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Committing to the Straight Edge Lifestyle in Addiction Recovery

Committing to the Straight Edge Lifestyle in Addiction Recovery

If you are going through addiction recovery, but don’t quite relate to the culture of the drug rehab center, then you may be in need of an alternate community and activities to motivate you to stay sober. If you are interested in just about any subversive counter-cultural phenomenon, then you will surely find Straight Edge […]
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Virginia Hopes Drug Disposal Kits Will Curb Addiction Rates

Virginia Hopes Drug Disposal Kits Will Curb Addiction Rates

In an attempt to curb climbing addiction rates in the state, Virginia Attorney General Mark R. Herring has acquired 80,000 drug disposal pouches. When used as directed, these kits are capable of destroying 3.6 million leftover opioid pills. These disposal kits, along with several other strategies, embody a multi-faceted plan designed to give Virginia an […]
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Virginia Hopes Drug Disposal Kits Will Curb Addiction Rates

Virginia Hopes Drug Disposal Kits Will Curb Addiction Rates

In an attempt to curb climbing addiction rates in the state, Virginia Attorney General Mark R. Herring has acquired 80,000 drug disposal pouches. When used as directed, these kits are capable of destroying 3.6 million leftover opioid pills. These disposal kits, along with several other strategies, embody a multi-faceted plan designed to give Virginia an […]
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Addiction Reclassified As Brain Disorder

Addiction Reclassified As Brain Disorder

For a long time, the drug addiction specialists at addiction treatment centers have noted that addiction is not a problem of behavior or rebellion, but a mental disorder. This position had been ignored or dismissed until, finally, the science caught up with the speculation. This finally goes to show that drug use is a moral […]
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Addiction Reclassified As Brain Disorder

Addiction Reclassified As Brain Disorder

For a long time, the drug addiction specialists at addiction treatment centers have noted that addiction is not a problem of behavior or rebellion, but a mental disorder. This position had been ignored or dismissed until, finally, the science caught up with the speculation. This finally goes to show that drug use is a moral […]
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How Elton John Helped Eminem Get Sober

How Elton John Helped Eminem Get Sober

The multiple personas of Marshall Mathers have shed light on the various magnifications of Eminem’s both truthful and fictional personalities. The shades of the infamous persona have always included the ugliness of crime, domestic abuse, and drug addiction. How fitting it is then that his drug addiction recovery was facilitated by none other than Elton […]
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Daughter ODs on Drugs Delivered by Dad

Daughter ODs on Drugs Delivered by Dad

On Saturday, October 8th, police in Lancaster, Pennsylvania responded to a call concerning a teenager who had overdosed on heroin. Police and paramedics were able to revive the girl after administering four doses of naloxone, but after learning she obtained the drugs from her father, they arrested him on an unrelated bench warrant. A Tragic […]
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Drugs on the Silk Road

Drugs on the Silk Road

If you Google the Silk Road, you may find a variety of links giving you information about the online marketplace that facilitated the illegal purchases and trafficking of drugs. But, long before it was an online black market, the Silk Road was an extensive trade route that extended from China to the eastern edge of […]
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Opioid Abuse May Blunt Parenting Instinct

Opioid Abuse May Blunt Parenting Instinct

A recent study has revealed that opioid use may interfere with one’s parenting instinct, which may explain why opioid addicts are sometimes observed to be pursuing their fix with their kids in tow. New research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania opens a window in the mind of an addicted […]
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Searching for Drug-Free Employees in New Mexico

Searching for Drug-Free Employees in New Mexico

New Mexico’s impending meth epidemic was partially illuminated by television phenomenon Breaking Bad. What the show didn’t fully explore though, was the full scale of effects such an issue has on the people of the community that includes both drug addicts and the average person. One issue that was overlooked by the TV spectacle was […]
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