PsychCentral.com (blog)
During active addiction, you are ironically both socially isolated and part of a drug-abusing community. You may spend a lot of time together and feel a bond based on your shared preoccupation with drugs. But that doesn't mean those people are your ...
Alcoholics Anonymous members Maureen and Kym
ABC Online (blog)
Do you have a problem with alcohol...Does someone in your family have a problem with alcohol...What is a problem with alcohol. Maureen and Kym are members of Alcoholics Anonymous and they joined me th - Alcoholics Anonymous members Maureen ...http://blogs.abc.net.au/files/alcoholics-anonymous.mp3
Winehouse mother: Grief doesn't get any easier
The Independent
And she advised other families who have addiction problems to give as much support as they can: "Just be there for them. "The thing about addiction is that there is only one person who can do anything, and that's the addict. So you've just got to give ...
Sadly, It's Again Time To Praise NASCAR For Their Substance Abuse Policy
Auto Racing Daily
Last Saturday's announcement that said NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver A J Allmendinger has been “temporarily suspended” by officials for a violation of theirsubstance abuse policy was, in a word, stunning. This announcement was one of those rare ...
Auto Racing Daily
Rates of drug use, addiction soar for baby boomersLocal rehab creates program ...
Palm Beach Post
This month, and nearly every month for the past three years, the 20 beds set aside specifically for drug- and alcohol-addicted Baby Boomers at Hanley rehab center in West Palm Beach can't meet the demand. Always more patients than beds. The wave of 50- ...
Allmendinger suspended after positive substance abuse test
Superior Telegram
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- AJ Allmendinger, driver of the No. 22 Penske Racing Dodge, has been suspended temporarily from NASCAR competition after his "A" sample from a random drug test administered last weekend at Kentucky tested positive for a ...
Oklahoma's painkiller abuse 'crisis' is growing, experts say
NewsOK.com
The Absentee Shawnee Counseling Services hosted a tribal forum June 21 to address painkilleraddiction in Oklahoma and the high rate of opiate-related deaths among whites and American Indians. ... Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance ...
Vancouver counsellor publishes drug addiction workbook
Vancouver Sun
Families have to learn to handle the conflict and also tell the difference between helping an addictand enabling them, Plattor says. “An enabling behaviour basically keeps the addiction going. A helpful behaviour helps it to stop. “I look at enabling ...
QA: How the once ubiquitous entertainer Paul Williams disappeared into ...
Fox News
Williams is the subject of the documentary Paul Williams Still Alive, a fascinating look at fame, addiction and recovery.
Long term treatment needed for alcoholism
MassNewsMedia
Two main factors that put people at the high risk category of becoming alcoholics are people with history of alcoholism in the family and with imbalances in their brain neurotransmitters. Like any other addiction, alcoholic people do to undergo ...
MassNewsMedia
The silent epidemic: How heroin is infiltrating Washtenaw County
AnnArbor.com
Driven by the increasing frequency of prescription drug addiction, heroin is the next logical step for the opiate addict. “I would call it an epidemic. It's that bad,” said Lt. Jerry Cooley, head of the Livingston and Washtenaw Narcotics Enforcement Team.
Families struggle to deal with addictions
Vancouver Sun
And people generally want to avoid conflict, particularly the type that's bound to follow when families stop paying an addict's bill, refuse to let them live at home without contributing to the household or cut off their unlimited Internet access. "All ...
Growing problem, dwindling resources
Morning Sentinel
Her experience is becoming more common as an explosion in prescription drug abuse fuels addiction problems in Maine, and health care providers are looking for ways to deal with the epidemic of drug-affected babies in a state where the means for such ...
Morning Sentinel
Former NBA Player Chris Herren Shares his Battle With Drug Addiction at the ...
Indian Country Today Media Network.com
Herren continued on a harrowing descent, although he remained a functioning addictfor some time. He appeared in 25 games for the Celtics during the 2000-2001 ... The clinics will be free, but at the core of the clinic is a screen for substance abuse ...
Indian Country Today Media Network.com
Addict is jailed for break-in at house
This is Leicestershire
A man who became addicted to crack-cocaine as a teenager has been sent to sent to jail for burgling a house to fund his habit.Lee White was sent to prison for 20 months for stealing jewellery and...
If I Die Young: Woman overcoming addiction to painkillers facing the 'real test'
Tampabay.com
Stopped going to Narcotics Anonymous meetings and counting the days she had been sober. "All the freedom just freaked me out, I guess," she said. "It was too much, knowing no one was watching me." For a couple of weeks, she helped a friend paint ...
Tampabay.com
Janis Winehouse on life after Amy: 'I wake up sobbing... there's a huge hole ...
Daily Mail
'The thing about addiction is that there is only one person who can do anything, and that's the addict. So you've just got to give them strength." The full interview is in the new edition of Hello! magazine, on sale now. 'It doesn't get easier': Janis ...
Daily Mail
Skegness OAP drug addict jailed for dealing in Mablethorpe Co-op car park
Skegness Standard
A PENSIONER drug addict from Skegness who was caught selling amphetamine from a Mablethorpe car park has been jailed for 15 months at Lincoln Crown Court.
A Technique to Overcome Addictions
Care2.com
Addiction is the no. 1 disease of civilization, and it's directly and indirectly related to all other diseases. Besides physical addictions, such as the addiction to food, tobacco, alcohol, and drugs, there are psychological addictions, such as the ...
Care2.com
How To Make Money From Our Tech Addiction
Seeking Alpha
As Franklin D. Roosevelt once claimed, "We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future." An optimistic quote from a realistic man. But when does optimism turn into fear? Today's generation is full of youths ...
Whitney Houston's Death Raises Addiction Questions | FYI BeHealthy
How Is Addiction Treated? Most of us are familiar with 12-step programs such as Alcoholics Anonymous. Such programs, which offer intensive community support, can be very effective. But ultimately, the most effective addiction treatment varies from person to person, says substance abuse treatment expert Goldman. “Treatment is a very personal choice,” Goldman tells WebMD. “Nowadays there are many options: medications, individual psychotherapy, group therapy, family therapy, ...
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Please Help - SoberRecovery : Alcoholism Drug Addiction Help and ...
By PeaceForever
I think my dad is an alcoholic. my mom told us a few years ago that he was depressed but now I think it might be because of his alcoholism. Even though my mom never mentioned alcoholism, I think he has it. I remember when I was about 9 I found an Alcoholics Anonymous book in our house but it went right over my head. but the other day it clicked. the other day i was helping my older sisters clean our cabinets out before they went back to college and we found about 15 beer cans ...
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