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My beautiful 20 year-old daughter died after making the wrong choice on a night out ...

The Daily Mail 20 Nov 2024
Her mother, Tracy Marelli, said community addiction specialists let her daughter down after she was discharged from hospital ... But instead of picking up on signs of her addiction, doctors sent her home with antibiotics to treat a kidney infection.
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Cher bares all about Sonny Bono, 'beautiful' Gregg Allman and why drugs are 'boring'

Usatoday 19 Nov 2024
He was this amazing man who happened to be a heroin addict.” She pauses, then laughs ruefully ... Although both of her husbands were tortured by drug addiction, Cher never had an interest in illicit substances.
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Cynical tricks of food giants that are making so many obese. This is how the ...

The Daily Mail 19 Nov 2024
Food addiction is a growing field of study – and while I don't think we should demonise any food, as an infectious diseases doctor, I see many patients who feel they are addicted to these products.
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Vancouver Island doctors set up overdose prevention sites without government blessing

North Shore News 18 Nov 2024
Wilder says seeing patients needlessly die has caused doctors much "moral distress," while politicians have seized upon addictions services with harmful narratives and expert voices like hers have been sidelined.
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Ohio's missing include many who suffer from addiction. Families say police disregard them

Times-Gazette - Ashland 18 Nov 2024
A funny, caring father who loved the Detroit Lions and worked at the clerk of court's office in Columbus, Andy had struggled with addiction since a doctor put him on opioids for pain following a car accident in 2003 or 2004, Aimee said.
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Doctor warns of dangers of abusing sleeping pills

Taipei Times 13 Nov 2024
Sleeping pills should only be taken based on the prescribed dosage and frequency to avoid addiction and drug abuse, a doctor warned yesterday. Taipei City Hospital Songde Branch Division of Addiction ...
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My handsome, sporty 17-year-old son died in an instant after making a split-second decision... my...

The Daily Mail 12 Nov 2024
'Will wasn’t a drug addict ... Mrs Webster now dedicates herself to driving home her message through the addiction charity Kenward Trust, where she works as a youth education executive ... Doctors have dished ...
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How to navigate college life on antidepressants

CNN 11 Nov 2024
Today, doctors have many alternative medication choices with little or no addictive potential ... OK, but can I have an occasional drink? No doctor, including me, is ever going to recommend drinking alcohol while taking antidepressants.
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Addicts came to Southern California from afar to get sober but wound up dead

LA Daily News 10 Nov 2024
None of the staff would take me to a doctor ... I asked every single staff member to take me to the doctor, but they were all too busy.” The patient’s insurance was authorized for addiction treatment through Jan.
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Charities are handing out free crack pipes on LA’s Skid Row — and addicts just ...

New York Post 10 Nov 2024
And addicts told The Post that the free ... Homeless Healthcare – which offers free coffee, snacks, rides to the doctor’s office and other services – would be a “haven of peace” for him and fellow addicts.
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Gavin Newsom plays politics as everyday Californians suffer

Colorado Springs Gazette 10 Nov 2024
"I started going out to the street to purchase more because I couldn't get any more from my doctor and I got full-on addicted," he told the Washington Examiner. "At the peak of my addiction, I was taking 560 milligrams of oxycodone every single day.".
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Jury in Baltimore opioid trial to begin deliberating ‘biggest and most important case in the ...

Baltimore Sun 07 Nov 2024
The companies, their attorneys say, were merely providing drugs to fill prescriptions called in by doctors ...It’s a path of opioid addiction here,” Bill Carmody, an attorney for the city, said in closing arguments Thursday.
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One month behind the scenes of Spokane's ongoing fight to end the deadly fentanyl crisis

Inlander 07 Nov 2024
Who is struggling with addiction? Who is working to maintain their sobriety? Who is trying to help a family member get to the point where they're ready to get clean? ... "I was really against it before I was a heroin addict," Herrman says.
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Bowen Island recovery campus transforms lives for the better

North Shore News 06 Nov 2024
The medical team includes a psychiatrist, along with doctors who are all addiction medicine specialists, supported by nursing staff, recovery coaches, clinical counsellors and other support staff.
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For people with opioid addiction, Medicaid ‘unwinding’ raises the stakes

The Citizens' Voice 06 Nov 2024
... for opioid addiction ... Zachary Sartor, a family medicine doctor in Waco, Texas, who specializes in addiction treatment, described the effect of such medications as “nothing short of remarkable.”.

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