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HuffPost
Can You Really Be Addicted to a Behavior?
HuffPost
To further understand anticipatory highs, as well as the link between substance and behavioral addictions, consider a cocaine addict on payday. After receiving his check, he runs to the bank to exchange it for cash, perhaps skipping out of work early ...

dailytelegraph.com.au
He won more than $1m. And it almost destroyed him
dailytelegraph.com.au
“Cocaine has been my best mate and worst enemy — both at the same time. It's such an expensive, highly addictive drug and it complements a life of recklessness. I'm finally starting to get back on track with my finances after nailing the addiction but ...

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Cashinbis (press release) (blog)
As US Government Launches Study on Medical Marijuana and Opioid Addiction … Who's Already Researching ...
Cashinbis (press release) (blog)
Meanwhile, some biotech companies have already been researching cannabis as opioid addiction treatment. Earlier this year, New York- based Axim Biotechnologies Inc (OTC: AXIM) filed a patent for cannabinoid chewing gum to treat those suffering from ...
There's No Known Cure For Arthritis, But Marijuana Works WondersThe Fresh Toast

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Buffalo News
Editorial: President's declaration offers a chance to bring focus and resources to the opioid crisis
Buffalo News
Erie County has been at the forefront here and a recent News article by Lou Michel profiled Judge Craig D. Hannah, a recovering addict who presides over Buffalo's opioid court. Hannah, once addicted to cocaine and marijuana, is a shining example of how ...

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TheFix.com
Belinda Carlisle Gets Candid About Cocaine Addiction
TheFix.com
The Go-Go's, who are currently celebrating the 35th anniversary of their Vacation album, were always a lighthearted, fun-loving group—but like many rock bands, they struggled with addiction. Looking back on it all, lead singer Belinda Carlisle is ...

Can giving babies back sooner to parents in drug treatment be best? A court is trying it.
The News Tribune
Jacey Harris had been to court to fight for her kids before, but this time was different. While she sought custody of her newborn son during her treatment for methamphetamine addiction and mental health counseling, she got to raise him herself. And ...

Paragon Announces High-Profile Project to Help Legitimize the Legal Marijuana Industry
CoinDesk
During his time in the NFL he asked me if he could smoke marijuana for the pain instead of taking the painkillers the NFL doctors were giving him because he was scared he would get addicted to the pills and I told him no. I told him no, because I did ...

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Meth cook: 'Drug addiction has taken away everything I had' - Huron ...
Huron Daily Tribune
BAD AXE -- A man who prosecutors say was one of two leaders in a Bad Axe meth lab case was placed in the state's prison system, the county's circuit judge ...

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Seychelles News Agency
Group wants Seychelles to legalise cannabis as way to reduce heroin use
Seychelles News Agency
This is a strategy used by drug dealers, which leaves no option when there is no cannabis for those young minds to buy heroin to cope with their cannabis addiction,” Moses said. Moses who had also signed the petition added: “Since I am using cannabis ...

Peachtree NORML Challenges the Faith and Freedom Coalition
NORML Blog (blog)
The AMA letter stated, in part, “Since the medicinal use of cannabis has not caused and is not causing addiction, the prevention of the use of the drug for medicinal purposes can accomplish no good end whatsoever. How far it may serve to deprive the ...

Toronto Star
Back to the Future: The Trump Administration's War on Drugs, Redux
Dope Magazine
Applied through Harm Reduction for populations who are opioid addicted, such as military veterans, controlled cannabis use has contributed to a decline in overdose deaths. As the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Internal Medicine ...
No pot smoking in cars? Tough rules urged for legalization of marijuanaToronto Star
Zero tolerance for pot use with drivers: reportShoreline Beacon
Meet Kevin Sabet, USA's Most Influential Critic of Marijuana LegalizationWestword
The Detroit News
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MyNorthwest.com
City attorney candidate continues criticism of RV proposal
MyNorthwest.com
We kept pulling the homelessness lever, but we weren't actually delivering services specifically tailored to people living with addiction.” “Really, what we are talking about most commonly right now is heroin addiction and meth addiction,” he said ...

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BBC News
Eddie Girvan: 'High-on-drugs' killer to serve six-year term
BBC News
The court was told that she relapsed into heroin and crystal meth addiction after the death of her baby daughter. She also previously admitted eight other charges connected to Mr Girvan's killing: * Theft;. * Attempted theft;. * Aggravated vehicle ...
Margaret Henderson-McCarroll jailed for three years for manslaughter of pensioner Eddie Girvanthe Irish News

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The Sun
The highs and lows of Danniella Westbrook's career and the drug addiction that's plagued it all
The Sun
Throughout her career, Dani was plagued with her highly publicised cocaine addiction. In her autobiographies, she has revealed that she was started using the drug at the age of 14 after being introduced to it through pals in nightclubs. When she landed ...

Wirral Globe
Care home boss's son stole more than £100,000 to fund cocaine ...
Wirral Globe
THE son of a Merseyside nursing home owner funnelled more than £100000 into an employee's bank account so they could fund their cocaine…

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The Detroit News
Column: Marijuana is here to stay
The Detroit News
The hosting organizations — Advocates for Human Potential, Inc., National Council for Behavioral Health, and Addiction Technology Transfer Center (ATTC) Network — have no financial interest in the event and have ensured there will be no ties to industry.

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Baltimore Sun
Ready or not, Maryland marijuana firms face big deadline
Baltimore Sun
Lawmakers will be working on legislation to battle opioid addiction and to make changes to the state's medical marijuana law. A measure to protect internet privacy also remains before lawmakers, who are scheduled to adjourn Monday at midnight. Here is ...

WSBT-TV
From addicts to Ironmen
WSBT-TV
"I remember watching the Ironman back during my drug years, with actually a pile of cocaine in front of me, and I remember seeing it and saying 'I'd like to do that some day.," says recovering drug addict Todd Crandell. "I was a man who never thought I ...

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Chicago Daily Herald
Can marijuana rescue coal country?
Chicago Daily Herald
A 2015 pilot study by Yasmin Hurd at the Behavioral Health System's Addiction Institute at Mount Sinai found that cannabidiol, a compound in marijuana, minimized cravings for opioids, making it easier for participants to stop using them. And unlike ...