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Prescription Painkiller Deaths Now Outrank Traffic Deaths
Prescription painkillers have now taken the infamous honor of being the number one cause of accident deaths in the U. S. Traffic deaths have fallen to the number two cause. The shift actually took place in 2008 when there were 41,000 accidental American deaths due to painkillers and 38,000 deaths due to traffic accidents. According…
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Cocaine Vaccine Picking Up Steam
As wacky as it may sound a cocaine vaccine is in the works and is actually more science than it is science fiction. Now this caught my attention: “Addicts unable to kick a cocaine habit could one day be vaccinated against cocaine and see proof with a molecular imaging technique that shows how the vaccine…
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$80 Million Prescription Drug Theft Ring Broken Up
Today the FBI broke up a prescription drug theft ring in Florida that swiped at least $80 million worth of medication. There were 22 people charged in this raid on the East Coast. One of the biggest drug heists was in Connecticut in 2010. According to Fox News, “The thieves hit warehouses and stole tractor-trailers…
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Mike The Situation Sorrentino in Drug Rehab
On March 22, 2012 Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino from the reality TV show “Jersey Shores” had his rep release a statement that he was not in drug rehab. A couple of hours later, Sorrentino recanted via Facebook saying that he was in rehab for an addiction to prescription medication. Sorrentino had checked into the Cirque…
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Alcohol in Movies Correlates to Adolescent Binge Drinking
According to the journal “Pediatrics” there is an association between adolescents viewing drinking in movies and binge drinking. The study involved six European countries including Iceland, Germany, Poland, Netherlands, Scotland and Italy. According to Pediatrics, “Alcohol-related health and social problems are prevalent in almost all societies that consume alcohol. For young people, injury remains the…
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Whitney Houston Dies February 11, 2012 Drugs Alcohol Suspected
Legendary pop singer Whitney Houston died at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, in Beverly Hills, California at 3:35pm PST on Saturday, February 11, 2012. She died in her hotel room according to those closest to her. Houston was attending a Clive Davis pre-Grammy party on Saturday when the incident occurred. The Grammys are scheduled for February…
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Miss Russia Goes to Drug Rehab
In 1998, Anna Malova was named Miss Russia and finished in the top 10 in the Miss Universe pageant. Today, however, Ms. Malova has been sentenced to a last chance in drug rehab. The former Miss Russia is back in a residential rehab center after being charged with forging doctor’s signatures in order to get…
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Hezbollah and Mexican Drug Cartels Push Cocaine into U.S.
It seems like the plot of a B-movie, but in fact worldwide organized crime knows no bounds. Recently, Hezbollah, the Mexican drug cartels, Colombia cocaine manufacturers and a Lebanese national have all been linked. A man named Ayman Joumaa who is currently at large is said to have connections to all of the above listed…
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National Quit and Recovery Registry Promotes Addiction Heroes
There is a new addiction website online with a wonderful idea behind it. And that idea is to use the strategies of “addiction heroes” (those people who have at least one year of sobriety) to help others struggling with alcohol, drugs or other addictions. According to CBS News, “Those … who have turned around their…
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Red Ribbon Week October 23 – 31 2011 and Contest
“It’s up to me to be drug free” is the new slogan for this year’s Red Ribbon Week, October 23 – 31, 2011. Red Ribbon Week is the nation’s oldest drug prevention program reaching out to students K-12 in schools across the US. The National Family Partnership (NFP) is running a contest where students who…
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Other Kinds of Addictions
This website and blog focuses primarily on drug and alcohol addiction and rehab as a means to recover from these addictions. I would like to take a short break from this focus to point out that there are other kinds of addictions worth noting. Yes, I’m sure you’ve heard about eating disorders and gambling addictions…
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Amy Winehouse Dies – Speculators Says Drugs Alcohol Involved
There is no proof yet that famous singer Amy Winehouse who died Saturday, July 23 in London, England did so because of drugs and/or alcohol. The toxicology reports are still 4 weeks away and the initial coroner’s autopsy was inconclusive. Adding to the mystery is that no illicit drugs or alcohol were found by her…
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Zanny the Nanny Xanax and Addiction
In the Casey Anthony trial that is happening now, we were introduced to “Zanny the Nanny” which is what Ms. Anthony called her fictitious babysitter. Anthony also called her babysitter Zenaida and said Zanny was short for that. But, anyone who has been around the drug and alcohol field for a while will recognize that…
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My Fellow Addicts Says James Taylor in Crowded Courtroom
James Taylor addressed drug offenders as “my fellow addicts” in the Pinellas courtroom in Clearwater, Florida today. The five-time Grammy winner told the large crowd of rehab graduates that they have a friend as he spoke of his own heroin addiction and subsequent 30-year abstinence. The program was started 10 year ago and has seen…
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Dennis Quaid Comes Clean on Cocaine Addiction
Well, Sheryl Crowe may say some guy was her “favorite mistake” but when it comes to Dennis Quaid and cocaine he says it was his “biggest mistake.” In a recent interview, Quaid told Newsweek, “My greatest mistake was being addicted to cocaine. I started after I left college and came to Los Angeles in 1974.…
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Videos of Drug Addicts and Alcoholics Personal Testimony
I received in interesting email about some video of drug addicts and alcoholics telling their personal testimonies. Some of the videos and stories are quite compelling. I recommend if you start watching the videos that you start with: “Recovering Heroin Addict – Episode 1: John’s Story” Heroin has often been dubbed as one of the…
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Bath Salts Being Used for Stimulants According to Drug Czar
Just when you thought that taking a nice, long hot bath was a relaxing experience, think again. According to U. S. White House appointed Drug Czar Gil Kerlikowske the buying of some bath salts is being used for people to achieve an amphetamine-like high. Two substances found in some bath salts called MDPV and mephedrone…
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All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Pounds of Drugs
For one of the Mexican drug cartels, smuggling two pounds of cocaine and two pounds of methamphetamines inside a vacuum cleaner into the U. S. sucked – literally sucked – this Christmas season. You see a Green Bay, Wisconsin woman received a Christmas present from her two kids which was a vacuum cleaner than had…
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Free Alcohol for the Homeless in British Columbia
In British Columbia, Canada there was a study conducted by University of Victoria that stated that the hiking of alcohol prices along with the controlled administration of alcohol for the homeless would actually reduce addiction and binge drinking. The wisdom of the study sounds counterintuitive so let’s spend a minute discussing the reasoning behind this…
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Of Drivers Dying in Car Crashes 18-Percent Were on Drugs
According to a report by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), 18-percent of the drivers who died in 2009 had drugs in their systems. Of the approximate 22,000 drivers killed in car crashes last year, 63-percent were tested for drugs and approximately 4,000 turned up positive (There were also another 22,000 non-drivers killed in…