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Photos: “Vice” Publishes Intimate Photos of Pete Doherty in Rehab
Pete Doherty, former lead singer of the British rock band the Libertines, recently stayed at the Hope Rehab Center in Thailand where he was treated for heroin addiction. The singer, who has been in and...
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Should AA Be Held Responsible for Sexual Predators in the Rooms?
“13th-stepping” is common enough to have a nickname. Photo via Last November, CBS’s 48 Hours aired a documentary called “The Sober Truth.” The show focused on the 2011 murder of Karla Mendez Brada by...
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Why America Is Afraid of People Like Audrey Conn
Audrey Conn died at her mother’s home in Oregon last month. Photo via The untimely passing of Audrey Conn (formerly Kishline), who took her own life last month, prompts some troubling questions about...
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How Blood Tests Could Hold the Key to Helping Smokers Quit
How do you metabolize nicotine? Photo via New research suggests that a blood test, measuring the speed at which an individual breaks down addictive nicotine, could hold the key to help smokers find...
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The Training Manual for US Addiction Counselors Is Full of Myths
“Numerous ‘facts’ that people have to learn to pass these tests are demonstrably wrong.” Photo via Forty-five US states use the examination conducted by the International Credentialing and Reciprocity...
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Why We Need to Stop Nora Volkow From Taking Over the World
Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). Photo via The disease theory of addiction, which has always been with us in one form or another, now boasts Nora Volkow, the...
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Most People With Addiction Simply Grow Out of It: Why Is This Widely Denied?
The experiences of most young people with addiction are brushed under the carpet. Photo via When I stopped shooting coke and heroin, I was 23. I had no life outside of my addiction. I was facing...
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Love and Drugs in the Darkest Days of AIDS
Qalbee (left) and the author in the early 1980s It was the spring of 1986 in San Francisco. My best friend, Qalbee, was dying and the rest of us were doing drugs, stealing drugs, selling drugs and...
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What is Substance Abuse and How Do I Find Treatment?
What is Substance Abuse? Most people have tried drugs. Some have tried them once. Others continue to use them recreationally with little consequences. And still many find themselves abusing drugs with...
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Across the nation, thousands of addiction and recovery programs offer support for those struggling with substance abuse. Approaches vary and results do, too. Is there a secret recipe to success? A new...
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