How Your Menstrual Cycle Could Affect Attempts To Quit Smoking
… Mendrek concludes that “taking the menstrual cycle into consideration could help women to stop smoking,” and calls for more studies that investigate the biological differences in men and women when it comes to cigarette smoking and addiction … Read more on Huffington Post

How to Feel Adequate and Worthy
Adam was a very competent dentist until a brain injury from a hiking accident caused him to lose his ability to practice dentistry. Not only could he no longer use his hands effectively, but his speech was sometimes slurred and he could not walk … Read more on Huffington Post

Giving and receiving: On the road to recovery; Couple addicted to drugs gave …
A very pregnant Nu Contreras and her husband, Ricardo, were driving toward the Salvation Army's Depot Family Crisis Center in Marysville from Arizona in October 2013 to get help for their drug addictions when their third child arrived in Riverside … Read more on Appeal-Democrat

TN third in prostitution, Ketron tells commissioners
MURFREESBORO – Tennessee ranks third in the nation in prostitution, state Sen. Bill Ketron told county commissioners Monday. A Republican from Murfreesboro, Ketron said he's learned from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation that human trafficking is … Read more on The Daily News Journal

Battle against heroin an ongoing struggle
By: Denise Crosby | [email protected]. FILE – In a Sunday, March 5, 2006, file photo, actor Philip Seymour Hoffman poses with the Oscar he won for best actor for his work in "Capote" at the 78th Academy Awards, in Los Angeles. … Just a few … Read more on Naperville Sun

Aid in Recovery Comments on Study Measuring Link Between Mental Illness …
Aid in Recovery, a full service drug and alcohol treatment center in South Florida, released a statement today commenting on new research that examine s the link between mental illness and drug addiction. The study (Comorbidity of Severe Psychotic … Read more on PR Web (press release)

Human trafficking: modern-day slavery
“I think there is a perception that human trafficking is something that happens in large, urban centers or on the coast,” said Elizabeth Miller, chief of adolescent medicine at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, and associate professor of … Read more on Anderson Independent Mail

List of Giving Hearts Day participants for 2014
Anne Carlsen Center provides education, therapy and medical care to children with developmental disabilities in Fargo, Jamestown, Bismarck, Devils Lake, Grand Forks and their surrounding areas. 12. Arts Center … Best Friends Mentoring Program … Read more on In-Forum

Pot Prospectors Seek Fortune In Legal Weed
A software engineer, he eventually left and started or acquired two other companies — telephone adult chat and psychic hotlines — but he really wanted to farm. … THE PATH FROM ADDICTION. It started with small doses that eased the aches of … Read more on Huffington Post

2 charged with prostitution after teen calls trafficking hotline
She was arrested and charged with aggravated child abuse, promoting prostitution, marijuana possession and possession of drug paraphernalia. She is being held in lieu of $ 75,000 bond. Her daughter is in the custody of the Tennessee Department of … Read more on WATE-TV

Sex trafficking charged against Milwaukee man in Nashville
Officials have paired with interest groups to raise awareness of the state's trafficking hotline, where fewer than 100 calls were received in its first two years in use. The Tennessee Human Trafficking Resource Center Hotline is 1-855-55-TNHTH (558 … Read more on The Tennessean

Mental Health an Overlooked Casualty of Disaster
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) established the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline in 2005, but created an entirely separate hotline for …
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Maine gets mixed reviews in annual human trafficking report
Legere said in many cases, prostitution becomes the latest step in a cycle that begins with domestic abuse and drug experimentation. “We're finding … The Polaris Project's human trafficking hotline received 44 calls placed from Maine in 2012. That …
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