Category: Drug Abuse
Former Wrestling Star Big Van Vader Discusses Past Alcoholism, Prescription Drug Addiction
June 24, 2011
Big Van Vader was a legend during his wrestling career with WCW and WWE. In a recent interview, he talks about why that career ended, how it spawned an addiction to alcohol and prescription painkillers, and how that addiction ended his marriage and put him [...]
Paulina Porizkova Talks About Former Drug Addiction
June 22, 2011
She was one of the biggest supermodels of her decade, and little has been heard of her professionally since she stopped making calendars and doing swimsuit shoots on island beaches, but Paulina Porizkova has been doing quite a bit in the past few years. Now [...]
New Pete Townshend Bio to Discuss His Drug Addiction Past
June 17, 2011
Pete Townshend is famous for a lot of things: the classic rock operas he’s written, his performances as a guitarist for The Who, his alleged attempts to seek out child pornography, and of course, his struggles with drug addiction. The musician has decided to do [...]
Cocaine Addiction and Changes in the Brain
June 10, 2011
Research made it clear long ago that long-term cocaine abuse and cocaine addiction create significant changes in the brain, changes that cannot always be reversed in treatment. A recent study suggests that those changes aren’t just in cognitive function in general but also in the [...]
MC Macklemore Talks About Drug Addiction and Recovery
June 6, 2011
Though MC Macklemore released his first full-length album in 2005, The Language of My World, it wasn’t until after he attended rehab and began creating music based on his experiences with addiction and sobriety that he began to really make a name for himself. Unlike [...]
Priest Accused of Drug Addiction and Other Scandals
April 22, 2011
Father John Corapi has been accused of drug addiction and sexual improprieties and has been forced to cancel multiple Catholic Charities fundraising events as a result. While the sexual misconduct may not surprise many readers, the reports of drug addiction may be somewhat scandalous. The [...]
Parents Fight to Make Salvia Illegal
March 11, 2011
Ryan Santanna was 21 this month when he got high on salvia the 15th floor bedroom balcony of a building on Roosevelt Island in New York -and then fell to his death. Salvia is a member of the mint family that gives the user a [...]
Race Statistics, Drug Addiction and Prison
February 16, 2011
What do the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, United States Department of Justice (USDOJ) and the Bureau of Justice Statistics and the Human Rights Watch have in common? They are all releasing research that explores the use of drugs among different races and [...]
Committing Crimes to Support Drug Addiction? Go to Jail!
January 3, 2011
According to the Billings Gazette, Jerry Clyde Covington, 55, was sentenced to three concurrent terms of 15 years each with 11 years suspended for three counts of felony robbery in Billings, Montana recently. Why was Covington breaking and entering? To get some cash to pay [...]
5 Things You Should Know About Teen Addiction
December 31, 2010
Teen drug addiction or alcoholism has the power to destroy lives -not only of the young person in question, but his or her family as well. If you’re a parent, and have a teen or pre-teen in the house, here are five essential things you [...]
