Painkiller addiction can change brain chemistry
Las Cruces Sun-News
Editor's note: This is the first in a four-part series on drug addiction in New Mexico. What does it mean to be an addict? We hear the word a lot — and for many, it may conjure an image of a person who simply chooses to abuse drugs. The image may be ...
Las Cruces Sun-News
Editor's note: This is the first in a four-part series on drug addiction in New Mexico. What does it mean to be an addict? We hear the word a lot — and for many, it may conjure an image of a person who simply chooses to abuse drugs. The image may be ...
Cranford Chronicle - NJ.com
The series is funded by the Governor's Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse through the Municipal Alliance, and coordinated by the Union County Department of Human Services. For more information call Union County Alliance Coordinator Deborah ...
DRUGS IN DEDHAM: Police fighting back but overwhelmed
Daily News Transcript
Drug addiction is also responsible for countless robberies in town, according to Dedham Police detectives Robert Walsh and Kevin Mahoney. They deal with the lion's share of the department'sdrug cases. “Drug use is probably one of the bigger issues ...
'Keep the Lights On': Actors shine in tale of love, drug addiction
The Seattle Times
'Keep the Lights On': Actors shine in tale of love, drug addiction. A movie review of "Keep the Lights On," writer-director Ira Sachs' beautifully acted, autobiographical tale of a decadelong gay relationship between a documentary filmmaker (Thure ...
Will recession mean a new generation of addicts?
Channel 4 News
The research, from the NHS's National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse (NTA), showed that, overall, the number of people seeking treatment for drug addiction is declining - in line with government figures for wider drug use. However, the one age ...
Channel 4 News
Eradicate drug addiction, cancer: Badal
Jagran Post
Chandigarh: To curb the menace of drug addiction and cancer, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Thursday directed deputy and divisional commissioners to play a "pro-active" role. Badal presided over a meeting of the divisional commissioners...
Jagran Post
Reformed Afghan drug user helps others overcome addiction
Al-Arabiya
Opiate consumption in Afghanistan, where it has long been a medication but in recent years has been used increasingly for recreation, is also on a sharp rise. Nejat rehabilitation center estimates around 60,000 women in Afghanistan regularly take ...
Al-Arabiya
Treatment director: Drugs proliferating in Lamorinda
San Jose Mercury News
Kids in Lamorinda don't do drugs. If you read that sentence and laugh or weep in disbelief, you are more informed than most parents with children living in these affluent East Bay communities, according to Dr. S. Alex Stalcup, medical director of the ...
Several drugs can dramatically increase recovery rates, but many patients ...
Salon
But as you might expect from the former director of treatment and recovery research at the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, he is opposed to the prevailing resistance to, and ignorance about, the treatment of addiction with ...
When Addiction Hits Home, New York Center for Living Advises Parents to Beware
RedOrbit
Parents are encouraged to make their teens understand the additional dangers present for adolescents who take medication for psychological conditions, and that mixing prescribed medications with other drugs or alcohol can be toxic or deadly. New York ...
Who can explain drug addiction to me ? why can't she just control ...
She claims she is a drug addict ( a crack head...tho I DON"T see it cuz she ... what does any of it have to do with you?? seems to me she is one sensible lady who ...
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Prescription Drug Addiction - The Orchid Recovery Center for Women
If a female in your life has become addicted to a prescription medication, the Orchid Recovery Center offers a women's only prescription drug rehab program.
www.orchidrecoverycenter.com/prescription-drug-rehab/
