A small study has found that Naltrexone, a drug used to treat alcoholism, effectively decreased methamphetamine-addicted patients’ desire for the drug and the pleasure they derived from using it.
It’s hard to imagine a friendship with a less auspicious start than the one between Lance Rice and Nina Rossi. In 2013, Rice, now 25, was arrested for breaking into Rossi’s home while strung out on heroin. He stole her iPod and some prescription pills.
Three years after filming a video detailing her struggle with drug addiction and bulimia, blogger Collin Morgan finally feels comfortable sharing it with the world.
I joined Tinder. I did not plan to date while tapering off antidepressants, benzos and sleeping pills. But nor did I plan to go through a breakup.
Ice addiction is overtaking alcohol as the biggest problem facing Indigenous populations, the head of a rehabilitation centre specialising in treatment for Aboriginal people says. Joe Coyte is CEO of The Glen, on the New South Wales Central Coast, which treats about 200 addicts each year.
Andrea and Michael Frick broke free of their heroin addiction on Independence Day — free of the gnawing need, the dope sickness, the shame, the guilt. But they paid for that freedom with their lives.
In murder mystery novels, when the hero, a private detective or homicide cop, drops by a late-night Alcoholics Anonymous meeting to stave off a sudden craving for a beer or two or 20, it’s usually in some dingy church basement or dilapidated storefront on the seedier side of town. There’s a pot of burnt coffee and a few stale doughnuts on a back table.
Twenty thousand soldiers who seek help each year at Army substance-abuse clinics encounter a program in such disarray that thousands who need treatment are turned away and more than two dozen others linked to poor care have spiraled into suicide, a USA TODAY investigation has found.
At a recent school event, a mother asked me how she could help her son who had begun drinking and taking drugs. “There must be something I can say that will make him listen,” she implored, hoping I could help her find the magic words that would make her son face his escalating substance abuse problem.
“True Blood” star Stephen Moyer opened up about his past bouts with addiction during a panel for Santa Monica’s CLARE Foundation, a treatment facility in Los Angeles. Moyer has been sober for 14 years and has worked with CLARE for more than five years, according to the Hollywood Reporter.