Beyond booze: Addiction comes in many forms

Beyond booze: Addiction comes in many forms
nwitimes.com
The neurochemical processes of pleasure and reward are identical to those in drug or alcohol addiction. However, even when ... Others are genetically predisposed to become addicts, making excessive drinking a path to alcoholism, Teolis said. For ...

Teen prescription drug abuse: the struggle parents endure
Philadelphia Inquirer
Lou, now 62, ran a program for drunk drivers at a Schuylkill county hospital and was often called to evaluate whether participants needed treatment for drug addiction. He later oversaw drunk-driving programs for the Pennsylvania Department of ...

Nearly Half of Addiction Counselors Do Not Always Push Abstinence
PsychCentral.com
Researchers, who surveyed 913 members of the National Association of Alcoholismand Drug Addiction Counselors from across the United States, report that about 50 percent said it would be acceptable if some of their clients who abused alcohol wanted to ...

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Wood drug court helps addicts to change
Parkersburg News
Not everyone charged with a drug related offense ends up in the drug court program. "Our primary focus is on those who committed the crime in order to secure drugs or alcohol to feed their habit. The hope is by curbing addiction, we can reduce crime ...

Octomom Nadya Suleman speaks out about drug rehab: 'I am finding my voice'
Examiner.com
celebrity addiction substance abuse · octomom nadya suleman diet workout. Advertisement. Octomom Nadya Suleman, who recently checked into rehab for drug addiction, is speaking out for the first time since entering a 30-day treatment facility in California.

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Event to highlight menace of drug addiction begins today
Muscat Daily
An edutainment event called 'Stop SAD' (Stop smoking, alcohol and drugs) will be held across Oman from Sunday. Held by Al Hayat Association in collaboration with Indian Social Club Muscat and the National Committee for Drugs and Psychotropic ...

OxyContin drug scandal hits Ontario
Toronto Sun
And chief amongst the opponents of OxyContin's return is the Ontario government which has been struggling to deal with the fallout of wide-scale addiction. The province estimates 50,000 people are addicted to OxyContin and other opiate drugs, nearly as ...

Pictou County battles back against bath salts addiction
TheChronicleHerald.ca
Pictou County is coming to terms with bath salts. The drug addiction that hit this pocket of northern Nova Scotia like wildfire this spring has been wrangled down to a smouldering burn. In April, area emergency rooms were seeing four to five cases of ...

Painkillers not as addictive as feared: Study
Ahram Online
Fewer than five percent of patients prescribed narcotics to treat chronic pain become addicted to thedrugs, according to a new analysis of past research. The finding suggests that concerns about the risk of becoming addicted to prescription ...

MSP condemns 'funding drug addiction'
Largs and Millport Weekly News
... indictment of the Scottish Government's drug policy. "The numbers involved here are huge, and the public will be shocked to see £4 million from our health budget being spent on facilitating drug addiction at a time when nurses are losing their jobs ...

Teen prescription drug abuse: addiction then recovery
Philadelphia Inquirer
... prescription drug abuse: addiction then recovery. During October and November, the Healthy Kids blog examines the epidemic of teen prescription drug abuse through the stories of teens and young adults in recovery, their parents and treatment experts.

Jenelle Evans Looks Back on Her Struggle With Drug Addiction: "I Was Spiraling ...
Wetpaint
It's been a rough couple of years for Teen Mom 2's Jenelle Evans. Not only has the troubled starlet dealt with abusive ex-boyfriends and emotional custody battles, but she has also struggled with drug addiction — something original Teen Mom Amber ...

Birmingham Maple Clinic Reports Teens and Over-the-Counter Drug Abuse on ...
Midland Daily News
The clinic, which treats a variety of mental health conditions, including adult and teen drug addiction, reported that the UC study is an important reminder to parents that drug addiction has many different forms. Lori Edelson, therapist at the ...

Painkillers not as addictive as feared: study
Reuters
The group of patients Boscarino surveyed had a high rate of alcoholism and illegal drug use, though. He said the disparities among the various studies could also be a result of how people were surveyed ... Minozzi's review found that, among the three ...

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