2-Year-Old Removed From Home Over Safety Concerns, Ends Up Dying Brutally …
On the foster care application, Small's husband stated he was a “recovering crack cocaine addict.” He had also faced multiple drug charges. But his drug charges were not enough for the state to deem the foster home anything but a “safe environment” for … Read more on IJ Review

Black Skin Privilege and Ferguson
Yet it was entirely based on the false and malicious accusations of a local prostitute and drug addict, whose record of criminal behavior and absence of credibility were eagerly overlooked because she was black. While the faces of the innocent accused … Read more on FrontPage Magazine

Children Condemned to Life: In Film
Young's co-defendant was an adult; he was also Young's mother's crack cocaine dealer. The film … Annino argues that Young's childhood was marred by his mother's drug addiction, which left Young unsupervised and vulnerable to harmful influences beyond … Read more on The Investigative Fund (blog)

Community unites in battle against drug abuse
MANITOWOC – Unless you've invited him for dinner, you don't want Manitowoc County Coroner Curtis Green showing up at your front door. All too often he has to break the bad news that a loved one has died from a drug overdose or accident involving drugs. Read more on Herald Times Reporter

Drug addiction
PICTURE a heroin addict. “A bum sitting under a bridge with a needle in his arm, robbing houses to feed his addiction,” is what many people might imagine, believes Cynthia Scudo. That image may have been halfway accurate when heroin first ravaged … Read more on The Economist

WTF! Zayn Malik Accused of Drug Abuse
Remember that one time when The Today Show host Matt Lauer asked the boys of One Direction if Zayn Malik had a substance abuse problem? On LIVE television? And the guys reactions were priceless? And Directioners around the world came together to … Read more on Hollywire

Sunday Forum: Getting Help in Understanding Addiction
As the mother of another child who died too early of a heroin overdose, I would like to share information about a self-help group that helped me grieve, understand addiction and share resources. This group also provided and provides encouragement as I … Read more on Valley News

Mourning family: "We can help fight drug addiction"
They've started a foundation called HOPE. It stands for Helping Overcome Pain and Emerge. They're raising money to help pay for treatment and rehabilitation for young people battling drug addictions. "I believe that until the day I take my last breath … Read more on WPBF West Palm Beach

Germantown salon helps those recovering from abuse, addiction to 'fly'
Like many of her clients, Carr struggled with self-worth and depression after years of abuse. To help herself feel good, Carr wore big, fake eyelashes and lots of colorful make-up for years. She even gave herself the nickname "Hollywood" to help … Read more on Newsworks.org

Questions raised about turning sheriff's office into treatment center
In addition, the move would allow McKinley Hall, a drug addiction treatment and rehabilitation facility in Springfield, to establish Clark County's only women's residential drug treatment center. It would also result in the sheriff's detectives and … Read more on Springfield News Sun

Ex-addict: Region is facing a drug crisis
What the region desperately needs, she said, is a 14-month program to help heroin and opiate addicts recover. “Chenango County doesn't really have a lot to offering the way of treatment,” she said, adding that the county's drug and alcohol treatment … Read more on Oneonta Daily Star

Father, son who ran NY drug treatment centers face fraud charges
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A father and son who ran New York City substance abuse clinics were accused on Wednesday of stealing tax money meant to treat addicts and using it to fund a lavish lifestyle that included luxury cars. Alan Brand and his son, Jason … Read more on WHTC

Road to recovery: Former Husker Anthony Steels overcomes drug addiction
Embarrassed by his drug habit and his inability to keep a job, he and his wife moved 100 miles east to Clarinda, Iowa, where it was easier to hide his addiction and shame. With a clean slate, where no one knew Anthony Steels the drug addict, he again … Read more on Lincoln Journal Star

Understanding Sex & Love Addiction
It's hard for most folks to conceive of sex addiction as being different from promiscuity or to distinguish love addiction from codependency. This is all the more understandable given that researchers have yet to definitively draw any lines between … Read more on Bangor Daily News

Former NBA player to share story of addiction, recovery
Former National Basketball Association (NBA) player Chris Herren is coming to Wilton on Tuesday, Oct. 21, to talk not about his professional basketball career but about his addictions, recovery and sobriety. Mr. Herren, who played for the Denver … Read more on Wilton Bulletin

Sister of woman killed by Ann Arbor police: 'She would have fainted at the …
Ward admitted her sister fell into a trap of drug addiction starting in the 2000s, specifically cocaine, and had run-ins with the law as a result of it, including convictions for shoplifting and using a stolen credit card. Ward also said Rosser, who is … Read more on The Ann Arbor News

Ex-clinic owner seeks sentencing delay in MLB drug case to finish rehab
An attorney for the former owner of the now-closed South Florida Biogenesis clinic that supplied performance-enhancing drugs to Major League Baseball players wants his sentencing delayed so that his client can finish rehab for a drug addiction and so … Read more on SI.com

Viagra Addiction and Viagra Abuse