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Obscure Rule Restricts Health Law Care for Addicts
Obscure Rule Restricts Health Law’s Expansion of Care for Addicts - NYTimes.com: "Obscure Rule Restricts Health Law’s Expansion of Care for Addicts... On its surface, the Affordable Care Act seems like a boon for addiction treatment centers like the South Suburban Council on Alcoholism and Substance Abuse, housed in a no-frills former hotel outside Chicago. The law allowed states to expand Medicaid to many more low-income people, meaning that drug addicts and alcoholics who were previously ineligible could now receive coverage for substance abuse treatment, which the law has deemed an “essential health benefit.” But there is a hitch: Under an obscure federal rule enacted almost 50 years ago, Medicaid covers residential addiction treatment in community-based programs only if they have 16 or fewer beds. The South Suburban Council’s main treatment program has 48. So the very people who might have flowed through its doors in search of care will not be coming. And the same problem faces many other centers, which typically are larger than 16 beds, experts say. The quirk in the law could have a significant impact on substance abuse treatment in Illinois and the 25 other states that have expanded Medicaid under the health care law... (read more at link above)
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A Different Path to Fighting Addiction
A Different Path to Fighting Addiction - NYTimes.com: ".... The center’s approach is controversial in the recovery world. David Rotenberg, executive vice president of treatment at the nonprofit Caron Treatment Centers, a large drug and alcohol rehabilitation provider with branches in several states, cautioned against approaches that do not set abstinence as a goal.
“The majority of people who are chemically dependent would love to be able to drink and drug in a more moderate fashion,” Mr. Rotenberg said. “Most drug addicts and alcoholics would love to drink just a couple of drinks, and they try to do so, with poor results.”...."
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Prescriptions, Medicaid, Addicts, Addiction
Data produced from the Center for Disease Control from July 2013 reported that residents of rural areas rank highest among those who are at risk. It stated that Medicaid patients are also at a great risk because they are "being prescribed painkillers at twice the rate of non-Medicaid patients." . . . Most people limit drug abuse to illegal substances like cocaine and heroin, but access to prescription drugs is much greater. I have witnessed the legal ramifications of drug abuse. People are not receiving the needed treatment through periods of incarceration . . . (source infra)
Attorney Michael Gopin Comments on DEA Official's Declaration of a ...
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A tragic legacy of Afghanistan's war
. . . DEA official Robert Hill contends that law enforcement currently takes the wrong approach. Hill contends that officers attempt to solve the problem by making rampant arrests until it disappears. The sell-and-trade and abuse of prescription medication cannot be solved through arrests, because this does not strike at the heart of the problem: addiction . . .
A tragic legacy of Afghanistan's war
RAWA News
Not only does drug production hold back Afghanistan's development and threaten its security. Drug addiction is harming Afghanistan's health and welfare."...
Not only does drug production hold back Afghanistan's development and threaten its security. Drug addiction is harming Afghanistan's health and welfare."...
phillyBurbs.com
Dr McLellan spoke on the future of drug and alcohol treatment under the new health care ... The medical community's understanding of addiction has changed ...
Dr McLellan spoke on the future of drug and alcohol treatment under the new health care ... The medical community's understanding of addiction has changed ...
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Drug Treatment, Addicts, Funding Cuts
Funding cuts to drug treatment centers mean addicts get turned away
Charlotte Observer
The three – Walter B. Jones Alcohol and Drug Addiction Treatment Center in Greenville, Julian F. Keith Center in Black Mountain and R.J. Blackley Center in ...
Overdoses of 'Molly' Led to Electric Zoo Deaths - NYTimes.com: "The New York City Medical Examiner has confirmed that two young people who died at the Electric Zoo festival on Randalls Island over Labor Day weekend took fatal doses of drugs sold on the street that are known as “molly.” The third day of the festival was canceled at the request of city authorities after the two overdose victims, Jeffrey Russ, 23, of Rochester, and Olivia Rotondo, 20, of Providence, R.I., collapsed with high body temperatures. Their deaths came after a string of similar overdoses since March at dance concerts around the country — in Boston, Seattle, Miami and Washington, D.C. Toxicology results showed Ms. Rotondo died from acute intoxication after taking pure MDMA, the euphoria-producing drug sold on the street in pill form as ecstasy and in powdered form as molly, said Ellen Borakove, a spokeswoman for the medical examiner’s office. . . ."
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The three – Walter B. Jones Alcohol and Drug Addiction Treatment Center in Greenville, Julian F. Keith Center in Black Mountain and R.J. Blackley Center in ...
Overdoses of 'Molly' Led to Electric Zoo Deaths - NYTimes.com: "The New York City Medical Examiner has confirmed that two young people who died at the Electric Zoo festival on Randalls Island over Labor Day weekend took fatal doses of drugs sold on the street that are known as “molly.” The third day of the festival was canceled at the request of city authorities after the two overdose victims, Jeffrey Russ, 23, of Rochester, and Olivia Rotondo, 20, of Providence, R.I., collapsed with high body temperatures. Their deaths came after a string of similar overdoses since March at dance concerts around the country — in Boston, Seattle, Miami and Washington, D.C. Toxicology results showed Ms. Rotondo died from acute intoxication after taking pure MDMA, the euphoria-producing drug sold on the street in pill form as ecstasy and in powdered form as molly, said Ellen Borakove, a spokeswoman for the medical examiner’s office. . . ."
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Addicts Find Benefit In Drug Treatment, But Stigma Lingers
Addicts Find Benefit In Drug Treatment, But Stigma Lingers
Martha's Vineyard Gazette
... can offer a new lease on life for those who have struggled with drug addiction. ... He struggled with alcoholism and then was in a car accident, which led to an ...
National Geographic Channel's DRUG,INC. Teams With Drugfree.org
Broadway World
Drug addiction affects people of all races, ages and classes. Illegal narcotics do not discriminate, plaguing residents from small towns to big cities and raising the ...
Fugitive Nanny Emeline Essertel Blames Drugs
Key 103 Manchester
A French au pair on the run from British police has apologised for her actions and said her "mistakes" were caused by drug addiction. Emeline Essertel is wanted ...
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Martha's Vineyard Gazette
... can offer a new lease on life for those who have struggled with drug addiction. ... He struggled with alcoholism and then was in a car accident, which led to an ...
National Geographic Channel's DRUG,INC. Teams With Drugfree.org
Broadway World
Drug addiction affects people of all races, ages and classes. Illegal narcotics do not discriminate, plaguing residents from small towns to big cities and raising the ...
Fugitive Nanny Emeline Essertel Blames Drugs
Key 103 Manchester
A French au pair on the run from British police has apologised for her actions and said her "mistakes" were caused by drug addiction. Emeline Essertel is wanted ...
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Abandoning Addicts
Madonna's brother Anthony Ciccone claims his family does not care if he is "dead or alive." He's homeless and an alcoholic. At what point should families walk away?
Hosted by: Tim Stenovec; Guests: Dr. Robert J. Meyers (Albuqueque, NM) Author of 'Get Your Loved One Sober'; David Sheff @david_sheff (New York, NY) Author of "Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction"; Dr. David Sack @drdavidsack (Los Angeles, CA) Addiction Psychiatrist & Mental Health Expert; Tom Scarborough (Dallas, TX) CEO of Nouvelle Candle Company.
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Doctors as Drug Pushers
In Ontario, 18.6 per cent of people seeking addiction treatment in 2010-11 were struggling with prescription drugs, compared with just 10.6 per cent in 2005-2006 (source: CBC.ca, infra)
New drug strategy targets doctors' prescription pads - Politics - CBC News: "Canada now has a national strategy to tackle the escalating prescription drug abuse crisis that has crippled so many families, communities and First Nations. The Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse, together with a large group of experts and officials, has published a new 10-year plan that would set up a countrywide surveillance system and overhaul legislation so that doctors and pharmacists no longer prescribe painkillers indiscriminately, and addicts are able to get appropriate and timely help. The strategy takes aim at opioids, stimulants and sedatives. . . . " (read more at link above)
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New drug strategy targets doctors' prescription pads - Politics - CBC News: "Canada now has a national strategy to tackle the escalating prescription drug abuse crisis that has crippled so many families, communities and First Nations. The Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse, together with a large group of experts and officials, has published a new 10-year plan that would set up a countrywide surveillance system and overhaul legislation so that doctors and pharmacists no longer prescribe painkillers indiscriminately, and addicts are able to get appropriate and timely help. The strategy takes aim at opioids, stimulants and sedatives. . . . " (read more at link above)
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Ex drug users and alcoholics 'can make the best workers'
Ex drug users and alcoholics 'can make the best workers' says Iain Duncan Smith
Telegraph.co.uk
Official figures revealed last year that more than 77,000 people are receiving benefits because their addiction to alcohol or drugs renders them unable to work. More than 20,000 of them are considered disabled because of their addiction and given ...
Telegraph.co.uk
UK Rehab Helps Families Find Drug Addiction Help Despite Decline ...
Addicts and their loved ones looking for help in UK are faced with decline in resources, in wake of rehab centre closures and budget cuts. UK Rehab is helping ...
www.prweb.com/releases/Kandy...Ltd/.../prweb10508721.htm
Rates of Drug Addiction Diagnoses Increasing in US
These studies said that between 2001 and 2003, there were 10.6 million diagnoses of drug addiction in the United States and that that number increased to 18 ...
www.altamirarecovery.com/.../rates-of-drug-addiction-diagnos...
Recovering From Cocaine-Related Psychiatric Disorders | Drug ...
Cocaine-related psychiatric disorders are a group of 10 officially recognized mental health disorders that can occur in the aftermath of cocaine use.
www.drugaddictiontreatment.com/.../recovering-from-cocaine...
Telegraph.co.uk
Official figures revealed last year that more than 77,000 people are receiving benefits because their addiction to alcohol or drugs renders them unable to work. More than 20,000 of them are considered disabled because of their addiction and given ...
Telegraph.co.uk
UK Rehab Helps Families Find Drug Addiction Help Despite Decline ...
Addicts and their loved ones looking for help in UK are faced with decline in resources, in wake of rehab centre closures and budget cuts. UK Rehab is helping ...
www.prweb.com/releases/Kandy...Ltd/.../prweb10508721.htm
Rates of Drug Addiction Diagnoses Increasing in US
These studies said that between 2001 and 2003, there were 10.6 million diagnoses of drug addiction in the United States and that that number increased to 18 ...
www.altamirarecovery.com/.../rates-of-drug-addiction-diagnos...
Recovering From Cocaine-Related Psychiatric Disorders | Drug ...
Cocaine-related psychiatric disorders are a group of 10 officially recognized mental health disorders that can occur in the aftermath of cocaine use.
www.drugaddictiontreatment.com/.../recovering-from-cocaine...
Drug addict ends life; father blames de-addiction centre
Hindustan Times
Investigation officer (IO) Harinder Singh said the victim's father Veer Singh said that he had admitted his son to a drug de-addiction centre in Dhuri a few days ago. According to Veer Singh's statement to the police, the victim was severely tortured ...
Hindustan Times
Investigation officer (IO) Harinder Singh said the victim's father Veer Singh said that he had admitted his son to a drug de-addiction centre in Dhuri a few days ago. According to Veer Singh's statement to the police, the victim was severely tortured ...
Narcotics Anonymous - Hope for Addicts
Narcotics Anonymous - Hope for Addicts
Trinidad & Tobago Express
By Sue-Ann Wayow SUBSTANCE abuse has been blamed for many of crimes and social ills taking place in this country. But persons who want to be free of the uncontrollable desire or habit can only be completely free when they are determined to make a firm ...
Do you think alcoholism isn't really a disease? Careful – you'll be branded as ...
Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
By Damian Thompson Politics Last updated: June 1st, 2012 If you're a member or an ex-member ofAlcoholics Anonymous, think very carefully before you question its belief that alcoholism is a disease. That's what I've just done, and this week I found ...
Help deal with substance abuse, eating disorders
Rockford Register Star
By Melissa Westphal The task of approaching a friend or relative with a substance abuse problem or an eating disorder can feel daunting and uncomfortable. We're ultimately drawn to help other people overcome their suffering because we love them.
You blew up at wrong man over fear of porn addiction
Winnipeg Free Press
DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: My last husband was a porn addict and it's made me very skittish about having any kind of porn in the house. I haven't told my new guy about the porn addiction, and that I put up with it for four years, for fear he'd think I was ...
Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse issues alert over "bath salts"
680 News
The Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse has issued an alert about "bath salts," a new synthetic drug popping up in some Canadian communities. The Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse has issued an alert about "bath salts," a new synthetic drug that can be ...
Surge in babies born into drug addiction
Victorville Daily Press
In addition, babies born with NAS often require powerful prescription methadone, a drug used to treataddiction detoxification. These infants can spend weeks or months in intensive care units, as they are cared for and weaned — a safer method than ...
Ex-Phillies pitcher Jamie Moyer is bringing camp home
phillyBurbs.com
Posted: Sunday, June 3, 2012 6:00 am | Updated: 6:51 am, Sun Jun 3, 2012. by Hilary Bentman Area children living with addiction in their families will get a little help from a Phillies legend. Former pitcher Jamie Moyer's foundation is partnering with ...
From drugs to dance
This Is Cheshire
His crack cocaine addiction had led to three years in a South American prison after being caught drug trafficking and being forced to learn to read, write and walk again after brain surgery. The dad-of-four has now set up groups to help others through ...
Local program teaches veterans how to cope with stresses of past and present
Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette
The program provides veterans who are struggling with post traumatic stress disorder, mental health issues, substance abuse and homelessness issues with knowledge and skills to make healthy choices and get their lives back on track.
Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette
Cri-Help: Turning Fear and Loathing Into Sobriety and Redemption
Patch.com
Cri-Help was founded by Bill Beck, a former addict who wanted it to be a place addicts could get clean through group support and the 12 steps of Narcotics Anonymous. The idea of in-house drug treatment for addicts was a new one back then.
After Navy comes drugs, streets, VA help
Jackson Clarion Ledger
Navy veteran Daryl Jones, 40, at one time homeless and battling drug addiction, got back on his feet with the help of programs available at the GV "Sonny" Montgomery Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He is now working on his master's in social work.
Senate Approves Bill To Expand NJ Drug Court Program
NJ TODAY
TRENTON – A bill sponsored by Union County state Senators Raymond J. Lesniak and Nicholas P. Scutari which would expand eligibility for the State's drug court substance abuse treatment program and create a pilot program in two counties in which any ...
D. Lorne Coyle: No one can force homeless to live with addicts; in fact ...
TCPalm
Those results, broken down by Treasure Coast counties, show that in Indian River only 6 percent became homeless because of substance abuse. That is far less than the 16 percent of Americans having substance abuse issues. From those point-in-time ...
Trinidad & Tobago Express
By Sue-Ann Wayow SUBSTANCE abuse has been blamed for many of crimes and social ills taking place in this country. But persons who want to be free of the uncontrollable desire or habit can only be completely free when they are determined to make a firm ...
Do you think alcoholism isn't really a disease? Careful – you'll be branded as ...
Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
By Damian Thompson Politics Last updated: June 1st, 2012 If you're a member or an ex-member ofAlcoholics Anonymous, think very carefully before you question its belief that alcoholism is a disease. That's what I've just done, and this week I found ...
Help deal with substance abuse, eating disorders
Rockford Register Star
By Melissa Westphal The task of approaching a friend or relative with a substance abuse problem or an eating disorder can feel daunting and uncomfortable. We're ultimately drawn to help other people overcome their suffering because we love them.
You blew up at wrong man over fear of porn addiction
Winnipeg Free Press
DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: My last husband was a porn addict and it's made me very skittish about having any kind of porn in the house. I haven't told my new guy about the porn addiction, and that I put up with it for four years, for fear he'd think I was ...
Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse issues alert over "bath salts"
680 News
The Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse has issued an alert about "bath salts," a new synthetic drug popping up in some Canadian communities. The Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse has issued an alert about "bath salts," a new synthetic drug that can be ...
Surge in babies born into drug addiction
Victorville Daily Press
In addition, babies born with NAS often require powerful prescription methadone, a drug used to treataddiction detoxification. These infants can spend weeks or months in intensive care units, as they are cared for and weaned — a safer method than ...
Ex-Phillies pitcher Jamie Moyer is bringing camp home
phillyBurbs.com
Posted: Sunday, June 3, 2012 6:00 am | Updated: 6:51 am, Sun Jun 3, 2012. by Hilary Bentman Area children living with addiction in their families will get a little help from a Phillies legend. Former pitcher Jamie Moyer's foundation is partnering with ...
From drugs to dance
This Is Cheshire
His crack cocaine addiction had led to three years in a South American prison after being caught drug trafficking and being forced to learn to read, write and walk again after brain surgery. The dad-of-four has now set up groups to help others through ...
Local program teaches veterans how to cope with stresses of past and present
Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette
The program provides veterans who are struggling with post traumatic stress disorder, mental health issues, substance abuse and homelessness issues with knowledge and skills to make healthy choices and get their lives back on track.
Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette
Cri-Help: Turning Fear and Loathing Into Sobriety and Redemption
Patch.com
Cri-Help was founded by Bill Beck, a former addict who wanted it to be a place addicts could get clean through group support and the 12 steps of Narcotics Anonymous. The idea of in-house drug treatment for addicts was a new one back then.
After Navy comes drugs, streets, VA help
Jackson Clarion Ledger
Navy veteran Daryl Jones, 40, at one time homeless and battling drug addiction, got back on his feet with the help of programs available at the GV "Sonny" Montgomery Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He is now working on his master's in social work.
Senate Approves Bill To Expand NJ Drug Court Program
NJ TODAY
TRENTON – A bill sponsored by Union County state Senators Raymond J. Lesniak and Nicholas P. Scutari which would expand eligibility for the State's drug court substance abuse treatment program and create a pilot program in two counties in which any ...
D. Lorne Coyle: No one can force homeless to live with addicts; in fact ...
TCPalm
Those results, broken down by Treasure Coast counties, show that in Indian River only 6 percent became homeless because of substance abuse. That is far less than the 16 percent of Americans having substance abuse issues. From those point-in-time ...
I was addicted to sex
Daily Mail
An addict wants what she wants, when she wants it. An addict's favourite word is 'now': I want to leave now. I want a drink now. I want to die now. I want to f*** now. I refuse to wait. Ted puts the lid back on his pen and watches me with steady eyes.
Daily Mail
Support Groups
Florida Times-Union
Alcoholics Anonymous hotline and website available 24/7. (904) 399-8535 or neflaa.org. Alcoholics Anonymous open meeting, “Free to Be” Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual friendly group, 6:30-7:30 pm Mondays, Unity Church of Jacksonville, ...
Cops taking prevention message to grade school kids
Seaside Signal
Seaside Police Officer Guy Knight conducts a substance abuse prevent class with fourth and fifth graders at Seaside Heights Elementary School. Signal Photo / Jeremy C. Ruark Posted: Sunday, June 3, 2012 1:00 am | Updated: 1:02 pm, Fri Jun 1, 2012.
Alice in Chains Guitarist Jerry Cantrell Honoured With Stevie Ray Vaughan Award
IBTimes.co.uk
By Binayak Khatri | June 3, 2012 12:28 PM GMT Alice in Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell has been honoured with the Stevie Ray Vaughan Award, for his hard work and dedication in helping musicians and artists recover from drug addiction.
IBTimes.co.uk
Mandatory NJ drug court would improve on success
Gloucester County Times - NJ.com
The letter, about a son whose addiction ascended from roxicoden to heroin, was more than a desperate plea for help from a family struggling to heal a young man from a deadly disease. It was one vivid example of an epidemic in New Jersey that goes ...
Gloucester County Times - NJ.com
Teen Country Sensation Mia Bergmann is Destined for Stardom
DigitalJournal.com (press release) South Jersey singer also performs to help raise money to fight drug and alcohol addiction. . . Hansen's mission is to treat, in a residential setting, those who suffer from alcoholism and drug addiction. To provide job placement, living skills and 12-step meetings ...plus other assistance to residents designed to guide them to recovery.
CEO of mental health agency is married to former CEO, who remains on the payroll
Lexington Herald Leader
By John Cheves — jcheves@herald-leader.com Bluegrass is a state-backed non-profit that provides psychiatric care, addiction treatment and counseling for people regardless of their ability to pay. It also manages two of Kentucky's largest mental health ...
Lexington Herald Leader
Straight Women Need HIV/AIDS Tests, Too
Post News Group
By Rachel A. Harralson As an HIV test counselor and Counseling, Testing, and Linkages Coordinator working primarily with people in substance abuse treatment, I have discovered that not everyone battling addiction “looks” like it.
Post News Group
Sterilization-for-cash activists work mean streets of Las Vegas
Las Vegas Review - Journal
The fliers offer $300 to any addict or alcoholic willing to be sterilized or go on long-term birth control. Don't wait, make the call now. 1-888-30-CRACK. Harris came up with idea while raising four children born to a drug-addicted Los Angeles woman.
Microloans for mental-health patients rolling out across Ontario
Globe and Mail
Mr. Middaugh is part of a quiet pilot micro-credit project run by the Rotman School of Management and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health over the past two years. The partnership gives small loans to people with a history of mental-health ...
Globe and Mail
Periodic Drinking - SoberRecovery : Alcoholism Drug Addiction Help ...
By elin
But I can see that his destructive behavior isn't a choice but an addiction that he, despite trying, is unable to stop. This is a mad circle, and it is only recently that I have understood and accepted that he might be a periodic alcoholic. Has anyone ...
SoberRecovery : Alcoholism Drug...
Daily Mail
An addict wants what she wants, when she wants it. An addict's favourite word is 'now': I want to leave now. I want a drink now. I want to die now. I want to f*** now. I refuse to wait. Ted puts the lid back on his pen and watches me with steady eyes.
Daily Mail
Support Groups
Florida Times-Union
Alcoholics Anonymous hotline and website available 24/7. (904) 399-8535 or neflaa.org. Alcoholics Anonymous open meeting, “Free to Be” Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual friendly group, 6:30-7:30 pm Mondays, Unity Church of Jacksonville, ...
Cops taking prevention message to grade school kids
Seaside Signal
Seaside Police Officer Guy Knight conducts a substance abuse prevent class with fourth and fifth graders at Seaside Heights Elementary School. Signal Photo / Jeremy C. Ruark Posted: Sunday, June 3, 2012 1:00 am | Updated: 1:02 pm, Fri Jun 1, 2012.
Alice in Chains Guitarist Jerry Cantrell Honoured With Stevie Ray Vaughan Award
IBTimes.co.uk
By Binayak Khatri | June 3, 2012 12:28 PM GMT Alice in Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell has been honoured with the Stevie Ray Vaughan Award, for his hard work and dedication in helping musicians and artists recover from drug addiction.
IBTimes.co.uk
Mandatory NJ drug court would improve on success
Gloucester County Times - NJ.com
The letter, about a son whose addiction ascended from roxicoden to heroin, was more than a desperate plea for help from a family struggling to heal a young man from a deadly disease. It was one vivid example of an epidemic in New Jersey that goes ...
Gloucester County Times - NJ.com
Teen Country Sensation Mia Bergmann is Destined for Stardom
DigitalJournal.com (press release) South Jersey singer also performs to help raise money to fight drug and alcohol addiction. . . Hansen's mission is to treat, in a residential setting, those who suffer from alcoholism and drug addiction. To provide job placement, living skills and 12-step meetings ...plus other assistance to residents designed to guide them to recovery.
CEO of mental health agency is married to former CEO, who remains on the payroll
Lexington Herald Leader
By John Cheves — jcheves@herald-leader.com Bluegrass is a state-backed non-profit that provides psychiatric care, addiction treatment and counseling for people regardless of their ability to pay. It also manages two of Kentucky's largest mental health ...
Lexington Herald Leader
Straight Women Need HIV/AIDS Tests, Too
Post News Group
By Rachel A. Harralson As an HIV test counselor and Counseling, Testing, and Linkages Coordinator working primarily with people in substance abuse treatment, I have discovered that not everyone battling addiction “looks” like it.
Post News Group
Sterilization-for-cash activists work mean streets of Las Vegas
Las Vegas Review - Journal
The fliers offer $300 to any addict or alcoholic willing to be sterilized or go on long-term birth control. Don't wait, make the call now. 1-888-30-CRACK. Harris came up with idea while raising four children born to a drug-addicted Los Angeles woman.
Microloans for mental-health patients rolling out across Ontario
Globe and Mail
Mr. Middaugh is part of a quiet pilot micro-credit project run by the Rotman School of Management and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health over the past two years. The partnership gives small loans to people with a history of mental-health ...
Globe and Mail
Periodic Drinking - SoberRecovery : Alcoholism Drug Addiction Help ...
By elin
But I can see that his destructive behavior isn't a choice but an addiction that he, despite trying, is unable to stop. This is a mad circle, and it is only recently that I have understood and accepted that he might be a periodic alcoholic. Has anyone ...
SoberRecovery : Alcoholism Drug...
Addiction up sharply among US newborns
Opiates addict more infants
Worcester Telegram
The infant is going through drug withdrawal and is being treated with the same narcotic prescribed for her mother to fight addiction to powerful prescription painkillers. Disturbing new research says the number of US babies born with signs of opiate ...
Addiction up sharply among US newborns
Fort Worth Star Telegram
By Robin Erb DETROIT -- An increased reliance on prescription painkillers and the resultingaddiction has now been passed on to America's newborns, according to a report released Monday. Addicted babies -- many suffering from respiratory problems, ...
Are Some Teenagers Wired for Addiction?
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Moreover, different brain networks appear to be involved in the self-control problems ofsubstance abuse among teenagers than those associated with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, even though both problems stem, in part, ...
Obsessed internet child porn addict amassed 250000 images over 12 years from...
Daily Mail
By Emma Reynolds A child porn addict who began looking at indecent images when he was just 15 amassed almost a quarter of a million pictures by the time his addiction was uncovered. Daniel Hylands, 27, began looking at indecent pictures of children ...
Daily Mail
Addict spent payout on drugs
NW Evening Mail
A HEROIN addict handed a £3000 government payout after complaining about his treatment in prison spent the lot on a bulk-buy of drugs when he was released. Barrow dad-of-one Gerard George McBlain, 31, won the taxpayer-funded compensation from the Home ...
Crisp addict sheds 14 stone after ditching his 20 packs-a-day habit
Scottish Daily Record
A FORMER fitness trainer has lost more than half his body weight after kicking his addiction to crisps. James Quinn ballooned to 27 stone after eating 20 packets a day – along with four burgers, bacon, fried eggs, countless biscuits, a loaf of bread ...
Animal Hoarding: When a love for animals turns into addiction
KSPR
Their obsession with animals has become an addiction – so much so that this type of hoarding may soon be classified as a mental disorder. Some of them have come from a rough past of starvation and squalor, and there is really only one person to blame: ...
CBC's Scott Oake shares story of his son's fatal addiction
Globe and Mail
Known to millions as the host of Hockey Night in Canada, Scott Oake has been keeping something quiet for more than a year now: the loss of his eldest son Bruce to a fatal spiral of addiction. Thirteen months ago, Bruce died in Calgary of an accidental ...
Globe and Mail
'Not My Kid': When Parents are in Denial
Huffington Post
Addiction. It permeated the room; we all felt it and some of us understood it. She continued to talk about the challenges of her ex being unaware of her daughter's drug use and his insistence that she was fine. I listened as my friend quietly said, ...
Dramatic Rise in Babies Born with Opiate Addiction, Study Finds
MyFox Chicago
Fox News - ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The rate of mothers abusing opiates during pregnancy has increased nearly fivefold in the past decade, according to a new study, which also found the number of newborns with drug withdrawal symptoms has multiplied by ...
Number of babies born with addiction increases
KPRC Houston
Doctors said they can tell which infants are experiencing withdrawal symptoms just by listening to their cries. "They'll cry frequently, maybe even constantly," said Dr. David Fisher of Carolinas Health Care System. "They're very difficult to console.
Addict died after medication denial
This is South Wales
Heroin addict Mr Vaughan – known to his family as Leigh – died just hours after staff at Llanelli's Asda store refused to give him Subutex, a heroin substitute prescribed to addicts, because they believed he had been drinking alcohol.
Breaking Free from Addiction | Psychalive
By Lisa Firestone, Ph.D.
I watched, a bit skeptically, as the choreographer explained how she wanted the contemporary dance to symbolize a person's struggle with addiction. The upbeat intro showed the young male and female dancer, she as the addict, and he, ...
Psychalive
Alcoholism Awareness Month | ICDC College News And Information ...
By Dan Jacobs
According to the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence[1], 1 in 12 Americans, or 17.6 million, suffer from alcohol addiction â “ some do not even realize theyâ ™re addicted. Nearly 80000 people die each year from ...
ICDC College News And Information...
Worcester Telegram
The infant is going through drug withdrawal and is being treated with the same narcotic prescribed for her mother to fight addiction to powerful prescription painkillers. Disturbing new research says the number of US babies born with signs of opiate ...
Addiction up sharply among US newborns
Fort Worth Star Telegram
By Robin Erb DETROIT -- An increased reliance on prescription painkillers and the resultingaddiction has now been passed on to America's newborns, according to a report released Monday. Addicted babies -- many suffering from respiratory problems, ...
Are Some Teenagers Wired for Addiction?
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Moreover, different brain networks appear to be involved in the self-control problems ofsubstance abuse among teenagers than those associated with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, even though both problems stem, in part, ...
Obsessed internet child porn addict amassed 250000 images over 12 years from...
Daily Mail
By Emma Reynolds A child porn addict who began looking at indecent images when he was just 15 amassed almost a quarter of a million pictures by the time his addiction was uncovered. Daniel Hylands, 27, began looking at indecent pictures of children ...
Daily Mail
Addict spent payout on drugs
NW Evening Mail
A HEROIN addict handed a £3000 government payout after complaining about his treatment in prison spent the lot on a bulk-buy of drugs when he was released. Barrow dad-of-one Gerard George McBlain, 31, won the taxpayer-funded compensation from the Home ...
Crisp addict sheds 14 stone after ditching his 20 packs-a-day habit
Scottish Daily Record
A FORMER fitness trainer has lost more than half his body weight after kicking his addiction to crisps. James Quinn ballooned to 27 stone after eating 20 packets a day – along with four burgers, bacon, fried eggs, countless biscuits, a loaf of bread ...
Animal Hoarding: When a love for animals turns into addiction
KSPR
Their obsession with animals has become an addiction – so much so that this type of hoarding may soon be classified as a mental disorder. Some of them have come from a rough past of starvation and squalor, and there is really only one person to blame: ...
CBC's Scott Oake shares story of his son's fatal addiction
Globe and Mail
Known to millions as the host of Hockey Night in Canada, Scott Oake has been keeping something quiet for more than a year now: the loss of his eldest son Bruce to a fatal spiral of addiction. Thirteen months ago, Bruce died in Calgary of an accidental ...
Globe and Mail
'Not My Kid': When Parents are in Denial
Huffington Post
Addiction. It permeated the room; we all felt it and some of us understood it. She continued to talk about the challenges of her ex being unaware of her daughter's drug use and his insistence that she was fine. I listened as my friend quietly said, ...
Dramatic Rise in Babies Born with Opiate Addiction, Study Finds
MyFox Chicago
Fox News - ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The rate of mothers abusing opiates during pregnancy has increased nearly fivefold in the past decade, according to a new study, which also found the number of newborns with drug withdrawal symptoms has multiplied by ...
Number of babies born with addiction increases
KPRC Houston
Doctors said they can tell which infants are experiencing withdrawal symptoms just by listening to their cries. "They'll cry frequently, maybe even constantly," said Dr. David Fisher of Carolinas Health Care System. "They're very difficult to console.
Addict died after medication denial
This is South Wales
Heroin addict Mr Vaughan – known to his family as Leigh – died just hours after staff at Llanelli's Asda store refused to give him Subutex, a heroin substitute prescribed to addicts, because they believed he had been drinking alcohol.
Breaking Free from Addiction | Psychalive
By Lisa Firestone, Ph.D.
I watched, a bit skeptically, as the choreographer explained how she wanted the contemporary dance to symbolize a person's struggle with addiction. The upbeat intro showed the young male and female dancer, she as the addict, and he, ...
Psychalive
Alcoholism Awareness Month | ICDC College News And Information ...
By Dan Jacobs
According to the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence[1], 1 in 12 Americans, or 17.6 million, suffer from alcohol addiction â “ some do not even realize theyâ ™re addicted. Nearly 80000 people die each year from ...
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Breaking the Addiction to Incarceration: Weekly Highlights
Today, the U.S. has the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. With over 2.3 million men and women living behind bars, our imprisonment rate is ...
www.aclu.org/.../breaking-addiction-incarceration-weekly-hig...
Today, the U.S. has the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. With over 2.3 million men and women living behind bars, our imprisonment rate is ...
www.aclu.org/.../breaking-addiction-incarceration-weekly-hig...
The Challenges Of Treating Addicts With Borderline Personality Disorder
The Challenges Of Treating Addicts With Borderline Personality Disorder
PsychCentral.com (blog)
Research shows more positive outcomes the longer an addict with BPD stays in treatment, yet keeping them in treatment is no easy task. In a study of patients in a detox program, those with BPD were significantly more likely to have an unplanned ...
PsychCentral.com (blog)
Research shows more positive outcomes the longer an addict with BPD stays in treatment, yet keeping them in treatment is no easy task. In a study of patients in a detox program, those with BPD were significantly more likely to have an unplanned ...
A Newly Published Study Associates Alcoholic-Induced Liver Damage to The ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
A newly published study on Alcoholic Liver Disease (Steatohepatitis) suggests that alteration in the metabolism of an essential nutrient (methionine) leads to the reduced levels of molecules (glutathione) needed to counter alcohol-induced liver injury ...
Drug addict jailed for violent attack on pensioner
Deadline News
By Guest A 31 YEAR old drug addict has been jailed for five-and-a-half-years for attacking an 84-year-old woman in her own home, and then stealing money from her. Jason Forrest, a heroin addict, got into the pensioner's flat and began punching her, ...
Deadline News
Vaccine against heroin addiction comes closer to reality
Times of India
LONDON: A breakthrough vaccine to end heroin addiction could be ready for human use in around five years, researchers say. Mexico's Health Secretary Salomon Chertorivski revealed that the Government had patented the treatment after successfully testing ...
Sex addiction shame and sympathy
Eureka Street
Films about addiction tend to follow a formula, albeit one that chimes with reality. When we meet the addicted character they are generally 'functional', their addiction hidden in the margins of a more civilised lifestyle.
Addict jailed for Xmas Day break in
Shetland News
Procurator fiscal Duncan Mackenzie said: “He's a drug addict and a thief and his dishonesty is to feed his habit. He's a menace when he's at liberty.” Defence agent Tommy Allan agreed that Anderson struggled with drug addiction, having suffered a ...
Alcoholic again charged with drunk driving
Winnipeg Sun
By James Turner ,Winnipeg Sun A Manitoba aircraft mechanic with a “horrendous” booze addictionwho was sentenced last week for a drunken crash that nearly killed woman is facing new charges of impaired and dangerous driving. David Donald Shand, 47, ...
Addict sold drugs to fund his habit
The Star
Sheffield Crown Court heard the former builder was a well-known addict and sold cannabis to customers, as well as taking amphetamines to lose weight. Elizabeth Martin, prosecuting, said police carried out a search warrant at Taylor's home, ...
The Star
Is drug addiction a lifestyle choice?
Practical Ethics (blog)
According to BBC News this week, the brains of some people “may be wired for addiction.” A study has just come out in the journal Science that presents evidence of abnormal brain structures that were found in drug addicts and their non-addicted ...
Practical Ethics (blog)
Drug addiction rehabs and ongoing treatment options
GroundReport
Many drug addiction rehab centers focus on teaching an addict how to stay clean one day at a time, and are then released after a period of time in rehab. Oftentimes an addict will follow the treatment plan taught at Philadelphia rehab centers, ...
Addict stole clothes to fund habit
Chester Standard
He said he was a drug addict.” Richard Thomas, defending, said: “The police did not have enough evidence against him at the time, but he has admitted to these offences straight away. He also admitted he was a drug user and had fallen back into drug use ...
Internet porn should be better regulated by the government
Arizona Daily Wildcat
America's favorite “X-Files” star, David Duchovny, checked himself into rehab for sex addiction in 2008. Duchovny's breaking point came after wrapping the second season of “Californication,” his series on Showtime, in which he plays a sex-addicted ...
Chronic addict caught supplying on streets
Halifax Evening Courier
A CHRONIC addict who was caught supplying drugs in Halifax as part of Operation Irondale has been made the subject of a three-month curfew. Azar Ali, 39, will have to be at his home in Hampden Place, Halifax, between 9 pm and 7 am after a judge decided ...
Alcoholic gambler in cash machine thefts
Market Rasen Today
AN ALCOHOLIC with a gambling problem stole thousands of pounds from his partner's mother who has Alzheimer's disease and cannot manage her own finances, Lincoln Crown Court heard. Ross Douglas, 59, of Willingham Road, Market Rasen stole £3520 from ...
Options for Youth: Parents' alcoholism may be factor in gang ties
Colusa County Sun Herald
No family or neighborhood is immune to alcoholism. It crosses every barrier, whether it's cultural, racial, or socio-economic. It does not discriminate. It exists in many neighborhoods. When children are living in a home where alcoholism is present, ...
Addict bought stolen jacket
This is Plymouth
A DRUG addict bought a jacket which had been stolen from a car, a court heard. Gary Leggett, aged 32, paid £10 for the Helly Hansen coat even though he knew it was stolen, Plymouth magistrates were told. Leggett, of Vinstone Way, Weston Mill, ...
Downtoearthvideo.com Appoints An Expert To Explain The Causes Of Alcoholism
PR Web (press release)
This new expert that we have appointed has a wealth of knowledge that he has built up over the years in the field of alcoholism and he also has a Masters in addiction studies. We are hoping that readers will really appreciate the quality of the ...
Experts share horrors of heroin addiction
STLtoday.com
Granite City Police Chief Richard Miller said he lost his brother to addiction to prescription medication. Miller said he has no doubt that if his brother was still living, he'd be a heroin addict. But there is hope, said people working to treat ...
ONLY ON 3: Woman Tells Her Story Of Prescription Drug Addiction
LocalNews8.com
Like many, it was during those experimental teenage years when she picked up her first alcoholicdrink. At age 15, Dedra said, something clicked. “Wow! It took me away. It fixed what was going on,” she said. From there, she said, it became, ...
My wife's journey to admitting she has a sex addiction - a 411 for the ...
By Tover26
The inner circle is the core set of acting out behaviors an addict has. A drug addict might have their drug of choice, a sex addict might have hookers or masturbation. The qualifier is the person or people or circumstances the addict engages to ...
Talk About Marriage
By Tover26
The inner circle is the core set of acting out behaviors an addict has. A drug addict might have their drug of choice, a sex addict might have hookers or masturbation. The qualifier is the person or people or circumstances the addict engages to ...
Talk About Marriage
Coping with Addiction: Webinar 02/14 : Blue Boat
By Kayla Parker
February 14th is Valentines Day, and we'll be dedicating this time to prepare for how we properly provide love and support to the young adults in our campus ministry groups who might be struggling with addiction themselves or via family and ...
Blue Boat
Getting Help To Get Over An Addiction To Meth
By Bridget
The detoxification process will purge the addict's body of all methamphetamine. Next, a recovering meth addict will check into rehabilitation center where they can begin their meth treatment aftercare program. ... It is imperative that anyone who has developed an addiction to methamphetamines find treatment as swiftly as possible in order to curtail potentially devastating, long-term consequences. The goal of treatment is to get a person off of meth permanently and to demonstrate to ...
Hypercup.org
Alcoholic Curbs Anxiety, but Gotta Stop
By Maj
Alcoholic Curbs Anxiety, but Gotta Stop. ... I have been an alcoholic since age 19 (I'm now 36). I have anxiety ... Click on the following links to learn more about Alcohol Addiction and Alcohol Addiction Treatment information.
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First time - plans to taper - SoberRecovery : Alcoholism Drug ...
By timeisup
Im worried about my body if i just stop, im not a drinker that drinks every day to get smashed and who has to start again the next day in true alcoholic spirit. According to the web, drinking daily for a long period will give you a hell of a detox, ...
SoberFeed...Live!
Heroin Addiction Vaccine “Five Years Away” Alex Jones' Infowars ...
A vaccine against heroin addiction could be ready for human use in just five years. ... Good News: Heroin and crack addict numbers dip in UK · Inside Mexico's Drug .... Just think if they issued a vaccine for alcoholism…ohh wait, that will never ...
www.infowars.com/heroin-addiction-vaccine-five-years-away/
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