Russell Brand Tells MPs Drug Addiction Should Be Treated as Illness

Russell Brand Tells MPs Drug Addiction Should Be Treated As Illness – Comedian Russell Brand has told MPs on the Home Affairs Select Committee addiction should be treated as an illness instead of a crime. The 36-year-old who said he had beaten a heroin addiction which saw him arrested a dozen times, blamed his drug problems on emotional and psychological difficulties. Society should not “discard people, write them off on methadone and leave them on the sidelines” and should exercise more “love and compassion”, he argued.

TN fights infant drug addiction epidemic without criminalizing mothers

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The state plans to provide addiction treatment for people who need it, better control the availability of narcotics and take steps to prevent substance abuse and unintended pregnancy, he said. “What can we do to prevent mothers at risk for having …
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Historic Hill County ranch serving as new substance abuse treatment facility

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The center also differs from some treatment programs in that it is equipped to do medical detoxification and help people who have mental health issues beyond substance abuse, Lacy said. That includes conditions such as depression, anxiety or controlled …
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Hopeful Drug Addiction Solution Pill Vigabatrin, Fails Trial Study

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The St Jude Program, offered at the St. Jude Retreats, a leading non-treatment alterative to drug treatment, does not adhere to replacement pill or maintenance programs as a means of curing a drug addiction and the researchers there have made their …
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