This Author Thinks Americans Are Addicted to Working Too Fast, so Yglesias …
Are Americans working too hard, too fast, and too chaotically for our own good? Slate books editor Dan Kois was eager to find out when a review copy of Stephanie Brown's Speed: Facing Our Addiction to Fast and Faster—and Overcoming Our Fear of … Read more on Slate Magazine

Conway announces million for drug addiction treatment
8, 2013) — More than $ 32 million recovered in settlements with two pharmaceutical companies will be used throughout Kentucky to expand substance abuse treatment, including opiate addictions. Attorney General Jack Conway announced Monday that more … Read more on The Lane Report

Professor Probes Psychedelic Drugs for a Cure to Nicotine Addiction
Although his personal experience with addiction is limited to caffeine, he has spent much of his professional life teasing out its mysteries. “If you're interested in understanding behavior, addiction is the big thing,” Johnson explains. “It's behavior … Read more on Washingtonian.com

Shumlin zeroes in on drug addiction with State of State
WHAT: A documentary produced by Bess O'Brien of Kingdom County Productions, focuses on opiate addiction in Vermont, featuring addicts and pediatrician Fred Holmes. Gov. Peter Shumlin highlighted the film in his State of the State address. Read more on BurlingtonFreePress.com

Smoking ban at treatment centers raises concern among patients
He's now a volunteer at The Turning Point, a center offering recovery support for addicts. He's been in and out of treatment centers for years and says being able to keep smoking helped him get through rehab for other drugs. But soon, smoking will no … Read more on WCAX

Vt. officials mark new addiction treatment center
RUTLAND, Vt. — State officials are marking the opening of Vermont's fourth regional treatment center to help treat people with opiate addictions. Gov. Peter Shumlin and Health Commissioner Dr. Harry Chen on Tuesday will mark the grand opening of West … Read more on The State

Vermont moves to make addiction treatment centers smoke-free
MONTPELIER, Vermont — Cigarettes and alcohol addiction are so strongly linked there's a running joke among those trying to quit, says T.K. Blanchard, who's been sober for a year and smoke-free for eight months. "The joke is that when you see a lot of … Read more on Daily Journal