The addict's stigma: Perception of weakness hampers treatment: Editorial
And, as The Star-Ledger's Dan Goldberg reported in last Sunday's editions, many families find convincing their health insurers to cover addiction treatment is a life-and-death struggle. Some commit fraud, lying their way into inpatient rehab programs …
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Team provides intensive support for people with mental illness
Others have more tenuous situations, struggling with substance abuse or more active mental illness and are more wary about treatment. For most people …. The client smokes marijuana because it makes the voices she hears quieter. Magisano and Sacerdote …
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Junk Food Addiction Drives the Obesity Epidemic
Other research has shown that the ingredients in junk food, especially vegetable-based oils, act on the brain in similar ways to marijuana, inducing hunger by causing the body to produce substances called endocannabinoids. Simply put, our bodies are …
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Drug Abuse More Likely Among High School Dropouts
High school seniors who dropped out of school before graduating were more likely to drink, smoke cigarettes and use marijuana and other illegal drugs, according to a new report from the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
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Afghanistan's growing number of child drug addicts
Except that they are recovering drug addicts aged around three to 12, representing a growing proportion of drug users in war-torn Afghanistan. In response, increasing numbers of rehabilitation centers are weaning such children off their addiction and …
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Enabling the Control Addicts: A Free High for the Greed Fiends
Novelist William S. Burroughs, in his pioneering experimental novel Naked Lunch, correctly identified "control addicts," as opposed to mere drug addicts, as the true enemies of humanity. (1). Burroughs: "You see, control can never be a means to any …
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Sharing drug–use stories with kids to empathize may backfire
Michael Fendrich, a substance abuse epidemiologist at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, who was not involved in the research, told LiveScience that talking to kids about drugs can be very tricky. "Kids are pretty savvy, they see the picture of …
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Treatment, enhancement or recreation – why sports and Stilnox are a bad mix
Wayne Hall receives funding from NHMRC and ARC for research on alcohol and other drug use and ethical and policy issues raised by neuroscience research on addiction. The Conversation provides independent analysis and commentary from academics …
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Don't tell kids about past drug use, study finds
The study, published today in the journal Human Communication Research, found that children whose parents did not disclose drug use, but did deliver a strong antidrug message, were much more likely to develop anti-drug attitudes of their own.
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Workshop on Drug Awareness and Drug Abuse Prevention Held in Afghanistan

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A training workshop on drug awareness and drug abuse prevention for non-governmental organization’s female workers was held in Jalalabad, sponsored by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). 24/May/2006. UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe. www.unmultimedia.org/photo/

Local Advocate Attends National Drug Abuse Prevention Conference
Logandale resident Debbie Oglesby, a representative of the Nevada Community Prevention Coalition, recently traveled to the Washington, D.C. area to join more than 2,000 substance abuse prevention specialists and advocates from throughout the country …
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Peoria County Coalition Aimed to Stop Drug Abuse
In 2012, there were 32 drug-related deaths in Peoria County. For Coroner Johnna Ingersoll, even one is too many. She said, "Those numbers are concerning to me." Ingersoll is leading the substance abuse prevention coalition and with it, she hopes to …
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Prevention efforts focused on youth reduce prescription abuse into adulthood
The research, published today in the American Journal of Public Health, was funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, and the National Institute of Mental Health, all components of …
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