Amy Winehouse's father on how addiction affects all

Paul Flowers: Amy Winehouse's father on how addiction affects all ...
Telegraph.co.uk
Winehouse, whose late daughter Amy struggled with drug addiction while alive, says that while the foundation works a lot with schools, he hopes to help all ages ...

Telegraph.co.uk

EDITORIAL: Drug Addiction: A Public Health Crisis
Litchfield County Times
Heroin addiction is shaking communities as we watch individuals with once bright futures ruined by a drug that is well known for its lethal capacity yet is so easily ...

Recovering addict shares story with Drug Task Force
WXOW.com
The Heroin and Illicit Drug Task Force, a group working to find ways to prevent and treat the drugproblem in our area, learned about addiction recovery from a ...

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Amy Winehouse Died of Alcohol Poisoning

Second Inquest Confirms Amy Winehouse Died of Alcohol Poisoning ". . . . Ms. Radcliffe said Ms. Winehouse “died of alcohol toxicity” and recorded a verdict of death by misadventure. She said the singer “voluntarily consumed alcohol — a deliberate act that took an unexpected turn and led to her death.” Ms. Winehouse was a critically acclaimed singer who won multiple Grammy Awards for her 2006 retro-soul album “Back to Black.” She was found dead in her London home on July 23, 2011, with empty vodka bottles scattered around her body. She had long suffered from alcoholism and drug addiction. The coroner said Ms. Winehouse’s blood had five times the legal limit for alcohol for driving in Britain, a lethal level of 0.4 percent. A pathologist testified during the 45-minute hearing at St. Pancras Coroner’s Court that such a high concentration would cause respiratory arrest. Christina Romete, a doctor who had treated Ms. Winehouse for addiction, said she had given up illegal drugs like heroin, crack cocaine and marijuana, but had struggled to stop drinking. Dr. Romete said Ms. Winehouse had begun drinking a few days before her death after two weeks of avoiding alcohol. “She said she started drinking again because she felt bored,” Dr. Romete said."

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Amy Winehouse's father says David Cameron is losing the drugs war

Amy Winehouse's father says David Cameron is losing the drugs war
Telegraph.co.uk
“Frankly, the Government isn't doing enough to help people with drug addiction,” he says at the Amy Winehouse Foundation Ball, at the Dorchester hotel in London. “What we've got to do is change the way people think in this country, including the ...

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Chris Nilan had the fight of his life after playing professional hockey: drug ...
Boston.com
Nilan also went to see an addiction specialist in Hawaii recommended by his girlfriend, Jamie Holtz, executive assistant of the The Knuckles Group. “I was embarrassed and ashamed to ... You don't take the drug, the drug takes you.” But this is not a ...

Doctors steering clear of addicts
The Age
Drug policy agencies say the shortage has become so severe they are urging the federal government to list ''drug addiction'' as a specific item for the Medicare rebate, warning that the complexity of the problem and time needed meant doctors were ...

The Age

Help is available for those with substance use disorders
Daily Comet
Many individuals find success with 12-step programs such as Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous. For help, contact your family physician, the Alcohol and Drug Addiction Resource Center at 1-800-390-4056, or for referral information to local ...

Australian Study on Videogame Addiction Finds Evidence of a Phenomenon ...
AusGamers
A PhD student at the Australian National University has reportedly documented some of the first scientific evidence that video game addiction has a fundamental affect on the attention system of sufferers, a phenomenon seen in heroin, nicotine, alcohol ...

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Mother seeks help for son's synthetic drug addiction - 13 WTHR ...
With tears streaming down her face, Sherri Belttari says she fears what her son has fallen into. She says he is hooked on pep spice, bath salts, any number of ...

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Amy Winehouse & Anita: Two women with very different lives but the very same deadly addiction

Amy Winehouse & Anita: Two women with very different lives but the very same ...
Belfast Telegraph
A year ago today millions of fans were mourning Amy Winehouse, who was found dead at her London home aged just 27 after a long and very public battle with drug and alcohol addiction. But for one Lisburn mum her death was especially poignant. For Anita ...

Belfast Telegraph

Sister Ignatia: The Apostle of Alcoholics Anonymous
Patheos
At St. Thomas Hospital in Akron, she helped Dr. Robert H. Smith, AA's co-founder, to dispel the notion that alcoholism was a moral defect, rather than a spiritual, mental and physical disease. Bridget Della Mary Gavin was one of three children born to a farmer ...

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Silicon Valley Says Step Away From the Device
New York Times
... like FarmVille, has said he has helped addict millions of people to dopamine, a neurochemical that has been shown to be released by pleasurable activities, including video game playing, but also is understood to play a major role in the cycle of addiction.

New York Times

OxyContin and Heroin Addiction on the South Shore
Boston magazine's Boston Daily (blog)
“It's how your community takes those struggles, deals with it, and keeps going on,” Weymouth mayor Susan Key says in the opening moments of Narcotic Misconceptions, a new documentary about opiate addiction in Weymouth and across the South Shore. ... In the opening pages of the results, the commission also points to the shame of Oxycontin and heroin abuse: “Because of the stigma surrounding substance abuse, the opiate epidemic is left in the shadows and little light has been put upon reforming the policies ...

Our View: Internet addiction
StandardNet
Earlier this year, research showed that the brains of Internet-addicted persons look similar to the brains of persons suffering from drug and alcohol addiction. The research, included in a Newsweek article on Internet addiction, shows that the brain "shows signs ...

Alcoholism and HIV infection have different effects on visuomotor procedural ...
Science Codex
The different effects on memory processes by chronic alcoholism and HIV infection likely reflect the specific neuropathology associated with each condition: frontocerebellar dysfunction inalcoholism and frontostriatal dysfunction in HIV infection. A study of the ...

Silicon Valley's Prescriptions for Internet Addiction
The Atlantic Wire
The people whose livelihoods and egos depend on the success of Internet-powered gadgets have started disconnecting because of all the detrimental things it may or may not do to our brains that we've read about in various trend stories, of late. Unlike us ...

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Living in the Mission as a Recovering Alcoholic
Mission Local
In March when Mission Local asked about the Mission District specifically, Li Lighfoot, an Alcoholics Anonymous employee, said, “There's a whole slew of people in recovery in the Mission.” Because he hasn't gone through the 12-step program, some people ...

Andrew Simon Flood: Gambling addict Taxi-driver caught smiling on CCTV ...
Daily Mail
Judge Clement Goldstone, QC, the Recorder of Liverpool, told the 43-year-old private hire driver, 'You targeted them because you wanted to rob them of their money and jewellery in order to feed your dependency on alcohol and youraddiction to gambling, ...

Daily Mail

Terminator 3 actor Nick Stahl reconciles with estranged wife 'as he receives ...
Daily Mail
He vanished after checking out of a rehabilitation facility to address drug and alcohol addiction against the wishes of doctors. However Rose Murphy Stahl tweeted a picture of them looking happy together on ... Going straight: The actor is said to be attending Alcoholics Anonymous. It will be a huge relief for fans of the 32-year-old after he vanished for a ... She said she feared he may have lost his battle with substance abuse and overdosed. Father: The actor is the father of two-year-old Marlo. She told People: 'He ...

Daily Mail

Inquest hears of addict's final days
The Northern Echo
A HEROIN addict who made threats to kill himself was twice taken into police custody only days before his body was found at his father's home. An inquest into the death of Colin John Chamberlain was told that on the second occasion he was arrested for his ...

Ex-Lion Berry apologizes, will enter substance-abuse program
Pro Football Weekly
Former Lions CB Aaron Berry apologized Monday after a second offseason arrest ended his career with the club. “Words cannot describe how embarrassed I am right now," said Berry, arrested Saturday on simple assault charges that reportedly involve a ...

Mumbai: Drug addict caught stealing fans from court
IBNLive.com
Mumbai: Heating up things for cops and lawyers, a 22-year-old drug addict was arrested by the Colaba police for stealing fans and electronic equipment from the City Civil and Sessions Court at Fort. Shortly before being nabbed, Shamsher Ali Laik Ali, ...

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From homeless alcoholic to social enterprise businessman
News Shopper
From homeless alcoholic to social enterprise businessman (From News Shopper).  ...

Gambling: The secret addiction
Bureau of Investigative Journalism
Whose problem is it anyway? The gambling industry provide £5m a year to fund treatment and research. For the vast majority of people, gambling is a harmless pastime: almost three-quarters of all Brits had a flutter last year, if you include the National Lottery.

Bureau of Investigative Journalism

Widow, 79, died after being mugged by a drug addict for her handbag containing ...
Daily Mail
An elderly widow who died after she was robbed of her handbag containing her husband's ashes was allegedly set upon by a drug addict desperate for cash to fund his habit. Nellie Geraghty, 79, was found minutes away from her home with the strap of her handbag still firmly in her ... The prosecution said earlier in the day Royle was desperate for drugs and had tried to sell his mountain bike to raise money to feed his addiction. Mr Royle had left a drug addict friend's home that morning in order to find some money.

Daily Mail

Alcoholic given curfew
Peterborough Telegraph
An notorious Peterborough alcoholic has been banned from leaving his house at night for three months after admitting stealing beer from a shop. Shepherd Gandi (41) of Kilham, Orton Goldhay, Peterborough, admitted taking three cans of beer from Co-op in ...

Peterborough Telegraph

Alcoholic back inside two months after prison release
Peterborough Telegraph
A Peterborough alcoholic who stole a car less than two months after being released from a lengthy prison sentence has been jailed. Soma Deasley (24) of Ploverly, Werrington, was released from a 32 month prison sentence in May, after being convicted of ...

Peterborough Telegraph

Narconon Treatment Center Under Fire
KTUL (blog)
For those who have committed their lives to saving people from drug and alcohol addiction the loss of not being able to help a person overcome addiction takes an emotional toll on us as well. It is a sad day ... Narconon has remained accredited by the nationally recognized accreditation agency, CARF (Commission on The Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities) for 20 years and is certified by the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse to deliver non-medical detoxification services". Gary W.

Comedian takes stage, shines spotlight on addiction
The Bugle
The Plainfield resident has battled alcoholism, drug addiction, and mental illness for nearly three decades. Now, he's sober nearly 4 years, married and father of four and has written a book, ... “I lived as both a street walking alcoholic and highly professional functioning addict,” Connolly explained adding that he later discovered he had also been living with undiagnosed Bi-Polar Disorder, a condition which drove his addictions. “I was consuming 24-plus beers and other substances including speed and marijuana ...

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Yet Another Way to Misunderstand President Obama's Record on ...
By Keith Humphreys
In contrast, billions of private dollars are spent on addiction treatment each year. Federal policies that increase the amount of those dollars, for example by mandating that insurers coveraddiction treatment, don't show up in the federal drug ...
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Silicon Valley Worries About Addiction to Devices - Progressive Voices
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ALCOHOL REPORTS: Differential Effect of Alcoholism and HIV ...
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An international website dedicated to providing current information on news, reports, publications,and peer-reviewed research articles concerning alcoholism and alcohol-related problems throughout the world. Postings are provided by ... The 2 alcoholic groups showed retention and consolidation over time (i.e., improved performance without further training), whereas the HIV-infected group showed learning and retention but no consolidation effect. The comorbid group shared ...
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Amy Winehouse's dad details cycle of addiction

Amy Winehouse's dad details cycle of addiction
The Associated Press
Amy Winehouse's dad details cycle of addiction ... strong will may have helped her during her career, but it didn't help with substance abuse, her father writes. "Long before Amy was an addict, no one could tell her what to do," he writes.

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Orexo Advances on Addiction Drug Study Result: Stockholm Mover
Businessweek
Orexo AB (ORX), a Swedish biotech company, rose to the highest level in five months in Stockholm trading after saying a study on its addiction medicine met ...

Mitch Winehouse Memoir: 'Amy, My Daughter' Details Singer's ...
Spinner
Mitch Winehouse Memoir: 'Amy, My Daughter' Details Singer's Addiction Struggles ... her during her career, but it didn't help with substance abuse, her father writes. "Long before Amy was anaddict, no one could tell her what to do," he writes.

Weight-Loss Surgery Ups Alcoholism
ABC News
"If I was given the choice between being obese and becoming an alcoholic, ... Kahn's alcoholaddiction may not be a unique result of gastric bypass surgery.

Dorchester substance-abuse forum set for Tuesday
Boston.com
By Patrick D. Rosso, Town Correspondent A substance-abuse forum will be held Tuesday at the Leahy-Holloran Community Center in Dorchester. The forum ...

Is taking a “study drug” the fiercest rebellion this generation can ...
Slate Magazine
The tame, constricted rebellion that is Adderall addiction. ... I grew up in a house with an older sister who was a heroin addict, so I do not entertain any lofty or ...

Slate Magazine

Study: Gastric bypass may increase risk of alcoholism
7Online.com
Study: Gastric bypass may increase risk of alcoholism ... Guidelines recommend against the surgery for people with substance abuse problems including ...

7Online.com

Does gastric bypass surgery cause alcoholism?
The Week Magazine
Do these operations cause alcoholism? Here, a brief ... Another theory is that the risk ofalcoholism might be a by-product of the success of this type of surgery. During the first ... Bill Frist. How to wean America from its dangerous food addiction ...

National Advocacy Organization for Addiction Treatment Elects ...
Sacramento Bee
MILL SPRING, N.C., June 18, 2012 -- /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Association ofAddiction Treatment Providers, (NAATP) has elected Anne ...

How Alcoholism Is Linked to Extreme Weight-Loss
Gizmodo
Simply swapping one addiction for another. ... Both obesity and alcoholism are hazards to ones health. ... Is a trimmer figure worth the risk of alcoholism?

Now, non-alcoholic beer for dogs
Times of India
A Seattle company is brewing beer for dogs, which is a non-carbonated mixture of meat-broth and malt barley, with glucosamine added for joint health.

Amy's dad details cycle of addiction
Stuff.co.nz
Amy Winehouse's strong will may have helped her during her career, but it didn't help with substance abuse, her father writes. ''Long before Amy was an addict, ...

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How to Assess Your Teen's Risk Factors for Drug Addiction
Huffington Post (blog)
According to a survey by The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University, high stress teens are twice as likely as their ...

Boogaard an alarming example of NHL's easy path to drug addiction
SI.com
The horror that was Derek Boogaard's painkiller addiction came into shaper focus earlier this ... the knowledge of counselors for the NHL's Substance Abuse and Behavioral Health Program ... “Derek was an addict,” Len Boogaard told Branch.

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Bariatric Surgery Causing Alcoholism?
Ivanhoe
(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Severe obesity is the second-leading cause of preventable death in the United States. About 18 million people in the United States suffer ...

Smartphone addiction can affect your personality
Times of India
LONDON: Our obsession with latest technologies like smartphone, tablet or laptop may cause not only distraction, but it may also change our personalities, says ...

US Open shows smart phone addiction
MarketWatch
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — To wander around the U.S. Open tournament last week, where I was invited to check out IBM Corp.'s cloud computing in ...

MarketWatch

Can a gastric bypass turn you into an alcoholic? Doctors warn ...
Daily Mail
Undergoing weight loss surgery can increase alcohol addiction, causing previously social drinkers to develop alcoholism. According to a new study, gastric...

Daily Mail

The worst things to say to an addict
Auburn Citizen
Despite being that “unacceptable disease,” addiction is still a disease. ... Sure, the addict'sbehavior can suck, and you just want to shake them, but this ... has been a credentialed alcohol and substance abuse counselor for more than 25 years.

Rodney King: Victim of celebrity or addict that couldn't be ...
Gather.com
That makes him seem more an addict than a victim. ... And he explained that the reason was because his own father was an alcoholic. ... as he said that "What I've learned to do is to arrest my addiction—arrest it myself, so I don't get arrested." ...

Can gastric bypass fuel alcoholism?
Orlando Sentinel
Can gastric bypass fuel alcoholism? Email · print. Comments. 0 ... Topics · Alcohol Addiction · Weight Loss Surgery. Copyright © 2012, Orlando Sentinel ...

Addict a sad face in pokie palaces
Courier Mail
THERE is a disturbing profile of the typical poker-machine addict in the report on gambling tabled in Federal Parliament by the Productivity Commission recently.

Drug addict burgled his neighbour's home
The Bolton News
Drug addict burgled his neighbour's home (From The Bolton News) ... to make efforts to rehabilitate yourself from your catastrophic long term addiction of drugs.

Compulsive Overeating: All the Addiction, None of the Street Cred
The Atlantic Wire
Caitlin Moran's personal essay "I Know Why the Fat Lady Sings," calls compulsive overeating "the most pointlessly secret of miseries" for women. Her words ...

The Shocking Symptoms Of Alcoholism | BlackDoctor
By Marcus Williams, BDO Staff Writer
Alcoholism is drinking alcoholic beverages at a level that interferes with physical health, mental health, and social, family, or job responsibilities. Alcoholism is also a serious disease can affect anyone, regardless of issues such as race or ...
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Addiction as a disease | Memoirs of an Addicted Brain
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Portland physician assistant disciplined for substance abuse ...
By Jackie Farwell
PORTLAND, Maine — A physician assistant in Portland has been disciplined by a state licensing board for substance abuse violations. Patrick Carson was undergoing voluntary monitoring through a program that assists medical professionals ...
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The Need for Alcohol Addiction Treatment for Medical Doctors ...
By russbarnstein
People often view doctors as superheroes, but they need alcohol addiction treatment just as much as any other group. Healthcare workers with drinking problems endanger themselves and their patients, and alcohol addiction treatment can ...
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Counselor To Heroin Addicts: There Is Hope; Winehouse Trust Donates To Rehab Charity

Counselor To Heroin Addicts:There Is Hope
CBS Local
Chestnut Health Systems, Adult Substance Abuse Services Director Susan Taylor says they have seen the addiction take hold, but they've also seen people recover and live full, productive lives. Taylor says they're seeing heroin users from 17 to ...

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Amy Winehouse - Winehouse Trust Donates To Substance Abuse Charity
Contactmusic.com
Amy Winehouse's father Mitch has given a UK substance abuse charity a boost by making a $48000 (£30000) donation in the tragic singer's name. Mitch and his wife Jane visited the drug and alcohol rehabilitation charity Focus12 in Suffolk, ...

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OxyContin delisting not the answer to opioid addiction, experts say
Globe and Mail
The decision by some provinces to remove public funding for OxyContin and its newer harder-to-abuse formulation, OxyNEO, is being cast by many politicians and health professionals as a significant victory in the battle against the scourge of painkiller ...

Globe and Mail

Confessions of a recovering addict
Sun.Star
As the addiction progressed, getting and using drugs became more and more important and the ability to stop using them was compromised. Moloy is a man without any stable job, but he gives his best shot at cleaning the motorcycles of his neighbors for ...

Chronic pain patients at high-risk for comorbid substance abuse benefit from 3 ...
News-Medical.net
The study addressed substance use in chronic pain patients, and the researchers aimed to determine the efficacy of a 3-week interdisciplinary pain rehabilitation treatment for patients with chronic pain who have an increased risk of substance abuse.

'Families should not be ashamed because a loved one has been drawn into addiction'
This is Hull and East Riding
With his life firmly in the grip of addiction, social services have forced Mandy to ask her son, now 18, to leave the family home because of fears over the safety of her daughter. It was the hardest thing she has ever had to do.

Pediatricians to help adolescents fight malnutrition, substance abuse
Times of India
Dr Rajkumar Kiratkar, who is the new secretary of the academy, said a similar methodology would be used for tackling substance abuse. "This problem can have its roots in various things like psychological deprivation, peer pressure and wrong company, ...

Workshops on Substance Abuse and Drug-Free Workplaces are This Week
Sheridan Media (press release)
By Ron Richter on Mon 02/27/2012 06:10 The Workforce Development Committee of the Sheridan County Chamber of Commerce is hosting two workshops this week for supervisors' training for identifying substance use and abuse in the workplace.

Minsk Department of Internal Affairs: There are 200 Thousand Chronic ...
Telegraf.by
In Minsk, registered 40.5 thousand people are suffering from alcoholism. Among them, 7.72 million women and 4.57 thousand teenagers, reported in Minsk city executive committee. Last year, 903 chronic alcoholics, of whom 160 - women, were sent to the ...

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Writer Presents Book on Alcoholism
AllAfrica.com
Lubango — The Angolan writer, Isaura Maria da Conceição panda presented on Saturday her book entitled "Memórias de uma alcoólica" in Lubango city, southern Huíla province. The referred book comprises 39 pages and portrays stories based on the author's ...

Mexican researchers patent heroin vaccine
Sydney Morning Herald
Maria Elena Medina speaks about the patent of a new vaccine that could reduceaddiction to heroin. Photo: Reuters While Mexico grapples with relentless drug-related violence, a group of Mexican scientists is working on a vaccine that could reduce ...

Sydney Morning Herald

Working program to fight dependency
Visalia Times-Delta
That letter reveals while you are now in treatment, you are making amends and working steps four, five and nine of Alcoholic Anonymous. Congratulations. This is not an easy task.Alcoholism is a powerful, controlling genetic disease.

Addicted women learn to become sober, better moms at recovery center
Springfield News-Leader
“Oh, your mom's an alcoholic? My mom's an alcoholic too.” Carol Jones is run by Alternative Opportunities, a nonprofit. Some of the women have their children live with them while they're in treatment. In 2011, the program did substance abuse assesments ...

researchers patent heroin vaccine
Sydney Morning Herald
While Mexico grapples with relentless drug-related violence, a group of Mexican scientists is working on a vaccine that could reduce addiction to one of the world's most notorious narcotics: heroin. Researchers at the country's National Institute of ...

Life Management Inc. Merges with Magnolia Creek Treatment Center for Eating ...
PR Web (press release)
Life Management Inc., a leading provider of outpatient substance abuse treatment and mental health counseling is pleased to announce its merger with Magnolia Creek Treatment Center for Eating Disorders. We have programs for virtually anyone struggling ...

'How to Cope' aids families of the addicted
Ridgefield Press
Midwestern Connecticut Council of Alcoholism (MCCA) is launching March 5 How To Cope, a nationally recognized program for family members and friends impacted by addiction. Manyaddiction professionals believe that loved ones and family members may ...

Pakistan school strives to beat the Taliban trap
Seattle Post Intelligencer
14, 2012 photo, a drug addict leans on a wall after injecting himself with a dose of heroin on a street in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. The flourishing opium production in Afghanistan has resulted in more than 4 million addicts in Pakistan.

Rehab Surges In Bad Economy With Executives Who Won't Stop Working
Huffington Post
That, in turn, seems to be causing a spike in the number of people seeking treatment for substance abuse. "In bad times, people tend to medicate themselves," said William Moyers, vice president of public affairs at Hazelden, a Minnesota-based treatment ...

Ginnie Graham: Tired of celebrity 'exhaustion'
Tulsa World
Some of the famous, including the late singers Whitney Houston and Amy Winehouse, later spoke of their addiction battles after their publicists originally claimed exhaustion. The ill-use of the E-word just perpetuates the stigma surrounding mental ...

Heroin death inspires message
Palladium-Item
Matthew suffered from a heroin addiction that dated back two-plus years. His family helped him clean up in recent months, but a recent relapse ended with his death at Reid Hospital in Richmond. The family is sharing their grief in the hopes area young ...

Jazz trumpeter pastor uses music to connect to people
Coshocton Tribune
He started playing the trumpet as a teenager but says he got involved with drugs and wrestled with addiction for almost two decades before recovering. Turner said he felt a need to give back and do more than "be here, experience drug addiction, ...

Medical sensors could phone for help
Boston Globe
By Carolyn Y. Johnson A man struggling with drug addiction feels a craving coming on, but his next therapy appointment is not for another week. Right away, his cellphone buzzes, offering a breathing exercise, a motivational message, or even just a ...

Boston Globe

Spouse of addict seeking support - Sex Addiction Support Groups
By emdee21
My husband and I have a different situation; we are in a long distance relationship and have been for three years now. He lives in the US and I live in Canada.
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Are We Medicating Our Feelings Away | Self-Medication and ...
By David Sack, M.D.
The easy accessibility and perceived safety of prescription drugs have intensified the risks ofaddiction. Ordinary ... In most cases, the drug of choice is not chosen at random, but based on the specific feelings the addict is trying to relieve.
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Women – Overcoming Your Alcohol Abuse, Dependence or Addiction
By admin
Alcohol rehabilitation treatment providers are nearly universally wedded to the outdated 12-Stepmodel that only works for approximately ten percent of the men they were designed for, much less for women. Women, and their usually differing ...
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CBT for Drug Addiction and PTSD via Wearable Sensor Platform ...
By Cognitive Behavior Therapy News | Beck Institute Blog
Researchers from the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) are currently examining the effects of cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) delivered via mobile device to patients suffering from drug-addiction and post-traumatic stress ...
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UNH Counseling Center: Children of Parents with Alcoholism
By Counseling Center
In 1983, Dr. Jan Woititz wrote a book describing the common elements of Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACOA), individuals who were raised in families that were affected by alcoholism. Dr. Woititz indicated that these qualities also occur in ...
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Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Center for Substance Abuse ...Chapter 1 — Women Offenders and Addiction: Research Findings.
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Anti-abuse, addiction forum on the cards
Independent Online
Picture: Gcina Ndwalane Pushers and drug lords can expect to see their profits shrink with the news that KwaZulu-Natal Premier Zweli Mkhize is setting up a forum to tackle abuse andaddiction in the province. Popular drugs, including woonga and kuber, ...

Hope for children addicted to gaming
The Age
Once their gaming is back to normal levels, their psychological problems shift, and their mood and school work improves, says Douglas Gentile, a lead researcher on two studies of video game addiction. Dr Gentile, an associate professor in psychology at ...

The Age

She The People
Washington Post (blog)
And it's simply untrue that alcoholism can be outgrown, like a food allergy, or Justin Bieber. Yeardley Love discussion that went on inside the jury room. Not surprisingly, jurors did not buy the defense team's unlikely narrative, and held Huguely ...

Translational research in addiction conference to take place in Texas
News-Medical.net
Young people starting out in addiction research will get a turbo-boost to their careers March 3-4 at an annual conference that puts them face to face with internationally recognized addiction researchers and clinicians. The conference, "Behavior ...

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Amy Winehouse The Lioness' Final Roar

Amy Winehouse The Lioness' Final Roar
Paste Magazine
As she sank deeper and deeper into her addiction, her talent was overshadowed by her reputation, and she never did get it together long enough to put out a follow-up to Back to Black. Perhaps that's why when Lioness: Hidden Treasures—an odds-and-ends ...

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Addict in trouble again
The Border Mail
Judge Fran Hogan said when sentencing Locke, 25, in March his threatening a service station attendant with a screwdriver was not a classic case of a drug addict engaging in armed robbery to feed a habit. And she accepted that Locke was deeply ...

Cliftonville drug addict Carly Stafford stole from her grandmother
Kent Online
by Paul Hooper A Cliftonville drug addict with convictions for prostitution has been freed for Christmas – despite draining her sick grandmother's bank account to feed her habit. Carly Stafford, 23, had been given a bank card from trusting granny Anne ...

Kent Online

Drug addict tortured, killed and buried housemate in shallow grave
This is Local London
By Mark Chandler » A 31-YEAR-OLD who tortured a man for his £93000 bank account details before murdering him and burying the body in woodland has been jailed for a minimum of 28 years. Police enquiries found that Thomas Puxty had withdrawn £50000 from ...

Drug addict spoils family's Christmas
The Advertiser Series
After unwrapping the gifts intended for the girl, drug addict Raymond Bragg dumped them on a railway line because they had no resale value, Newton Aycliffe Magistrates'Court, in County Durham, heard yesterday. Bragg admitted burglary and was warned ...

Student Free From 17 Years Drug Addiction After Varsity Admission
AllAfrica.com
His words: "Being in the school delivered me from drug addiction. This school is a transformational ground. The messages I heard helped me to publicly relinquish the act. The atmosphere in the campus fostered my recovery and I am totally free from ...

Double life of drug addict caddie who broke into churches
Scotland Courier
The 45-year-old's once high-profile career now lies in tatters after he admitted breaking into a number of Fife churches in a bid to steal petty cash, which he then used to fund a chronic drug addiction. Once seen as a ''likeable rogue'', ...

Scotland Courier

Former heroin addict gets best Christmas present ever - a second chance
FOX19
It's about helping people whose lives have hit rock bottom due to addiction. Keifer Moreland's story could easily have ended at the age of 12. "I was a heroin addict, and my lifestyle was out of control," said Moreland. In November of 2010, ...

Pfizer reports positive results from anti-addiction study of Embeda
Proactive Investors USA & Canada
Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) announced Thursday the results of three phase four studies of Embeda, which were intended to assess the addictability of the drug when crushed and taken either orally or intranasally. Embeda is an extended release morphine sulfate and...

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Olympic Torch honour for addiction centre boss
Burton Mail
Noreen Oliver was given the accolade for setting up and running Burton AddictionCentre, in Station Street, and her campaigning work in raising the profile of drug and alcohol issues on the national agenda. Mrs Oliver, a keen football fan, ...

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Methadone moratorium — again Council enacts 6-month ban on addiction clinics
Foster's Daily Democrat
Methadone is a synthetic narcotic that has been used for more than 30 years to treat addiction to heroin, morphine and other opiates. Methadone reduces the cravings associated with heroin use, but does not provide the euphoric rush of heroin. ...

Former Addict Pays It Forward, Now Helps Others Face Their Issues
TestCountry.com (blog)
One such example of the success of peer support is Lambert, an ex-convict who was diagnosed with mood disorder with drug addiction, but has since turned his life around. He is becoming a prominent peer trainer, and gives classes in Delaware and across ...

Alcoholic attacked his mum
Buxton Advertiser
AN alcoholic admitted assaulting him mother during an argument at his home, a court heard. Carl Alfred Whittle, 28, of Market Street, Hayfield, threw a wooden ashtray while drunk which had struck his mother Jean Whittle on the left side of her face. ...

New Year, New Realities: Selling Recovery TV
Mediapost.com
This may sound like a lot of sensationalism—until you realize that there are more than 22 million Americans dealing with the disease of addiction to alcohol and other substances, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services ...

Hollywood ending for former addict
Chicago Tribune
Life hasn't changed all that much for Kelly Christian Jr. since the Tribune profiled him in January. He's still working the same blue-collar job, still living in the same small apartment in Addison, still facing some health struggles. ...

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Chris Herren sends moving message
SouthCoastToday.com
"If I hadn't been a drug addict, maybe I could have been telling you about what it's like to be an NBA champion with Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett," Herren told the students. "But that wouldn't have been as important as what I'm telling you now. ...

13 WTHRIndianapolis woman overcomes homelessness, addiction through faith
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Entertainment News from AP By Angela Cain - email LuWanna takes her lessons from the classroom to the pulpit at Olive Branch Christian Church on the southeast side, where she is a student pastor. She showed Eyewitness News the alleyways where she used ...

Is he an alcoholic? - SoberRecovery : Alcoholism Drug Addiction ...
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My husband drinks vodka with juice every day and be finishing a 1/2 gallon in 3-4 days to start an other one. He don't seem to get drunk or need it.
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The confines of culture | Addiction & Recovery News
By Jason Schwartz
I recently read a series of great posts that had no direct relationship to addiction or recovery but they got me thinking about the power of culture as a sustaining force in addiction. The series was sparked by a Forbes blogger who wrote a post ...
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Amy Winehouse death: Mother Janis says Amy was ashamed of being an alcoholic

Amy Winehouse death: Mother Janis says Amy was ashamed of being an alcoholic Daily Mail Just as the 27-year-old-star had, in 2008, seemingly single-handedly conquered her life-threatening addiction to drugs, so she seemed determined to do the same with drink. But she made it clear she wanted to do it on her own terms and in her own time, ...

Is Nicotine a 'Gateway' to Cocaine Addiction— And Cancer? TIME While causal conclusions are hard to draw, at least one new study in mice shows that smoking may indeed increase the risk of cocaine addiction by changing gene activity in the brain. It also sheds new light on how cigarettes cause cancer and why ...

Inspire Malibu Treats Addiction With Science, Not Faith MarketWatch (press release) Addiction Innovator Dr. Akikur Mohammad's Inspire Malibu Is Being Called the Future of SecularAddiction Treatment MALIBU, CA, Nov 04, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Dr. Akikur Mohammad, Founder of Malibu Horizon, the leading non 12-step treatment ...

Alcoholism: A Family Secret - Part 2 WCAX Rose now runs the Burlington-based recovery and support center but she's also a recovering alcoholic and knows first hand about the love-hate relationships many families share with their addict. "I think the family has the absolutely hardest job ...

Hoops Legend Credits Miller House For Recovery From Drug Addiction CapeNews.net That, and a subsequent trip for treatment in 2001, did not produce the desired results, he said, because “both times I was obviously younger and my addiction hadn't really gone to the depths it had gone to in 2008. I think I was doing it to appease ...

When food becomes an addiction Albany Times Union She wondered what would happen if she treated her problem as an addiction, like an alcoholic or a drug addict? Thornton created her own treatment plan and followed it. Both she and her husband shed their extra weight over several years. ...

Sex Addiction and Intimacy Disorder Expert Robert Weiss Releases "The ... MarketWatch (press release) LOS ANGELES, Nov 03, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- As headlines surrounding GOP presidential hopeful Herman Cain's alleged sexual harassment of women during his time as head of the National Restaurant Association dominate the news, leading sexual addiction ...

Bali boy pleads with court, promises to try harder to beat drug addiction Sydney Morning Herald THE 14-year-old boy arrested in Bali for drug possession has told a Denpasar court how he has been a regular marijuana smoker but would redouble his efforts to kick the habit as he begged to be allowed to go home. The teary testimony from the youth ...

Jail for addict with 46 convictions The Press Justice Whata said Durbin was an addict who justified his offending by thinking he was smart enough to avoid detection. In fact, he was assessed as having the decision making abilities of a 16-year-old and people took advantage of his gullibility. ...

Pennsylvania doctor with drug addiction charged with pharmacy ... By The Associated Press Detectives say a Pittsburgh-area doctor with an addiction to painkillers robbed a suburban pharmacy twice and tunneled through its wall on another occasion to steal painkilling patches and pills. Breaking Midstate News with The...

Agency works to combat rising forms of addiction | News - Home The Council on Chemical Abuse is shining a spotlight on types of addiction that are becoming more prevalent. Home

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