TORONTO (Reuters)By Allison Martell Protesters left colorful chalk messages on walls and pavement outside Toronto City Hall on Wednesday urging Mayor Rob Ford to quit after his bombshell admission on Tuesday that he has smoked crack cocaine. “I’m a taxpayer, and I would like you to resign – now,” read one message targeted at the …
By Dieter Kurtenbach, Sun Sentinel4:27 p.m. EDT, November 2, 2013 The abrupt resignations of FAU football coach Carl Pelini and his defensive coordinator came after an assistant coach stated in an affidavit that he observed both men using marijuana and cocaine, the Sun Sentinel has learned. Two sworn affidavits, obtained by the Sun Sentinel late …
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration is recommending new restrictions on prescription medicines containing hydrocodone, the highly addictive painkiller that has grown into the most widely prescribed drug in the U.S. In a major policy shift, the agency said in an online notice Thursday that hydrocodone-containing drugs should be subject to the same …
By Katie Hunt, for CNN updated 2:15 AM EDT, Tue October 1, 2013 Hong Kong (CNN) — The global war on drugs is failing, new research suggests, as the price of heroin, cocaine and cannabis has fallen while their purity has increased. Using seven sets of government drug surveillance data, a team of Canadian and …
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I HAVE been struggling with an addiction to opiates for the past three years. It started with prescription painkillers and progressed to full-blown heroin dependence. In an attempt to kick the habit I signed up for a traditional 30-step inpatient treatment that involved individual and group counselling, and which cost about $30,000. That was a …
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by Anna Klassen ‘That ’70s Show’ actress Lisa Robin Kelly died in her sleep Wednesday evening after checking into a rehab facility. That ’70s Show star Lisa Robin Kelly has died at age 43. The actress, who played older sister Laurie Forman on the hit show, passed away in her sleep Wednesday night in a …
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(CBS News) No parent wants to believe his or her child could be hooked on heroin, so it’s always a shocking discovery. It happens every day and sometimes in places where you’d least expect it. Our colleagues at “48 Hours” have spent the past few months investigating heroin addiction in a town in Illinois. Our …
He played a smooth-singing, sweet-talking jock on TV, but in real life Cory Monteith was fond of describing himself with one word: awkward. Even after the gangly, 6’3″ star rocketed to stardom on the FOX smash Glee, he still “thought of himself that way,” says Maureen Webb, an early mentor who discovered Monteith when he …
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Alcohol detoxification can be defined as a period of medical treatment, usually including counseling, during which a person is helped to overcome physical and psychological dependence on alcohol (Chang and Kosten 1997). The immediate objectives of alcohol detoxification are to help the patient achieve a substancefree state, relieve the immediate symptoms of withdrawal, and treat …
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