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Apps to Help With Addiction Recovery

Nowadays there’s a mobile application for just about everything. Whether you’re counting calories, sharing family photos or looking for new romance (or trying to keep one alive)—even if swallowing swords is your virtual niche—the brave new world of mobile technology has something for...

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10 Things I Hate About Alcoholism and Depression

The phrases ‘Dead Man Walking’ and ‘At the End of the Road’ come to mind. Just looking at my photos should scare the daylights out of you. Even I sometimes have to remind myself that shell of a man was me.

So here I am now. 2009 dawns and I have survived. Believe me folks...

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Burlington County to hold public forum addressing addiction epidemic

WESTAMPTON — With drug overdoses in Burlington County nearly doubling in five years, county officials are looking to bring solutions to the community.

At the end of the month, the county Board of Freeholders will hold the first community event stemming from its Drug Task Force, which was formed i...

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Kentucky Prescription Drug Abuse Law Has Unintended Consequences: Expert

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Hitting rock bottom

The backgrounds of the three women are similar: curious about alcohol, they began drinking at an early age, soon were doing drugs, got into scrapes with the law and hit rock bottom several times.

Two of the women lost their children, one of them permanently.

In their 30s now, the women have one...

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Addiction treatment conference brings doctors, researchers to New Orleans

The epidemic of heroin and prescription drug addiction affects Americans everywhere, regardless of class, race or region, experts say.

Opioids — drugs that work on the nervous system to relieve pain — are highly addictive, and overdoses related to these drugs kill more than 30,000 Americans a yea...

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An Opioid Remedy That Works: Treat Pain And Addiction At The Same Time

Seven years ago, Robert Kerley, who makes his living as a truck driver, was loading drywall when a gust of wind knocked him off the trailer. Kerley fell 14 feet and hurt his back.

For pain, a series of doctors prescribed him a variety of opioids: Vicodin, Percocet and OxyContin.

In less than a...

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How Tom Petty Overcame an Abusive Childhood, Heartbreaking Divorce and Heroin…

How Tom Petty Overcame an Abusive Childhood, Heartbreaking Divorce and Heroin Addiction to Find True Love

After 40 years in the music industry, Tom Petty consistently stayed at the top of the charts.

Breaking through in 1979 with “Don’t Do Me Like That” and “Refugee” (his album Damn the Torpedoes peaked at number two on the Billboard 200 albums chart), the musical icon — who died Monday evenin...

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Report: Prescription drug abuse in San Diego region has climbed …

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One Factor In Some Tennessee Overdose Deaths? Addiction Treatment Medication

Medication used to treat opioid addiction has now been blamed as a factor in dozens of overdose deaths in Tennessee. According to data released by the state health department, toxicology reports found buprenorphine played a role in 67 of the 1,600 overdose deaths in 2016.

The drug in question...

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A Life Without Choice

If there is a more effective way to destroy a human soul than addiction, I’m not sure I want to know what it is.

People can become physically addicted to all sorts of substances: alcohol, illegal drugs like heroin and

meth, or legal drugs like opioids that promise relief from chronic pain and r...

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Why 90 Days For Substance Abuse Treatment

Fast-forward nearly seventy years. The wisdom found in experience, combined with large outcome studies, have clearly shown that patients completing at least 90 days of residential treatment have a significantly reduced relapse rate compared with those who stay for shorter time periods. The...

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If you know an opiate user, keep naloxone close by

“You don’t have to be a policeman or a firefighter or a paramedic to save a life,” said Dr. Jerome Adams, the nation’s top doctor, who spoke at the National RX Drug Abuse & Heroin Summit in Atlanta.

The advisory was welcomed by drug-treatment experts and officials locally and across the nati...

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Addicted To drugs in Suffolk County jail

In February, high on heroin, Daniel S. robbed a bank near his Sayville apartment. Unarmed, he handed a teller a note demanding money, but there was a GPS locator in the cash and he was quickly arrested and jailed. Again.

Daniel, 43, asked that we not use his last name because he does not want to...

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OxyContin Users Turning to Heroin

Both are opiates; both are addictive; both can cause death – that is what OxyContin and Heroin have in common. For some years, OxyContin addiction did not have the same stigma attached to it as heroin; after all, the powerful painkiller was prescribed by a doctor. Heroin was thought of as a “hard core” drug, used by serious addicts only – the kind of thing only people living on “Skid Row” would do. The lines have now been crossed and the rise in heroin use continues.

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3 award-winning places in metro Atlanta to treat alcohol addiction

Alcohol is the most commonly used addictive substance in the United States, and an estimated one in every 12 adults in this country suffers from alcohol abuse or dependence, according to the National Council on Alcoholism and ...

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Unique Utah recovery center run by former addicts celebrates first year

PROVO — Ryan Hymas’ family had his funeral planned and his casket picked out five years ago.

“I hit rock bottom,” Hymas explained. He had been addicted to heroin and alcohol for 16 years.

“It was 16 years of misery,” he said. “I just dreaded waking up. Every d...

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