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Scam Mail 'addict' Admits to Losing £200,000

Scam mail 'addict' admits to losing £200,000
Sylvia Kneller was convinced she would eventually recoup her money, but has 'never had one penny back' • 27 common scams to avoid A 76-year-old woman has told how she paid out more than £200,000 after she became 'addicted' to scam mail. Sylvia Kneller of Farnham, Surrey, first started responding to the fraudsters when she was 20 years old and says she became "a believer", convinced she would one …
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We have to stop treating poor neighbourhoods as 'no go' zones | Chris Arnade
Misplaced fear of low income communities only makes things worse, perpetuating the problems and keeping resources away It was 1am when I was asked to go into a stranger's apartment in a building the police had identified as a gang stronghold. The gentleman, who I had met half an hour before at the corner bodega, wanted to show me something. He wouldn't say what. I climbed the dark stairwell …
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Gig Harbor Life Community Calendar for April 18 and Beyond

Gig Harbor Life community calendar for April 18 and beyond
The 12-foot, 90-pound Salt Bay skiff kit includes all the materials (except paint and oars) to have it ready to ail by the end of the second day. Cost is $ 525 and …. Nar-Anon offers support for those affected by someone else's addiction. For more …
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Lack of Civility is Destroying Washington DC
Participants on either end of Pennsylvania Avenue are responsible for creating a climate in which trust in government has reached its lowest level in generations according to a recent Pew Poll. The fact that just 19 percent of the American people have …
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Scientific Breakthrough Could Eliminate Addiction

Scientific breakthrough could eliminate addiction
University of Canterbury scientists have made a major discovery that could stop addicts craving for drugs.
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Addiction research looks toward opiate blockers
Prescription painkillers have a double reinforcing effect, making them a risk for abuse, according to Dr. Gerardo Gonzalez, director of addiction psychiatry at University of Massachusetts Medical School. The opioids not only provide immediate euphoria, but habitual users undergo painful withdrawal if they abruptly stop taking them.
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Pain relief can lead to painful addiction
Mary Ellen Macuen, 50, of Worcester was running a bar and raising a daughter when she became addicted to opioids. The self-described dance mom managed to keep it together for a while, until after 20 years of abusing painkillers she couldn't take the lies, stealing and not being able to get out of bed without pills anymore.
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I Have an Unhealthy Addiction to Bread..how Do I Stop It?

Question by PrettyinPink: I have an unhealthy addiction to bread..how do i stop it?
i eat too much bread, once i start i go all out, nd this is giving me a stomach, can you tell me how to like stop eating bread without quiting cold turkey, cuz that doesn’t work

Best answer:

Answer by baddaDING
bread addiction??
emh LOK IT UP!!

Answer by STEFANIE T
You could put your cold turkey on rice cakes. They are very low in calories.

Berkeley homeless volunteer redefines good samaritanism
His wife is bipolar and recovering from drug addiction. Despite these odds, he and the Worker serve breakfast … His only extravagances are the iMac and iPhone that he uses to keep track of sleeping bags, copies of Street Spirit, and the mail he …
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Scientific Breakthrough Could Eliminate Addiction – 3News NZ

Scientific breakthrough could eliminate addiction – 3News NZ

Scientific breakthrough could eliminate addiction
3News NZ
In an international breakthrough, University of Canterbury scientists have made a major discovery that could stop addicts craving for drugs. They have done laboratory tests on a method that has found to have successfully stopped rats' addiction to cocaine.

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Editorial: Drug Take-Back Day gives us a chance to stop addiction – Albany Democrat Herald

Editorial: Drug Take-Back Day gives us a chance to stop addiction
Albany Democrat Herald
Here's the connection between the two items: According to a recent article in The New Republic magazine, about four in five new heroin addicts got addicted to prescription drugs before they turned to heroin. And unused opiates sitting in our medicine …

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Kennedy: Help stop drug addiction before it starts – MetroWest Daily News

Out of Prison, Shirley Lacy Is in Charge at Fayetteville Women's Shelter

Out of prison, Shirley Lacy is in charge at Fayetteville women's shelter
She steers the addicted into treatment. She makes sure … "The way Ms. Lacy presents herself is with a very childlike demeanor," Dr. Moira Antigues, a psychiatrist, testified in a hearing to vacate her sentence in 2012. "She's not a … But on the …
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Addiction research looks toward opiate blockers
Naltrexone, which has been used in tablet form for alcohol addiction for many years, is now available as an injection that lasts 30 days, which has improved compliance. "Once you stop methadone or once you stop Suboxone, there's a high prevalence of …
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Panel educates parents about teen alcohol and substance abuse issues
“It's going to be a series of informational presentations, ways of getting information to parents about teen alcohol and drug use,” said Jenn Wood, coordinator for the Community Coalition for Family Wellness. Wood said the students did not give …
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