EXCLUSIVE: Wife Links Husband's Suicide to Steroid and GHB Use
EXCLUSIVE: Wife Links Husband's Suicide to Steroid and GHB Use
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His wife, Kristi Hugstad, reached out to Patch, hoping to educate others about drug abuse, she said. My husband, Bill Brotherton, committed suicide on Oct. 10, by jumping in front of a Metrolink train just south of Dana Point, where we lived. What …
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Abusers of prescription painkillers can be hard to spot
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Opioid, or narcotic, painkillers have become the second most-abused category of drugs behind marijuana, according to the federal 2011 National Survey on Drug Use and Health. And drug overdoses have become the No. 1 cause of accidental death, with the …
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Tshwane Community Educated on Drug Abuse
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A community development worker, Mr Sidney Modiba, said that a lack of employment opportunities is one of the main causes for substance abuse among the youth, but said that he was optimistic that the number of youths reached through the campaign will …
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Needham Public Health Department offering guides on marijuana for residents
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It is the number one drug of choice of youth who are in treatment for substance abuse, as reported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). … This may cause teens to perceive it as less harmful and could have similar effects on increasing use …
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Addictions & Corrections with Gabor Maté Part 1of2 – “What is it that the correctional service actually corrects? In my view very little…and…the justice system is completely criminal and it should be studied…” So begins a provocative presentation by trauma and addiction treatment expert, Gabor Maté, MD While working for two decades on Vancouver’s Downtown East Side, Gabor saw how the purely medical model of addiction theory fails to take into account the effects of trauma and the biopsychosocial conditions of human beings as they live in relationship with others. He argues that current Canadian social and criminal policy exacerbate and entrench addiction, criminal behaviour and human suffering. He calls for social policy, medical training and criminal justice to become more fully aligned with the current science and understanding of addiction and healing. Ting Forum on Justice Policy co-sponsored by The School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University, the Correctional Service of Canada, and the Department of Criminology at Douglas College Buy the DVD at www.heartspeakproductions.ca Part Two Dr. Gabor Maté is joined by Ray Corrado (Simon Fraser University, School of Criminology), Tim Veresh (The John Howard Society of the Lower Mainland, BC), and Sav Bains (The Correctional Service of Canada [CSC]), to continue the dialogue on addictions and corrections. Underlying the discussion of the treatment of addictions in the prison environment is an awareness that new and impending crime legislation will result in increased …