Posts Tagged ‘Addicts’
Drug Addiction: Part 4: Changes Could Save Drug Addicts’ Lives – OCRegister
Drug Addiction: Part 4: Changes could save drug addicts’ lives – OCRegister
Part 4: Changes could save drug addicts' lives OCRegister 2011 to hold a candlelight vigil to remember friends or family who have passed away or are suffering from addiction. Part 1: Homicide investigation shines light on drug epidemic killing dozens of OC's young and thousands nationwide. |
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Drug Addiction: Group Wants To Sterilize Drug-Addicted Women…Like Spaying Dogs – BlissTree
 BlissTree | Group Wants To Sterilize Drug-Addicted Women…Like Spaying Dogs BlissTree by Deborah Dunham | 4 Comments | Share a Tip In today's birth control news, one controversial group is paying women who are drug addicts to get sterilized–just like dogs that need to get spayed and neutered, they say. Because, you know, women are like … Group Pays Drug Addicted Women to Get Sterilized, So They Don't Have 'Litters … Should addicts be sterilized? |
Drug Addiction: Malaysia Mosque a Source of Hope for Heroin Addicts – Reuters
Drug Addiction: Malaysia mosque a source of hope for heroin addicts – Reuters
Malaysia mosque a source of hope for heroin addicts Reuters In Malaysia, a Muslim-majority country where drug addiction is still taboo, his habit made him a social outcast until he found support from an unlikely source — the Ar Rahman mosque nestled in the bustling capital city of Kuala Lumpur. |
Drug Addiction: Oil Can’s drug abuse startling – Las Vegas Review-Journal
 ESPN | Oil Can's drug abuse startling Las Vegas Review-Journal The fact Dennis "Oil Can" Boyd battled drug addiction for much of his baseball career is hardly newsworthy. But an ESPN report detailing the extent of Boyd's abuse of crack cocaine, particularly during Boston's World Series season of 1986, … E:60 Oil Can Boyd |
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Drug Addiction: Rise in Teen Marijuana Use Demonstrates Continued Failure of War on Drugs – Huffington Post (blog)
King: Let’s Treat Drug Addicts With Doctors, Not Police – Houston Chronicle
Drug Addiction: King: Let’s treat drug addicts with doctors, not police – Houston Chronicle
 The Voice of Russia | King: Let's treat drug addicts with doctors, not police Houston Chronicle The idea that the sale and use of drugs should be illegal largely arose in the first half of the 20th century, when we had little understanding of the science of addiction. Then, and even now to a large degree, the abuse of drugs is seen as a moral … Now Casting "How Drugs Work" A new Documentary Series Offering Free Treatment … It's not just the addict whose life is affected by drugs, as the Chron finds out Drug addiction: illness or crime? |
Drug Addiction: Members of Congress seek support in prescription drug abuse fight – Louisville Courier-Journal
Drug Addicts May Be Born With Abnormal Brains: Study – New York Daily News
Drug Abuse: Drug addicts may be born with abnormal brains: study – New York Daily News
Previous research has pointed to these differences, but it was unclear if they resulted from the ravages of addiction or if they were there beforehand to predispose a person to drug abuse. Scientists at the University of Cambridge compared the …
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Drug Abuse: DEA raids 2 CVS pharmacies in drug abuse probe – YAHOO!
(Reuters) – Agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration raided two CVS pharmacies in Florida as part of an effort to curb the abuse of prescription painkillers and other potentially addictive substances. The action on Saturday came one day after the …
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Drug Abuse: Agents Raid 2 Florida CVS Stores in Prescription Drug Abuse Probe – Insurance Journal
Agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration raided two CVS pharmacies in Florida as part of an effort to curb the abuse of prescription painkillers and other potentially addictive substances. The action on Saturday came one day after …
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Addicts’ Brains May Be Wired at Birth for Less Self-Control – NPR News
Drug Addiction: Addicts’ Brains May Be Wired At Birth For Less Self-Control – NPR News
Many addicts inherit a brain that has trouble just saying no to drugs. A study in Science finds that cocaine addicts have abnormalities in areas of the brain involved in self-control. And these abnormalities appear to predate any drug abuse.
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Drug Addiction: Drug abuse arrests up 13%, more start younger: CNB – Straits Times
The number of drug abusers arrested last year shot up 13 per cent, said the Central Narcotics Bureau, due to ‘intensified enforecement efforts’. The drug enforcement agency said in an annual report released on Friday that it had nabbed 3,265 …
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Drug Addiction: Baseball MVP Josh Hamilton Suffers Addiction Relapse – ABC News
Texas Rangers’ outfielder Josh Hamilton, the 2010 American League MVP who has battled alcohol and drug addictions for over a decade, has suffered a relapse with alcohol. ESPN reports that Hamilton, 30, drank alcohol at Sherlock’s Pub and …
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Drug Addiction: One Drug Abstinence Method Earns a Second Look – Houston Chronicle
Burning Tree, a long term drug treatment center in Texas, reintroduces to the addiction community a proven, but sometimes forgotten about, method of treating chronic addicts and their families. Dallas, Texas (PRWEB) February 03, 2012 One method to treat …
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Ontario to Help 23000 Drug Addicts Quit Smoking – CityNews
Drug Addiction: Ontario to help 23000 drug addicts quit smoking – CityNews
 Globe and Mail | Ontario to help 23000 drug addicts quit smoking CityNews THE CANADIAN PRESS/Pawel Dwulit The Ontario government has announced a new three-year initiative to help drug addicts quit smoking. The province will pay for counselling, nicotine gum and patches for the 23000 smokers undergoing treatment for drug … Ontario to help addiction patients quit smoking Helping More Ontarians Quit Smoking Ontario to spend $ 4.5 million to help smokers quit |
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Drug Addiction: Florida Hospital, Orlando Health create plan to treat pain patients in ERs – Orlando Sentinel
Florida Hospital, Orlando Health create plan to treat pain patients in ERs Orlando Sentinel The plan also calls for physicians to refer patients to community resources such as rehabilitation facilities, if they need help for prescription-drug addiction. Dr. Stacy E. Seikel, medical director at the Center for Drug Free Living, praised the new … Doctors announce plan to cut off pain pill addicts |