My best friend is an addict


My best friend is an addict
Toronto Sun
"When you love someone who suffers from the disease of addiction you await the phone call," he wrote in the UK's Guardian newspaper. "There will be a phone call. "The sincere hope is that the call will be from the addict themselves, telling you they've ...
Jani Lane Fought Alcoholism and Lost, Says His Sister
Ultimate Classic Rock
She was quick to point out the Lane was “a heavy drinker” but not a drug addict, saying, “There were no drugs. That was one thing he could not tolerate, he couldn't stand them. He did not do drugs.” In a bit of a shocking twist, Oswald-Ley said that ...
Teens take road to addiction early in life
Chattanooga Times Free Press
It's the exact message emanating from Columbia University in New York City, where researchers have determined that the road to teen addiction often begins when children are still young enough to climb into their parents' laps. ...
Who falls prey to addiction?
Deccan Chronicle
By Richard A Friedman MD Shortly after the singer Amy Winehouse, 27, was found dead in her London home, the airwaves were ringing with her popular hit Rehab, a song about her refusal to be treated for drug addiction. The official cause of Amy ...
Addict-turned-robber gets 3 years
Daily Gleaner
The report also showed Sivret had been secretly taking methadone for his addiction and that he had written a letter of apology to the store clerk he had robbed. Derrah said Sivret has been clean for three months and had missed an operation for his ...
Former TABC agent sentenced to at least 20 years for sexual assault
Austin American-Statesman
AP A Bastrop County jury on Friday sentenced a former Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission officer, who earlier in the week admitted to sexually assaulting a 16-year-old who helped him with a 2009 sting operation, to 20 years in prison for sexual ...
Officials concerned about excessive alcoholic, drugs use
AngolaPress
Andulo - The excessive consumption of alcoholic drinks and other drugs by the youths in central BiĆ© province worries the local authorities. The concern was expressed Saturday in Andulo by first secretary of the ruling MPLA party in central province, ...
Former tennis star Dennis Ralston tackles painkiller addiction, doesn't let ...
Austin 360
Dennis Ralston, a top tennis player in the 1960s and coach to Chris Evert, lost his leg to infection last year. 1965 ASSOCIATED PRESS Dennis Ralston gets ready to return a ball during the first round at the National Tennis Championships in 1965. ...
New world of addiction
Winnipeg Free Press
Nor does the province count the hundreds of Winnipeggers who are either in treatment or desperately seeking treatment for prescription-drug addiction. Laura Goossen, the Addictions Foundation of Manitoba's director for the Winnipeg region, ..
Tatum O'Neal Vows to Help Jailed Brother With Heroin Addiction
The Inquisitr
Earlier this year, Tatum O'Neal, an actress best known for her work as a child movie star in the 70s, detailed her past struggles with heroin and crack in her autobiography Found: A Daughter's Journey Home. Now that she is clean, she is hoping that ...
Let's Not Link Everything to Addiction
The Atlantic Wire
This week, people who enjoy tanning salons learned that their hobby was an addictionjust like drugs or booze. Researchers behind the study, The New York Times relayed, noticed "that several parts of the brain that play a role in addiction were ...
British patients are flocking to take part in 'sex addiction' recovery programmes
The Independent
"There's a difference between having compulsive patterns of behaviour, and being a true addict," he says. "I think some people use 'sex addiction' as a way to cover up moral compromises." Crucially, the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic ...
Crackdown on nation's addiction to pain, depression and anxiety medication
Courier Mail
by Renee Viellaris OVERKILL: Australians are addicted to prescription medications. Source: AP PATIENTS could be refused pain and anxiety medication, and others face being weaned off the drugs under a Federal Government crackdown. ...
Multiplex for mental illness, addiction
The Chronicle Journal
Northwestern Ontario is facing a rapidly growing mental illness and addiction crisis. Thunder Bay Regional hospital treats thousands of visits annually in this regard, and our city's detox bed numbers are inadequate. Thunder Bay has been newly-ranked ...
Four Loko Still Deemed Hyper-Intoxicating Despite FDA Intervention
U.S. Politics Today
August 13, 2011 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Last November, Phusion Projects, manufacturer of the popular Four Loko brand of alcoholic energy drinks, announced its intent to remove the caffeine, guarana, and taurine from its products in light of the Food and ...
Took dying dad's pills, addiction led to fraud
Sarnia Observer
Young used some of his dying father's painkillers and the dabbling led to an addiction. The fraud was revealed when Young's mother told drug store employees her husband had died. He "conned" the pharmacy workers into renewing the deceased man's ...
Major Dublin rally of young recovering alcoholics
Irish Times
“We want to make sure that people know that you are never too young if you need help withalcoholism, you are never too young to go sober,” said Jay. “In a young persons convention you won't be disrespected – every once in a while [in a regular AA ...
Norwich remembrance of lives lost to addiction
Network Norwich
A service of remembrance for all those who have died through drug or alcohol related problems is to be held at Norwich Anglican Cathedral on September 15. Whilst living with or supporting someone with a drug or alcohol problem can be difficult, ...
Students offered drugs outside City Gate
Times of Malta
A drug addict who tried to sell cannabis to two 14-year-old Austrian students and their group leader was yesterday jailed for a year. Stephen Nappa, 30, of Valletta was caught because the students reported him to the police and gave a description of .
A Son's Sobering Story
KELOLAND TV
Mary Hitzmann, executive director of Face It Together Sioux Falls, says alcoholism is a disease that isn't mentioned in public often; that's because of the label that's attached to it: alcoholic. "If there are individuals who have problems with drugs ...
Promising pupil who went off rails
Lancashire Evening Post
Sometimes I think is there that little weakness, who knows what makes an addict an addict? “I do know, if not for drugs, she would have had a really good, successful life. “From being able to speak, she was the life and soul of the party, ...
Speakers share stories
Princeton Daily Clarion
"If that's what we think most people would say is the kind of person who develops alcoholism or anaddiction, who in this room out of any of us would want to admit we have a problem with a drug or a drink if this is what we think most people would say? ...
State yanks drug rehab center's operating certificate
Times Herald-Record
The Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services will attempt to permanently close the Riverside Support Center on Route 209 later this month and has prohibited the facility from providing any drug-related counseling or treatment in the interim. ...
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I have a drug addiction. I can't believe it. The sad part is that I know this board well. I used it when I had an ex boyfriend who was an alcoholic.
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