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The Seduction of Addiction: A Runner's Confession
The Seduction of Addiction: A Runner's Confession
THE PSYCHOLOGICAL LITERATURE ON exercise addiction can be confusing. Despite the inclusion of other behavioral addictions (such as gambling), exercise addiction is currently not listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
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Lunevitz: Marc Monroe Dion offers ignorant opinion on addiction
… tragic death from a heroin overdose. I am shocked and disappointed that The Valley Breeze would print such a cruel and in my opinion ignorant portrayal of heroin addiction, referring to the unfortunate souls who suffer from this illness as if they …
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Vermont Battling a ‘Full-Blown Heroin Crisis’ – Christian Broadcasting Network
Vermont Battling a ‘Full-Blown Heroin Crisis’ – Christian Broadcasting Network
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Vermont Battling a 'Full-Blown Heroin Crisis'
Christian Broadcasting Network MONTPELIER, Vt. — America has a heroin problem, especially in the Northeast. The recent death of Academy-award winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman is by no means an isolated case and officials have reported a spike in the abuse of the drug in New … Heroin Addiction: Tell Us Your Story Philip Seymour Hoffman's Story and Obamacare Coverage of Drug Addiction Guest view: Drug overdoses an issue we cannot ignore |
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Heroin: New England’s Unlikely Epidemic – LiveScience.com
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Heroin: New England's Unlikely Epidemic
LiveScience.com In quaint New England towns, where white-spired churches dot a landscape of rolling farmland and leafy forests, local residents and government officials are alarmed over a deadly scourge more often linked to gritty urban ghettos: heroin addiction. In … |
Trying to Understand the Addiction to RX Drugs Prescription?
Question by evel: Trying to understand the Addiction to RX drugs Prescription?
Im trying to understand the Addiction to pain meds ….. I have seen my Ex throw her life away for these drugs Lost me a hard working guy who took care of her Children she lost her friends and just lost her Job … I can see if its Crack Cocaine or Harder Drugs but how can an addiction to Pain meds get people Hooked and Cloud there mind plus shes a hard drinker and never drank before untill recently Thank God Im out of it I tried to help but she is in denial so please give input its not oxycodone or oxycontine
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Prescription Drug Abuse Can Lead to Rise in Heroin Addiction – NBC Connecticut
Prescription Drug Abuse Can Lead to Rise in Heroin Addiction – NBC Connecticut
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Prescription Drug Abuse Can Lead to Rise in Heroin Addiction
NBC Connecticut The first time Michael took a prescription pain killer it wasn't because he was in pain. The prescription didn't come from his doctor. “The first time I took a Percocet I was in high school,” said Michael. “I was just at a party with a bunch of people … |
Heroin Addiction: Tell Us Your Story
Heroin Addiction: Tell Us Your Story
Across America, officials are raising the alarm on a public health plague: Heroin abuse. Philip Seymour Hoffman’s tragic death recently brought national awareness to the problem of heroin-related overdoses and deaths.
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Troubling growth in opiate abuse baffles Berkshire court officials
PITTSFIELD, Mass. – Berkshire County has a growing number of heroin cases and judges say they are troubled trying to keep these drug abusers from re-offending. Before a large gathering of probation officers, four Berkshire County judges spoke on Wednesday at Hillcrest Education Center about addiction, particularly opiate abuse, which can lead to heroin addiction.
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Sheriff asks students to fight heroin epidemic
Butler County Sheriff Richard K. Jones pleaded to high school students to help law enforcement fight the heroin epidemic in the county.
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Facing Cape Cod's Drug Addiction Crisis
Facing Cape Cod's drug addiction crisis
Yet for many other people who attended "An Evening of Solutions: Part 2" to hear about remedies for drug addiction, hope came from the sheer numbers of people in the room: nearly 100 attended. And from the politicians who spoke of helpful legislation; …
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Why are patients shut out of the debate over prescription pain medicine?
The generic prescription pain medication Buprenorphine is used as an alternative to Methadone to help addicts recovering from heroin use. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images). (Guest post from journalist Maia Szalavitz, author of the forthcoming book “Unbroken …
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