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By John W. Whitehead 10/17/2011 “On July 29, 2008, my family and I were terrorized by an errant Prince George’s County SWAT team. This unit forced entry into my home without a proper warrant, executed our beloved black Labradors, Payton and Chase, and bound and interrogated my mother-in-law and me for hours as they ransacked [...]
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Anonymity is a bedrock tradition that once protected alcoholics from stigma. But cloaking ourselves in strict secrecy seems like an odd strategy in the modern world. Of course, any individual is entitled to maintain his or her anonymity. But as public perception of alcoholism and addiction begins to change, shouldn’t A.A. change as well? By [...]
The RecoveryNC Campaign has signed up over 10,600 North Carolinians who are passionate about recovery from addiction. Our sign up list includes the email addresses of over 1000 individuals. You are receiving this invitation because you gave us permission to contact you via email. We have developed a short survey for those of you who [...]
Friends and Colleagues: We just posted an entry on the above topic on the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy’s Of Substance blog. We are hoping to gather as much input as possible in response to the entry. If you have time to review it and provide your thoughts on how best to [...]
Posted by TIME.com Friday, June 25, 2010 at 6:07 pm Submit a Comment • Related Topics: alcohol parenting , binge drinking, teenagers It’s one of the epically frustrating truths of family life — and the plot point that starts a thousand teen movies: parents have very little say over whether or not their teen children [...]
AlcoholScreening.org is a free service of Join Together, a project of the Boston University School of Public Health. AlcoholScreening.org helps individuals assess their own alcohol consumption patterns to determine if their drinking is likely to be harming their health or increasing their risk for future harm. Through education and referral, the site urges those whose [...]
Low-tech treatments work better. Published Mar 5, 2010 From the magazine issue dated Mar 15, 2010 Freud was a disaster for psychiatry, but not because his theory of the mind inspired his acolytes to exclude physical and chemical processes from explanations of thoughts, emotion, and behaviors. No, the disaster has been the extreme backlash against that [...]
Teenagers who have frequent family dinners are much less likely to drink and use drugs, according to a report released today. It doesn’t seem to matter what food is served, the authors point out. The value appears to be in the social interaction between family members and the attention that parents give their children during [...]
By ERIK ECKHOLM Published: May 28, 2009 Government spending related to smoking and the abuse of alcohol and illegal drugs reached $468 billion in 2005, accounting for more than one-tenth of combined federal, state and local expenditures for all purposes, according to a new study. Skip to next paragraph Multimedia Graphic Cleaning Up After Substance [...]
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