Son's rejection rescues dad from drug addiction

Back from hell - Son's rejection rescues dad from drugs addiction
Jamaica Gleaner
Franklin Sinclair came from a "fairly good home" and went to "a good school" but none of that shielded him from the throes of drug addiction and an intense five-year period which saw his descent into drug-abuse hell. His darkness began with the death ...

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Maine doctors requiring random drug tests before writing prescriptions for ...
Bangor Daily News
In an effort to combat Maine's high rate of prescription drug addiction, doctors are asking patients to sign a controlled-substances agreement that, in part, allows the doctor to ask for a blood or urine sample at any time to ensure patients are taking ...

MCPF calls for more effective efforts to fight drug addiction
The Borneo Post
SIBU: The Malaysian Crime Prevention Foundation (MCPF) calls for more effective efforts to fightdrug addiction through treatment and rehabilitation, education and prevention. MCPF vice-chairman Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye in making the call yesterday, said ...

Kristen Tabbert Rogers' benefit to help aid drug addiction
WXOW.com
LA CROSSE, Wis. (WXOW) - To celebrate Kristen Tabbert Rogers' life, family and friends hosted a benefit in her honor Saturday. A raffle, bake sale, games and an auction all helped raise money for the Kristen Tabbert Hope Fund. Proceeds will be used to ...

METH MAYHEM: Drug use growing in San Angelo
San Angelo Standard Times
SAN ANGELO, Texas — A few months ago, John Wilmouth assigned a probation officer to work with the district court because of increasing drug addiction in San Angelo. The officer assists 340th District Judge Jay Weatherby with Child Protective Services ...

Expert doubts value of work drug tests
Adelaide Now
The deputy director of the National Centre for Education and Training on Addiction (NCETA) at Flinders University, Ken Pidd, says drug-testing in the workplace is just an easy "tick-a-box" response to the problem. Dr Pidd is to present his finding on ...

We're losing the war on drugs
phillyBurbs.com
Today, I read a letter to the editor from Daniel Meara, the public information manager for the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence. Well, I would like some information from him. How have the attempts to make painkillers "not so readily ...

Area treatment centers agree on painkiller addiction problem, differ in treatments
Waco Tribune-Herald
The company that put up the billboards, Brentwood Clinic of Waco, isn't a traditional substance abuse center where people go through detoxification to immediately get off drugs. Instead, the clinic helps transition people off illegal drugs by giving ...

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