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Prescription drug addiction can be characterized by behaviors like:
Viriato M. deMacedo’s top priority was to spur the local economy, but, as he said, things change and the number one priority in his new job is to bring an end to the region’s heroin epidemic. “It’s a tall order, but I’m committed to do anything I can,” he said. 
Several people are being hailed as heroes after police said they pulled two men who had overdosed on heroin out of a burning car in a busy shopping plaza on Thursday afternoon. -“I didn’t think about it,” said Michalides, 33, of Manchester. “I saw the car on fire, saw someone inside, and had to get them out.” “At that point I started administering CPR to him, probably for about seven or eight minutes, with a woman from the Geico office helping, and revived him until Manchester fire could get here with oxygen.”
“I believe that if doctors have a patient whose life they can save and they have a donor who’s willing to give, that they have an obligation [to save their life],” she said in an interview on CBC Radio’s As It Happens. In an interview on CBC Radio’s Metro Morning on Wednesday, Levy said last year more than 100 people died while waiting for a transplant.
An elderly couple, fed up with their 27-year-old alcoholic son, bludgeoned him to death and chopped the body using a stone-cutter. They even dumped the parts in a forest near their home and had their house painted to remove any trace of the crime. Nand Kishore and Asha Devi, who are both in their 60s, have been arrested. 
Standard treatment for binge eating and other eating disorders usually involves counseling and psychotherapy. Some doctors also prescribe antidepressants to try and curb eating disorders, though they are not approved for that use. The Food and Drug Administration approved Vyvanse in 2007 as a once-a-day pill for ADHD. Friday the agency cleared the drug for adults who compulsively overeat. Serious adverse events associated with Vyvanse can include psychiatric problems like hallucinations and mania as well as heart complications.
Howard Josepher and Exponents, the organization he founded 20 years ago have some answers. Howard and Exponents have helped more than 10,000 people with serious drug problems. Mr. Josepher knows about substance abuse on a personal level. He struggled with heroin addiction and spent some time behind bars. Over the last two decades, Howard built a dynamic organization made up of staff who have also struggled with addiction, incarceration and HIV. 
With each interview and every speech, Chris Herren reopens deep wounds. They are dark memories from which most would rather move on and forget. Alcohol and drug experimentation turned into addiction, near-death overdoses and arrests that overshadowed a promising basketball career that had shined brightest while he was at Fresno State Herren, a star at Fresno State from 1996-1999 under future Hall of Fame coach Jerry Tarkanian and who then played a couple of seasons in the NBA, knows some might already know of his story. 
There needs to be immediate action by the FDA, state and local governments to curtail advertising of e-cigs to minors, providing free samples, and treating e-cigs as being different from conventional cigarettes when it comes to these laws. Taxing e-cigs at the same rates as conventional cigarettes will pay for education of the public to the dangers of e-cigs, and increase the price to discourage growth of e-cig users.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released the results of a survey about the extent to which problems with alcohol equate to substance use disorders (the “official” term now given to diagnosable problems with drinking) or “alcoholism.” In this Pro Talk piece I will outline the most important findings of that survey, as I see them, and detail what I think are the implications of these findings for both treatment providers and our patients.
During their research, it was discovered that there was a direct relationship between how continuously and uninterrupted someone watched something and the person’s feelings of loneliness, depression, and lack of self-regulation. The study, which included 316 individual ages 18 to 29, found that the more lonely and depressed the study participants were, the more likely they were to escape into a marathon session of TV watching. “These viewers were unable to stop clicking ‘Next’ even when they were aware that they had other tasks to complete.”
Addiction Recovery eBulletin Feb 3, 2015
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Addiction Recovery eBulletin Feb 3, 2015
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