Disturbing Details of Jim Irsay's Arrest
The Carmel, Indiana Police Department case that is coming into focus, nearly raises more questions than answers. Excerpts from the March 16th police report have Irsay not only driving while intoxicated, but holding multiple types of prescription drugs … Read more on Naptown’s Finest

Irsay's arrest is the latest glimpse at his battle with addiction
Retired detective Irene Conder told The Star in a June 2003 interview the league offered to help Irsay get the proper treatment for his possible addiction in the mid-1990s, but he refused. “I went to the Colts training complex with a physician who is … Read more on Muncie Star Press

Support Groups Erie Times-News
The free program offers assistance in gaining independence from addictive behavior, including substance addiction like drugs or alcohol or activity addiction like gambling or overeating. SMART Recovery promotes the idea of self-empowerment … The … Read more on GoErie.com

Women Who Sought Treatment for Drug Addiction at Caron Treatment Centers …
The online survey polled former female patients at Caron and Hanley Center who were treated for addiction. The survey was conducted to better understand what motivated the women to seek treatment. Respondents cited alcohol and prescription drugs as … Read more on PR Newswire (press release)

Obamacare Puts Alcohol and Drug Treatment Programs in Jeopardy
Washington Alcohol and Drug Treatment programs are in jeopardy as Obamacare threatens to close their doors. … Outpatient centers now find themselves making tough decisions, including the possibility of closing their doors because of financial woes. Read more on Washington Free Beacon

Heroin fast becoming Ulster County's 'most prevalent' drug (VIDEOS)
Sullivan goes to the clinic five days a week for methadone and also attends The Bridge Back of Kingston Hospital, a treatment center at 10 Barbarosa Lane that provides medically-supervised alcohol and substance abuse treatment. At the center, a team … Read more on Kingston Daily Freeman

Historic Shift in Drug Research
So far, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), which has a DEA-protected monopoly on the only legal supply of marijuana that can be used for FDA-regulated research, has refused to sell them cannabis. However, it seems that could be about to … Read more on Good Times

Phillip Hodson: Heavy drinking, workaholism and road rage can all mask …
And that is how the Duke of Westminster came to take three months off in order to recover from a major depressive breakdown. Would that other men could be so well-advised or in a position to finance the opportunity. By and … I contend that the … Read more on The Independent

Brown pays So. Md. daylong visit to talk issues
Brown said he increasingly has heard concerns in rural communities about the growing prevalence of heroin abuse related to addiction to prescription drugs. To that end, Brown said the state needs to invest more in substance abuse treatment and … Read more on So Md News

Ski area: snowboarders' suit demeans Constitution
In a lawsuit filed in federal court in January, four snowboarders claimed Alta ski area's ban violates the Constitution's promise of equal treatment. In their rebuttal filed late last week, Alta ski area lawyers say snowboarders' citation of the 14th … Read more on Brownsville Herald

Freeing Up California's Prisons: A Massive Undertaking
In Texas, for instance, Gelb says the state invested into expanding treatment programs, probation programs, drug courts and other alternatives for lower-level, nonviolent offenders. "Policy makers in the states are seeing research about risk assessment … Read more on Utah Public Radio

White House official addresses Utah's prescription drug abuse problem
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah has led the nation in prescription drug abuse and overdose deaths, and the state's pain pill problem has caught the attention of the Deputy White House Drug Policy Director who was in Salt Lake City Friday. “Our 22-year-old son … Read more on fox13now.com

Question by deburleigh: What would you do to a person who is a confessed filthy multiple rapist and spent time in “rehabilitation”?
He is released from prison and commits the act many more times, and is finally caught again: one of his victims is your daughter. She will never be able to have a true loving trusting marital relationship because of her brutal rape experience.. How many girls and women is enough for you to kill the SOB? I would have shot the monster the first time. He is not human not even an animal, he is a monster…

Best answer:

Answer by apple
How about you mind your own business? What happened to that girl doesn’t regard you. You shouldn’t have a say in all of this.
And by the way, if you would shoot him, well you’d go in jail, so don’t act dumb dude. Don’t be stupid. Mind your own business.

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Mobile app may help people recovering from alcohol abuse: study
He and his colleagues write in JAMA Psychiatry that only about one in four people recovering from alcohol abuse abstains from drinking alcohol during the first year of recovery. Past studies have found that continuing treatment for alcoholism is linked … Read more on Reuters

Latest Best Drug Rehabilitation Blog Post Looks at the Dangers of Drinking and …
“Furthermore, reports from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and other credible organizations confirm that there is a clear correlation between alcohol abuse and prescription drug abuse; in fact, people who abuse the former are nearly twenty times … Read more on Midland Daily News (blog)

Monday's letters: Need new leaders
Doctors, pharmacists and families of those suffering from alcoholism, and/or addiction to prescription drugs need to stop avoiding the problem, get informed, and get help for their loved ones before it's too late! We commend Anna Huneycutt's mother for … Read more on BlueRidgeNow.com