Young adults seeking drug addiction treatment hits low

Young adults seeking drug addiction treatment hits record low
Communitycare.co.uk
In 2011/12, 4,690 adults aged between 18 and 24 entered treatment for heroin or crack addiction, down from 6,108 the previous year and almost a third of the 12,320 young adults who entered treatment for either drug in 2005/06. The over-40s is the only ...

Lawyer: Theft suspect has drug addiction
Attleboro Sun Chronicle
ATTLEBORO - The former employee accused of stealing $25,000 in gold from a North Attleboro precious metals firm is battling an addiction to pain pills, his lawyer and a court psychologist said Wednesday. Joseph E. Nastasia, 29, of Royal Park Apartments ...

Alcohol and drug-addiction expert pioneered new forms of treatment
The Age
... addictive drugs and his huge contribution to the field. When he started, the only approach to treating alcoholics was to shut them up for a long time in hospital. Edwards challenged this approach ... Out of this creative mix emerged diverse ...

The Age

'Viagra addiction' needs a stiff rebuke
Telegraph.co.uk
If you think I'm being dangerously flippant about addiction think again. I have known addicts: proper, drug-dependent, twitching-when-they-don't-get-a-fix addicts who need medical intervention in order to live through withdrawal. Hell, I have people ...

Telegraph.co.uk

Mother-son intervention team reveal how their own battle with drug addiction ...
Daily Mail
While in jail Brandon was forced to come off heroin without any replacement drugs and said that as a result he suffered from panic attacks, nausea, diarrhea, sweats and chills. He said: 'I'd rather die than go though that again.' On release his mother ...

Daily Mail

Woman's life 'ruined by addiction'
This is Bristol
A DRUG addiction spanning decades has resulted in a Weston-super-Mare woman being jailed for two years. Violet Ho, pictured, was spotted making a street drugs deal by police, Bristol Crown Court heard. The court heard she agreed to deal after mounting ...

Jury convicts 3-time felon in drug-related 2011 traffic death
Waco Tribune-Herald
A three-time convicted felon with a decade-long addiction to drugs was convicted Thursday in the June 2011 traffic death of 64-year-old Peggy Cantrell. The punishment phase of Jacob Scott Turner's trial continues this morning in Waco's 54th State ...

Kitsap County Sheriff's hold take-back day for prescription drugs
Port Orchard Independent
It is known to many that the Kitsap County Sheriff's Office often deals with thefts related to drug addiction and the sale of narcotics. But fewer people consider the dangers of those medicines lurking inside the medicine cabinet, which are potentially ...

Ex-pharmacist indicted on drug charges
WHIO Dayton
A 63-year-old former pharmacist who admitted to a drug addiction and that he stole drugs from pharmacies where he worked in Champaign, Logan and Montgomery counties has been indicted on six felony drug-related charges. Hubert Ridgway was indicted ...

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