Help! My Child Is a Drug Addict!
Help! My Child is a Drug Addict! — KD Bowe speaks candidly with Pastor Wess Morgan about his addiction to drugs and a life of lawlessness. He shares the one thing that brought him out.
Vt. drug–abuse film goes national
[rewrite]A poster for the Vermont drug-abuse documentary “The Hungry Heart” at Leland & Gray Union Middle and High School in Townshend advertises the film's upcoming screenings throughout the state. Vermont filmmaker Bess O'Brien figured she was finished with …[/rewrite]
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Matt Cardle Has Revealed His Drug and Alcohol Abuse Left Him Weeks From Death.
Matt Cardle has revealed his drug and alcohol abuse left him weeks from death.
[rewrite]… alcohol abuse left him weeks from death. The 'When We Collide' singer went into rehab towards the end of the year after finally accepting he needed treatment for his Valium habit and admitted his doctor told him he wouldn't have survived if he'd …[/rewrite]
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Hoffman's death highlights heroin abuse, trafficking in US
[rewrite]Dr. Marvin Seppala, the chief medical officer at the Hazelden drug addiction treatment centers, said heroin and other opioids lend themselves to overdose and death because they directly act on the parts of the brain that control breathing. Erin Mulvey …[/rewrite]
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Prescription Drug Abuse: A Public Health Epidemic
Prescription Drug Abuse: A Public Health Epidemic — Approximately 6.1 million Americans abuse or misuse prescription drugs. Since 1999, overdose deaths involving prescription painkillers have quadrupled and no…
Hoffman found with 50 bags of heroin, addiction meds: sources
[rewrite]Multiple law enforcement sources told NBC News that authorities found six bottles of prescription drugs — including the blood pressure medication clonidine hydrochloride; the addiction treatment drug buprenorphine; the attention-deficit disorder …[/rewrite]
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Seattle Treatment Center for Alcohol & Drug Addiction Announced
Seattle Treatment Center for Alcohol & Drug Addiction Announced
[rewrite]A Seattle treatment center is announcing that it is opening doors for adults and adolescents dealing with alcohol and drug addiction through Drug Addiction Treatment Centers. Statistics from a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services report reveal …[/rewrite]
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Hoffman's Heroin Points to Surge in Grim Trade
[rewrite]Drug Enforcement Agency. From 2010 to 2012, after several years of decline, heroin-related overdose deaths increased 84 percent in New York City to 382, according to Health Department statistics. Staten Island, where prescription drug addiction has …[/rewrite]
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Philip Seymour Hoffman: Death of the Master
Philip Seymour Hoffman: Death of the Master
[rewrite]… Sundance Film Festival – "Jack Goes Boating" Portraits. Matt Carr / Getty Images. Philip Seymour Hoffman poses for a portrait during the 2010 Sundance Film Festival held at the Getty Images portrait studio at The Lift on January 23, 2010 in Park …[/rewrite]
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Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman dies of suspected drug overdose
[rewrite]Hoffman spoke candidly over the years about his struggles with drug addiction. After 23 years sober, he admitted in interviews last year to falling off the wagon and developing a heroin problem that led to a stint in rehab. “No words for this. He was …[/rewrite]
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Olympic Host Russia Coming Out of Doping Doghouse
Olympic host Russia coming out of doping doghouse
[rewrite]Kim Waite was especially disappointed to fall ill while treating herself to a Caribbean cruise after completing cancer treatment. …. Russia clearly still has more to do to convince the sports world and its own drug cheats that its testing is credible …[/rewrite]
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Marlise Munoz wasn't alone: The growing persecution of pregnant women
[rewrite]In July 2013, Alicia Beltran was arrested, shackled and confined by court order to a drug treatment center for 78 days after she refused a doctor's orders to take an opiate blocker. Beltran had confided to medical staff at a prenatal checkup that she …[/rewrite]
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