How Steven Tyler Survived Drug Addiction [VIDEO]
Aerosmith front man Steven Tyler has lived the quintessential hard-rockin' life. He claims to have smoked, snorted or shot up more than $20 million worth of drugs over the decades, and he's been through eight rehabilitation facilities. Watch as he opens up to Oprah about his long struggle to overcome addiction. Find out why he's surprised he's still alive and which decisions he's ashamed of.
Steven Tyler Opens Up to Oprah Winfrey About Drug Addiction
Noisecreep
These days, he admits his shame in being a drug addict, but is proud of his sobriety. He even admitted to having two AA sponsors: one in Los Angeles and one in Boston. Even with this bi-coastal support, Tyler says all drugs are not bad, ...
Bangalore woman kills alcoholic hubby with mother's aid
Daily News & Analysis
Rajappa was an alcoholic and had frequent arguments with Nandini andSharadamma. On Sunday night, Rajappa returned home drunk. An altercation with Nandini and Sharadamma ensued. The duo hit him with a log and killed him. They disposed of the body near a ...
Center offers new recovery program
Ironton Tribune
“I was a drug addict for close to 20 to 25 years,” said Vernier. “I've done it all, but my drug of choice was crack for the last eight years of my addiction.” A veteran of treatment, Vernier was 36 years old when he came out of treatment for the fifth ...
Ironton Tribune
Drug addict given ASBO
Uxbridge Gazette
A DRUG addict who used a fake story about a deceased relative in order to con people has been given an ASBO banning him from going to any house without notice. Antonio Lewis, of Station Road, Hayes, ran his scam in Hillingdon, Ealing and Hammersmith. ...
Drug-addicted evacuees suffered crippling withdrawal effects in Ottawa
Vancouver Sun
By Elizabeth Payne, Postmedia News January 2, 2012 When 270 tired evacuees from remote Kingfisher Lake landed in Ottawa last summer to escape forest fires, the prescription drug addiction epidemic that has a grip on their community came with them. ...
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS INSTALLED TO LEAD THE AMERICAN BOARD OF ADDICTIONMEDICINE
openPR (press release)
“We hope to change this by expanding the cadre of board certified addiction medicine physicians across medical specialties.” Studies show that fewer than one in five physicians consider themselves adequately prepared to diagnose alcoholism or other ...
Vietnam and bad habits
UC Berkeley (blog)
Those who had already sacrificed by doing combat service seemed poised for a life of drug addictionand despair. Spiegel introduces us to Jerome Jaffe (remarkably still alive), the psychiatrist and drugaddiction expert that President Nixon appointed ...
Las Vegas priest claims gambling addiction prompted thefts
Catholic Culture
Father Kevin McAuliffe entered a guilty plea on mail-fraud charges, thus avoiding prosecution for more serious theft charges. His attorney has introduced expert witnesses to testify that the priest is a pathological gambler. Addiction to gambling is a ...
No easy answer to drug addiction problems
7Online.com
MINEOLA (WABC) -- At a Long Island addiction hotline, the phone calls never stop. People addicted to opiates are begging for help. Problem is there's almost no help for them. Shrinking government budgets are coming down hard on addiction treatment at a ...
7Online.com
Carnie Wilson Blames Stress, Food Addiction for Weight Gain
Celebrity Health & Fitness
“I always think I am one of the the millions and millions of people that struggles with anaddiction to food,” she said. “I don't know how to relax, that's my problem. I can't smoke a joint, I can't have a glass of wine, because I want 10 joints and 10 ...
Celebrity Health & Fitness
Enabling can cost loved ones their lives
Auburn Citizen
Enabling and addiction go hand-in-hand. Usually right up the aisle in one of two ceremonies: marriage or a funeral. Enabling goes all wrong when it helps your addict/alcoholic stay stuck using by rescuing him or her from the awful consequences using ...
Resolution to Recovery: personal stories of addiction
Wink News
Southwest Florida Addiction Services has been rebuilding lives and families since 1980. It's the oldest and largest provider in southwest Florida, 63000 people have turned to it for help for battling addiction. 40 years of pain and misery. ...
Wink News
Drug deaths probed
London Free Press
Police are warning the public that the addiction to prescription drugs in the Sarnia community has increased dramatically and this addiction fuels crime. There's been an increase in both thefts and break and enters, say police, who blame the rise on ...
More older adults getting eating disorders
Chicago Sun-Times
When Smela turned 40, she said, she decided to receive treatment for her alcoholism. She's now nearly a decade sober. But her eating disorder remained untreated, even though she knew she had a problem. “I presumed alcoholism was more acceptable to ...
Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Alkies
TheFix.com
You'll hear older parents bemoan the state of their adult children's addiction, and see the way alcoholism and addiction tear families apart. So when the Internet lights up with pithy tales of bad mothering, I have to cringe a little. ...
TheFix.com
Microsoft wants staff to cut down on drinking
Inquirer
"Even in the absence of an express legal requirement, Microsoft expects event organisers and participants to exercise common sense and good judgment when alcoholic beverages are served at social events," says an email that follows accounts of staffers ...
O'Malley: Baltimore believed, and change has come
Baltimore Sun
So began our very public campaign to awaken Baltimore's truer sense of self — to tap the fire inside — and to call upon the power of that spirit to confront the violence of drugs and drug addiction that was killing 300 to 350 of our young men every ...
Kenya: Agribusiness Project Targets Youths With Sh50 Million for Ventures
AllAfrica.com
A Sh50 million agribusiness programme has been launched to benefit youths being rehabilitated from alcoholism and crime in Murang'a County. The youths will now be mobilised into groups and be funded to engage in horticulture, rabbit and bee keeping, ...
The best Strategy to Cease Alcoholism: Head to Rehab » Bull Medeth
By rpa
The best Strategy to Cease Alcoholism: Head to Rehab. January 3, 2012 by rpa Leave a reply ». Consuming alcohol is ... Additionally, these people that cannot recover from alcohol addiction tend to have broken marriages, unemployment statuses and lowered self-esteem. Stopping alcohol addiction ought to be the priority for those ... from alcohol addiction may well join alcoholics anonymous.Alcoholic anonymous is actually a group geared in the direction of stopping alcohol abuse. ...
Bull Medeth
Is alcoholism a self-inflicted illness? « Ask a Philosopher
By Admin
Alcoholism, that is the desire to drink alcohol uncontrollably in an unwarranted, unjustified and unchecked way is to me not an illness perse but rather an addiction which has trapped the addictsuch as how a slave owner would mentally and ... An alcoholic is someone, who for possibly many different reasons (such as personal negative emotional and/or mental experiences), has come to understand alcohol as a means of reliance and what psychology would term a 'void filler'. ...
Ask a Philosopher
CASA Family Day Blog » Blog Archive » Addiction is a disease ...
By casafamilyday
This monthly blog is intended to serve as an interactive forum to spark a much needed dialogue about our nation's greatest scourge – substance abuse and addiction.
CASA Family Day Blog
JX Safety » Blog Archive » Indicators that Show of Drug Addiction
By admin
Also, so as for them to hide their addiction, they might even go as far as constantly speaking about drugs and how stupid drug addicts are for falling for them, which in actual fact, is just their way of hiding their addiction. Other symptoms could ...
JX Safety
Veterans: A Target for Prescription Medication Theft | Drug Addiction ...
By Drug Addiction
It's no surprise to doctors, addiction specialists and researchers that abuse of prescription drugs is climbing. Ohio, for example, has experienced a 10 percent jump in people looking for help for addictions to opiate-based drugs since 2010, ...
Drug Addiction Treatment
Gambling addiction | BMJ
This man struggled with a gambling addiction for some years before ... As a child I spent a lot of time at a working man's club where my alcoholic father took my ...
www.bmj.com/content/343/bmj.d7789
Crack addict woman charged with beating her grandmother to death ...
Crack addict woman charged with beating her grandmother to death for her TV ... to death 86-year-old Mary Muha - blaming the murder on her addiction to crack ...
www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Crack-addict-woman-charged-beating...
Top Substance Abuse Research Findings of 2011 - Alcoholism ...
Free Alcoholism Newsletter! ... the average life of an addiction; more negative effects of binge drinking; and another way that alcohol consumption affects women ...
alcoholism.about.com/.../top-substance-abuse-research-finding...
New Powerful Painkiller Medications Cause Concern for Addiction ...
Addiction experts in the US are concerned about the development of a new painkiller which could be available by prescription as early as 2012. At present ...
www.addictioninfo.org/.../new-powerful-painkiller-medication...
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