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South Florida pain-clinic doctors also treating drug addicts
State regulators stripped Dr. Michael I. Rose’s power to write prescriptions two months ago, after health officials found that the pain-clinic doctor had prescribed enough painkillers to put one...
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Gambler Blows $127 Million
SAN FRANCISCO (Dec. 8) — Terrance Watanabe sometimes got so high on painkillers and alcohol in Las Vegas that he walked into doors and passed out at the gaming tables. The Omaha philanthropist consumed...
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For Scots, a Scourge Unleashed by a Bottle
Coatbridge Journal – For Scots, a Scourge Unleashed by a Bottle – NYTimes.com Perhaps it is its special caffeine-and-sweet-wine recipe, which allows overly enthusiastic consumers to be tipsy and bouncy...
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How Can You Help a Loved One Struggling With Addiction?
The Conversation: Recovering Drug Addict Shares His Story – ABC News Diane Sawyer Talks With a Recovering Addict About How he Got Sober With His Family’s Help
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Parents plead not guilty after teen party
Parents plead not guilty after teen party – The Boston Globe According to statistics from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, approximately 5,000 youths under the age of 21 die as a...
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My dad’s an alcoholic and he won’t stop drinking
My father is a 60-year-old “functioning” alcoholic — whatever that means. My parents own a business together and he goes to work every day, comes home and makes a lot of money. None of us in my...
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Why I Haven’t Been Posting Much Lately
Both of my faithful readers will by now have noticed that I’m not posting very regularly on this site. It’s not though lack of interest, and I didn’t relapse (in fact, I just celebrated my 21st sober...
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What Did Adam Lanza Have In Common With Us Addicts?
Family secrets. Family secrets are those things that everyone close to a person or situation knows or suspects, but never talks about. Often the thoughts aren’t even put into words. When they are, they...
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Denial on the street: “But officer, I slowed way down!”
I answer a couple of dozen emails and blog comments a week, dealing with various aspects of addiction and recovery. Every now and then it becomes clear that someone wants me to cosign a desire to...
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Is Someone You Know Enabling? Are You?
When it comes to dealing with loved ones who have drinking or other drug problems, our good intentions can pave the road to their hell.
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