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Why is Alcohol a Drug?

In Narcotics Anonymous and other 12 step programs recovery is usually defined as complete abstinence from all mood and mind altering drugs. This includes the legal drug, alcohol. I have heard this questioned and debated ma...

By: Phil Huff

Addiction Treatment Is A Choice

People become victims of substance abuse for different and often inscrutable reason. But whatever these reasons are, it is undeniable that this problem wrecks havoc in the lives of its victims and the society. It is proven...

By: William Teleo

Prescription Drug Abuse and Pill Withdrawal

Prescription Drug Abuse, or pill addiction as it is commonly called, and, ultimately, 'pill withdrawal' have been with us since doctors began prescribing drugs, but has become more widespread since the advent of the &lsquo...

By: Peter Nisbet

ACTOR Heath Ledger 's drug intake before his death indicated it was likely he was an addict, America's best known addiction expert says.

THURSDAY Hopkinsville Business and Professional Womens Club, a club to support and encourage working women in the community through mentoring and making aware of issues going on in today's society, wi...

Mesa, Arizona - The Scottsdale woman who told authorities God told her to stab her 83-year-old neighbor to death inside her condominium on Sunday was once a state-licensed chemical dependency counselo...

The wife of a Hennepin County sheriff's deputy charged with stealing drugs intended for treating jail inmates made her first court appearance Tuesday.

State officials bent on making inroads against Montana's prescription drug crisis have urged creation of a database that doctors and pharmacists could use to see if patients are obtaining multiple pre...