Drug Abuse

How A Hospital In Tennessee Is Helping Drug-Dependent Babies

AP | SHEILA BURKE | Posted 05.13.2013 | Parents

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- He's less than two weeks old, but he shows the telltale signs of a baby agitated and in pain: an open sore on his chin where he's ...

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Is This The Gay Community's Newest Threat?

YourTango | Biz Hurst | Posted 05.12.2013 | Gay Voices

Read More: Drug Use, LGBT Issues, Heroin Addiction, Drug Abuse Gay Community, Heroin, Drug Abuse, Heroin Use, Gay Issues, Gay Drug Abuse, Gay Voices News

I lost my girlfriend to an epidemic I didn't know existed. How could this happen? I have attempted to block out a particular moment from this past ...

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GOP Governor Suggests Drug Abuse Driving Unemployment

HuffingtonPost.com | Nick Wing | Posted 04.30.2013 | Politics

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett (R) on Monday addressed some worrisome employment figures in the state's March jobs report, saying that job applicants w...

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Can We Please Stop Stigmatizing Addiction, Recovery and Lindsay Lohan?

Deni Carise | Posted 04.24.2013 | Healthy Living

It has been almost two weeks since Lindsay Lohan appeared on The Late Show With David Letterman and, even with last week's horrific events in Boston, ...

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DMX's Unconditional Love Is Tainted

Zondra Hughes | Posted 04.17.2013 | Chicago

Read More: Marriage, Relationships, Iyanla Fix My Life, Drug Abuse, Celebrity, Dmx, Iyanla-Vanzant, Oprah Winfrey Network, Chicago News

I believed DMX's pain about being alone, but I also believe that his definition of unconditional love is skewed.

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How I Got Clean At 22

Christina Huffington | Posted 04.17.2013 | Women

Read More: Women and Addiction, Drug Addiction, Sobriety, Cocaine Addiction, Teen Drug Abuse, Addiction & Recovery, Addiction, My Story, Youth and Addiction, Drug Abuse, Addiction Recovery, Cocaine, Women News

Remember that. It may hurt terribly but you will be fine.

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AIDS Meds Are No Match For The HIV In My Mind

Andrew Miller | Posted 04.05.2013 | Gay Voices

Read More: Hiv, Drug Abuse, HIV Meds, Aids, Unsafe Sex, HIV/AIDS, Post-Exposure-Prophylaxis, HIV Medications, HIV Prevention, Risky Sex, Gay Voices News

Even when my weekends had begun with North Fork Riesling and hydroponic hash and ended with cheap beer and speedballs, I kept the sex barrier-inclusive. The irony that I was being "safe" while on enough drugs to kill me was lost on me; that's how ingrained my fear of HIV was.

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Listen to the Children

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 03.22.2013 | Politics

The psychological and emotional toll of gun violence on bystanders, victims, and families can be overwhelming and leaves effects that last for years. What about the costs we can count? In addition to the trauma that is so deep and pervasive that it is harder to quantify, there are actual costs to gun violence that can be measured and are enormous.

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5 Things Parents Do That May Encourage Teen Substance Abuse

David Sack, M.D. | Posted 05.04.2013 | Parents

Read More: Parents-Teens, Parenting Teens, Teen Addicition, Teens, Addiction, Youth and Addiction, Substance Abuse, Drug Abuse, Alcohol Abuse, Parents News

Well-meaning parents sometimes do things that unwittingly encourage their teens to experiment with drugs and alcohol. Is there room for improvement in your parenting practices?

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Revelry, Revulsion and Residential Treatment: Your Brain's Fine Line Between Love and Hate

Ben Thomas | Posted 04.15.2013 | Science

Though external chemicals like alcohol can play a part, it's our own brain chemistry that lies at the root of every compulsion. In that sense, all addictions are chemical ones.

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A Year Above the Influence

Tommy O'Malley | Posted 04.13.2013 | Gay Voices

Read More: Sobriety 2013, Sober 2013, Sobriety, Alcohol Abuse, Drug Abuse, Being Sober, Sober, Drugs and Alcohol, Gay Voices News

First post, this is tough. Mainly because I'm stone sober and the words don't yet come as easily as they do when I throw a little liquid or smoke on my brain, the mind-altering fuel that feeds my fingers as they type.

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Teen Marijuana Use: How Concerned Should We Be?

Vivian Diller, Ph.D. | Posted 04.12.2013 | Parents

Read More: Marijuana and Teens, Cognitive Decline, Parents-Teens, Marijuana, Teen Drug Use, Smoking Pot, Teens, Youth and Addiction, Drug Abuse, Marijuana Legalization, Teen Marijuana Use, Parents, Teenage Marijuana Use, Parents News

Is there a familiar aroma emanating from your kid's room? Do you shake your head and ignore it thinking, "Hey, I got high when I was a teen and I turned out OK, right?" Well, think again.

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The Day I Decided to Send My Daughter to Rehab

Babble.com | Posted 03.16.2013 | Parents

Read More: Sending Child to Rehab, Discipline, Teens and Drug Abuse, Teenage Girls, Drug Abuse, Parenting, Teenagers, Rehab, Troubled Teens, Parents News

I raced into the house and couldn't believe what I saw before me. My house had been burgled. Most of my valuables had been stolen and the place was a wreck. Presley looked strung out and hadn't even noticed things were missing.

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U.S. Navy's Trippy Anti-Bath Salts PSA

Keith Thomson | Posted 03.07.2013 | Impact

Read More: Bath Salts, Video, Demons, Davy Jones, Psa, Drugs, Drug Abuse, Navy, US Navy, Impact News

As you'll see through the eyes of a serviceman using bath salts, your friends may appear to transform to demons and zombies, you stand to wind up in emergency surgery -- and, possibly, Davy Jones' Locker.

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Prescription Painkillers Mixed With Alcohol: A Deadly Mix

Lynn R. Goldman | Posted 12.10.2012 | Healthy Living

High schools and colleges across our nation need to be aware of this growing threat and the need to educate students about the dangers of prescription drug misuse along with excessive drinking and illegal drug abuse.

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Parents Use Dogs To Sniff Out Kids' Drugs

The Huffington Post | Ron Dicker | Posted 12.10.2012 | Parents

Read More: Houston, Marijuana, Teen Drug Abuse, Drug Enforcement Administration, DEA Raid, Today Show, Hidden Drugs, Working Dogs, Drug-Sniffing Dogs, Drug Abuse, Dogs, Parents News, Nbc, Parents News

A German shepherd that's all business sniffs every nook and cranny of a Houston home in search of drugs, but it's not a DEA raid; according to NBC's "...

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Better Day: Faith Shorts Finalist

Nathan Thomas | Posted 01.22.2013 | Religion

Read More: Religion and Recovery, Religion and Drug Abuse, Faith-Shorts-Competition, Faith Shorts, Faith-Shorts-2012, Christianity, Drug Abuse, Better Days, Video, Religion News

This film is the inspirational story of Daniel Paikea, who as a teenager became involved in drugs as a result of abuse he suffered in his former years. He managed to turn his life around through his faith.

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New DPA Report Highlights the Impact of the War on Drugs on Veterans Returning from Iraq and Afghanistan

Daniel Robelo | Posted 01.12.2013 | Impact

Read More: Drug War, Veterans Affairs, Drug Abuse, Veterans Day, Veterans Drug Use, Veterans, Prescription Drugs, Impact News

The government response to this crisis has not only been too late; it's also been too little. For today, we must redouble our efforts to care for those who have worn the uniform, and do everything we can to prevent them from joining the growing list of the drug war's casualties.

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Surprising New Tool In The War On Meth

| Posted 11.06.2012 | Los Angeles

Read More: Drug Addicts, Methamphetamine Vaccine, Meth Vaccination, Meth Users, Meth Vaccine, Meth Addiction, Meth Medicine, Drug Abuse, Methamphetamine, Video, Los Angeles News

This story comes courtesy of California Watch. By Susanne Rust Considered one of the most widely abused and addictive recreational drugs, resear...

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School Nurse Stole Kids' ADD Drugs, Replaced With Prescription Painkillers

Posted 12.25.2012 | Home

Dallas school nurse Rebecca Baily-Long is on paid administrative leave after allegedly stealing prescription drugs from students. Bailey-Long is ac...

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Breaking the Silence: The Media and Male Sexual Abuse

Vivian Norris | Posted 10.24.2012 | Media

During the past few years we have finally been hearing more about an epidemic of sexual abuse of children , and thankfully, a few prosecutions. The pe...

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The Deluded Mantras of Addiction

Stanton Peele | Posted 12.11.2012 | Healthy Living

Following are five key ways in which addiction experts demonstrate a detachment from the most self-evident truths about addiction, and what causes their addiction delusions.

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Addiction: Bad Behavior Or Biologically-Based Disorder?

John J. Mariani, M.D. | Posted 11.10.2012 | Healthy Living

Most people in the United States sample alcohol and other addictive substances at some point during their lifetime. What separates the people who go on to develop addiction from those who don't are a series of variables that were not in their control.

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The Marijuana Myth: What If Everything You Think You Know About This Plant Is Wrong?

Laurel Dewey | Posted 11.04.2012 | Fifty

A strange thing kept happening. The more I dug into what some opponents refer to as "the green menace," the more I continued to find research studies I wasn't aware existed.

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What Is Your Teen Really Doing at School?

David Sack, M.D. | Posted 11.04.2012 | Home

Read More: America Drugs, Parents Kids Drugs, Drug Use Teens, Drug Use, Kids Drugs, Schools Drug Use, Drugs Schools, Drug Abuse, Home News

School should be a place of learning, socializing and self-discovery, but for some teens it is where lifelong problems with drugs and alcohol begin. Asking your teen, "What did you do at school today?" suddenly takes on new meaning.

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