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Moderate Alcohol Consumption Can Lead to Life-Threatening Diseases – Sacramento Bee

Moderate Alcohol Consumption Can Lead To Life-Threatening Diseases – Sacramento Bee
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Moderate Alcohol Consumption Can Lead To Life-Threatening Diseases
Sacramento Bee
DALLAS, Nov. 5, 2012 — /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Alcohol consumption is more socially acceptable than ever before. In fact, 17.6 million people abuse alcohol or have an alcohol dependency.[1] Yet many do not realize there are health problems

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Hazelden Introduces Antiaddiction Medications into Recovery for First Time – TIME
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Hazelden Introduces Antiaddiction Medications into Recovery for First Time
TIME
Treating drug addiction is as much about addressing why people become hooked on substances like alcohol, painkillers or illegal drugs as it is about weaning them off of their habit— at least that's the core of the Hazelden recovery approach. From its

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Alcoholism: Denzel Washington Takes ‘Flight’ as a Pilot Struggling With Alcoholism (Video) – Examiner.com

Denzel Washington takes ‘Flight’ as a pilot struggling with alcoholism (Video) – Examiner.com
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Denzel Washington takes 'Flight' as a pilot struggling with alcoholism (Video)
Examiner.com
Then, he had Academy Award winner Tom Hanks as a lead. This time around, Zemeckis comes armed with Academy Award winner Denzel Washington. Here Denzel plays Whip Whitaker, a stud airline pilot who is also an alcoholic who loves to drink and do
'Flight' avoids the turbulence, lands safely on Washington's acting skillsThe Breeze
Film Review: Flight, from director Robert ZemeckisLive Trading News
Film Review: Denzel Washington's powerful performance saves "Flight" from clichéWestern Herald
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Recovered Alcoholic Retires From Diocese After Helping Others Find Strength in … – Dallas Morning News

Recovered alcoholic retires from diocese after helping others find strength in … – Dallas Morning News
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Recovered alcoholic retires from diocese after helping others find strength in
Dallas Morning News
Phil Paschke, with wife Marty and dog Jazz, is retiring as the coordinator of alcoholism ministry for the Diocese of Dallas after 28 years. A recovering alcoholic himself, Paschke says, “I made a lot of people sad in my life. I'm trying to make up for

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Judge Simms opens up about his alcoholism, family, traffic stop – Macon Telegraph (blog)
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Macon Telegraph (blog)

Judge Simms opens up about his alcoholism, family, traffic stop
Macon Telegraph (blog)
When Howard Simms slips on his black judge's robe Monday, for the first time in six weeks, it will be as a man who has owned up to his flaws. He took his last drink of alcohol Sept. 24. It was a Monday, two days after being stopped at a license

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Alcohol Abuse: Father of Octomom Nadya Suleman Enters Rehab for Alcohol Dependency – Examiner.com

Father of Octomom Nadya Suleman enters rehab for alcohol dependency – Examiner.com
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Father of Octomom Nadya Suleman enters rehab for alcohol dependency
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Her father, Ed Doud, has now checked into the same facility for a 28-day alcohol dependency program. Sources say the two will pursue their treatments separately but will do a family-therapy session together at some point. While Nadya's Xanax addiction
Octomom's father checks into same rehab facilityTheCelebrityCafe.com
Octomom, Dad Both in Rehab: Nadya Suleman and Father Tackling Substance Christian Post
Octomom joined by dad in rehab, calls Michael Lohan's story a lie: Favorite PeopleOregonLive.com

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Nearly Half of Addiction Counselors Do Not Always Push Abstinence – PsychCentral.com

Nearly Half of Addiction Counselors Do Not Always Push Abstinence – PsychCentral.com
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Nearly Half of Addiction Counselors Do Not Always Push Abstinence
PsychCentral.com
“Individuals with alcohol and drug problems who avoid treatment because they are ambivalent about abstinence should know that — depending on the severity of their condition, the finality of their outcome goal, and their drug of choice — their
NZ Justice Minister Judith Collins Borrows Drug Treatment Model from USSBWire (press release)

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Local student substance abuse higher than averages – Reporter-Times
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Local student substance abuse higher than averages
Reporter-Times
Tobacco, marijuana, alcohol, prescription drug abuse and binge drinking were all higher in the 2012 Indiana Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Use Drug survey of Morgan County middle school and high school students than state and national averages.

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Study: Alcohol, Drug Abuse Counselors Don’t Always Require Total Abstinence – Science Codex

Study: Alcohol, drug abuse counselors don’t always require total abstinence – Science Codex
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Study: Alcohol, drug abuse counselors don't always require total abstinence
Science Codex
"Individuals with alcohol and drug problems who avoid treatment because they are ambivalent about abstinence should know that — depending on the severity of their condition, the finality of their outcome goal, and their drug of choice — their

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‘Flight’: Screenwriter John Gatins confronts his fears – Los Angeles Times
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Los Angeles Times

'Flight': Screenwriter John Gatins confronts his fears
Los Angeles Times
What Gatins didn't consider during the lengthy quest to get the film made, was that reaching the finish line would reveal a new form of terror: publicly admitting his own history of drug and alcohol abuse, after almost 20 years of sobriety. Now at

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