Can You “Grow Out” of an Addiction? | TheFix.com

Published January 5, 2013

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Tribeca Twelve: Recovery House

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Dr. Kitty Harris, director of the Center for Addiction and Recovery at Texas Tech, which for more than 25 years has provided therapeutically supported sober housing for Texas Tech students in recovery, sees the lack of housing tailored to students in …
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Treatment must be part of solution to drug robberies

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However, efforts to stem prescription drug abuse must also include a plan for recovery for addicts. Many people battling addiction will continue to do so without treatment. And when those people become desperate for drugs – either because they cannot …
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Maura Casey: Anonymity of addiction hurts more than helps

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"When people hear that a person is in 'recovery,' they think someone is struggling with addiction, or still using," when such is not the case, said Patricia A. Taylor, executive director of the nonprofit Faces and Voices of Recovery. Her organization …
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