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Addiction Rehab: South County Opioid Spike Kills Dozens

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Addiction Rehab: South County opioid spike kills dozens
Our sons and daughters are killing themselves and we’ve got to do something.Let’s start by acknowledging our growing heroin problem.In reviewing coroner records for South County and beach cities from 2007-2010, I found some 80 accidental opioid-related deaths for people 24 and…
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Addiction Rehab: Salvation Army ‘not trying to promote homelessness’
PORTSMOUTH — Serving daily breakfast and dinner to the city’s homeless population does not lure more homeless people to the city, said Salvation Army Capt. Deb Coolidge.
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Addiction Rehab: ‘Glee’ Star Cory Monteith Reveals Drug Past, Says He Wants To ‘Live Happily Ever After’
Confession: Cory Monteith does such a fabulous job of playing a jockstrapped, all-American goldenboy on “Glee,” we’d always just kinda assumed that he was typecast. And man, were we wrong! Because as it turns out, Cory has a law-breaking bad-boy past that makes Robert Downey Jr. and Colin Farrell look like a pair of pants-wetting […]
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SCIENCE: No Safe Limit for Drinking While Driving, UCSD Study Finds – North County Times

Causes of Addiction: SCIENCE: No safe limit for drinking while driving, UCSD study finds – North County Times

SCIENCE: No safe limit for drinking while driving, UCSD study finds
North County Times
"Buzzed" drivers even with a 0.01 percent blood alcohol concentration are significantly more likely to be involved in accidents that cause injuries than totally sober drivers, according to the study, published Monday in the journal Addiction.

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Causes of Addiction: Hidden heart risk for cocaine addicts even if they feel perfectly healthy – Daily Mail


Daily Mail

Hidden heart risk for cocaine addicts even if they feel perfectly healthy
Daily Mail
Cocaine causes such extensive damage to users' hearts that it could trigger sudden death even when they feel perfectly healthy, experts warn. They said that because of the hidden damage inflicted by the drug, many addicts may have

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How to Stop Addiction: Task Force Develops Plan of Action to Decrease Opiate Addiction in the County – Galion Inquirer

How to Stop Addiction: Task force develops plan of action to decrease opiate addiction in the county – Galion Inquirer

Task force develops plan of action to decrease opiate addiction in the county
Galion Inquirer
Another goal of the task force is to involve the local recovery community in the efforts to stop the county's drug addiction problem. According to Joe Graham, public relations chairman for the Galion-area Narcotics Anonymous, local recovering addicts

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How to Stop Addiction: Nicotine and weight gain: We’ve got a drug for that – eMaxHealth


eMaxHealth

Nicotine and weight gain: We've got a drug for that
eMaxHealth
Mariella De Biasi, PhD, assistant director of the Center on Addiction, Learning, and Memory at Baylor College of Medicine said, since the findings explaining why smokers gain weight when they stop using nicotine were gleaned from mouse studies,

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