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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

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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

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…

Tribune News Service

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.

Chicago Sun-Times

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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

Daily Mirror

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."

Belfast Live

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

The Hindu

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.

WEKU

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

Chronicle Live

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.

Chicago Sun-Times

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

Liverpool Echo

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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'

Daily Record

Experts list 17 signs of a functioning alcoholic as drinking 'rises in summer'

The signs and symptoms of functioning alcoholism can be hard to spot.

Wales Online

Expert lists 17 signs you could be a functioning alcoholic

The amount we all drink tends to increase over warmer summer months

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The Independent UK

Kentucky shatters its fatal overdose record; fentanyl blamed

A new state report says fatal drug overdoses rose nearly 15% in Kentucky last year

Belfast Live

North Belfast addiction charity marks 35 years of supporting people on their recovery journey

"Dunlewey was created to facilitate individuals to examine their own substance misuse and other issues affecting their lives, in a safe and confidential environment."

Daily Mirror

Dad who binged on drugs and booze for 35 years says it started with vinegar

James Davenport, 45, suffered addictions ranging from food to drugs to sex and says the problem starts when he was a child - but he turned his life around in 2017 and now aims to support others

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: When my life came apart, I struggled to find the therapy I needed

At 14 years old, I hated who and what I was. With barely one foot in adolescence, I had already marched through miles of hell. In San Diego, my hometown, I had been beaten, sexually abused and propelled into the nightmarish worlds of drug addiction and sex work.

Manchester Evening News

'I binged on drugs and booze for 35 years - but my first addiction was VINEGAR'

James Davenport had his life ruled by addiction for years

Evening Standard

Cooper Noriega dead: Tributes pour in after TikTok star dies aged 19

TikTok star Cooper Noriega has died aged 19 after struggling with mental health issues and drug addiction.

The Independent UK

Cooper Noriega death: TikTok star dies aged 19

Days before he died, Noriega had opened up about his struggles with mental health and addiction

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