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Subject: cocaine addiction

Hi Mark

My husband started using cocaine back in 1986, although prior to that he smoked hash etc. and told me about other drugs (pills) prior to my meeting him. He probably started those around the age of 16. He is now 44. His use was very high until 1995, when he seemed to taper off and I thought he had quit at one point. I'm noticing increased use again which is also connected with heavy drinking. He does not become violent or abusive, although the day after can be quite tough on me emotionally and mentally. I've suspected occasional crack use, just going by visual symptoms and articles found. More...

Smoking Looks Even Worse

EDITORIAL - The New York Times

t is hard to believe there is anything new to be learned about the evils of tobacco. But a depressing new analysis by a team assembled by the World Health Organization has found that tobacco is a lot more dangerous than anyone previously realized, whether one smokes it directly or inhales the fumes expelled by someone else.

The panel of 29 experts from a dozen countries was formed by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, the W.H.O. unit charged with assessing cancer risks. The analysis is billed as the most comprehensive assessment of smoking hazards ever and will be published shortly. It examined more than 3,000 studies conducted since 1986, the last time the W.H.O. group carried out a systematic review. In the interim, lifetime smokers in the industrialized world have had plenty of time to contract new cancers and a huge volume of studies has added to the accumulating knowledge of tobacco's toxicity. (Free Registration Req'd) More...

A DOPEY SCANDAL
by Brock Yates
The Wall Street Journal

Please excuse me while I reach for the smelling salts. The news that some professional baseball players may be using steroids is beginning to sink in and the shock is staggering. Congress is even going to hold a hearing. Imagine, young men making what is equivalent to the GDP of a small African nation employing drugs to enhance their performance. What next, news that politicians can be influenced by campaign contributions or that some men of the cloth have weird sexual predilections? More...

Viagra and 'poppers' a deadly combo

SAN FRANCISCO - The impotence drug Viagra is becoming popular at sex clubs, but health experts warn that mixing it with some other party drugs poses a serious health risk.

Viagra increasingly popular on sex club scene

An Associated Press story on the impact of Viagra on the party scene in San Francisco reports it is common to use Viagra with party drugs such as Ecstasy and crystal methamphetamine. More...

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From the Chicago Tribune
Editorial
She touched us

Arthur Miller once said, "A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself." The same could be said for a good columnist. The same could be said for Eppie Lederer.
Her readers told her their problems, their concerns and their inspirations. She listened to them and she answered. And millions of people across the nation listened in on the conversation.
Over the decades there have been imitators, some on television, some on radio. And though Eppie might pop up from time to time to be interviewed on the air, we're proud that from 1955 until her death on Saturday the newspaper was the way she reached all those many people as the columnist Ann Landers. More...

Dr Steven R. Miller Ph.D

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A COST/BENEFIT ANALYSIS OF COCAINE ADDICTION

…or why I’d be better off working at McDonalds than being an addicted media star

By Mark Elliot

Sometimes the best way to attack an addiction is where an addict hurts the most: in the pocketbook.

Addiction counselling trainer, Arthur Trundy, uses the example of a high powered advertising executive to make the point about the high cost of addiction.
"When she came to me" he says, "she was 6 months clean from cocaine and thinking of returning to her $110,000 a year job at the advertising agency. But my advice was to consider another career." More...