Support group brings students into the light
A new support group on campus is aiming to help former drug addicts with the recovery process and prevent others from falling into addiction. Out of the Dark is a non-profit advocacy group located in Craighead County whose goal is to bring awareness to …
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Nashua group to get grant to combat teen binge drinking, drug use
The coalition plans to use the funding to target binge drinking and prescription drug and marijuana abuse. That includes work to help parents learn to discuss drugs and alcohol with their children. The Nashua Prevention Coalition joins groups in 146 …
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Question by candigal: What comes to mind when you think of a “drug addict”?
Are “drug addicts ” bad people? Is drug use a choice? What is the eccomomic status of most people who use drug? What are some of the names people have for drug addicts? Do you think treatment works? How are “addicts” different then “non-addicts”? This is for an essay I am writing. Thanks for your help. Also do you think that there is a certain eithnic group that has a higher rate of substance abuse?

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Answer by Hell’s Own Harlot
Drug addicts are not necessarily bad people. They lack self control and are under a notion that what they want must be gratified RIGHT NOW. They lack any type of concern for how their behavior effects others and personally, I consider it a slow suicide. Treatment only works if you want it to. You have to be motivated and most drug users aren’t. There are not any particular ethnic groups that are more prone to use than any other. You have losers in every race of people.

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Question by ridethelightning: How do addicts not realize they are on Intervention?
With Intervention now being a globally popular show, I don’t really understand how they are still keeping these addicts under the impression that they are “filming a documentary about addiction.” There’s no way they can just not realize what’s happening.

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Answer by Ashley D
Well if they are drug addicts, they probably don’t have the firmest grip on reality…

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Support group brings students into the light
A new support group on campus is aiming to help former drug addicts with the recovery process and prevent others from falling into addiction. Out of the Dark … He added that many parents believe it can't happen to their child or in their church. “It …
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Drug–addicted mice have bad memories erased by scientists
"Not unlike in the movie 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,' we're looking for strategies to selectively eliminate evidence of past experiences related to drug abuse or a traumatic event," said study author Courtney Miller in a statement …
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'Baby Veronica' Case Gets Christian Evangelical Groups Involved In Federal …
Morris said she was motivated to get involved after watching her late husband, Roland John Morris, Sr., a member of the Leech Lake Band of Minnesota Chippewa, battle alcoholism while his family succumbed to suicide, drug addiction, and crime. When she …
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Question by ridethelightning: How do addicts not realize they are on Intervention?
With Intervention now being a globally popular show, I don’t really understand how they are still keeping these addicts under the impression that they are “filming a documentary about addiction.” There’s no way they can just not realize what’s happening.

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Answer by Ashley D
Well if they are drug addicts, they probably don’t have the firmest grip on reality…

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Ohio Republicans claim unfilled jobs due to abortion, drug addiction
At a recent press conference attended by Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, and a majority of their 19 children, Christina Hagan gave a speech to introduce her version of the Heartbeat bill – which would effectively ban all abortions in Ohio. In the speech …
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Cop arrests drug addicts while snorting 8 grams of coke a day
It began a downward spiral that would eventually see him taking eight grams of the drug a day, cost him his job — and his NOSE — and led to a life of homelessness and drug-running on the streets of Berlin. Recalling the day he took his first line …
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Helping addicts is often thankless, heroic work
Scott is a recovered drug addict and alcoholic, clean and sober since 1995. Together with his wife, Leslie, they have selflessly dedicated their lives to dealing with the ugly reality of drug addiction, proving that people can heal and that they are …
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