Sunset Rotary Hosts Ellen Elias From the Center for Alcohol & Drug Resources

Sunset Rotary Hosts Ellen Elias From The Center For Alcohol & Drug Resources

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Members were informed that while alcohol abuse is the most common drug for which people are admitted to treatment programs, prescription drugs and over-the-counter drugs are the fastest growing abuse problem. Ms Elias provided some startling statistics …
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Britain's Obesity Epidemic: Are We Addicted to Sugar?

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Dr. Damien Downing, the president of the British Society for Ecological medicine and an addiction treatment specialist, says that overeating must be approached, at least in part, as an addiction. "Often overeating is linked to an addiction to sugar …
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EXCLUSIVE: Justin Bieber, drugs, red carpets and me: Celebrity whisperer …

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The 18-year-old singer once refused to go through an X-ray machine at an awards show, causing a stand-off between his bodyguards and the show's security. …. A few years later he was assigned to escort her into a show at the height of her drug addiction.
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Penthouse Pet Simone Farrow unfit to face trial due to potential 'psychosis'

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Simone Farrow this afternoon appeared in the Downing Centre District Court where her lawyers argued her addiction to the prescription anti-anxiety drug Xanax and potential "psychosis'' meant she was unfit. Ms Farrow, also known as Simone Cheung, 37 …
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Homemade drugs devastating Russian addicts – Homemade drugs have had devastating effects on addicts across Russia, where about 100000 people are thought to be making and using substances made from legal and easily available ingredients. One of the drugs, called ‘Krokodil’ (or crocodile), named after the scaly-looking sores it causes, is made from a combination of headache pills, petrol, paint thinner, hydrochloric acid, iodine and red phosphorous scraped from the strike strips of matchboxes. Al Jazeera’s Neave Barker reports from Moscow. Warning: This video contains graphic footage. One of the drugs, called ‘Krokodil’ (or crocodile), named for the scaly-looking soars it causes, is made from a combination of head-ache pills, petrol, paint thinner, hydrochloric acid, iodine and red phosphorous scraped from the strike strips of matchboxes. Al Jazeera’s Neave Barker reports from Moscow. Warning: this video contains graphic footage.