Mind control: Alcohol, drug addiction stew in the brain
The National Institute on Drug Abuse explains that brains are wired to ensure people repeat activities, such as eating, by associating the activity with pleasure or reward. "Whenever … "The 12-step model is as successful as any treatment modality …
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Holder: Heroin an urgent 'public health crisis'
By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press In 1986, a newborn wrapped in a red sweater was found abandoned in the bathroom of a fast-food restaurant in Pennsylvania. …. "Addiction to heroin and other opiates, including certain prescription pain-killers, is …
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Blumenthal, DeLauro: E-hookahs attractive, dangerous, and marketed to children
“They are pitched to kids, luring them into lifetimes of addiction and disease,” said Blumenthal at a press conference at Hill Regional Career High School on Legion Avenue. “And the fact of the matter is, they are not candy, not toys, not safe, and the …
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Treatment Center Finder Expands Their Addiction Hotline
Their facilities help with all sorts of addiction including drug and alcohol rehabilitation, dual diagnosis treatment, Christian and faith-based rehab centers, gambling addiction, drug and alcohol detox, and eating disorder treatments. Recently …
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How Medical Pot Is Helping Seniors Get Off (Prescription) Drugs
And very often, the side-effects from those medications are worse than the symptoms they're supposedly treating,” says Steve DeAngelo of the Harborside Health Center in Oakland, California. The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has a monopoly on …
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Invisible Epidemic: Prescription Drugs Cause Most Overdoses
Meanwhile addiction to prescription drugs continues to be dangerous and sometimes deadly problem. If you or someone you know needs help, there are a number of professional treatment centers in our area that can be found online. Some have also been …
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Proposals being accepted for juvenile substance abuse treatment grants
FRANKFORT — The Kentucky Substance Abuse Treatment Advisory Committee has announced that applications are being accepted for $ 19 million in grants through the KY Kids Recovery program. The grants will fund comprehensive juvenile substance …
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Bill that would force loved ones into substance abuse treatment passes House …
John Walsh is hoping a bill he introduced that would allow families to file a court petition to force their loved one into substance abuse treatment before they hurt themselves or others will be law sometime this summer. The Livonia lawmaker said he …
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Vt. gov. to substance abuse treatment program
The goal of rapid intervention is to identify offenders with multiple past misdemeanor convictions and integrate them into a pre-court, 90-day drug treatment program. If participants successfully complete the program, they will not be prosecuted. Only …
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NIDA releases new guide on treating teen substance abuse
Only 10 percent of 12- to 17-year-olds who need substance abuse treatment receive services, according to the most recent National Survey on Drug Use and Health (.pdf). To address this issue, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) released new …
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Doors To Treatment Opening For Poor Illinoisans Struggling With Mental Illness
Now, as Illinois undertakes a major expansion of Medicaid under the national health care overhaul, as many as 120,000 uninsured low-income residents with depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, post-traumatic stress and other psychiatric …
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Peer Help for Addicts is Essential!
Nora Volkow, Director, National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) recently declared that drug addiction is a disease of the brain. This declaration was … Yes, the teacher was the student and now after nearly 50 years in the field, addicts and those in …
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A year of disasters: Top ten local stories of 2013
Residents were frightened by brazen home invasions; the Riverfront Museum made it through the first year — with a few bruises along the way; two of the city's hospitals merged; Caterpillar Inc. made some painful adjustments; Peoria School District 150 …
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Nothing compels meth addicts to recovery like edgy street art in the style of Soviet propaganda posters.

Understanding addiction and recovery
By any measure, the costs associated with addiction and substance abuse in the United States are staggering. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the total costs of drug abuse and addiction due to the use of tobacco, alcohol and illegal …
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How Drug Dependence Becomes Drug Addiction
In my office hangs an Advertising Council public service ad from the late 60's/early 70's entitled “Diagram of a Drug Abuser.” It shows a very sketchy young man with arrows pointing to all the tell tale signs that he's one of those bad, bad people who …
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Springville Journal editorial: They tried to make me go to rehab, but I said no
California drug and alcohol treatment center Michael's House reported that the United States is currently experiencing “some of the highest levels of drug addiction” in history. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, young people aged 18 …
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16 Medi-Cal substance abuse treatment centers are under investigation
Sixteen drug and alcohol treatment centers that provide rehabilitative services to Medi-Cal patients are suspected of fraud and of hiring providers with felonies on their records, officials from the California Department of Health Care Services …
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