Recent Addiction Articles page 2

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 ...

Forbes - America's economy is staggering under the burden of our foreign oil addiction. Yet, America could transform herself into an energy self-sufficient nation by exploiting its untapped and unconventional energy resources. The explosive growth of Canada ...

BBC News - The World Health organisation recognised gambling addiction as a mental health disorder back in 1996. It doesn't necessarily have any physical effects, but if you find it hard to stop, suffer from depression or mood swings and have low self-esteem ...

Baltimore Sun - We do what we do for the generations to come after us in our cities across this country, who deal with violent crime every day, unemployment, drug addiction, a war that we are putting trillions of dollars in while our schools are falling apart," she ...

Globe and Mail - The stories are predictably tragic (well, Bowman's story of addiction, misery and death is tragic): There is, apparently, nothing worse one can do than eat too much food. Families are now quoted as praying for and crying about relatives who visit Taco ...

Seattle Post Intelligencer - Charlie did his best to comfort Claire and act as a surrogate father to Aaron, but when his heroin addiction or religious obsessions got the better of him he became self-absorbed and even delusional. At one point Claire was horrified when Charlie ...

Sutton Guardian - ... year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, assaulted his seven-month pregnant girlfriend by putting his foot on her face, following a heated argument. The defendant told the court how his difficult upbringing, in addition to a 10-year addiction ...

Deming Headlight - Alfonso Gamboa is not your everyday director of a rehabilitation center, particularly one as long-running as the Victory Outreach Christian Recovery Home now located 10 miles south of Deming. Gamboa oversees five residents undergoing rehabilitation ...

Palestine Herald-Press - NECHES — For Neches’ Justin Todd, basketball started out as an activity based on peer pressure more than anything else. But it soon turned into an addiction. “I like everything about basketball, it’s as simple as that,” the Neches senior ...