Posts Tagged ‘drug abuse’

Question by Carol R: Why does CNN Elizabeth Cohen, so-called medical reporter, lie about marijuana causing lung cancer?
It’s total nonsense. People shouldn’t smoke anything, but at least know what you are talking about.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/25/AR2006052501729.html

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Answer by Law L
I don’t think anyone lies about anything unknown like that.

If people are going to mess around with drugs when we don’t know 99% of the long time side effects, they deserve whatever they get- cancer, schizophrenia, depression, psychosis- so who cares who’s lying?

What do you think? Answer below!

Parole denied for addictions agency fraudster
Filed under: alcohol abuse youth

EDMONTON – The man who defrauded the Alberta government out of $ 634,000 while running the Alberta Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commission has been denied parole because of previous lies to his parole officer. Lloyd Carr, 49, will remain in prison after the …
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Stopping Alcohol Abuse in the News

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Filed under: stopping alcohol abuse

Court heard that on June 28, Ouellette was stopped by a Sarnia police officer who found a glass pipe used for smoking drugs in Ouellette's waistband. The June 20 probation order had been imposed after Ouellette pleaded guilty to the June 7 possession …
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Air Force Offers Fighter Pilots 5000 Signing Bonus
Filed under: stopping alcohol abuse

In its bid to cut the size of the force, it has even stopped accepting recruits with criminal or substance abuse records. The Air Force has successfully used money to bring in more fighter pilots in the past. In 1989, the Air Force introduced a similar …
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Springville Journal editorial: They tried to make me go to rehab, but I said no
Filed under: stopping alcohol abuse

Writing like a fish
Filed under: Alcoholism

Response to Blake Morrison’s review of The Trip to Echo Springs: Why Writers Drink by Olivia Laing – http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/jul/20/why-do-writers-drink-alcohol?INTCMP=SRCH Q: Why do writers drink? A: ‘Happiness writes white’ (de Montherlant) This sentiment can be read as both the cause …
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Comment on Take Back Ownership Over Your Life: The 4 Steps to Accountability by Freedomborn – Set Free Eternally
Filed under: Alcoholism

Hi Kris, I did some recearch for you on AA, the article below comes from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, but it’s just a small part of what they shared. The Oxford Group was a Christian fellowship founded by American Christian missionary Dr Franklin Nathaniel Daniel Buchman . Buchman was a Luthera …
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Study: What Happens to Boys When They See Abuse and Violence at Home
Filed under: Alcoholism

Lincoln Discusses Drug and Alcohol Addiction and Recovery at Palm Partners

This video features insight into http://palmpartners.com Palm Partners Treatment Center in Delray Beach Florida, © 2012 Palm Partners. Palm Partners fundamen…

 

New Hampshire's Employers Take a Hit to the Bottom Line
Filed under: drug abuse and alcohol abuse

Nationally, there was a 40% increase in employees testing positive for prescription narcotic use between 2005 and 2009. In 2010 Oxycodone became the second most abused drug after alcohol of those entering state funded substance abuse treatment.
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Suffer Alcohol Abuse in the News

Millions of Women Silently Suffer After Abortion, How Churches Can Help Them
Filed under: suffer alcohol abuse

If we fully realized the cost, in human suffering, abortion has caused since 1973 (suicide, drug and alcohol abuse, promiscuity, abuse of women and children), we would be shaken to our core. Understand the pain someone experiences from an abortion.
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Cory Monteith – Drug Abuse Agency Issues Statement
Filed under: suffer alcohol abuse

Cory's lifelong struggle with substance use is a testament to the fact that people who try drugs and alcohol at a young age are much more likely to suffer from addiction as adults, as Cory tragically did. In fact, 90 percent of adult addictions start …
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For School: drug abuse commercial (animated)

I made this commercial for school. It has animation, and statistics, a great combo. Enjoy!

 

Alcohol abuse a major killer
Filed under: alcohol abuse uk

Deaths as a result of alcohol abuse in Doncaster are increasing at a rate twice the national average, new figures today reveal. The damning statistics emerged at a Health and Wellbeing Board meeting, where it was announced alcohol is one of the 'major …
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Study demonstrates link between reclassification of cannabis and cannabis …
Filed under: alcohol abuse uk

The UK Misuse of Drugs Act (1971) divided controlled drugs into three groups – A, B and C – with descending criminal sanctions attached to each class. Cannabis was originally assigned to Group B, but in 2004, it was transferred to the lowest risk group …
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