What Addiction Actually Is
Chabad.org
The only way an addict can ever have a real choice to stop self-medicating the symptoms is if he or she can understand and treat the real problem that gives rise to the symptoms to begin with. This is the story of an alcoholic whose story indirectly ...
Chabad.org
The only way an addict can ever have a real choice to stop self-medicating the symptoms is if he or she can understand and treat the real problem that gives rise to the symptoms to begin with. This is the story of an alcoholic whose story indirectly ...
Heroin addict gets 5 years in prison for Stevens Point robberies
Wausau Daily Herald
Nicholas L. Weisenberger said Monday he was disappointed he let his heroin addiction drive him to the crimes, but that his addiction was not an excuse. At his sentencing hearing, he apologized to the clerks and businesses he robbed, and asked for a ...
Vaccine to beat heroin addiction 'is just five years away'
Daily Mail
Ewan MacGregor portrayed a heroin addict in the 1996 film Trainspotting. He was shown suffering from withdrawal symptoms. Now scientists believe a vaccine could help drug users He said the breakthrough, made by scientists at the National Institute of ...
Daily Mail
Drug addict jailed for 'cowardly and vicious' attack on 84-year-old woman
stv.tv
A drug addict has been jailed for five and a half years for an "utterly cowardly and vicious attack" on an 84-year-old woman in her home. Jason Forrest forced his way into Catherine Henderson's home and repeatedly punched her before putting his hands ...
stv.tv
Colchester alcoholic's Asbo is 'like house arrest'
Chelmsford Weekly News
By Adam Cornell » AN alcoholic banned from being drunk in public is living under virtual house arrest, according to his solicitor. Christopher Nutt, 41, of Turner Road, Colchester, was spared jail when he appeared at Colchester Magistrates' Court for ...
Growing alcoholism breaking families in Assam
Assam Tribune
SHILLONG, Feb 7 – Assam government's benevolent policy of issuing wine store and bar licences is indirectly breaking families with alcoholism-related domestic violence on the rise in the state. Figures indicate that domestic violence tops the list of ...
Jamar Rogers Beat Drug Addiction Before 'The Voice'
Contactmusic.com
Jamar Voice, the 29-year-old contestant on the second season of The Voice, battled drug addiction and homelessness before making it to the Hollywood auditions of the hit singing show. The Bronx singer said, "I really do believe I'm the comeback kid", ...
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Breakthrough Vaccine Could End Heroin Addiction
Fox News
Officials are Mexico say they have found a cure for heroin addiction: a vaccine. According to the Latin American Herald Tribune, Mexican Health Secretary Salomon Chertorivski said that laboratory experiments of a heroin addiction vaccine have already ...
Demi Moore reportedly in rehab at luxe Cirque Lodge in Sundance
Los Angeles Times
Demi Moore reportedly has been getting help for addiction and an eating disorder at a luxe Utah rehab since shortly after her hospitalization last month. After being hospitalized Jan. 23, she grabbed some things and headed to get help at the Cirque ...
Addiction could be due to inheritance
HealthJockey.com
A recent study showed why teens may be more prone to issues like addiction and suicides. Now, experts at the University of Cambridge have revealed a specific brain abnormality found in the brains of persons affected by addiction and their siblings who ...
HealthJockey.com
Addict gets three months' jail for ransacking Long Gully house
Bendigo Advertiser
“He said he was a heroin addict and used two to three caps a day,” Leading Senior Constable Snell said. He said substantial evidence linked Hill to the burglary. “His fingerprints were found on the bathroom window frame, the point of entry to the house ...
Saving families from drug addiction
AFP
Oregon faced one of the first, and worst, methamphetamine epidemics in the United States. Now it also pioneering solutions to the problem. In addition to landmark legislation to crack down on drug labs, it's innovating with treatment, trying to keeping ...
Inspire Malibu's Drug Addiction Treatment Authority Dr. Akikur Mohammad ...
DigitalJournal.com (press release)
February 6, 2012 – Dr. Akikur Mohammad, Founder of Inspire Malibu, recognized by many as the topaddiction treatment center in Malibu, California and Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern ...
Corbett appointee to oversee addiction programs
Reading Eagle
Drug and alcohol addiction hurts one in four families in Pennsylvania, he said. Tennis, 58, has seen the impact of addition in his criminal justice career. He retired as chief of the legislation unit in the Philadelphia's district attorney's office, ...
Attorney general sees prescription drug abuse, addiction as epidemic in Maine
Bangor Daily News
By Tom Walsh, BDN Staff LUBEC, Maine — Prescription drug abuse and addiction is epidemic, not only in Washington County, but throughout Maine and the country, Maine Attorney General William Schneider said Monday. “Twenty years ago, I was a drug ...
Chooper's Guide is Preferred Vendor for Addiction Treatment Resources
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
(EON: Enhanced Online News)--NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals, and Chooper's Guide, the Internet's most comprehensive substance abuse resource directory, announced today that Chooper's Guide has been selected as a Preferred Vendor ...
Mental health and addiction services merge under new program
Cape Breton Post
SYDNEY — Young people with mental health or addiction issues will now have access to an integrated service under the Cape Breton District Health Authority. Starting today, treatment for mental health or addiction will be delivered under a joint ...
Family members often become enablers of addict, life coach says ...
By rdepriest
That's a key point made by Mike Leatherwood of Jonesboro, a certified life coach who helps families overcome drug addiction, in a presentation to the Out of the Dark coalition during its quarterly meeting last week. Out of the Dark is an organization founded three years ago by ... At this point theaddict may become homeless, and without help this condition can be fatal, especially for thealcoholic, Leatherwood said. Eventually the family members may decide they were wrong to refuse ...
Arkansas News
Attorney general sees prescription drug abuse, addiction as ...
By Tom Walsh
LUBEC, Maine — Prescription drug abuse and addiction is epidemic, not only in Washington County, but throughout Maine and the country, Maine Attorney General William Schneider said Monday. “Twenty years ago, I was a drug prosecutor ...
Bangor Daily News
The Intervention Research on the Alcoholic Liver Disease by ...
By Cancer Research
The alcoholic liver disease (ALD) is toxic liver harm induced by drinking massively long-term, which including alcoholic fatty liver (AFL), alcoholic hepatitis (AH) and alcoholic liver cirrhosis (ALC). ALD is... Especially to be worth to pay attention to is that the alcoholic liver harm may increase the susceptivity of organism to HBV and HCV; Otherwise, the chronic toxic hepatitis also can cause the sensitivity markup in patients to the ethyl alcohol, thus the alcoholism and the chronic hepatitis ...
Cancer Research Center
Speaking Out for Addiction Recovery | The Partnership at Drugfree.org
By Faces and Voices of Recovery
We know what works to promote and sustain addiction recovery is access to services and support, not erecting more barriers. Suspicionless drug testing is expensive and ineffective because it merely aims to identify individuals without getting ...
The Partnership at Drugfree.org
Food Addiction and the Law of Attraction - A Moment of Change
By sherrygaba
“The Law of Sobriety”, my book for alcohol and drug addiction recovery is based on the success that I have experienced in my life and in working with real people with addictions. What I have found through writing the book is that all addiction ...
A Moment of Change
Addictions: Symptoms, Causes, Treatments, Support - HealthyPlace
All addictions, from alcoholism, gambling, cocaine to internet addiction - signs of addiction, causes, addiction ... Teen Drug Rehab Program helps Addict ...
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