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Vikings Great Robert Smith Meets Alcoholism Head-On

Vikings great Robert Smith meets alcoholism head-on
His father had problems with alcohol, heroin and cocaine and spent time in prison on drug charges. His mother battled …. Your body is kind of going through withdrawals," Smith said. "So you'd get to the … "And my wife was pregnant again (with Grayson).
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Our view: Addiction puts infants at risk
… withdrawals associated with narcotic pain medications. From 2000 to 2010, there was a fivefold increase in the number of pregnant women who used or abused opiates, with these mothers accounting for 5.6 out of 1,000 hospital births annually …
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What I learned from a week in the Alcoa psych ward
I met a federal bounty hunter; a participant in the 1960s' race riots; a man recently laid off from work; an elderly lady whose power of attorney was leveraged against her; an English major deep in debt; a pregnant woman withdrawing from heroin; a well …
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