Vermont to Treat Heroin Abuse as Health Issue Instead of Fighting “War” with...
Vermont Quits War on Drugs to Treat Heroin Abuse as Health Issue [Governor] Shumlin urged the legislature to approve a new set of drug policies that go beyond the never-ending cat-and-mouse between...
View ArticleDrug Addictions Often Disappear Over Time
This article includes links to many research studies, some linked to below, for the rest go to the full article. Most People With Addiction Simply Grow Out of It by Maia Szalavitz By age 35, half of...
View ArticleFunding Drug Addiction Treatment Would Cost 1/7 the Cost of the Current...
Treatment: Effective (But Unpopular) Weapon Against Drugs Paying for treatment of hard-core drug users is a bone in the throat of middle class taxpayers–and small wonder. Drug abusers are not an...
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Jon Hamm Exits Rehab for Alcohol Addiction
Jon Hamm is best known for his role as Don Draper on Mad Men. He has recently completed a stay at a rehabilitation center where he sought treatment for alcohol addiction. Jon Hamm at PaleyFest 2014 He...
View ArticleHeroin Use Spikes Among Those Who Abuse Prescription Painkillers
Researchers at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health looked at the frequency of nonmedical prescription opioid use and the risk of heroin-related behaviors and found that past-year...
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CC Sabathia Entered a Treatment Facility for Alcoholism
CC Sabathia a pitcher for the New York Yankees has announced he has entered a treatment facility for alcoholism as the Yankees are starting the playoffs. Photo of CC Sabathia, from his official web...
View ArticleAlmost everything we think we know about addiction is wrong
Almost everything we think we know about addiction is wrong. … Addiction is just one symptom of the crisis of disconnection that is happening all around us. … The opposite of addiction is not...
View ArticleCocaine addiction: Scientists discover ‘back door’ into the brain
Individuals addicted to cocaine may have difficulty in controlling their addiction because of a previously-unknown ‘back door’ into the brain, circumventing their self-control, suggests a new study led...
View ArticlePresident Obama Proposes $1.1 Billion in New Funding to Address the...
President Obama’s Budget includes new mandatory funding to help ensure that all Americans who want treatment can get the help they need. I have posted the whole press release because if I link to it,...
View ArticleThe War on Drugs has been a Huge Failure with Massive Unintended Consequences
This webcast takes a look at our experience with the so-called “war on drugs.” The war on drugs has been a huge failure with massive unintended consequences. Policy needs to take into account results....
View ArticleGrowing Call by Leaders Worldwide to End the War on Drugs
Letter to UN signed by over 1,000 worldwide leaders The drug control regime that emerged during the last century has proven disastrous for global health, security and human rights. Focused...
View ArticleSad Story Illustrates the Opioid Overdose Epidemic in the USA
This sad story illustrates the cost of the ongoing opioid overdose epidemic in the USA. A 7-year-old told her bus driver she couldn’t wake her parents. Police found them dead at home. For more than a...
View ArticleCreating Conditions That Reduce the Likelihood That Teenagers Will Abuse Drugs
Treating people with drug and alcohol addition is very difficult. Preventing many of them from becoming addicted in the first place is a good way to avoid many of the problems caused by drug and...
View ArticleVaccine That Blocks the High From Heroin is Making Progress
A vaccine developed at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) to block the high of heroin has proven effective in non-human primates. This is the first vaccine against an opioid to pass this stage of...
View ArticleDrug Abuse Crisis Fueled by Unregulated Sober Homes
Unfortunately there are plenty of scam, abusive and useless drug rehab centers. And the ongoing heroin crisis is fueling the growth of these ineffective and harmful drug rehab centers. The Heroin...
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The Opioid Crisis in the USA Continues to Kill Tens of Thousands Every Year
Tom Petty, 2012, by Ирина Лепнёва First There Was Prince. Now Tom Petty. When Will America Finally Wake Up to the Opioid Crisis? When pop star Prince died in April 2016, a gaggle of health care...
View ArticleFentanyl and Heroin are Killing Increasing Numbers of People
Fentanyl Surpasses Heroin As Drug Most Often Involved In Deadly Overdoses Researchers found that the rate of drug overdose deaths involving fentanyl (or one of its analogs) doubled each year from 2013...
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