Church Helps Drug Addicts, Gang Members Reform Their Lives
Church helps drug addicts, gang members reform their lives
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But what differentiates After God's Own Heart is its nine-months-to-a-year program that "restores" drug addicts, gang members, prostitutes and families in need of change, according to the flyer Pennington and other church members hand out. Pennington …
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Addictions clinic: boycott pharmacies that sell generic OxyContin
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“Banning all these drugs because they have the potential to be addictive would help dry up the drug supply for addicts, but would lead to pain and suffering for patients who desperately need them.” Six companies have now been approved to make 12 …
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Nick Clegg and David Cameron clash over drug law reforms | Politics | guardian …
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"The government, I think, has got a good record on these things and there is some good evidence that drug use and drug abuse is falling." … "We need to look now at whether drugs policy is working. … It's important now to pluck up the courage to …
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In US, an Epidemic of Prescription Drug Abuse – This is the VOA Special English Health Report from voaspecialenglish.com | http Officials in the United States say deadly abuse of painkillers and other prescription drugs has reached epidemic levels. More than thirty-six thousand people died from drug overdoses in two thousand eight, the latest year available. That was almost as many as from road crashes. More than half of the overdoses involved drugs that need a doctor’s approval. And three-fourths of those deaths involved what are called opioid pain relievers. These include drugs like methadone; morphine; hydrocodone, also known as Vicodin; and oxycodone, or OxyContin. Death rates from prescription drugs were highest among people forty-five to fifty-four years old.A recent government report said painkiller deaths more than tripled in the past decade. They now top the number of heroin and cocaine deaths combined. The Obama administration released a plan last year to try to deal with the problem. Some abusers seek help at places like the Malibu Beach Recovery Center near Los Angeles. They learn yoga and other ways to deal with anxiety, stress and pain. Joan Borsten heads the center. She says stopping is difficult because “in the case of pain pills, the body has stopped producing its natural defenses to pain,” and users have to have more and more. Around the country, special drug courts work with addicts to get them counseling and treatment. Mary Ann Gunn is a retired drug-court judge. She now appears on “Last Shot With …
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