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'Delivered from the devil's spell' – gay man says
Two years ago Derek Saliba was a cross-dressing prostitute caught in the clutches of drug addiction. Abused at a young age, he was an active member of the local gay community and had been financially crippled by a 10-year heroin and cocaine addiction.
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County hears critical review of legal marijuana
Dan Cummings of the Jackson County Drug Task Force said the loosening of marijuana laws in Colorado over the last several years, including legalization for recreational use last year, is having noticeable effects in the Kansas City area. Kansas and …
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Ethan's story, Part 1: The slide from drug experimentation to full-blown …
Deval Patrick said that Massachusetts is in the grips of an "epidemic of opiate abuse." For this reason, Patrick said the state must "treat it like the public health crisis it is" and ordered the commitment of $ 20 million to increase drug treatment and …
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Question by eros_gary: What is addiction? and where can you get help in California?

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Answer by mgaribay74
Summary
People who are addicted cannot control their need for alcohol or other drugs, even in the face of negative health, social or legal consequences.
The illness becomes harder to treat and the related health problems, such as organ disease, become worse.
Addiction is a chronic, but treatable, brain disorder. People who are addicted cannot control their need for alcohol or other drugs, even in the face of negative health, social or legal consequences. This lack of control is the result of alcohol- or drug-induced changes in the brain. Those changes, in turn, cause behavior changes.    Read more...

Acupuncture – 10 facts you should know about this ancient Chinese healing …
It's very effective in managing pain and it does so without any side effects that come with normal painkillers like addiction. In fact, it is widely used as anaesthesia in China and the West too. It has become quite popular in the West. Acupuncture is …
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Of Drugs and Demons
He has been addicted to drugs most of his adult life. We shall call him “Philip Seymour Hoffman.” If people were to see (or hear of) Hoffman injecting himself with heroin, or nodding off in a opiate-induced stupor, they would instantly (and …
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Drug Rehab, Massachusetts, to Help Stop Substance Abuse – http://www.drugrehabvideo.com Your success in drug rehab outside of Massachusetts could be due to a change in your environment. Heroin and cocaine addiction …

It takes a community to end substance abuse
I've begun this letter now three different times. Each time, I get frustrated on how to put in the exact words to get my point across. I've read two incredible pieces over the last several weeks: 1) “Heroin use, overdoses on the rise among residents …
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Researchers study cocaine addiction in rats
Yavin Shaham, a senior investigator for the National Institute on Drug Abuse's Intramural Research Program who collaborated on Dong's study, said levels of stress and exposure to drugs influence the likelihood of a relapse. “Three common factors that …
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Mount Sinai researchers find promising new drug targets for cocaine addiction
New York, NY–Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have identified a new molecular mechanism by which cocaine alters the brain's reward circuits and causes addiction. Published online in the journal Proceedings of the National …
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Treat drug addiction seriously: Demi Lovato
Los Angeles, Feb 4 (IANS) Singer Demi Lovato urges people to treat drug addiction seriously and wants them to take action against it. The "The X Factor" judge, who has struggled with marijuana and cocaine addiction in the past, took to Twitter to hit out at celebrities who "glamourise" drug addiction, reports contactmusic.com. Drug Addiction – Yahoo News Search Results