"Unwasted: My Lush Sobriety" by Sacha Z. Scoblic

The Readers' Writers: Author Sacha Z. Scoblic Saugerties Post Star Like many people, Sacha is an alcoholic. Where most stories end with the commitment to sobriety, Sacha's begins. "Unwasted: My Lush Sobriety," is a journey of passion and embracing life told with Sacha's razor wit and insight. Sacha's work extends from ...

Take a drug test or lose benefits? Proposal raises fears New Zealand Herald Photo / Supplied Addiction treatment services are raising the alarm about a proposal to penalise welfare beneficiaries who refuse to undergo drug tests or addiction treatment. The proposal, by the Government's Welfare Working Group led by economist ...

Gambling addiction fund My Fox Boston Lawmakers are acknowledging the toll gambling can take on people's lives by creating programs to help fight addiction. The Boston Globe is reporting that the expanded gambling bill will call for what would be one of the nation's most aggressive ...

Kim Manlove: People in recovery can rise above the negativity Indianapolis Star Those of us who have overcome substance abuse addiction have learned that recovery is a multi-faceted existence. It contains the common elements of a personal journey or odyssey, the development of meaning, discovering a sense of self, learning how to ...

For Many, a Life-Saving Drug Out of Reach New York Times (blog) A recovering heroin addict, he relapsed in 2004 after 11 years off drugs. Harm Reduction CoalitionMark Kinzly gave a lecture about HIV prevention at Yale University in 2007. That year, he was working on an HIV-related project at Yale University and had...

Freedom House celebrates recovery from addiction The Daily Tar Heel And on Thursday night — after what he said was his tenth year of sobriety — he spoke aboutaddiction at the third annual Celebrate Recovery event in Chapel Hill. At this year's event, around 60 attendees listened to inspirational speeches, ...

Documentary reveals triumphs over addiction Tampabay.com But reaching that level of contentment meant enduring 10 years of challenges, all because of Lindsey's drug addiction and Leslie's reluctance to confront that harsh reality. "Like so many parents, I lived through this denial phase about what was ...

Actor Todd Bridges, Spokesperson for ICDC College's Alcohol and Drug ... San Francisco Chronicle (press release) Bridges will be honored with the "Moving Lives Forward" award for his commitment in advancing mental health awareness and treatment since he has openly shared his own struggles with addiction and suffering from a bipolar disorder. ...

Florida House Experience Launches New Quality Affordable Addiction Treatment ... Insurance News Net (press release) The Florida House Experience paves the way by launching a new quality addiction treatment program in South Florida at an affordable cost. As awareness of several different addictions has risen in recent years, unfortunately so has the cost. ...

Our View: The message to youth on substance abuse must be clear SouthCoastToday.com America's relationship with substance addiction is beset by a litany of contradictions, and our youth suffer as a result. Children forfeit their futures because they yield to the allure of what they perceive as either a tool of rebellion or an escape ...

National Recovery Month observed by SRU to raise addiction awareness SRU The Online Rocket But the month is also a sign of hope for those struggling with alcohol and drug addiction. September is National Recovery Month (NRM). Recovery Month celebrates those who are in recovery for substance abuse and the contributions of their treatment and ...

Area to get new drug recovery high school SouthCoastToday.com Facing addiction levels that have reached epidemic proportions, the state announced Wednesday it will grant $2.5 million to open a "recovery high school" in Brockton to serve students in Southeastern Massachusetts, including those from SouthCoast and ...

Addiction Misconceptions Persist | The Canyon Rehab Blog By The Canyon We created this blog for YOU – to help you and your loved ones learn more about addiction and recovery from the experts who know best. ... Select Category, Addiction Recovery, Alcohol Rehab,Alcoholism, Celebrity Addiction, Cocaine Addiction, Codependency, Crystal MethampetamineAddiction, Depression, Detox, Drug Addiction, Drug Addiction Treatment, Drug and Alcohol Intervention, Drug Rehab, Dual Diagnosis, Friends ... 9051 view(s); Top 10 Signs You're a MethAddict ... The Canyon Rehab Blog Gambling addict's suicide a 'wake-up call': husband CBC.ca Yoo Choi had a secret gambling addiction that led to her suicide, according to her husband Mark Dawson. Family photo After eventually racking up $150000 in debt, playing much of the time at Vancouver's Edgewater Casino, Choi registered herself in the ... Family Dinners Linked to Less Risky Behavior in Teens ABC News By ENJOLI FRANCIS In a new study by Columbia University's National Center onAddiction and Substance Abuse, researchers say they have examined the link between family dinners and teens who are less likely to smoke, drink or use drugs. ... Suffolk County detective warned cops about David Laffer before addict killed 4 ... New York Daily News BY Larry Mcshane David Laffer is escorted out of a police station in Patchogue, NY, earlier this month. A Suffolk County police detective urged co-workers to strip pill-popping pharmacy killer David Laffer of his guns five months before he gunned down ... Facebook porn addict Callum Dower avoids ban from social networks Metro Callum Dower, who used Facebook to groom teenage boys, has been allowed to continue using the social networking site, a court has heard. Judge Graham Hume-Jones ruled that banning Dower from the site would be 'particularly excessive', despite the fact ... Scientists: Food Addiction Much Like Drug Addiction News One After years of believing overeating is simply a matter of will, or rather lack their of, scientists are now discovering that food addiction, much like addiction to illicit drugs, is caused by a change in brain chemistry. Experts at Yale University are ... How addiction feels, the honest truth Scientific American (blog) Some days I feel like an alcoholic — unable to think of anything else but the craving. Sleep and I have a tumultuous relationship. I'm constantly exhausted and wanting more, more, and will never turn down a nap. On the other side of the coin, ... Melanie Griffith's daughters confronted her about addiction San Francisco Chronicle (blog) ... but if you're not an alcoholic or drug addict, and you find out that your wife is a bad one, it's hard to deal with… I wish he would go to a meeting with me or to Al-Anon, but it's very foreign to him. Addiction runs in my family but not in his. ... Artist Sketches to Cope with Addiction Patch.com A significant challenge in the process of recovery addiction doesn't even lay with the addict, but with family and friends. “We that are on the sidelines, we kind of enable them, because we think we can fix it.” Fisher, however, came to realize she her ... Beautiful food for thought — and action Ottawa Citizen The question asked of the hard-core drug addict named Stephanie in the ByWard Market one day was, “So what can I do to help?” It was asked by photographer Tony Fouhse, and Stephanie's truthful answer was, “Can you help me get in a rehab? ... Public health journal publishes cannabis use guidelines AFP Fischer is a scientist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research/Public Health Agency of Canada chair in applied public health at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. The study is to be published in ...

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