Addiction & Veterans

Addiction & Veterans – veterans-aid.net Veterans Aid offers specialist help to ex-servicemen and women in crisis. Often their problems relate, or lead, to addiction. Alcohol abuse, addiction to gambling or drugs – all can lead to ruined lives and family break up. ‘Addicts have done the diversity course’ observes Veterans Aid’s specialist counsellor. Veterans Aid offers immediate and practical help – and has a very high success rate.

NY appeals court takes up Cameron Douglas case

Filed under: alcohol abuse addiction

But prosecutors say the sentence is reasonable, given the many times Douglas has broken his word to feed a drug and alcohol abuse addiction that stretches to when he was 13. Shechtman says Cameron Douglas began selling drugs after his father sharply …
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Getting tough on drunk driving could mean increasing penalties

Filed under: alcohol abuse addiction

The current minimum mandatory sentencing for a first offense must include both a fine of at least two hundred fifty dollars and an order for addiction evaluation by an appropriately licensed addiction treatment program. The minimum for a second offense …
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Former addicts warn teens about dangers of substance abuse

Filed under: alcohol abuse addiction

Alcohol first nabbed him when he was a teen. “I didn't have control,” Romero said. “I was a puppet. The alcohol was controlling me.” The three former addicts, alumni of St. Michael's High School, spoke to an attentive crowd of over 600 teens in the …
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