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Justices side with doctors convicted in pain pill schemes

The Supreme Court has ruled for doctors who face criminal charges for overprescribing powerful pain medication, in a case arising from the opioid addiction crisis

The Independent UK

Editorial: Smoke and mirrors: On the FDA’s nicotine and vaping rulings

Count us fans of the Food and Drug Administration’s historic push to reduce nicotine levels in cigarettes, which, in concert with a proposed ban on menthol-flavored cancer sticks, promises to liberate millions of Americans from deadly addiction. Cigarette smoking is responsible for nearly a half-million deaths in America per year,…

Tribune News Service

Ayurveda doctors urge kids to stay off addiction

JAIPUR: In an effort to spread awareness against various forms of substance abuse, doctors from the National Institute of Ayurveda (NIA) on Sunday organised a free medical camp and counselling session for street children in the slums of Shastri Nagar to mark the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit…

The Times of India

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Street sales, online dealers and convenience stores: Inside the thriving black market for nicotine vapes

Nicotine vapes are illegal in Australia without a prescription. Four Corners has investigated how Australian kids are buying them.

ABC News

Stigma a hurdle to treatment for addiction

Destigmatising addiction and acknowledging its relationship with trauma would help sufferers get help sooner, says an expert and a recovering heavy drug user.

AAP

Jody Lynch opens up about his battle with alcohol addiction and being the best father to his children

"I remember thinking my kids would be better off without me"

Belfast Live

How caffeine addiction affects your health and ways to cut down

Caffeine in moderate amounts is fine, but some may find themselves addicted to the stimulant.

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Spreading awareness crucial to counter drug abuse, say experts

VISAKHAPATNAM: Though Andhra Pradesh has low proportion of drug users when compared to other states, the drug abuse and alcohol addiction have been driving 250 to 300 people, including women, to suicide a year for the past few years. Experts say government and enforcement agencies must focus on spreading scientific…

The Times of India

Drug addiction is more dangerous than COVID, says NTR District Collector

Educational institutions should rope in psychologists to counsel students: Dilli Rao

The Hindu

Leeds gambler says he has seen friends lives destroyed by 'devastating addiction'

David Jeffers goes to the bookies almost every day and says he's seen lives devastated

Leeds Live

Libertines star Pete Doherty's life now is unrecognisable from naughty heyday

Pete Doherty has transformed from his naughty heydays during his peak career in The Libertines - the star turned around his drug addiction and says his new vice is cheese on toast

Daily Mirror

Drugs minister reads riot act on local authority bosses after damning verdict on Scotland's "disaster" drugs strategy

Angela Constance admitted a woeful performance and announced measures to force public bodies to follow orders on implementing same day treatment for addiction.

Daily Record

Hunter's marathon man Gary Brown is in it for the long run

He was 35 when he gave up using crystal methamphetamine and started running.

Newcastle Herald

Ruthless gangsters will not stop preying on small town

Deprivation and addiction in one town have created a lucrative market for Merseyside dealers

Liverpool Echo

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S Club 7's Jo O'Meara addresses fruit machine addiction struggle on ITV Lorraine

The singer became addicted to gambling when she was a part of the pop group

Daily Mirror

S Club star Jo O'Meara speaks for the first time about secret gambling addiction

Jo O'Meara shot to fame with nineties chart toppers S Club 7, but the singer says she became addicted to gambling on fruit machines as a 'form of escape'

The Guardian - UK

S Club 7 star calls out ‘lack of empathy’ for gambling addicts

Jo O’Meara recalls her issues with fruit machines and says addiction ‘can happen to anybody at any time’

Benzinga

First Evidence-Based Psychedelic Integration Scales Designed By Veterans Organization, Here's What We Know

Veterans Exploring Treatment Solutions (VETS) is a non-profit organization dedicated to addressing the current epidemic of veteran suicides and related mental health issues integration, most notably psychedelic-assisted therapies for traumatic brain injury (TBI), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and addiction<

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Manchester Evening News

'He could not break the addiction': Beloved young man, 26, died two days after Christmas after years of drugs use

"He was dearly loved and will forever be in the hearts of his family."

Belfast Live

West Belfast teens hear from those whose addiction had them 'gambling with their lives'

Those who went through extreme periods of gambling but now recovery are determined to help others

Evening Standard

How Clean Break puts the plight of women in the criminal justice system on stage - ‘There’s so much damage’

For four decades, the theatre company has kept the subject of women in prison on the cultural radar, with its new play tackling addiction and the criminal justice system in a working-class Pakistani family

Chronicle Live

Wallsend mum speaks out about living in fear on the streets of Newcastle city centre

"It felt like nothing was worth living for because life had just turned to absolute carnage"

Salon

"Peaky Blinders" & the crime of sobriety

Can you be a good gangster while abstaining from the family business of drugs and alcohol?

Zenger

Pepsi Maxed: A Supermarket Worker Tells How He Splashed Out $8500 A Year On Pepsi Addiction

“It cost me a fortune to be honest. I could have bought a car every year for the same amount I was spending on Pepsi."

Sports Illustrated

Ward Takes Another Step Forward in Fight Against Addiction

The full-time carpenter is working overtime to stay clean in his "everyday fight" toward recovery.

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