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NewcastleGateshead addiction centre opens
ChronicleLive
by Helen Rae, Evening Chronicle A unique centre has opened in Tyneside to provide support for those who are overcoming drug and alcohol addiction. Health Reporter HELEN RAE explains. A NEW centre has opened in Tyneside to help people who are recovering ...
Ramadan Reflection Day 22: Overcoming Our Addictions
Huffington Post (blog)
I read a book a few years back called "Pillhead: The Secret Life of a Painkiller Addict." For anyone in this line of work, I would recommend reading it. For people who are interested in the subject matter, its an easy read. It's written by a young man ...
Heroin addict Wayne Kirkbride jailed for series of bag snatches in Southampton
Daily Echo
Benedict Kellaher, defending, said Kirkbride had been given a community sentence incorporating drug rehabilitation two and a half years ago. “The root cause of his offending is his heroin addiction.” Kirkbride, of Hoe Street, Waterlooville, ...
Drug addiction surges in Dominican Republic
GlobalPost
Now, you can get it pretty much everywhere,” said Merejildo Acosta, 45, who turned from an occasional pot smoker to a full-blown cocaine addict a few years ago. “The puntos are everywhere, but they just look like other businesses. ...
Drug Addiction at Center of Debate Over Young Man's Future
Patch.com
Gulfport resident John Balogh Sr. says his son's addiction has gone too far. "We were in denial of the extent of his addiction. We had no idea it was this severe," Balogh Sr. said. John Balogh Jr., 21, known as Jack, is in Pinellas County Jail on 15 ...
Experts reclassify addiction as a 'brain disease'
Deseret News
By Lois M. Collins, Deseret News A national group of addiction experts has redefined addiction as a "chronic brain disease," emphasizing that it's not just a result of bad choices or behaviors. The American Society of Addiction Medicine, which released ...
Addicted in Hollywood: Oxycontin One of Most Abused Drugs, For Those Who Can ...
Fox News
Courtney Love suffered an overdose of the medication in 2003, the same year radio personality Rush Limbaugh sought professional help for his Oxy addiction. And the drug was one of the medications prescribed to Heath Ledger prior to his fatal overdose....
Local churches offer faith-based addiction rehab
Muskogee Daily Phoenix
Her description of District Attorney Larry Moore and Special District Judge Robin Adair isn't what you might expect from the typical drug addict. “I see them as angels now,” Masterson said. “They allowed me to enter into drug court. If not for them, ...
Lawyer Gets Fired For Sloppy Work, Blames His Video Game Addiction
Cinema Blend
Nevertheless, the article does state that whatever games he played they caused him to become addicted enough to help him cope with the overload of stress from home and work yet at the same time that addiction cost him his job. Was the addiction worth...
Alcoholic lashed out at police
Eastbourne Today
AN ALCOHOLIC who lashed out at police and tried to evade arrest has escaped an immediate custodial sentence. Cheryl Farley got on the wrong side of the law on July 14 when she tried to enter Super Pizza in town. When she was told by a staff member that ...
Finally, The Cure For Female Masturbation
Jezebel
Brody tells one member's story thus: Dirty Girls member Amy Christine Proctor, a self-describedaddict and a flight attendant from Colorado, started masturbating while she was visiting chat rooms on AOL. Unmarried and a virgin at 30, ...
Police: Pill Addiction Fueled Robbery Spree
Valley Independent Sentinel
by Tony Spinelli | Aug 21, 2011 10:35 pm A painkiller addiction fueled a crime spree in which a Stratford man robbed five businesses, including a Shelton gas station and pawn shop, court documents state. Patrick Re, 21, faces a bevy of criminal charges ...
LETTERS: Addiction isn't a disease, it's behavior; and more
Colorado Springs Gazette
As an African American parent of two extremely promising children, I know there has been a movement afoot to embrace school choice in general and promote school vouchers in particular as the great civil rights remedies of our time. ...
Winnipeg Free Press - PRINT EDITION
Winnipeg Free Press
... is a key piece in recovering from addiction. Many struggling with addictions are also lonely or not socially engaged, which makes things especially difficult, Mark said. "If you're an alcoholic or gambling addict or (have) addictions of any kind, ...
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