Charlotte Wethington, a recovery advocate for Transitions Inc., is also the initiator of The Matthew Casey Wethington Act for Substance Abuse Intervention, named for her son, Casey, who died of a heroin overdose at age 23.
Labor foreign affairs spokeswoman Tanya Plibersek spoke of her brother’s death and her husband’s drug addiction in parliament on Thursday as she explained her “particular view on remorse and regret.”
It was a hazy night in 1983 when a newspaper writer built like a bear descended upon a Minneapolis comedy club to do a story on a fast-rising comedian.
A recently published study names the brain’s cell mass in the temporal lobe as the area responsible for triggering an addictive, intense desire for sweet foods, according to the piece that appears this month in the Journal of Neuroscience.
You’ve probably heard of dopamine, the chemical that gets released in our brains when we perform high-reward activities like eating, having sex and listening to music.
To combat New Jersey’s growing heroin and opioid crisis, Gov. Chris Christie says the state needs to embrace a dramatically different approach to substance abuse, but cautioned that he will not write a blank check to get it there.
For those struggling with addiction, the call for help can often be hard to make. But if they do, experts are ready to help, even on Christmas Day.
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Even though it is famous for the “Minnesota Model” of treating addictions through abstinence and support, Minnesota has been slow, some doctors say, to embrace a drug that can help people hooked on heroin.
Jesse Cushman sat in the portable outhouse, weeping.
When my wife was diagnosed with breast cancer, we ate well. Mary Beth and I had both read the terrifying pathology report of a tumor the size of an olive. The surgical digging for lymph nodes was followed by months of radiation. We ate very well.