Blames Drug Addiction

Accused Attorney Blames Drug Addiction for Thievery
NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
Kendra Lyn, NBC 5 News. A disbarred Dallas County personal injury attorney accused of stealing from his clients now blames drug addiction for his problems. Accused Attorney Blames Drug Addiction for... Link; Embed; Email. Copy. Close. Link to this ...

Sports star Chris Herren shares his story of drug addiction
Trumbull Times
Chris Herren is hardly the first basketball star to pack the gymnasium at St. Joseph High School. But he is likely the first to captivate the entire student body, holding the group utterly silent while he spoke for 90 minutes. Herren, former pro ...

Ease the pain
Oklahoma Gazette
Dr. Hal Vorse, medical director of A Chance to Change Foundation, an alcoholism anddrug addiction treatment center, said you don't have to look far to find “those people.” “Go to a mall on a Saturday afternoon and watch people walk by — that's our ...

Oklahoma Gazette

Pictures taken 'to overcome drug addiction stereotypes'
Radio 1
Before-and-after drug shot Former photography student Roman Sakovich has released a set of before-and-after pictures showing how people might look after becoming addicted to crystal meth. The photos were shot in a studio with the subjects' faces split...

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Steve-O Talks Drug Addiction, Hallucinations & Life As A 'Semi ...
By The Huffington Post News Editors
Former "Jackass" star Steve-O stopped by HuffPost Live and opened up beating his inner demons, and how life as a "semi-famous drug-addicted male slut" inspires his comedy routine. The 38-year-old revealed that before he got sober in ...
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Man overcomes drug addiction, reclaims $10 mn fortune - Yahoo ...
'Man overcomes drug addiction, reclaims $10 mn fortune' on Yahoo! News Maktoob. London, Nov 19 (IANS) A 56−year−old Briton, having been deprived of a ...

ASAPNYS Opens Up About The Challenges in Drug Addiction in an Exclusive ...
TestCountry.com (blog)
A good example of such collaborative effort is the Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Providers of New York State (ASAPNYS) whose leadership on critical issues facingaddiction service providers has been widely recognized. Since 1996, ASAPNYS ... Mr...

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Wendy Williams Opens Up About Drug Addiction | Bossip
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Wendy Williams Opens Up About Drug Addiction Daytime talk show host Wendy Williams has made no secret of her past struggle with drugs, and it was the tragic death of Whitney Houston that prompted her to talk about her addiction....
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Steve-O Talks Drug Addiction, Hallucinations & Life As A 'Semi ...
Former "Jackass" star Steve-O stopped by HuffPost Live and opened up beating his inner demons, and how life as a "semi-famous drug-addicted male slut" ...

DR. JOSEPH SHRAND: Drug addiction is not a moral failing ...
There is an unfortunate tradition of being angry and disgusted at people who are addicted to heroin. I work with kids who are using heroin, alcohol, marijuana ...

Olympic diver admits to drug addiction - YouTube
Olympic diver Matthew Mitcham has admitted to drug use in the lead up to the London games ...

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Son's rejection rescues dad from drug addiction

Back from hell - Son's rejection rescues dad from drugs addiction
Jamaica Gleaner
Franklin Sinclair came from a "fairly good home" and went to "a good school" but none of that shielded him from the throes of drug addiction and an intense five-year period which saw his descent into drug-abuse hell. His darkness began with the death ...

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Maine doctors requiring random drug tests before writing prescriptions for ...
Bangor Daily News
In an effort to combat Maine's high rate of prescription drug addiction, doctors are asking patients to sign a controlled-substances agreement that, in part, allows the doctor to ask for a blood or urine sample at any time to ensure patients are taking ...

MCPF calls for more effective efforts to fight drug addiction
The Borneo Post
SIBU: The Malaysian Crime Prevention Foundation (MCPF) calls for more effective efforts to fightdrug addiction through treatment and rehabilitation, education and prevention. MCPF vice-chairman Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye in making the call yesterday, said ...

Kristen Tabbert Rogers' benefit to help aid drug addiction
WXOW.com
LA CROSSE, Wis. (WXOW) - To celebrate Kristen Tabbert Rogers' life, family and friends hosted a benefit in her honor Saturday. A raffle, bake sale, games and an auction all helped raise money for the Kristen Tabbert Hope Fund. Proceeds will be used to ...

METH MAYHEM: Drug use growing in San Angelo
San Angelo Standard Times
SAN ANGELO, Texas — A few months ago, John Wilmouth assigned a probation officer to work with the district court because of increasing drug addiction in San Angelo. The officer assists 340th District Judge Jay Weatherby with Child Protective Services ...

Expert doubts value of work drug tests
Adelaide Now
The deputy director of the National Centre for Education and Training on Addiction (NCETA) at Flinders University, Ken Pidd, says drug-testing in the workplace is just an easy "tick-a-box" response to the problem. Dr Pidd is to present his finding on ...

We're losing the war on drugs
phillyBurbs.com
Today, I read a letter to the editor from Daniel Meara, the public information manager for the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence. Well, I would like some information from him. How have the attempts to make painkillers "not so readily ...

Area treatment centers agree on painkiller addiction problem, differ in treatments
Waco Tribune-Herald
The company that put up the billboards, Brentwood Clinic of Waco, isn't a traditional substance abuse center where people go through detoxification to immediately get off drugs. Instead, the clinic helps transition people off illegal drugs by giving ...

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Drug addiction is not a moral failing

DR. JOSEPH SHRAND: Drug addiction is not a moral failing
The Patriot Ledger
Seeing addiction as a moral failing, these folks become outraged that our government spends their tax dollars on treating people who knew from the start they were using an addictive drug, in essence telling them they were on their own and we should not ...

Gold Medallist Mitcham Admits To Severe Drug Addiction
Crave Online
Despite the admission of drug addiction, Mitcham is free to compete on future Australian Olympic teams. In Twists and Turns Mitcham describes his dependence on the drug which stemmed from issues of low self-esteem, anxiety, depression, and panic ...

Pills prove a prescription for addiction
Great Lakes Advocate
She says her short time on oxycodone introduced her to the intense pull of addiction. She can see how some get lost forever. ''I'm so glad I got into that program because if I didn't, I would still be taking those drugs and wouldn't have a life,'' she ...

Pain medication addiction reaching epidemic level
Hamburg Reporter
But, Dr. Hassan noted in 2012, the makeup of many of these drugs are compatible with addiction in that they absorb very fast, and the half-life of the medicine staying in your system goes very fast. And then you want another. “The opiates are very ...

Call for drug tests to trap patient dealers
Stock and Land
Leading pain and addiction medicine experts say there is increasing evidence of doctors being scammed for large doses of prescription drugs, particularly addictive opioids such as OxyContin. While addicts ''doctor shopping'' for prescriptions is well ...

Mitcham reveals drug addiction
Fox Sports
Matthew Mitcham ... reveals his battle with drug addiction in his new book. Source: Lindsay Moller / News Limited. Beijing gold medallist Matthew Mitcham has revealed he battled a methamphetamineaddiction in 2011 that almost ended his career and ...

Grafton: In prison, man haunted by meth addiction
WKYC-TV
GRAFTON -- Lynwood Andrick is not looking for sympathy. He simply wants to caution others about the perils of meth use. Andrick, a 40-year-old father and husband, is fighting to overcome his meth addiction every day. He first tried the powerful drug in...

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Addiction among doctors rises
Irish Times
Alcohol and drug addiction is on the increase among doctors, with more than 70 per cent who attended a Medical Council health committee suffering addiction problems, a Medical Council annual conference was told yesterday. Dr Richard Brennan, chairman ...

Matthew Mitcham cleared to continue diving for Australia despite admitting ...
Herald Sun
BEIJING gold medallist Matthew Mitcham will not be excluded from the 2016 Australian Olympic team despite confessing to a crystal meth addiction, a drug that features as a "stimulant" on the WADA banned list. Less than 24 hours after the Australian ...

Study surveys world of drugs
Sydney Morning Herald
Results of the survey have been published in BMJ, The Lancet and Addiction and have helped produce a project called the drugs meter, where people can find out how their drug use compares with others. You can take part in the global drug survey over the ...

Diver Matthew Mitcham opens up about drug addiction ...
AUSTRALIAN 10-metre platform diver Matt Mitcham says he battled a methamphetamine addiction in 2011 that almost derailed his career and his life, but the 2008 Beijing gold medallist will be free to compete on future Australian Olympic ...
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Olympic diver admits to drug addiction - Yahoo! News
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Mitcham opens up over drug addiction

Mitcham opens up over drug addiction
Brisbane Times
Beijing gold medallist Matthew Mitcham has revealed he battled a methamphetamine addiction in 2011 that almost ended his career and destroyed his life. The Australian 10-metre platform diver who was one of the stars of the 2008 Games, failed to make ...

NIH Backs Off Plan to Merge Addiction Institutes
Science Now
Collins announced 2 years ago that NIH planned to follow an advisory board's recommendation to combine the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). His decision divided the research ...

'In the House' Star Maia Campbell Talks About Her Drug Addiction (VIDEO)
Huffington Post
After years of battling her addiction to crystal meth, former child star Maia Campbell is learning it only takes two words to start mending the rifts in her family: "I'm sorry." On the November 17 episode of "Iyanla: Fix My Life," relationship expert ...

Cocaine, heroin consumption fall in EU
Fox News
This is the general panorama presented by the European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction, or EMCDDA, in its annual report for 2012, which was released Thursday in Lisbon. The study, prepared with national statistics from 2010 provided by ...

Deadly Addiction: Two Men on Drugs, An Innocent Girl & A Community in Shock
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WXOW News 19 La Crosse, WI – News, Weather and Sports |Deadly Addiction: Two Men onDrugs, An Innocent Girl & A Community in Shock....

Deaf-mute kids join hands, spread message against drug abuse
Indian Express
Silently spreading a message of having a peaceful world free from drug abuse, deaf and mute children from an institution in Ropar made a human chain and displayed posters to eradicate drugabuse and addiction in Chandigarh on Friday. The event ...

Eddie Money on drug addiction and show business
Marketplace.org
When it comes to show business, such stories seem all too familiar. "You think you are invulnerable...you chase that euphoric feeling," says Eddie Money, who battled his own drug addiction in the 1970's and 80s. With fame comes access to drugs and ...

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AFGHANISTAN: Taliban Crippled By Heroin Addiction
Strategy Page
A more successful Taliban weapon, often used in the service of the drug gangs, is their death squads that will kill leaders and others who oppose the Taliban or the heroin business. These attacks extend to Afghans who work for NATO or government ...

End the War on Drugs
The Nation. (blog)
As filmaker Eugene Jarecki notes in The Nation, over forty years of prosecuting the "war on drugs" has cost a trillion dollars and accounted for 45 million drug arrests. Yet, for all that, America has nothing to show but a legacy of failure and ...

Mitcham opens up over drug addiction - News - BigPond Sport
Beijing gold medallist Matthew Mitcham has revealed he battled a methamphetamine addiction in 2011.
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Drug addiction is all over world? - Yahoo! Answers
I'm from Korea. I thought that drug problem is only in America. But now I doubt ... Hahaha are you retarded? There's drugs everywhere!!!

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Synthetic drug-use in Europe at all-time high

Synthetic drug-use in Europe at all-time high: agency
New York Daily News
While cocaine and cannabis remain the most popular illicit drugs, new synthetic substances are being detected at a rate of about one a week -- a fast-rising trend, according to the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction(EMCDDA).

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Trey Anastasio Opens Up About Past Drug Addiction
RollingStone.com
In the new issue of Rolling Stone, Trey Anastasio opens up about the drug and alcohol addiction that brought him to a low point shortly before Phish called it quits in 2004. "I'd let everyone down, which was my worst nightmare ever," Antastasio tells ...

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Is There Big Value In Addiction Fighting Pharmas?
Trefis
There are other drugs that have been used for other purposes that are now used in treatments for addictions from dependencies such as smoking cessation and alcohol addiction. .... Dr. Mark Willenbring, director of the Division of Treatment & Recovery ...

Global drug survey to rank Australian use
Sydney Morning Herald
Fairfax Media is partnering with the Global Drugs Survey, created by Adam Winstock, a Consultant Addiction Psychiatrist and researcher based in London, to help create the largest and most up-to-date snapshot of drug and alcohol use in Australia, and ...
 
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Club drug addiction on the rise, experts warn
Metro
A survey of drug use has shown more and more people are taking the party drugs at home and in pubs. While overall drug use has declined in England, new data shows 6,468 were treated for addiction to drugs such as ecstasy and GHB last year – up from ...

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Hinsdale District 86 officials: drug use an “epidemic” that can't be ignored
The Doings Oak Brook
Berlin was speaking about drug abuse, and specifically heroin addiction, to about 100 people who attended a parent education forum Nov. 7, hosted by Hinsdale High School District 86 at Hinsdale South High School. Other speakers included parents of drug ...

Manotick dealing with rising Fentanyl addiction among teens
CBC.ca
Dozens of parents concerned about the increasingly popular use of the drug Fentanyl among teens in Manotick showed up at a public meeting Wednesday night. The prescription painkiller, a synthetic opiate, is being taken recreationally in Manotick and in ...

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'Addiction Was Part of Her Life'
Daily Beast
But the woman with a fierce, stubborn streak spent much of her life fighting off personal demons, including drug addiction, troubles with the law, and bouts of poverty. “Addiction was a part of her life,” said Donto James, speaking exclusively to The ...

Daily Beast

Maia Campbell talks drug addiction | S2Smagazine.com
Life coach Iyanla Vanzant tries to help former child actress Maia Campbell accept responsibility for her past and face the future. In the '90s, Maia's acting career ...

Prescription Drug Addiction - Hometownstations.com-WLIO- Lima ...
Is somebody you know abusing prescription pills? Healthcare professionals came together at OSU Lima to learn more about the problem of prescription and ...

Wonder and Worry: Can I Save My Daughters From Drug Addiction ...
As a parent in recovery, I look at my children's faces every day and I wonder and worry. I wonder, with everything I know and everything I've learned, will I be ...

Operation OpioidSAFE Rescues Wounded Soldiers From - TheStreet
Researchers and Physicians Team Up to Develop Program with Practical, Time Tested Solutions in Fort Bragg, NC.

Stephanie Bongiovi's drug incident deeply upsetting, says addiction expert
Monsters and Critics.com
Police found Stephanie unresponsive after it was reported she had taken the drug. When medical personnel arrived on the scene, they found Bongiovi was still alive. A search of her room uncovered a “small quantity” of heroin as well as marijuana and ...

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Hopeful Drug Addiction Solution Pill Vigabatrin Fails Trial Study

Hopeful Drug Addiction Solution Pill Vigabatrin, Fails Trial Study
Equities.com
The St Jude Program, offered at the St. Jude Retreats, a leading non-treatment alternative to drug treatment, does not adhere to replacement pill or maintenance programs as a means of curing a drug addiction and the researchers there have made their ...

Clearwater shelter helps veterans battle drug addiction, homelessness
ABC Action News
CLEARWATER - Many men and have volunteered to serve in dangerous places like Afghanistan and Iraq, but unfortunately, far too many of them came home to a life on the streets. But one shelter is taking action to give them a new life. "These are my ...

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Kentucky Invests $7 Million to Treat Drug Addiction in Prisoners
TestCountry.com (blog)
According to the Kentucky Department of Corrections, 30 percent of Kentucky inmates struggling with drug addiction return to jail. But a 2011 study from the University of Kentucky said this figure drops to 20 percent among inmates who receive treatment ...

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Brockton region looks to social media to help area youth fight addiction
Enterprise News
The site, which is private for area youths recovering from drug addiction, was launched two months ago and now boasts 200 recovering addicts as members, said Dr. Joseph Shrand. Shrand, who treats local addicts ages 13 to 17, hopes federal dollars ...

Jon Bon Jovi's daughter OD's on heroin, top addiction specialist speaks out
Monsters and Critics.com
TMZ reports that Stephanie is alive and now she is arrested for possession of a "small quantity" of heroin, marijuana and drug paraphernalia. A trial date has been set. Stephanie is the oldest of four children for rocker Jon Bon Jovi and his wife ...

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Forum highlights changes to drug education program
Chicago Tribune
The pain and death caused by heroin addiction, and how to stop it, drew dozens of parents to a forum hosted by Hinsdale Township School District 86. The session at Hinsdale South High School in Darien explained how communities such as Hinsdale and ...

Hazelden Partners with Inflexxion to Develop New Program for Adolescents in ...
Sacramento Bee
With funding from a National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) grant, "Staying Off Substances: A Tailored Early Recovery Program for Teens," Hazelden and Inflexxion are creating this new intervention program for adolescents in substance abuse treatment ...

Kid Connection: Pharm Parties, Teens Addicted Prescription Drugs
WJBF-TV
Pharm parties have become a trend among teens, they're also known as "skittles parties" where teens pass a bowl of prescription drugs around. Jillian Benfield is interviewing a local addictionspecialist Wednesday for her Kid Connection series. What ...

Augusta priest charged with smuggling drugs into Wiscasset jail
Morning Sentinel
1 on charges that they trafficked the drug suboxone, a synthetic opiate typically used to ease symptoms of opiate addiction, but also can be abused. Foote was arrested and released on unsecured bail, while Theriault-Patten and Shawley were already in ...

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Fundraiser for addiction recovery facility nears $1.5M goal
Greenville News
A group planning an addiction recovery facility in Greenville met Tuesday as it nears the completion of its capital campaign and heard singer-songwriter Edwin McCain describe his own recovery from alcohol and drug addiction. / Staff ...

Drug Addiction, like Many Other Brain Diseases, is Curable | Health
Drug addiction or alcoholism is the same disease with different manifestations. Proper care and treatment can help in overcoming the disease and its related ...

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Drug abuse: the startling photos that show the ravaging

The two sides of drug abuse: The startling photos that show the ravaging ...
Daily Mail
... about those gripped by drug addition, showing how people from a variety of back grounds could fall prey to substance abuse. But he also peeled back the years to show the person before their descent into addiction, showing them in smart clothes with ...

Daily Mail

Addicted to the "Study Drug," Adderall
Today's THV
While many students start taking the prescription medication to help focus on studies and boost GPAs, it can lead to a life-long addiction and to harder drugs, such as Methamphetamine. Gina Washam said she was prescribed Adderall after she experienced ...

Officers Still Fighting Prescription Drug Abuse
WDTV
A lot of officers are on the street to fight the synthetic drug problems, but they're also still trying to combat prescription drug addiction. Prescription drug abuse can be found among people of all ages. Some get hooked on the pills after they've ...

Mother charged with giving birth to drug-addicted baby
Deseret News
PARK CITY — Criminal charges have been filed against a woman with a history of drug addictionwho police say gave birth to a drug-addicted baby. Shea Renee Sheeran, 27, was arrested Monday night. She was charged in Summit County's 3rd District ...

The Potential Devastating Effects of Prolonged Drug Addiction (6 pics)
By Voodoo
In this photo series entitled, “Half”, London photographer Roman Sakovich uses make up and styling to show the before and after effects of long-term drug addiction. In this photo.
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Drug Policy Alliance Releases Report on Veterans and the War on Drugs

Drug Policy Alliance Releases Report on Veterans and the War on Drugs As ...

eNews Park Forest
Left untreated, these medical conditions often contribute to substance misuse and addiction, fatal overdose, homelessness and suicide, as well as violations of the law, particularly nonviolent drugoffenses. For these reasons, veterans are increasingly ...

North Adams forum addresses drug addiction
Berkshire Eagle
"I think the reason is how quickly these drug problems have gotten [out of] control in the community," said Daunis, whose own son battles with an addiction. At the end of Friday's two-hour event, Brandy Whipple said she felt uplifted. "I didn't realize ...

NH doctors have new tool to fight prescription drug abuse
Nashua Telegraph
img. Enlarge. CONCORD – Experts in medicine and opiate addiction will gather next week to talk about progress being made to address prescription drug abuse and to unveil a new tool for New Hampshire doctors who prescribe potentially dangerous drugs.

White Bear mother recounts drug-use hell
San Francisco Chronicle
"If you remove the shame and stigma of addiction, people start to see it as a disease," DeGree said. "My whole goal is to be open and honest -- to be really honest -- in case anyone else is going through the same thing. Drug addicts aren't bad people ...

Panel seeks to cut costs of drug abuse in Minnesota
Duluth News Tribune
Jesson's department revoked the license of the Lake Superior Treatment Center, Northeastern Minnesota's only methadone clinic for the treatment of drug addiction, on Sept. 21. The clinic appealed and remains open, with a hearing set for Dec. 6.

Seabrook House Announces The Opening Of Two New Jersey Treatment Facilities
Sacramento Bee
"Seabrook House has earned its reputation for excellence in the treatment of adults suffering fromalcoholism and drug addiction," said President Ed Diehl. "We already offer detox services along with inpatient and extended care programs, which includes ...

Delray Beach Treatment Center Aids Sandy Victims
Sacramento Bee
The Recovery Advocates of America, based in Hamilton, N.J. is an organization that endeavors to fight drug addiction through free community interventions, family support, educational workshops and sober fellowship. Paul Tessein, founder and President ...

'Pre-drinking' leads to heavier booze, drug intake for college kids
NBCNews.com (blog)
Pre-drinking is a bigger problem in the U.S. because the legal drinking age is higher than in Switzerland, said Dr. Christopher Welsh, an addiction psychiatrist at University of Maryland who was not involved with the study. "Young adults are drinking a ...

Hope for dope: Alcoholics face a greater risk than marijuana users, doctors insist
Times of India
Doctors dealing with deaddiction say cases of marijuana addiction are rare, if not nonexistent , but feel its use might become a "gateway" for harder drugs like smack, heroin and cocaine, which really create the drugs problem among people. Dr R C ...

Addiction counselors tolerate moderate substance abuse in patients
News-Medical.net
The survey of 913 members of the National Association of Alcoholism and Drug AddictionCounselors from the USA showed that approximately 50% of respondents believe it would be acceptable if their alcohol abuse clients wanted to limit their drinking ...

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Drug addiction is a national loss

Drug addiction is a national loss: Police official

Gulf Today
SHARJAH: The Anti-Narcotics Department Director has stressed that “drug addiction is a loss to the community and the abusers themselves.” Major General Abdul Jalil Mahdi Al Asmawi said this during a recent meeting at Dubai's Al Amal Hospital for Mental ...

Gulf Today

TV, radio program to combat addiction
Lancaster Eagle Gazette
LANCASTER — A local pastor said he hopes a new television and radio program he created — “Road to Recovery” — will be beneficial in informing viewers of where they can find help if they or a loved one are struggling with drug addiction. “Road to ...

Ludlow foundation battles drug abuse
WWLP.com
Loading... Alert icon. Sign in or sign up now! Alert icon. Loading... There is no Interactive Transcript. Published on Nov 10, 2012 by wwlp. A western Massachusetts organization held a fundraiser tonight to help those who battle the disease of drug ...

White Bear mother and meth addict recounts drug-use hell
Albert Lea Tribune
But DeGree, who is attending Metropolitan State University to become a licensed drug and alcohol counselor, said talking about addiction “in an honest way … helps to break the stigma of it.” “If you remove the shame and stigma of addiction, people ...

Government to conduct nationwide survey on drug abuse
Economic Times
Recently, the Centre had also sought an Impact Assessment Report from Punjab on the de-addiction program run there under its project for prevention of alcoholism and drug abuse. The social justice ministry has also planned to rope in several ...

Overtaken by drugs panel
Lariat Saddleback College
Eighteen personal addiction stories of young people in Orange County were shared throughout the screening. The stories ranged from a young girl so brain damaged that she can no longer dance, run or speak at a normal pace due to one ecstasy at a high ...

cops can't beat the curse
The Australian
Mr Kerlikowske said the consumption of cocaine had fallen 40 per cent since 2007 as US governments and law enforcement had switched their focus from a prohibition and incarceration model to considering the disease of drug addiction as a public health ...

Drugs and Alcohol in Sports: The Silent Epidemic
Midland Daily News
The 2012 Swinburne University Sport and Recreation Conference to be held in Melbourne on the 13th of November, will see, Australian psychologists, academics and healthcare professionals address how the scientific causes for drug and alcohol addiction ...

Local drug take-back event held in Waterloo
kwwl.com
The pharmacy collected both prescription and controlled drugs in a "no questions asked" manner in an attempt to help reduce prescription drug addiction and overdose accidents. The event was held from 9:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m.. In the two years since ...

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12-Step Programs Help Teens Battle Addiction

12-Step Programs Help Teens Battle Addiction

PsychCentral.com
New research finds that 12-step programs such as Alcoholics Anonymous, known as a successful intervention for adult alcoholics, can also be an effective treatment strategy for young adults. Specialists from the Center ... Study findings are published...

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Addiction-Treating Drug To Be Tested In Town
KGNS
Evaluator for Drug Court Jesse Gerardo Hernandez, says,"we have a high rate of alcoholism and people using cocaine and they use them together. This is a perfect opportunity to work with a population that has never really been studied." The drug court ...

Drug and Burglary Ring Suspect Sentenced
WYTV
A young man from New Middletown is on his way to prison, and is just the latest in an alarming number of people whose lives have been taken over by drug addiction and then turn to crime to feed that habit. Prosecutors say John Woods is the textbook ...

Are Parents Powerless when Teens Abuse Rx Drugs?
Philadelphia Inquirer (blog)
During October and November, the Healthy Kids blog will look at this issue through the stories of former teen prescription-drug users now in recovery, their parents and localaddiction-recovery experts working to treat addicted teens and help parents ...

Philadelphia Inquirer (blog)

Addiction: Punishment is not the cure
Riverhead LOCAL (blog)
We've read in recent times about similar crimes in other communities, the most sensational and senseless being of a pharmacy robbery in Medford, and the three murders committed during this act — all for the need of a drugs, in that case, opiates. I ...

Prescription Addiction: A growing epidemic
WSBT-TV
But he couldn't stay away from the drugs. Tony dropped out and moved back to South Bend where his parents forced him to get his own apartment and a job. “I was actually stealing money out of the register at Wal-Mart to help pay for my addiction and I ...

Drug Court sees first graduate
Freeport Journal-Standard
Their offense does not have to be specifically for drugs, but drug addiction has to be a factor in their crime, Fuller said. For example, someone arrested for forgery or theft could take part if their crimes were motivated by a desire to feed their ...

Is Managed Care Pushing America's Deadly Opiate Addiction?
Huffington Post (blog)
America's new addiction, which I wrote about in June in The Huffington Post, is the epidemic of opiate painkillers, which -- aptly named -- in recent years resulted in nearly 16,000 overdose deaths annually. This is not the stereotyped drug problem ...

Two journeys back from heroin addiction
St. Louis Beacon
When their sources of prescription drugs run dry, experts say some people feed the addiction by turning to heroin because it's relatively cheap and plentiful. Officials say heroin has claimed approximately 500 lives in the St. Louis region in the past ...

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Experts: Combat Drug Use With Honesty

Experts: Combat Drug Use With Honesty
San Clemente Times (blog)
Several local drug and alcohol addiction experts, and one San Clemente student, put a real face of substance abuse in San Clemente, especially among teenagers, Monday at San Clemente High School. The event followed a weekend in which eight students ...

Drugs Dot Com
CU Columbia Spectator
Undercover agents had bought almost $29,000 worth of prescription pills and cocaine over the preceding eleven months, all in an attempt to battle what NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly has called “an epidemic of prescription drug addiction and abuse in New ...

Catalyst Pharma: Cocaine-Addiction Drug Candidate Didn't Meet Primary Endpoint
Wall Street Journal
By Melodie Warner. Catalyst Pharmaceutical Partners Inc. (CPRX) said its potential cocaineaddiction treatment, CPP-109, didn't meet the primary endpoint of a Phase II(b) study. Shares dropped 62% to 55 cents premarket as the pharmaceutical company ...

Tampa Bay High Schools Undergo 3-week Takeover To Combat Prescription ...
Sacramento Bee
8, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Teen prescription drug abuse and addiction has become a national epidemic, and Tampa Bay students are in as much danger as other teens across the country. Two Tampa Bay schools, Shorecrest Preparatory School and ...

Trapped by an internet 'addiction,' obsessed surfers seek rehab help
NBCNews.com (blog)
“And we've now had plenty of research to show that drug and alcohol addiction is real and exists.” Rae and Cash's treatment is a major commitment, consisting of residential therapy for a minimum of 45 days in a seven-bed facility outside of Seattle, Wash.

Filmmaker Eugene Jarecki examines war on drugs with 'House I Live In'
Examiner.com
A: There is extraordinary destruction that is unleashed on poor people across this country because it is ultimately driven by a grave misunderstanding about drug addiction. We treat the nonviolent in this country very often more severely than the ...

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Addiction counseling center dedicated in Adams County
The People's Defender
WEST UNION - A new resource to help residents with drug and alcohol addiction is here, with the expansion of Family Recovery Services (FRS) into Adams County. FRS is located at 116 W. Mulberry Street in the former Health Department/old jail building,...

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Free addiction lecture held at HCTC campus
WKYT
(WYMT) - Drug addiction was the topic at the first of a series of free training lectures at Hazard Community and Technical College. Officials said it was beneficial for those in the criminal justice, healthcare or social services fields. Those who ...

Letter: Mental illness and addiction
Montreal Gazette
This case highlights the continuing stigma against mental illnesses, especially addiction. Why do the soldier's parents have to argue that he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder while the military insists that his problems come from alcohol ...

drug addiction - YouTube
drug addiction. ... 10th talk-Psychotherapy Treatment of Alcohol and DrugAddiction and ...
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Rob after addiction

Rob after addiction
Rochester City Newspaper
Though the numbers vary, government data shows that between 17 million and 30 million Americans are alcoholics and more than 20 million regularly use illegal drugs. While addiction can take many forms — alcohol, drugs, tobacco, food, gambling — it is ...

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Clearlake drug counselor provides hope to others after own addiction battle
Lake County Record-Bee
CLEARLAKE -- Drug and alcohol counselor Pearlina Drummond traveled an arduous road in order to put herself in position to celebrate six years clean and sober last Sunday. The 30-year-old from Clearlake is now a proud mother working in the field she ...

Drug suppliers raking it in
Cyprus Mail
The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) has done a pilot study done with the European law enforcement agency, Europol, on wholesale drug prices in Europe. The drugs squad YKAN started gathering wholesale price data ...

Will Trial Vaccine Slay Meth Dragon?
TheFix.com
(Most experts agree that a vaccine for alcoholism is unfeasible, because ethanol molecules are simply too small to spark an antibody response or even to attach a platform or adjutant to.) Block a drug's access to the brain and you ... In addition, the...

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Fewer addicts dying - but Brighton and Hove is still UK's drugs death capital
The Argus
Figures released yesterday ranked the city worst in the country for drug-related fatalities per head of population. But there was good news in the fight against addiction as deaths fell overall for the third year in a row. City leaders said the numbers ...

Talking through addiction
TheWeek.com.om
Although Oman is slowly but surely coming to terms with the extent of its drug abuse problem, Ibtisam al Busaidi feels that new methods need to be used to keep the discourse alive on the topic. “One of the most important ways of dealing with the drug ...

Teen prescription drug abuse: One Mom's Struggle
Philadelphia Inquirer (blog)
McIntyre went on to found the group One Life One Chance to educate teens and parents about prescription drug abuse and addiction. Her son, a running back at Souderton High School whose talent earned him a college football scholarship, got hooked while ...

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On the Downward Spiral: The Kindling Effect of Addiction
Hive Health Media (blog)
The kindling effect of addiction is not only responsible for repeated relapse events in addicts andalcoholics; it also makes each withdrawal more severe and potentially dangerous than the last. Unfortunately, there is still a significant amount of ...

Drugs, Addiction: What Does Your Vote Mean? | The Fix
Faced with a largely resounding silence on drug and addiction matters from both candidates during the presidential campaign, The Fix recently published its ...
www.thefix.com/.../drugs-addiction-presidential-election9086...

Chris Rene on Past Drug Addiction, The X FACTOR Performance ...
Thisis50 & Young Jack Thriller recently spoke with Chris Rene for an exclusive interview. He sings an acapella, talks past drug addiction and why he stopped,...
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Panel discussion focuses on drug addiction | CapeCodOnline.com
BOURNE – Drug addiction experts and parents will have a panel discussion at 7 p.m. Thursday in the multi-purpose room of the Upper Cape Cod Regional ...
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3 Addiction Fighting Pharmas To Consider Now
Seeking Alpha
Effective treatment programs for addiction must help the individual stop using drugs, maintain adrug-free lifestyle, and achieve productive functioning in the family, at work, and in society. Medications are an important element of treatment for many ...

Octomom Nadya Suleman skips treatment center for drug addiction to star in ...
Daily Mail
Suleman checked into a treatment centre for anti-anxiety drug Xanax addiction, stress and exhaustion last month but has been spotted filming a shoot with Cledus T. Judd, a country music artist known for his parodies of popular songs. Skiving: Nadya ...

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