Soon after settling into Algonquin College, which they called home for about 10 days, dozens of the evacuees began experiencing symptoms of withdrawal from the oxycodone-containing prescription drugs to which they are addicted, First Nations officials from northwestern Ontario have told the Ottawa Citizen. More...
Drug-addicted evacuees suffered crippling withdrawal effects in Ottawa
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Soon after settling into Algonquin College, which they called home for about 10 days, dozens of the evacuees began experiencing symptoms of withdrawal from the oxycodone-containing prescription drugs to which they are addicted, First Nations officials from northwestern Ontario have told the Ottawa Citizen. More... |
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No such thing as a
‘functioning’ alcoholic; Dangerous label
is denial of addiction
Self-proclaimed 'functioning' drinkers
are in serious denial about alcoholism
New York Daily
News - BILL: Nellie's husband is a
machine shop foreman. "Fred pops a beer as soon as he gets home, and keeps on
one after another until, most nights, he falls asleep or passes out... "
DR. DAVE: ... one state so close to the other she can't tell the
difference?
BILL: Fred says to Nellie that his drinking never causes him to miss a
day's work. If she chooses to use the word, 'alcoholic,' he's sorry to hear it,
but he's hurting no one but himself, and so far, he hasn't hurt himself at all.
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Alcohol OK in
Housing for Formerly Homeless, Study
Says
Heavy
drinkers actually cut back on booze over
two years, researchers found
HealthDayNews
— Allowing homeless people who are heavy drinkers to consume alcohol
when they were provided with housing actually decreased their heavy drinking by
more than one-third over two years, a new study has found.
The study, published in the Jan. 19 issue of the American Journal of Public
Health, included residents of a program called project-based Housing First,
which was developed by the Downtown Emergency Service Center, a housing agency
in Seattle.
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