Los Angeles Times
Under fair housing law, landlords can't refuse to rent to an applicant solely because of a history of drug addiction if the person is in recovery. A criminal record, however, complicates the matter. By Martin Eichner Question: I started drinking ...
Drug addict tenants do £30k of damage
Retford Today
A COUPLE who rented out their home in Worksop were left with a repair bill of almost £30000 after a drug addict tenant and her boyfriend removed every scrap of metal - 'ripping the heart' out of the house. A hole had been made in the kitchen ceiling to ...
Retford Today
Afghans' poppy profit addiction hard to kick
Sacramento Bee
By Alissa J. Rubin and Matthew Rosenberg KABUL, Afghanistan – For years, US officials have struggled to curb Afghanistan's opium industry, rewriting strategy every few seasons and pouring in more than $6 billion over the past decade to combat the ...
Mental Illness & Addiction, a Revealing Look in Broken Into One Peace ...
PR.com (press release)
There is scientific research to suggest that there is a physical component to addiction. I believe I am genetically wired to be an alcoholic. Generation to generation, it has existed in my family. Additionally, I learned from my dad how to drink in ...
EX-Addict David Hopes To Make A Difference As Youth Worker
Inverclyde Now
YEARS of heroin addiction brought David Harper to rock bottom but now he is set to use his nightmarish experience -- and the faith which helped him escape -- in his new role as a Christian youth worker. David (34) was homeless and weighed just ...
'Teen Mom' Amber Portwood -- I Need Prison to Save My Life
TMZ.com
"Teen Mom" star Amber Portwood thinks prison is the only way to save her life from a brutal drug addiction, TMZ has learned. Sources tell us, immediately following the reality TV star's incarceration, her last drug test came back positive for the ...
TMZ.com
Bobby Brown's Children Were 'Completely Oblivious' To His Drug Addiction Battle
Starpulse.com
The New Edition singer, a father of five, has long struggled with addiction issues and he has been arrested numerous times on charges including DUI. However, the 43 year old insists he did his best to keep his personal battles a secret in a bid to ...
Starpulse.com
Amber Portwood's Shocking Addiction Might Not Be Her Fault After All
The Stir
According to TMZ, the Teen Mom star's drug problem is so severe that "Amber believes prison is the only way to get clean because it will force her to kick the addiction cold turkey." Sources told TMZ that "immediately following the reality TV star's ...
The Stir
A message of hope
Wayne Post
From the website of the Council on Alcoholism and Addiction of the Finger Lakes where services are available for those seeking help. By Tammy Whitacre, staff writer There was nothing he could do but watch when Wayne County Child Protective Services ...
Serial arsonist, sniff addict faces year in jail
Winnipeg Sun
Guimond, a homeless 54-year-old chronic sniff addict, spent last fall and winter behind bars after inexplicably setting alight a homeowner's blue box on Langside Street late last August. Court heard Guimond lit the fire after a house cat crossed his ...
Family: Man in Billings shootout had meth addiction
KPAX-TV
However, she suspects that it was his addiction to methamphetamine which ultimately cost him his life. "Methamphetamine was the biggest factor in this," said Brandon. "My nephew was on drugs. It was an action that needs to be blamed.
Oklahoma's new workplace drug testing laws relax employer requirements
NewsOK.com
BY PAULA BURKES | Published: May 27, 2012 Leave a comment Oklahoma's new laws that give employers greater latitude for workplace drug testing can help the state address its substance abuse epidemic, according to workplace advocates.
Kuwaiti man turns addict son in
Kuwait Times
Kuwait: A Kuwaiti man reported his son to the police after growing too desperate of helping him to stop his drug addiction. The youngster was arrested inside the family's house in Al-Qasr. The man gave police the address and allowed the security ...
Spindletop client triumphs over mental illness, drug addiction
Beaumont Enterprise
By Sarah Moore A few years ago, Byron Hughes was homeless and not getting treatment or medication for his schizophrenia disorder. A Spindletop Center mental health caseworker found him living beneath this 7th Street overpass of IH-10.
W.Va. ground zero in fight against addiction
Martinsburg Journal
Drug abuse by itself takes too many lives and plunges others into chaos. But crimes related to it - addicts stealing money to get a fix or gunfights among pushers - often take innocent lives. Ironically, crackdowns on sales of prescription drugs, ...
Horror of heroin descends on Clark County
The Columbian
Adam Hurd struggled with a two-year heroin addiction before dying of a drug overdose on Aug. 24, 2011. By Laura McVicker Terry Hurd, the father of 24-year-old Adam Hurd, who died last summer of a heroin overdose, remembers his son on May 15, ...
The tobacco conundrum
Deccan Herald
Tobacco is an addiction. Ask over eight million people in the State who chew tobacco, breathe tobacco and swear by its rivetting attachment. But when you find 80000 of them are children under 15 years, and an equal number in the age group of 15 to 24 ...
Punjab: NYKS to launch de-addiction in 10...
Punjab Newsline
By Sukhpal Kaur CHANDIGARH: As the drug abuse and alcoholism is spreading in Punjab like an epidemic, Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan(NYKS) is all set to launch a special pilot project in the state. NYKS an undertaking of union ministry of youth affairs is ...
Long-term risks exist for youth seeking jolt of energy drinks, warn experts
London Free Press
A report by the US-based Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration noted a sharp increase in the number of ER visits associated with energy drinks (from 1128 visits in 2005 to 13114 in 2009.) Scarier still was the realization that almost half of ...
Front and Center, Indiana REALTORS® Answer the Call
nwitimes.com
While attending a recent Lake County Substance Abuse Council meeting, Habitat for Humanity of Northwest Indiana executive director Dan Klein explained to Pastor Emmett Willis of Descending Dove Ministries how the organization acquired a six-unit ...
Oglala Sioux tribal members are proud of Pine Ridge Reservation
Denver Post
While poverty and alcoholism are critical issues on the reservation, she says it's also a place of hope and pride in this e-mailed interview. Lone Hill is author of an upcoming book, "Pointing with Lips." Q: What's your opinion of the Oglala Sioux ...
Pete Doherty Admits He's 'Struggling' With Drug Addiction
By Chad Childers
Doherty ran into a little trouble with the prison guards, who viewed him as “a scumbag drug addict.” He says they didn't care for it when they read his fan mail from kids that admired his music and lyrics. He recalls, “They put me in with the ...
Diffuser.fm
Video Game Addiction is a Real Thing - Summit, NJ Patch
An addict who admits to playing 16 hours a day tells his story. ... When people think of addiction, usually they think of some kind of substance abuse like drugs or alcohol. However, psychiatrist Dr. Michael Brody describes the criteria for video ...
Summit Patch
Husband's porn addiction is ruining us
By newwife123
We've been together three years, married one. Six months after dating my husband left his laptop signed on to his email. I snooped and discovered he belonged to three (that I know of) "meet people porn sites." I got on to one of them through ...
Talk About Marriage
Drug conviction mars recovering addict's rental application ...
By By Martin Eichner
Under fair housing law, landlords can't refuse to rent to an applicant solely because of a history of drug addiction if the person is in recovery. A criminal record, however, complicates the matter.Question: I started drinking alcohol and using ...
realestateclubla.com
First Rehab Visit - SoberRecovery : Alcoholism Drug Addiction Help ...
By Gr8ful37
Your ABF (alcoholic boy friend) is in the care of professionals. He is getting the support he needs from ... It's also okay for you to use this time to focus on your own recovery of life with activealcoholism. Exploring your feelings during this time ...
SoberRecovery : Alcoholism Drug...
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