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Inside Grant Denyer 000-a-month Thailand recovery resort
Grant, 36, and his wife Cheryl, 35, have strenuously denies claims they spent time in rehab for drug addiction, but have said that they spent time at this wellness resort, The Cabin, during his illness. The Cabin released a statement to Mail Online …
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Addiction experts: Relapses always possible in recovery
For recovering drug addicts, the period of highest risk is during the three to six months after detox or rehab, said Ardsley psychiatrist Dr. Adam Bisaga, a professor at Columbia University Medical Center who specializes in addiction psychiatry and …
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Zona Seca Closing Drug Treatment Center in Lompoc
An alcohol- and drug-treatment and recovery program that has made its home in the city of Lompoc for more than a decade will shut its doors at the end of the week because of a loss of funding. Zona Seca, which has had a location in Santa Barbara for …
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Analysis: Risk assessment bill decorated with ornaments
S.295 was ostensibly designed to create a system for drug addicts to receive services before they go to trial or before they are charged, but ask five people what the legislation does and you get five different answers. For heroin users, S.295 might be …
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Are Keystone Kops guarding America's nukes?
The cheating, it should be noted, was discovered in the course of an investigation of drug abuse among ICBM launch officers. And it's not just the Air Force. Last week, an elderly nun and two fellow pacifists were sentenced to prison for a spectacular …
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Documents: Former Foothills airport operations manager caught with somebody …
Part of Adkins' condition of bond, after pleading guilty to conspiracy and embezzlement in 2012, was that he not use or possess a narcotic drug or other controlled substances unless it was prescribed. … “For example, in retrospect, the Defendant …
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Question by somewhat_med: Chances that she is still a drug addict?
I saw my ex best friend whom I haven’t seen in 2 years this past weekend. She told me she is a “recovered drug addict”, do drug addicts actually ever “recover”?
She was snorting coke, smoking crack, taking Oxycontins, Methadone and other various pain pills. She said she quit doing the drugs by going to NA meetings, but didn’t go to any treatment facilities or seek counseling. She says she has been clean for a year, but has a had a “couple” slip ups. She was acting extremely happy and energetic when I saw her, but she refused to look me in the face when she was speaking to me. I’m just wondering what are the chances that she really is clean, I always thought you had to detox, then go to rehab or something for a while to truly quit.    Read more...

KAREN HERRAND, Cotuit: Drug addicts, their families need more help to recover
Myself, my community and any and all associated with drug addiction realize all too well the crippling and fatal effects of this opiate epidemic that we have been catapulted into. Being exposed to heroin/opiate addiction with my now 22-year-old son and …
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GVSU football player Alton Voss sharing story of drug addiction, recovery
When Grand Valley State University student Alton Voss stands before the crowd at Holland High School tonight to talk about drug addiction, Holland Department of Public Safety Office Joe Slenk plans to be in the audience. He helped put Voss on the road …
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Clinical Depression – Dr Abeya excelled academically, winning gold medals in both her MBBS and MD examinations. She has also worked as a lecturer in psychiatry, shortly after comp…    Read more...

Question by noiamnot: Spiritually Speaking – Drug Addicts?
I have dabbled a bit in my younger days although thankfully have never been dependent on any drug but I have unfortunately lost a few close friends to drug overdoses.

Would a person who OD’d on a bad batch of heroin go to heaven?

I have a friend who is deeply religious, goes to church all the time etc but he is a heroin addict.
So far he controls the heroin and not the other way round.
He has been an addict for over 20 years but doesn’t fit the usual “stereotyped image”.
He is wealthy, successful, charming, well presented etc…just has an addiction to heroin.

He tells me that because God knows what he does and because he doesn’t abuse heroin, rather he uses it he will go to heaven should he ever accidentally od.

your thoughts please..    Read more...

Mid-Market Cafe Pokes Fun At Area Drug Addicts, Homeless
Crazy? No, not really. But tone deaf for sure. Certainly not a great way for a business to ingratiate itself into the changing area, into a neighborhood where residents who suffer from addiction and alcoholism are routinely shamed and demonized by …
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Philip Seymour Hoffman's death brings attention to drug addiction
Peter Shumlin, whose State of the State address in January focused only on drug addiction, said treatment for all opiate addiction had increased 770 percent since 2000 in Vermont. “What started as an OxyContin and prescription drug addiction problem in …
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Student overcomes homelessness and drug addiction
She said she does not make excuses for her addiction, but admits her environment did not prohibit it either. Stanley grew up in Sacramento and said she lived in a loving home with few boundaries that allowed her to easily get involved in drugs at an …
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