Senate committee approves budget bill
Senate Bill 263, sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Michael Sanchez, D-Belen, would require the increased tax revenue to go toward local alcohol-abuse treatment programs. Currently, only McKinley County is allowed by law to set a higher tax rate on … Read more on ABQ Journal

Smoking Cessation Linked to Improved Mental Health
"Clinicians tend to treat the depression, alcohol dependence, or drug problem first and allow patients to 'self-medicate' with cigarettes if necessary. The assumption is that psychiatric problems are more challenging to treat, that quitting smoking may … Read more on Medscape

6 Suicides in Warren County, IL In 2 Months; Mental Health Awareness Can Help
Vice President of Behavioral Health Services at Bridgeway (a community mental health center) Rhonda Nelson said educating the community about mental health is the best way to move forward. "I think that when this happens in a community, I think that … Read more on KWQC 6

OPD treatment bring down mental hospital admissions
… Regional Mental Hospital, Yerwada, and Thane Mental Hospital. On the other side, out-patient volumes have significantly increased — a sharp 20 per cent. Experts attribute the change in trend to newer drugs, prompt initial treatment, family support … Read more on Pune Mirror

Beating the ice curse and finding salvation
"We're an outpatient counselling service – we try to get their heads around change and start to encourage them to explore a different reality," Marist says. "Then we try and connect them with a detox service, give them … "I believe you need long term … Read more on ABC Local

Give Those With Mental Health Issues and Addiction Problems a Break; Elect …
For the glitterati, such stays are often at bodacious, expensive, multi-columned, resort-like mini-palaces that can suck up 5 and 6 digits worth of cash over time and leave you drug and alcohol-free for maybe six months or six weeks or even six days … Read more on PoliticusUSA

Question by Symphanic: Help with addiction project?
I need small info on Gambling, Food, Tv, Computer, Gaming, Shopping and Text addiction. it needs to be small information though. I just need to know what it is and what it’s caused by.

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Answer by Jerry
Perform Google searches on those subjects, like “addiction; gambling; information” etc. There are some personality types vulnerable to addiction. All of my grandparents, and both parents are addicts of some sort. So am I, and my brother. I have learned to change my addictions into less harmful ones, then neutral, and finally, socially beneficial, helping people with mental health problems.

“One of the biggest problems of addiction began with the initial desire to increase and continue to use an addictive substance. All of us who have gotten to the point of overdoing the consumption of a substance were basically, in some manner, filling a need to be what we thought was “normal” like other people. We were convinced we were unworthy, inadequate, afraid, and lonely whenever we compared ourselves to others. We disconnected and isolated ourselves, not only from our peers, but also from our own real selves. We lived in a world of fantasy. Our problem was more than a physical hunger for the things that made us dependent.

It was also not dealing with crazy thinking, self-defeating behavior, and screwed-up emotions. Today, I’ll remember addiction is two-fold: one was my substance use and the other was an irrational thinking pattern. ‘He who helps a friend in woe is like a warm coat, when in the snow.’ –Russian Proverb.

We came in from a very hard life when we came into recovery, kind of like coming in from a blizzard in Siberia! The old life was dangerous, cold, and lonely, and it forced us to use all our energy just to survive. Sooner or later it would have killed us. We were definitely in woe. Someone – a family member, a friend, a boss, a probation officer – offered us a chance to get sober. That person saved our life, as surely as if he or she walked out into a blizzard and wrapped around us like a warm coat. We accepted the help this time. In the future we will have the chance to help others who are still out there freezing in the blizzard of addiction.

We can offer them the kind of help that saved our life. We can’t make them accept our help though. We just keep it handy, like a warm coat, in case they reach out to accept it. Is there an alcoholic or an addict in my life I wish I could help? I realize that my example is the best way to show them recovery”.

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Are you a food addict? Find out with these symptoms
Early diagnosis of food addiction can help one in quick recovery. Dr Ashley Gearhardt and team from Yale University have developed a scale which could be used to identify if a person is addicted to food. You can find this scale on this link. A person … Read more on India.Com Health

I Am A Recovering Junk Food Addict
The first time I saw the episode of The Simpsons where Homer goes to the Land of Chocolate, I'm fairly certain that my eyes got as round as saucers. Oh my stars-if you could make heaven into anything you wanted it to be, my heaven would for sure be a … Read more on Huffington Post

Has China finally reached the precipice?
The Globe's Scott Barlow has been signalling the forces at work for months, warning of the threat of the growing credit bubble, the imminent day of reckoning, the concerns of even the most bullish China watchers, and the country's addiction to cheap … Read more on The Globe and Mail

What's it really like to withdraw from heroin and painkillers?
Movie depictions of heroin withdrawal — from frenzied and frothing to debased and pleading — both exaggerated and fell short of conveying the real agonies that opioid addicts face, say those who've been through it. Frank Sinatra didn't get it quite … Read more on MinnPost.com

Addiction to Alcohol Shortening Life Expectancy in Russia, Finds Study
Dr Jürgen Rehm from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, Canada, added : "Since the average life expectancy from birth for men in Russia is still only 64 years, ranking among the lowest 50 countries in the world, more effective … Read more on IBTimes India

Report measures Mass. youth's views on drugs, alcohol
The Association for Behavioral Healthcare, which promotes community-based mental health and addiction treatment services, highlighted the report, noting the lack of treatment revealed by the survey. “Only 42.6 percent of the approximately 37,000 youths … Read more on WWLP 22News

3Qs: A crazy little drug called love
Does romantic love look the same way on our brains as alcohol, tobacco, or cocaine? Well, yes, as a matter of fact, it does. A new study from the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Lab of Northeastern … According to the incentive sensitization … Read more on News@Northeastern

Question by georgia t: I’m looking for a long term drug rehab. that takes children of drug users.?
in new york state

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Answer by TweetyBird
Are the children also substance abusers???

You might want to check with your county mental health department or just run a search for “long-term drug rehab in New York”. I found several sites for private facilities. You will, too.

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Police find Philip Seymour Hoffman's drug addled diaries
The late actor, who was found dead in his apartment in New York City from an apparent heroin overdose on February 2, wrote detailed accounts about his struggle to control his "demons," drug deals and his desire to stay clean by attending Narcotics … Read more on The Sunshine Coast Daily

His Death, Their Lives
In the first hours and days that followed Philip Seymour Hoffman's death from an apparent overdose of heroin, there was an outpouring of grief on Facebook, on Twitter and in columns by recovering addicts and alcoholics like the journalist Seth Mnookin … Read more on New York Times