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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

Liverpool Echo

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'

Daily Mirror

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’

The Guardian - UK

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<

Benzinga

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'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."

Manchester Evening News

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

Belfast Live

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

Evening Standard

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"

Chronicle Live

"Peaky Blinders" & the crime of sobriety

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

Salon

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."

Zenger

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.

Sports Illustrated

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Tribune News Service

As Biden fights overdoses, harm reduction groups face local opposition

HOUSTON — Casey Malish had just pulled into an intersection in the 2nd Ward when a woman with tattoos and pinkish hair unexpectedly hopped into the back seat of his gray Mazda. He handles outreach for the Houston Harm Reduction Alliance, a nonprofit that helps drug users like her stay…

Chicago Sun-Times

Dear Abby: As we pay son’s mortgage, he buys expensive ‘toys’

The man, a husband and father, claims a “spending addiction” spurred him to empty the savings and run up big debt.

Daily Mirror

Pete Doherty on Kate Moss romance: Thailand wedding, Rolling Stones scrap and betrayal

In his new memoir, Pete Doherty opens up about his turbulent relationship with Kate Moss - recalling scraps with Rolling Stones singer Ronnie Wood, being booted off Sadie Frost's yacht and how the supermodel tried to help him get clean

Belfast Live

Call for action on homeless and addiction crisis after six deaths on Belfast's streets in two weeks

"We often hear of the housing crisis but we have gone beyond that now and I would call it a disaster."

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The Hindu

Brain networks and nicotine addiction

A study of patients who quit smoking spontaneously reveals brain networks that are associated with alcohol and other forms of addiction

WEKU

White House pushes strategy to slow overdoses as street drugs grow more deadly

The Biden administration says it has a plan to curb fatal overdoses by 13% by 2025. But as more synthetic opioids reach the U.S., there's skepticism interdiction can slow the flow of deadly drugs.

Chronicle Live

17 signs that you could be a functioning alcoholic

Functioning alcoholics can be hard to spot - and they often don't realise that they have a problem

Chicago Sun-Times

Bradley Cooper battled addiction in his 20s; pal Will Arnett helped him get sober

“I was so lost and I was addicted to cocaine,” Cooper revealed on Monday during Will Arnett’s “SmartLess” podcast.

Liverpool Echo

17 signs that could mean you're a functioning alcoholic

Functioning alcoholics are hard to spot, and often don't realise they have a problem

Daily Mirror

Bradley Cooper admits he was 'totally depressed' and had a drug addiction in his 20s

Bradley Cooper opened up on how he felt 'lost' in his 20s and became addicted to drugs and alcohol before realising if he didn't change his ways he would sabotage his life

Daily Record

Not for the faint-hearted: Local author will write book about three years of "chaos and debauchery" In West Lothian

Inspirational author Aidan Martin has already written about his escape from drug addiction and will now write a semi-fictional account of life in Livingston, aptly named 'Trollies in the Almond'

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