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Video: Scots compete in online drinking game.. to horror of alcohol abuse
THESE bizarre pictures show Scots competing in an online drinking game which has horrified alcohol abuse campaigners and police. Neknominate, in which people compete to drink a pint of alcohol in the most creative way possible and upload the video to …
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Bradley Cooper Talks Past Drug and Alcohol Abuse
He discussed his ongoing battle with drug and alcohol abuse. Fortunately, the 38-year-old actor is finally on the path to recovery. “If I continued it, I was really going to sabotage my whole life,” Cooper said. Around 2005, Cooper was treading on …
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UW-Oshkosh disputes ranking as top school for alcohol-related arrests
OSHKOSH – A new report shows the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh is ranked highest in the country for alcohol-related arrests on campus. But school officials say it reflects a commitment to curbing abuse issues on campus. Classes are back in session at …
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Article by: MEGHAN BARR , Associated Press
"Heroin has this sort of dark allure to it that's part of its mystique," said Eric Schneider, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania who wrote the book "Smack: Heroin in the City," a historical account of the drug. "What I've heard from heroin …
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Remembering Philip Seymour Hoffman not about glamorizing drugs
Hollywood types sure seem to have an affinity for drugs, so do people that commit crimes and white suburbanites. That's one way to tie several tragic events all involving some sort of alleged drug abuse and some sort of connection to the Rochester area …
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Carol Falkowski: Heroin and painkillers
Carol Falkowski is founder and CEO of Drug Abuse Dialogues, former director of the Minnesota state drug and alcohol abuse agency, former Minnesota state drug abuse strategy officer and author of the reference book, Dangerous Drugs. Print Email Font …
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Aussie Olympic great Ian Thorpe admitted to rehab center to fight depression
Australian Olympic champion Ian Thorpe has been admitted to a Sydney rehab center to fight his decade-long battle with depression and alcohol abuse, local media reported on Friday. Thorpe, 31, was injured in a fall earlier this week and was admitted to …
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Spartanburg County Council approves of 0000 grant for substance abuse
Glenn Springs Academy will reopen this spring as a family residential treatment facility for mothers struggling with substance abuse. Spartanburg County Council voted unanimously Monday evening to allow the Spartanburg Alcohol and Drug Abuse …
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Buffalo Treatment Center for Alcohol & Drug Addiction Announced
After detoxification, counseling and therapy are follow-up steps. Getting help to learn about living without drugs and alcohol is a tough road alone. Adults and adolescents will understand that this is a process. The substance abuse center helps people …
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Ian Thorpe returns home after rehab treatment for depression, alcohol abuse
Australian Olympic swimming champion Ian Thorpe has returned home after being admitted to a hospital in Sydney to fight his decade-long battle with depression and alcohol abuse. Thorpe is believed to have left hospital care for home early this morning, …
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Question by : looking for mandatory DUI classes in Des Moines Iowa?
anyone know where I can send my husband to those drunk driving classes for people that got arrested for driving stupid? thanks!

Best answer:

Answer by nas88car 300 #48 is in the lead
they should be listed in the Yellow pages
like DUI resolutions

Answer by Official
877-400-8595 or 256-HELP (4357)

http://www.ALPPinstitute.com driving under the influence classes, SMART Recovery meetings, state ordered DUI courses and /court ordered alcohol assessments

Good luck Martha, I hope you get your husband gets his license back soon and I hope he learned his lesson!

this is from the ALPP website:
The Life Process Program©, offered exclusively at ALPP Institute, was developed in 1991 by pioneering psychologist Dr. Stanton Peele. Dr. Peele was one of the first researchers to identify and develop a non-disease model for addiction recovery. The Life Process Program© has been continually enhanced with the latest in techniques based on the most current scientific research.

The Life Process Program© offers an alternative to 12-step drug rehab and alcoholism treatment programs. Unlike traditional drug and alcohol rehab centers, you now have a choice for permanent recovery from drug or and alcohol abuse.

“The Life Process Program© shows you how to touch base with your values and inventory your resources and assets – the positive things you come with…. This is accomplished through behavior modification training, life-skills exercises and Cognitive Behavior Training (CBT) – all of which I have written exclusively for the ALPP Institute. That is why I believe that the Life Process Program© is the most advanced addiction-prevention program now available in the U.S.”

Stanton Peele, Ph.D., JD

Mental Illness Linked Directly to Higher Substance Abuse Rates
“At Passages, we've found that individuals dealing with a chemical imbalance are more likely to become dependent on drugs or alcohol,” said Pax Prentiss, CEO of Passages Addiction Treatment Centers. “Our treatment team does a great job at helping …
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Question by Tonya W: How to use Air dusters?
I am doing a paper at school on how are duster and i didn’t know how you actually got High with it. How do you do it?

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Answer by Robert W
Read this article on the dangers of ‘dusting’.

Inhalant abuse has been on the rise nationwide, and more teens are experiencing the tragic effects of this cheap high. NBC News correspondent Peter Alexander reports on how a common household product, a computer cleaner, can result in a deadly high.

There’s a new way to get high, and you could have it right next to your desk at home. They’re designed to clean your computer but, if inhaled, these popular products have the potential to kill.

It’s called “dusting” — the term comes from the cleaning brand “Dust Off” — and it has become a teenager’s new cheap and easily accessible high, despite a warning on the side of each canister.
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This form of inhalant abuse, “huffing,” has been around for years, but dusting is the more specific term associated with the use of cans of any common aerosolized computer keyboard cleaner that contains compressed gas.

One teen, 18-year-old Jessie Stotz, is now in rehab at the Pathway Family Center in Indianapolis because of dusting.

“There wasn’t the hassle of finding somebody to buy it for you and stuff, you could walk into a store, being 13 years old, and buy it yourself,” says Stotz.

But one hit can be crippling, as 15-year-old Ben Goudberg experienced in California.

“I couldn’t move for three to four minutes, and I was staring at a door thinking I wanted to get up and go and touch it and I couldn’t do it,” says Goudberg. “It’s one of the scariest feelings in the world.”

The high from the gas paralyzes the user for several minutes and gives a feeling of euphoria. Both dusting and huffing can result in damage to the brain, lungs, heart, kidneys and liver, and can cause death. In computer cleaning products, a freon type of gas, or fluorinated hydrocarbon, is the dangerous ingredient.

The dangerous practice was dramatized in the film “Thirteen.” In the opening scene, the two actresses are sitting on a bed, “dusting,” and then slapping each other out of their trancelike states.

“Sudden sniffing death” describes the process of inhaled hydrocarbons provoking irregular heart rhythms in the victim, which leads to sudden fatal cardiac arrest in even very young and healthy hearts.

“Just that fast a kid could experience intoxication,” says John Daily, a drug counselor at New Directions — and just that fast they could die. The compressed air in the cleaners fills a person’s lungs, keeping oxygen out and potentially stopping the heart.

Some retailers, like Staples and Wal-Mart, now restrict the sales of computer cleaners to buyers over 18 years of age, and many have placed warning labels on the top of cans.

But Jeff Williams, a Cleveland police officer whose son Kyle tragically died in March while trying dusting, thinks more needs to be done. Williams says there is already one keyboard cleaning product on the market that adds a bitter smell and taste to the chemicals, making them unpalatable, and he says all manufacturers should do the same. Williams also thinks that retailers need to do a better job of policing who they sell to.

Dusting is part of a larger problem involving inhalants, with huffing on the rise. In 2002, more than a million people abused them for the first time — the vast majority in their teens.

The National Survey on Drug Use and Health found that inhalant experimentation is initiated earlier than any other illicit substance, with young females starting before young males. Also, a higher percentage of 12 and 13 year olds had used inhalants than marijuana.

Inhalant abuse is often more dangerous and difficult to detect than other drug abuse. Inhalants such as glue, lighter fluid and spray paint are completely legal and found in every home — which often leads kids to think they are harmless — and abusers need to conceal only the act of inhaling, not the product.

But inhalants are addictive physically and psychologically, almost as much as alcohol.

“Not only was it the inhalant that was addictive, it was the lifestyle, the friends and the attention that I would receive when I did it,” says Jessie Stotz.
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But in the deadly new world of dusting, someone’s first time seeking the high may also be their last.

In the United Kingdom, where deaths associated with these substances are tracked, 39 percent of the deaths occurred during the victim’s first time.

Wolfe says the most important way to combat this drug abuse is to educate parents about it and to inform kids that the inhalants can kill them on the first try.

Other prevention methods include reading product labels regarding safety issues, and choosing to minimize aerosols in households by using pump sprays instead.

The warning signs of dusting are not easily detected, but these signs may indicate abuse:

* Disappearance of the product at a rapid rate
* Empty cans or containers of chemicals in tra

Fla. congressman to resign after cocaine scandal
But Radel had pledged to stay in office after taking a leave of absence and completing a monthlong in-patient treatment program for drug and alcohol abuse. In a defiant prime-time news conference last month, he defended his legislative record and …
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Escorts of drug rehab center face inquiry for man's death
Police looking into the death of a man who died while being taken to a drug rehabilitation center in Cebu City will question four men who were hired to escort Jerome Bendebel, 42, from Balamban town on New Year's Eve. Investigators are withholding the …
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