Recent Addiction Articles page 8

Chicago Tribune - On the other hand, alcohol is detrimental for more than 60 diagnoses," said Juergen Rehm, head of public health and regulatory policies at the Ontario Center for Addiction and Mental Health. "That red wine stuff -- how it was supposed to be ...

Seattle Times - ... good cholesterol and prevents blood platelets from clumping together. "On the other hand, alcohol is detrimental for more than 60 diagnoses," said Juergen Rehm, head of public health and regulatory policies at the Ontario Center for Addiction and ...

St. Petersburg Times - Gross spent 3 1/2 years on the blimp crew, "feeding my blimp addiction," as he puts it. There were grand times, including a trip on the Concorde to the Paris Air Show, but Gross says he got fed up with the way Pearlman was running the company. ...

Vancouver Sun - KABUL - Afghanistan, the world's biggest heroin producer, is struggling to cope with a drug problem as thousands of Afghans -- trying to cope with the traumas of war, displacement and poverty -- are becoming addicted to narcotics. On the outskirts of ...

Washington Post - They also suggested that the potential losses from dealing with such problems as gambling addiction would limit slots' financial benefit to the state. But the major reason for opposing slots, at least in the house of worship, remained the immoral ...

St. Petersburg Times - I'm all for compassion and for helping street people, but my personal experience with chemical addiction tells me that "tough love" is the only thing that works. Not a reputation of allowing them to own Williams Park and downtown St. Petersburg. ...

Xinhua News Agency - Nirvana helped popularize grunge rock in the early 1990s, and the song "Smells Like Teen Spirit" is often termed the anthem for a generation. Cobain struggled with drug addiction and the pressures of fame, and Love's role in his death has been ...

News.com.au - THOSE whose politics addiction isn't sufficiently sated by wall to wall media coverage can now access Labor campaign material on demand on their mobile phone. Labor says this could be a world first for a political party. “Labor's new mobile website ...

Baltimore Sun - ... programs failed to stop his drinking and pot smoking. The mother of three lost her battle in late July when 17-year-old Harry L. "Trey" Angle died in his sleep from a fatal combination of alcohol and methadone - a drug prescribed for heroin addiction ...

News.com.au - In rehab... suggests he has a drug addiction?YES Do elite athletes big contracts support drugs? NO I have no sympathy for Ben, sure i hope he gets over it but you have to sleep in the bed you made... Westcoast should have canned him the first ...