Drug Addiction

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Of No Fixed Address: A Christmas To Remember

Christopher Devine | Posted 12.25.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Drug Addiction, Streetwise, Homelessness, Crack Cocaine, Chicago Homeless, Drugs, Crack, Old Town Chicago, Chicago News

This is the seventh in a series of excerpts from my book Of No Fixed Address: A Collection of Voices from the Streets of Chicago.

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Obama Drug Czar Pick: No Recovery from War on Drugs?

Maia Szalavitz | Posted 11.21.2008 | Politics

Obama shouldn't make the mistake that Bill Clinton did and install a drug czar who will ignore science and push dogma.

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Warring Philosophies Regarding Drug Treatment: To Jail or Not Jail for Relapse

Tony Newman | Posted 10.20.2008 | Living

Read More: Drug Addiction, Drugs, Drug Policy Alliance, Prison, Drug War, In Treatment, Drug Court, ARRIVE Drug Treatment, Exponents, Voluntary Drug Treatment, ARRIVE, Howard Josepher, Living News

Let's help drug addicts where they're at and not let perfection be the enemy of good. Let's make sure that we offer compassion and empowerment, not judgment and a jail cell.

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Financial Sobriety

Dr. Tian Dayton | Posted 09.25.2008 | Living

Read More: Drug Addiction, Work, Addiction, Relaxation Tips, Business, Green Business, Emotional Sobriety, Fox Business Network, Spirituality, Living News

A lot of us have been living as if we need everything we want; as if we don't have to refill the coffers, emotional, physical and financial, that are meant to sustain us.

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Electric Kool-Aid Art Test: Mike Quinn

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 09.06.2008 | Living

Read More: Drug Addiction, Tom Wolfe, Painting, Fine Art, Sculpture, Addiction, Kimberly Brooks, Drugs, Mike Quinn, Disney, Lsd, Fantasia, Living News

This week is the 40th Anniversary of Tom Wolfe's famous "Electric Kook-Aid Acid Test" and I thought it would be high time we take a small moment to re...

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A Slugger's Drug Redemption

Anthony Papa | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Steroids in Baseball, Drug Addiction, War on Drugs, Ondcp, Crack Cocaine, Alcoholism, Drug War, Drugs, Politics News

Hamilton was finally able to kick his addiction and return to baseball. He was fortunate that his addiction was not handled as a criminal manner, sending a powerful message to society.

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Being the Change we Want to See: Let's Not Trash Cindy McCain Over Her Past Drug Problems

Harold Pollack | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Drug Addiction, Cindy McCain, Politics News

If she lets her husband campaign in the family airplane or has complicated financial and personal dealings, I think that's fair game. As for her drug problem, I have great wariness.

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As Long As We're Talking About Michelle Obama, Did You Know Cindy McCain Was A Drug Addict?

Stephen Elliott | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Drug Addiction, Michelle Obama, War on Drugs, Cindy McCain, Politics News

In the mid-nineties, Cindy was addicted to prescription pain killers. Worse, she was stealing the drugs from the American Voluntary Medical Team, a third world relief organization she founded.

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Are the Candidates' Wives Fair Game?

Paul Peete | Posted 06.13.2008 | Home

Read More: Drug Addiction, Patriotism, Laura Bush, Michelle Obama, First Lady, Cindy McCain, Mccain, Michelle Obama Proud, Smears, Election 2008, General Election, Offthebus, Home News

This is going to be a white-hot, bitterly contested election cycle, and even though the McCain campaign has forsworn dirty tactics, the 527s and right wing blogs and rumor mills will rush to attack Michelle Obama. But a word of caution is warranted: "Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones."

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The Addiction Treatment Gap

Victor Capoccia | Posted 03.13.2008 | Living

Read More: Insurance Coverage Rehab, Health Insurance Coverage, Drug Addiction, Substance Abuse Programs, Treatment Addiction, Addiction, Health Insurance, Alcohol Addiction, Substance Abuse, Rehab, Living News

What would Congress say of a disease for which four out of five people who seek treatment cannot get it?

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Overdose and Heath Ledger, Part III: Shame About Addiction Should Not Obscure Truth About How Drugs Kill

Maia Szalavitz | Posted 02.07.2008 | Living

Read More: Addiction, Opioids, Heath Ledger Death, Overdose, Heath Ledger Pills, Heath Ledger Dies, Drug Addiction, Heath LEdger Overdose, Heath Ledger Died, Heath LEdger Dead, Doctors, Drugs, Heath Ledger, Medicine, Living News

It's conceivable that Ledger had an incompetent doctor, but the more parsimonious explanation, given his history of recreational drug use, is that he was not following doctor's orders at all.

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The Only Thing Worse Than Letting Addicted Docs Practice is Banning Them...

Maia Szalavitz | Posted 12.19.2007 | Living

Read More: Addiction, Treatment, Doctors, Physicians, Drug Addiction, Drugs, California Doctors Addicts, Living News

Failing to allow doctors to anonymously seek treatment and removing their licenses will make doctors go to greater lengths to hide their problems and avoid ever seeking treatment.

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