Treatment Centre Aids in Living Sober Life
Treatment centre aids in living sober life
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Rozzano, 37 at the time, had run out of friends and family willing to help her out. Her boyfriend, who often bailed … Her parents had told her not to call them for help any more unless she wanted to go into treatment for her addiction to drugs and …
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The demons of a mental illness patient
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… the “demons of mental illness and substance abuse.”Photo courtesy of the Phelps family … But then the drinking and drugs became an overwhelming part of the sickness, something to mask his disease from the outside world. His addictions also …
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Cork mother and son commit suicide after child porn accusations, inquest hears
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A family member told the inquest that after Christopher's arrest her “whole world crashed around her in a couple of hours." Two days before their deaths, Gosling had been arrested on suspicion of possessing child abuse pictures. He was later freed on …
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CBS 19 – Prescription drug addiction, ODs at all time high – It’s been a national problem for about a decade, but it’s never been this bad. Prescription drug abuse, overdoses, and deaths. A new report by the CDC, Says more than 40 people a day die from prescription overdose. As CBS 19’s Courtney Friedman explains, it’s a scary trend that is only gaining momentum, and it has both doctors and patients worried. Tylerite Walter Morman has seen first hand how addictive prescription drugs can be. “I’ve got some family members that have been on pain pills for so long that the dosage they’re having to take anymore would classify them as an addict, but they just have to have it for the level of pain,” said Morman. Doctor Luis Haro oversees all the emergency departments in the Trinity Mother Frances Health System; a job that shows him the shocking number of people affected by prescription drugs. “More than 30 a day,” said Haro. He said these people are not your typical drug addicts. “We’re talking about grandma, who broke her hip,” said Haro. “We’re talking about your child, who took their tonsils out.” The crisis seems to have no boundaries. “Tyler is just a susceptible as all the other places in the nation,” said Cynthia Allen. “People have pain, they get on the medications, they get a little bit better, they start abusing it,” said Haro. “Subsequently they need more, and if they don’t have it, they have worse pain than they had before.” The result is a vicious cycle. One that Morman is trying to stay away from. “A while back I was taking …