Solving addiction lies in empowerment not shame

Solving addiction lies in empowerment, not shame
New Statesman (blog)
Last month, thousands of recovering alcoholics and drug addicts walked the streets of Brighton and Hove, in a collective effort to shatter stigma and promote addiction recovery. The annual event, now in its fourth year, aims to inspire, educate and ...

Designer Drug Could Have Deadly Results
10TV
Addiction recovery expert Harris Stratyner said that the drug is linked to several teenagers' deaths across the country. "It's a very, very dangerous drug that's being marketed through the Internet to very young teenagers, 12, 13, 14, 14," Stratyner ...

Drug Addiction Motivates Crime In Whiteside County
KWQC 6
Jury selection for Nicholas Sheley's Whiteside County murder trial begins in less than two weeks. Tuesday, Sheley was in court for a pretrial hearing. The judge heard evidence that the prosecution plans to show in court. The prosecution plans to show ...

Addiction treatment shouldn't succumb to NIMBY logic
Tampabay.com
Finally, Hernando County residents fighting drug addiction will have a place closer to home to get help. And county commissioners should learn their lesson about succumbing to not-in-my-backyard arguments when it comes to land-use decisions. Last week ...

The Election Reminds Us That Our Political System Is Failing Addicted and ...
Huffington Post
Alcoholics were seen as hopeless bums and a drain on society, drug addicts were degenerate criminals to be feared and thrown in jail, and the mentally ill were unfortunate creatures best hidden away in locked rooms or placed in asylums "for their own ...

Redmond O'Neal, son of Ryan O'Neal, completes year long drug rehab
Los Angeles Times
O'Neal, who for years has battled drug addiction, looked healthy as he appeared at the Los Angeles Airport courthouse. Judge Keith Schwartz congratulated O'Neal on his progress while extending his probation from 2014 to 2016. Schwartz warned O'Neal ...

Getting serious about illegal drugs
Daily Herald
Drug addiction in China today is almost non-existent. When I was there, a lady in China tried to sell me her grandfather's opium pipe. How was drug addiction eliminated in China? They executed the dealers and in a very short time no one wanted to be a ...

Drugs: don't deny the risk
Liverpool Echo
Drug addiction is no respecter of postcodes or the so-called class divide. Middle class families in Middle England are not immune from the dangers of drugs, and we applaud Philippa Skinner for having the courage to write a book about her own shattering ...

More highly educated people taking drugs, says VWO
TODAYonline
Mr Lim added: "Greater publicity of the danger of drug abuse, greater publicity that if you need help, there are certain places you can turn to for help, you don't need to turn to drugs. You can't just change your mind saying you'll get into drug ...

As drug deaths soar the SNP decide to slash cash used to help addicts
Scottish Daily Record
THE Government have slashed funding for a body set up to combat addiction in Scotland despite record numbers of drug deaths. The Scottish Recovery Consortium were created in 2009 to help users quit completely rather than languish for decades on ...

Drug Addicts | 1 More Chance | Solutions Recovery
Her son Jack Armstrong, 22, has battled drug addiction for six years. He failed the program and was convicted of felony heroin possession in Salt Lake City ...
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