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• Quit Smoking and Gain Weight?

  
  Testing It Up Drug & Health Testing News Test Country Blog — Authority: 144
  Smoking can be a rather tricky habit. There a lot of reasons that may lead to someone starting to smoke, and a lot of reasons not to . And once one has started smoking, there are also a lot of reasons to quit, and a lot of reasons not to. One of the apprehensions that smokers have against quitting is the possibility ...
  10 hours ago

• David Hasselhoff Found Passed Out At Home

  
  mr tabloid — Authority: 158
  An ambulance was called to David Hasselhoff’s home Friday November 27, 2009. Apparently David passed out again. The Baywatch star David has had many problems with alcohol/substance abuse in the past and has been hospitalized before. Radaronline is reporting that "Paramedics were called to the (address omitted) in ...
  11 hours ago

• Looks Like Woods had a Tiger In His Tank

  
  mr tabloid — Authority: 158
  When He Smashed Up His Car at 2:30 in the morning and injured himself was Tiger Woods drunk and or stoned? He charged out of his driveway in a fit of rage, smashing a fire hydrant and then a tree! His wife had to drag him from the car smashing open the window of his Cadillac SUV with a golf club, believe it or not. ...
  11 hours ago

• No More Excuses: Now Is The Time For Drug Treatment

  
  heave-ho.org — Authority: 164
  Family members rarely ever are able to help loved ones who are addicted to drugs. Quite frankly, addicts simply do not listen to family members, especially about their addiction. Furthermore, family members do not possess the means, resources or professional expertise to get the drugs out of the addict’s system. ...
  14 hours ago

• HIV Infection Among Injection-Drug Users — 34 States, 2004–2007

  
  Docuticker — Authority: 154
  HIV Infection Among Injection-Drug Users — 34 States, 2004–2007 Source: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (CDC) Since the peak of the HIV epidemic among IDUs in the late 1980s, HIV incidence among IDUs has decreased by nearly 80% (2). Despite that overall decline, IDUs continue to represent a substantial ...
  17 hours ago

• “Instant adoption” promoted by UK charity

  
  O Solo Mama — Authority: 462
  At this blog I learned of a new adoption scheme being proposed by Coram, a children’s charity in the UK. The plan is as follows : Babies taken into care immediately after birth (substance abuse and imprisonment mentioned most commonly) are transferred to prospective adoptive parents when they are days old. An ...
  1 day ago

• Substance Exposed Infants: State Responses to the Problem

  
  Docuticker — Authority: 154
  Substance Exposed Infants: State Responses to the Problem (PDF; 1.5 MB) Source: National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare This study assessed State policy from the broadest perspective: prevention, intervention, identification, and treatment of prenatal substance exposure, including immediate and ...
  2 days ago

• The Mail Order Drug to Get High

  
  FOX News Health Blog — Authority: 421
  Recently, I treated a patient struggling with depression and substance abuse who had found a legal way to get high.  He had ordered Kratom capsules on the Internet.  Lots of his friends have ordered up supplies, too. I hadn’t heard of Kratom, and you probably haven’t, either, but I think you will.   It mimics ...
  3 days ago

• UK: A civilised society: Mental health provision for refugees and asylum-seekers in England and Wales

  
  Docuticker — Authority: 154
  A civilised society: Mental health provision for refugees and asylum-seekers in England and Wales Source: Mind, UK From Key findings and recommendations: Restrictive policies on healthcare, education, accommodation, welfare support and employment are functioning to socially exclude and marginalise refugees and ...
  3 days ago

• Taylor Swift Surprises Children In Need

  
  Look To The Stars News: Latest — Authority: 547
  Written by Tim Saunders Taylor Swift was a surprise guest at this year’s BBC Children in Need extravaganza in London on Friday night – an event that raised a massive £20,309,747 for charity. Hosted by Terry Wogan , Tess Daly and Alesha Dixon, the seven hour show featured actors from some of ...
  4 days ago

• Shocking Discoveries About Drug and Alcohol Abuse in High School

  
  Health till 100 — Authority: 150
  When I was a sophomore in high school, I enrolled into a drug abuse class. At that time period, I did not comprehend that alcohol abuse in point of fact was a sub category of drug abuse. While taking this class and learning more about drug and alcohol abuse and above all about alcohol side [...]
  4 days ago

• Ending Mandatory Minimums for Pushers in School Zones Sends the Wrong Message

  
  New Jersey Senate Republicans — Authority: 125
  Senator Gerald Cardinale, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, announced today that every Republican on the committee would oppose any effort to weaken the drug-free school zones law. “It is clear that children need more rigorous protection against the predators that turn school yards into open ...
  5 days ago

• HHS Secretary Sebelius Announces Senate Confirmation of Pamela H...

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 160
  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced today that the United States Senate unanimously confirmed Pamela Hyde as Administrator for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) within HHS.
  5 days ago

• Here’s why some people can’t quit cocaine (Re-issue)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Washington, Nov 22 (ANI): A new study from University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) sheds light on why some people fall back into drugs despite undergoing a treatment.It shows that, in the case of cocaine, a high score on the so-called ’scale of craving’, an antisocial personality type and previous heroin abuse ...
  6 days ago

• Whats Made Milngavie Famous (Has Made A Loser Out Of Me)

  
  It Is What It Is — Authority: 129
  Alcohol and Scotland . Irvine Welsh has got it right . Ill quote him in (as far as I can tell) full: "Scotland has a growing problem with alcohol abuse. More people, younger people and more women than ever before are at risk from being encouraged to over-consume this drug. This has an incalculable impact on ...
  6 days ago

• Woman Tells 911 on Drunk Driver — Herself!

  
  Testing It Up Drug & Health Testing News Test Country Blog — Authority: 144
  This woman on a video featured on ABC News deserves both a commendation and a citation. A 911 dispatcher in Wisconsin received a really interesting call from a woman reporting a drunk driver. There are signs on freeways urging people to call 911 to report drunk drivers that may be sharing the road with them in ...
  1 week ago

• Smoke DZA – The Making Of “Substance Abuse” video

  
  MVRemix Urban — Authority: 155
  Smoke DZA – The Making Of “Substance Abuse” video Smoke DZA breaks down what inspired him to make Substance Abuse . Substance Abuse available Dec. 1st.
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• Thugs Sell Motorcycles

  
  Northwest Harley Blog — Authority: 122
  Ludacris “ When you dine with the devil, bring a long spoon. ” — Machiavelli Having a ‘thug’ like Ludacris anywhere near your marketing campaign may not be a good thing.  Yet, Harley-Davidson has decided having a pitchman who glamorizes a life of guns, violence, drugs and is disrespectful of women is ...
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• Great American Smokeout: Smokers Take a Break

  
  Testing It Up Drug & Health Testing News Test Country Blog — Authority: 144
  The efforts of the American Cancer Society to get smokers to quit continue, and one of the ways through which they attempt to do this is by organizing an annual Great American Smokeout. Basically, willing participants take a break from puffing cigarettes on this particular day of the year; this year marks the 34th ...
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• Pre-order new releases by Opposite Exhale, ESA, and EO3

  
  Tympanik Audio — Authority: 116
  Pre-ordering has begun for our final 2009 releases: ESA offers up a stunning remix collection titled ‘ The Immaculate Manipulation ‘; Netherland new-comer Opposite Exhale presents his epic debut album ‘ Nothing Lasts ‘, and finally Tympanik Audio presents its newest 2-CD compilation ‘ Emerging ...
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