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First Signs Of Alcoholism in the News

Sex Addiction: An Intimacy Disorder
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"We don't have Betty Fords for this issue," says Weiss, explaining that until the first lady put a public face on the problem of alcohol addiction in the early '80s, alcoholics were considered bums. [Read: What Was Anthony Weiner Thinking?] When it …
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Family 'Hatred' Shooting Leaves 4 Dead, Including Mom, Brother, Sister And Her …
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Tattooed with "Born to Raise Hell" on his arm, Richard Speck made good on his mantra through a history of violence, theft, alcoholism, and spousal abuse, but made his infamy known to all when, on July 13, 1966, he walked into a dormitory armed with a …
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8 – 17 – 2013 Update
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This week in the Babylon 5 Fandom: I update once every 2 weeks with fiction, challenges etc. Please feel free to contact me if you have news or anything you think needs to be featured here. Just send me a PM at alexcat or post it to the update and I’ll include it the next time. Sorry to be so late b …
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The mind of a crazy-person.
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You’ve grown up, grown up to be one of the workers. Like everybody else you’ve grown up to be the anonymous worker you’ve either always wanted to be or recently discovered you’d like to be. Claim to be. Claim to want. Deceiving yourself to want. Label yourself and blending in. Contradictory. That’s …
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The Betty Ford Story (1987) – Film Locations
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If someone in recovery relapses, have they failed? Betty Ford Center Q&A

Dr. James West, former medical director of the Betty Ford Center, explains why a relapse is not a failure in the disease of alcoholism and drug addiction.

Dina Goldstein's Fallen Princesses shows Disney's Snow White and Cinderella …
Filed under: disease of alcoholism

Fallen Princesses, a project by Vancouver, Canada-based photographer Dina Goldstein, shows Snow White, Jasmine, Pocahontas and other iconic characters succumbing to tragic fates including cancer, alcoholism and unhappy marriages. 'My Fallen Princesses …
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The Prarie Boys Go to War
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The Prairie Boys Go to War is the story of the Fifth Illinois Cavalry during the Civil War. Author Rhonda M. Kohl has prepared a thoroughly researched study of this unit from southern Illinois. The story follows the exploits of this unit from August 1861 to October 1865. Fifth Illinois Marker at Vic …
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The broken Finnish health care system..
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So I had my bicycle accident last sunday.. 2 days later I realized I have pain while I breath piercing through my upper left shoulder.. So I decided to go to the local health care center. I am sitting here in Myyrmäki.. The first thing that struck me was text “We will only take care of urgent cases …
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Outpatient and Inpatient Drug and Alcohol Treatments
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Alcoholism Treatment Center in the News

Nature | News Blocking boozy memories reduces risk of relapse
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Although Ron says her group does not plan to pursue studies in humans, she says that research by others may turn rapamycin or a related compound into an effective treatment for alcohol abuse. The US Food and Drug Administration has already approved …
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Lindsay Lohan plans to transfer to another rehab facility, possibly to Long Island
Filed under: alcoholism treatment center

… sentence, Confidenti@l has exclusively learned. A California judge has approved the troubled starlet's bid to leave Cliffside in Malibu and enter Seafield Center in Westhampton Beach, N.Y., which focuses mainly on alcohol and substance-abuse treatment.
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Betty Ford Center, Hazelden consider possible alliance
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How A Recovering Alcoholic Can Stay Sober

http://alcoholicsfriend.com I’m going to share a few foundational truths from AA that help keep a recovering alcoholic sober. -For believers, nothing happens…

Police Blotter: June 26, 2013
Filed under: dealing with an alcoholic spouse

James David Allen, 34, of Redding, was arrested by the California Highway Patrol at 10:24 p.m. Friday on Sunset Hills north of Red Bluff, on suspicion of vehicle theft, possession of stolen property, possession of a controlled substance and bringing …
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Kristen Stewart 'gutted' about co-star's death
Filed under: dealing with an alcoholic spouse

David, who spent four weeks at the Betty Ford Clinic in January 2011 where he was treated for alcoholism, was recently seen at Popkins Tavern in Richmond, Virginia, drinking Scotch and according to a fellow drinker he was "slurring his words". He was …
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