Recent Addiction Articles

It may be difficult to believe that doctors, lawyers, judges, airline pilots and Fortune 500 corporate executives suffer from addiction, yet it is important to understand that addiction is an equal opportunity disease affecting professionals in the same way as it does for everybody else.

When you are running late trying to finish a project at work it is not uncommon to start feeling major anxiety. Plus, the fact that a disagreeable boss may be breathing down your neck does not exactly make the day go by easier.

BBC News - Addiction can lead to brain damage, 'formication', which is the sensation that your skin is crawling with bugs, with may lead you to constantly pick at your flesh, causing sores and infections. Death from overdose is usually due to stroke, heart or ...

Detroit News - Dear Abby: You were right to tell "Just Saying No" (Jan. 16) that his pot-smoking classmates could be headed for addiction or other problems. I worry that marijuana poses more risks to teens than they -- or their parents -- recognize. More kids need ...

BBC Entertainment - Winehouse's current stint in rehab is the latest episode and a long and very public battle with drug addiction. Teetotal Lewis, meanwhile, has the sort of wholesome clean-cut image that has had top designers falling over themselves to provide her ...

New York Daily News - He took us to task at first over our reporting on George Bush's addiction . Elliott felt that the president has been almost been TOO quiet about his recovery, whereas a previous Texas governor, Ann Richards, was very open to the world about being a ...

Baltimore Sun - Glantz, who in recent court appearances has admitted to having a history of drug abuse and a gambling addiction. Glantz brought with him client David A. Dadante, who managed a $47 million investment fund based in Ohio. The fund turned out to be a ...

Los Angeles Times - Kevin lives on skid row, where the streets, despite the recent efforts of the Los Angeles Police Department, remain littered with the detritus of failure and addiction and poverty -- half-eaten cans of baked beans; spilled suitcases; the occasional ...

Globe and Mail - For those afflicted by mental illness or substance abuse, it could be one of the three new transitional-care buildings soon to go on line at Toronto's Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). Like dorms, hotels and every other kind of temporary ...

Atlanta Journal Constitution - It is infuriating that, after years of litigation and final settlement with the tobacco companies, money allocated to states (in this instance, Georgia) for the treatment of nicotine addiction is scarcely being spent for its intended use. Tobacco ...