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unusual facts about drug addiction



Damon and Debbie

Having kept her diabetes secret from him, Damon assumed that Debbie was a drug addict when he unexpectedly discovered her injecting herself with insulin.

Drama film

Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, sexuality, poverty, class divisions, violence against women and corruption put the characters in conflict with themselves, others, society and even natural phenomena.

James Doakes

Doakes ends his investigations when he finds Dexter attending a Narcotics Anonymous meeting, supposedly for heroin addiction; Doakes erroneously believes Dexter's dark secret is that he is a drug addict.

Jay's Journal

Some critics have challenged the authenticity of the story, noting that the editor of this book, Beatrice Sparks, has filled the same role on many other "actual, anonymous diaries of teenagers" that explore such sensational themes as drug addiction, teenage pregnancy, and prostitution.

Killing Loneliness

On the 11 May 2006 episode of Loveline, Ville Valo confirmed that the song was inspired by skateboarder Brandon Novak, who blamed his heroin addiction on a need to, as he put it, "kill the loneliness".

Poor Old Lu

The band addressed hypocritical televangelists, drug addiction, sexual guilt, domestic unrest and spiritual rebelliousness in its lyrics, topics generally considered taboo in Christian music.

PPEP, Inc.

Project PPEP Behavioral Health Counseling services provides assistance in Substance Abuse, General Mental Health, Children services, Title XIX, DUI Treatment, Education, and Screenings, as well as Domestic Violence.

The Red Kimona

This is the third of Davenport's "social conscience" releases, preceded by Human Wreckage (1923) on the topic of drug addiction (released five months after Wallace Reid's death from morphine), and Broken Laws (1924) about excessive mother-love.


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Anna Arnold Hedgeman

Hedgeman held memberships in numerous organizations, such as the Child Study Association, Community Council of the City of New York, National Urban League, NAACP, United Nations Association, Advisory Committee on Alcoholism, Advisory Committee on Drug Addiction, and the National Conference of Christians and Jews.

Beyond Recognition

During the recording of Beyond Recognition vocalist Steev Esquivel temporarily left the band due to lack of focus due to drug addiction.

Broken Laws

By June 1923, Davenport had co-produced, starred in and toured the country with Human Wreckage, a moralistic warning about the terrors of drug addiction.

Bruce K. Alexander

Alexander and SFU colleagues conducted a series of experiments into drug addiction known as the Rat Park experiments.

Drug treatment

Drug rehabilitation, the treatment of substance dependence/drug addiction

Earth-One

Green Lantern (vol. 2) #85 (1971): "Snowbirds Don't Fly" A story focusing on drug addiction, showing Green Arrow's ward Roy Harper addicted to heroin.

Jeremy Jackson

Jackson appeared on as a guest on the news talk show The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch on CNBC and on ABC's The View to talk about his drug addiction and methamphetamine in Hollywood.

John Pringle Nichol

He recorded an account of his drug-addiction illness and its cure by hydrotherapy at the Ben Rhydding Hydro in his book Memorials from Ben Rhydding (1852).

Margaret McKenna

In 1989, McKenna moved to the Fox Chase neighborhood in Northeast Philadelphia, witnessing the impact of drug addiction on the lives of the residents.

Michael VerMeulen

In the same year he became engaged to an Australian author named Antonella Gambotto-Burke, who left him because of his drug addiction.

Narcanon

Narcotics Anonymous (NA), the twelve-step program of recovery from drug addiction, founded in 1953

Rehab medicine

Drug rehabilitation dealing with management of drug addiction and dependence

Rod Shoate

Shoate struggled with drug addiction and spent some time in prison before dying of AIDS at age 46 in 1999 in his home town of Spiro, OK.