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More than 25% of women who might become pregnant are getting prescriptions for opioid painkillers, such as Vicodin and OxyContin, that can cause birth defects and other serious problems early in pregnancy. Taking them early in pregnancy is dangerous. “They’re deadly, addictive and they cause birth defects,” CDC Director Tom Frieden said.
Cafe Therapy is the first cafe in Romania that will help alcoholics and drug addicts treat their addictions.It will open soon in Bucharest. Cafe Therapy, financed by European contributions, will be launched by the ALIATAssociation through a bigger project to prevent and treat people who abuse alcohol and drugs. Alcohol consumption and smoking will be forbidden in the cafe. There will also be the presence of social workers and psychologists.
Members of the Major Crimes Task Force said Tuesday that they have arrested an addiction counselor for selling drugs to an undercover officer. Roberta Payne, 52, was charged with aggravated trafficking in drugs. The Ohio Attorney General said Payne was arrested Friday evening after she allegedly sold more than 2,000 morphine pills and 30 milligrams of liquid morphine to the undercover officer. “What is particularly disappointing is that a person who has been placed in a position of trust apparently abused that trust by using her job for illegal activities which are counterproductive to her position,” said Police Chief Patterson.
A new law requires Ohio schools to teach children about the dangers of prescription painkillers, a leading gateway drug to heroin abuse. Nationally, 1 in 5 high-school students uses painkillers without a prescription, while about half of young people who get hooked on heroin became addicted to prescription painkillers first, the Dayton Daily News reported. “Most people don’t realize that prescription opioids and heroin are close cousins, and heroin use is simply a later phase of the same addiction,” the lawmakers testified in support of the bill. 
Australian seizures of methampheta- mine have increased almost 10 times in the last few years. In 2011 there were 44 amphetamine-like substances seized. In 2014, there were 415. Police raided almost 750 meth labs last year and expect to raid many more in 2015. Most labs were discovered in rural areas, but police have conducted busts in motel rooms, shipping containers and truck beds.
Kim Richards thinks that poker night episode of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills should be renamed “Awkward” – and we have to agree. “From the limo to the spa to the wine tasting, there was literally alcohol everywhere in this episode,” Kim writes. “But I am so strong in my sobriety today and know how to handle situations like this. I removed myself from the situation and was fine the whole trip.”
Don Tollefson’s “fall from grace” came to a hard landing Wednesday afternoon when a jury found him guilty of stealing money by offering fraudulent sports packages to away games for the Philadelphia Eagles and other sporting events. After deliberating for almost 11 hours between Tuesday and Wednesday, the jury comprised of seven men and five women found the 62-year-old former Philadelphia sportscaster guilty of felony charges of dealing in unlawful proceeds.
Five-time Grammy Award winner James Taylor shared his story of drug addiction with 100 graduates of the Pinellas County Drug Court program on Wednesday.
Addiction Recovery eBulletin Jan 27, 2015
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Addiction Recovery eBulletin Jan 27, 2015
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