Posts Tagged ‘Drug Addiction’

Tom Sizemore was making a name for himself – in a positive way – during the 90s with roles in hit movies like Saving Private Ryan, True Romance, Heat and more. Unfortunately, his struggle with drug and alcohol addiction started to tarnish his stellar acting [...]

The focus is often on how drug addiction hurts the addict, but the fact is, there are few acts more selfish than drug abuse and addiction. The impact on communities where the drugs are produced, the individuals coerced into trafficking the drugs across borders, the [...]

To the surprise of many, highly respected professionals like doctors, lawyers, dentists and corporate executives are working each day as functioning alcoholics and drug addicts. In fact, recent studies have determined that licensed professionals experience depression at higher rates than any other occupation leaving them [...]

Recently, China’s Ministry of Public Security arrested about 12,125 people as a part of a countrywide initiative to break up the Internet drug rings that provide the country with a large portion of its illegal drugs. Early this year, Chinese authorities discovered that a large [...]

Babies born to mothers who are dependent upon drugs or alcohol often have their own issues with addiction. It’s a problem that is extreme in the state of Florida and one that local officials are working to remedy as best they can. Specifically, Attorney General [...]

With all the research going into understanding drug addiction, few studies have given much insight into what happens in the moment a recovering addict relapses. We know it’s a complicated mixture of genetics and environmental factors, but is there a common thread in the circumstances [...]

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)  has released a new survey that shows that the rate of drug abuse of illicit substances has risen between 2008 and 2010. The statistics generated by the national survey show that Americans are using more and [...]

The world has been watching as Dr. Conrad Murray sits in the courtroom addressing charges that he is responsible for the death of pop star, Michael Jackson. The prosecution is trying to prove that it was obvious that Jackson was addicted to drugs and that [...]

Unlike many rock stars these days, Girls front man Christopher Owen isn’t talking about how his past struggle with drug and alcohol addiction affected his life or killed his career – he’s talking about a current issue with drugs and alcohol and how it informs [...]

The White House has stepped up with a 2011 National Drug Control Strategy in an effort to shift the direction of the “war on drugs” in this country. The new strategy views drug abuse as a public health threat and addiction as a treatable illness. [...]