Huffington Post
The Serenity Prayer is the mantra of Alcoholics Anonymous and other recovery programs. Yet freedom from substance abuse is not where the prayer came from. Actually, the Serenity Prayer was composed during wartime. A 28-year-old pastor named Reinhold ...
Ray Lucas hopes others learn from his recovery from addiction to prescription ...
Washington Post
The former NFL quarterback is a recovering addict. And, he cherishes the chance to open his eyes in the morning. After all, for Lucas, dying once seemed a lot easier than living. “I live day by day and one day at a time,” Lucas said in a telephone ...
Malaysia mosque a source of hope for heroin addicts
Reuters
By Anuradha Raghu | KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - For 30 years, Feisal Fakharudin lived a heroinaddict's life, sleeping on streets, getting into trouble with police and rotating in and out of drug treatment centers. In Malaysia, a Muslim-majority country ...
Addiction Update: Going to Pot: Thinking About Medical Marijuana, Part 5
Mercury-Register
Pot: Is it effective medicine for some ailments, or a powerful psychoactive drug with multiple side effects that can include addiction? The issue is complicated because the answer is yes. But let's look at the concept of taking medication, ...
Miramar Addiction and Dual Diagnosis Treatment Center Introduces New Expert ...
PR Web (press release)
New Expert-Led Management Team Will Benefit Individuals Suffering from Substance Abuse and Co-Occurring Disorders, their Loved Ones, and Professionals who Refer Patients. The restructuring of our management team will enable our staff to increase focus ...
Back where it started: addiction on campus
Minnesota Daily
They're part of a drastic increase in the number of young adults struggling with addiction. For a long time, the typical addict in recovery was thought to be older, “but today we know the truth, thataddiction strikes early,” said William Moyers, ...
Benton County attorney requests addiction therapy
Mid Columbia Tri City Herald
By Paula Horton, Tri-City Herald A Benton County defense attorney told a judge Wednesday that it's worth the risk to take a chance on his client by giving him treatment for his heroin addictioninstead of sending him to prison. William Joseph Bernd, 29 ...
1 addict is born each hour in US
The Keene Sentinel
DETROIT — An increased reliance on prescription painkillers and the resulting addiction has now shown up in the most vulnerable patients — America's newborns, according to a report released Monday. Addicted babies — many suffering from respiratory ...
Addict centre under review
Taranaki Daily News
Alcoholics are not confined to the scruffy people wearing dirty trenchcoats who hang around the streets. Concerns have been raised that Taranaki's health board could close one of its most valuable tools for helping alcoholics and drug addicts.
Taranaki Daily News
Could Rewriting Memories Help Prevent Relapse?
PsychCentral.com (blog)
By David Sack, MD Long before I began working in residential addiction treatment programs, I spent much of my career in hospitals and community-based treatment settings. In working with disadvantaged populations in community treatment programs, ...
PsychCentral.com (blog)
Late Athlete's Parents Reach Out to Others with Addiction
Cleveland News - Fox 8
Tyler's addiction to Percocet was just the beginning. Percocet contains five milligrams of oxycodone, which is an opioid drug similar to morphine, heroin and methadone. While Percocet relieves pain for roughly five hours, Oxycontin works for close to ...
Cleveland News - Fox 8
Tighter substance abuse measures
Health24.com
Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini warned that the government intends tightening measures to curb substance abuse, including alcohol, this year. Speaking in the National Assembly during debate on her budget vote, she referred to a substance ...
Brain Study Shows Addiction Risk Higher For Some Teens
Vermont Public Radio
Some people are more prone to addiction - that much we know. What we don't know for sure is why. A new study has found evidence that some teenagers are at higher risk for substance abuse because their brains work differently, in ways that make them ...
Vermont Public Radio
The readiness of addiction treatment agencies for health care reform
7thSpace Interactive (press release)
To gauge the addiction treatment field's readiness for health reform, the authors developed a Health Reform Readiness Index (HRRI) survey for substance use disorder (SUD) treatment agencies. Addiction treatment administrators and providers from around ...
The shocking death of Katelynn Sampson: Girl, seven, died of septic shock from ...
Daily Mail
Tragic Katelynn Sampson was sent to live with Donna Irving and Warren Johnson after her own mother, who was a friend of the couple and also a crack addict, said she could no longer cope. But instead of a loving home, the youngster received a catalogue ...
Daily Mail
Gambling: New Combat Vets Plagued by Troubling Addiction
LA Weekly
Perkins' lawyer also asked for leniency, citing his client's PTSD, pathological gambling addictionand a letter from his psychologist recommending treatment in a VA-operated residential program.
Emotional moment alcoholic and drug addict mother apologises to pregnant ...
Daily Mail
By Daily Mail Reporter In an emotional scene on the latest instalment of 16 and Pregnant, an addict mother is seen apologising to her expectant teenage daughter. The conversation arises when Billie, from Bronson, Texas, who has struggled with alcohol ...
Daily Mail
Crackdown on substance abuse
News24
Cape Town - Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini warned on Wednesday that the government intends tightening measures to curb substance abuse, including alcohol, this year. Speaking in the National Assembly during debate on her budget vote, ...
Dr. Nora Volkow, Director of NIDA, Answers Questions on Addiction ...
By Lisa Frederiksen
substance abuse, addiction, education, prevention, intervention, addiction treatment, help for families, co-occurring disorders, underage drinking, mental illness, 21st century brain and neuroscience research. Skip to content ... Her 4o+ years experience with family and friends' alcohol abuse and alcoholism, her own recovery work, and her research for her most recent books, including "Crossing The Line From Alcohol Use to Abuse to Dependence," frame her work. She founded ...
Breaking the Cycles - Changing...
More community care in mental health, addiction plan | Otago Daily ...
By Eileen Goodwin
A Southern District Health Board committee approved a three-year mental health and addictionplan yesterday, amid apprehension of tightening funds for mental health.
Otago Daily Times:
Join Our Next Twitter Chat: Addiction Myth-Busters | Phoenix House
By eedelman
For our next Twitter chat with The Fix, we'll discuss some of the most contested ideas about drug abuse and treatment--from medical marijuana to sex addiction.
Phoenix House
