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Life in Review: Amy Winehouse Found Dead of Suspected Drug Overdose – Opposing Views

Drug Addiction: Life in Review: Amy Winehouse Found Dead of Suspected Drug Overdose – Opposing Views


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Life in Review: Amy Winehouse Found Dead of Suspected Drug Overdose
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Amy Winehouse, a supremely gifted singer who amazed listeners with her jazzy, sultry voice before battling severe drug addiction, was found dead in her London home. Although the official cause of death has not
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Drug Addiction: Heroin’s siren song: Son achieves stability after years of addiction – Pittsburgh Post Gazette


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Heroin's siren song: Son achieves stability after years of addiction
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We didn't find it in the same route; we both ended up drug addicts by our own means, but we used together. I snorted it a couple of times. I went intravenous pretty quickly. We're all good at hiding it for an extended period of time, but you only can

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Franco Angeli’s Photographic Dream – Review

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Causes Of Drug Abuse: Franco Angeli’s Photographic Dream – review
The Deposition – long-lost artistic result of a drunken night with Jack Kerouac – among the highlights of exhibition at Museo dei Fori Imperiali, Rome Jack Kerouac and Franco Angeli painted a pietà one drunken night. The painting, called The Deposition, is all that remains of the few days American writer Kerouac (1922-1969) and Italian painter Angeli (1935-1988) spent together in Rome in the …
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Causes Of Drug Abuse: Doctors rethink addiction medicine
10 medical schools have introduced the first accredited residency programs in addiction medicine, where doctors who have completed medical school and a residency will be able to spend a year studying the relationship between addiction and brain chemistry.
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Prescription Drug Abuse: Med Schools Offering Residencies for Addiction

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Prescription Drug Abuse: Med schools offering residencies for addiction
There is an age-old debate over alcoholism: Is the problem in the sufferer’s head — something that can be overcome through willpower, spirituality or talk therapy, perhaps — or is it a physical disease, one that needs continuing medical treatment in much the same way as, say, diabetes or epilepsy? Increasingly, the medical establishment is putting its weight behind the latter diagnosis.
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Prescription Drug Abuse: O.C. parents sue doctor after sons overdose on prescription drugs
Riley Russo and Ryan Winter, both 20, died after abusing the powerful narcotic Opana and the anti-anxiety drug Xanax. The physician, Lisa Tseng, has now been linked to 10 overdose deaths. The parents of two young Orange County men who died of overdoses filed lawsuits Friday alleging that a Rowland Heights physician acted like a drug dealer in selling prescriptions to their sons.
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Drug Addiction: Drug Addiction Not Only Problem for Individual – Transworld News

Drug Addiction: Drug addiction not only problem for individual – Transworld News
One of the most overlooked problems associated with drug addiction is the social impact that accompanies the addiction. “When dealing with addictions, many times we focus on the mental, physical and emotional impact on an individual,” begins a …
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Drug Addiction: Rethinking Addiction’s Roots, and Its Treatment – New York Times
The rethinking of addiction as a medical rather than strictly psychological disease began about 15 years ago, when researchers discovered through high-resonance imaging that drug addiction resulted in actual physical changes to the brain. Central to the …
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Drug Addiction: Life in pictures
Former US First Lady Betty Ford, who has died aged 93
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