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This Former Heroin Addict Has Some Serious Lessons to Teach You About Life

This Former Heroin Addict Has Some Serious Lessons To Teach You About Life

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"I was watching a Christian program, sitting there dealing drugs.. and all of a sudden — it wasn't like a voice booming at me — but something was just like 'You need to get in,'" Pops says. "The only thing I thought about was the fact that …. A …
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Losing War Against Drugs

Losing War Against Drugs

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told a Senate committee that illicit drug use is “overwhelmingly a demand problem.” He added, “If … The writer, a doctor, is president emeritus of Beth Israel Medical Center and has helped develop drug treatment programs in the United States and abroad.
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Addiction Treatment With a Dark Side

Addiction Treatment With a Dark Side

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For Shawn Schneider, a carpenter and rock musician, the descent into addiction began one Wisconsin winter with a fall from a rooftop construction site onto the frozen ground below. As the potent pain pills prescribed for his injuries became his …
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How to Help Your Child Succeed When Addiction Trouble Hits


 

How to Help Your Child Succeed When Addiction Trouble Hits – Raising a child is tough as it is, but when your kid becomes addicted to alcohol or other drugs, it can feel as if you’re living a nightmare. Listen in as Ha…

 

How Can Addiction Hotline Help My Cocaine Addiction?


 

How Can Addiction Hotline Help My Cocaine Addiction? – The hold that cocaine has on a person can be hard to break free from. It is not impossible to be free from cocaine addiction, but the road to recovery certai…

 

Solutions Journalism: A New Approach to Fayetteville's Crime Problem

Solutions Journalism: A new approach to Fayetteville's crime problem

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We wrote about the huge increase in painkiller prescriptions for soldiers and veterans, about broken monitoring systems that allowed addicts to get drugs and about the lives destroyed by abuse and overdose. But while we quoted people who advocated such …
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