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.
Mac Miller: King of the Hill (2013 Online Cover Story)
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While Scarface's walls were draped with surveillance monitors—a reflection of the drug lord's paranoia—Mac's walls are adorned with blowups of magazine covers, gold plaques, and tour posters—mementos of his success. Here, the … To help manage the …
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Hannah Gets Her First Big Gig on 'Girls': Do a Lot of Coke and Then Write About It
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Jazzhate, the Vice/Thought Catalog-style website Hannah (Lena Dunham) gets an actual paid writing gig from in last night's episode of "Girls," "Bad Friend," offers our protagonist the chance to do cocaine for the first time like it's a homework …
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Colin in the community: Children's Radio(head) Foundation Ambassador – and …
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Some projects have looked at drug abuse in their communities, and rather than just referring to statistics, the young reporters shared the stories of young people who were, or still are, addicted to drugs.” Radio is a … He listens to youth-produced …
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The ecstasy recipe book that's killing young people like Charlotte – and …
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Meanwhile, five young people have died in the past five weeks after taking ecstasy — which is in the same family of drugs as 2CB — starting with Charlotte Woodiwiss, 20. All of this has sparked fears that highly dangerous, super-strong drugs are …
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