Caroline’s Recovery Story: Overcoming Addiction to Alcohol & Drugs

Caroline’s Recovery Story: Overcoming Addiction to Alcohol & Drugs – The Alcohol & Drug Service (ADS) has been transforming lives for more than 25 years. Here is one true story about Caroline, a brave lady from Hull who has ba…

Northern Territory alcohol mandatory treatment is an affront to liberty

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While some other states have schemes that allow for secure residential treatment of people with drug and alcohol dependency, these schemes are confined to the most exceptional circumstances. In Victoria, secure treatment can only be used where a person …
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More women take to alcohol to cope with depression

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All the women who are getting de-addiction treatment come to us to get some psychiatric treatment, especially depression and hallucination but in the course of treatment it is found that they are alcohol addicts," he added. Most men undergoing a de …
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Check alcohol addiction: Sudha Verghese

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So you can realize how life can be turned from misery to happiness if addiction is eliminated," she added. She further said … While wrapping up her speech, she appealed to Disha to extend its reach to rural areas as villages too are prone to alcohol …
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The ladder of addiction

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SLIPPERY SLOPE: It seems he's just one of those people who needs a vice – or at least has told himself he does – and by trying to suffocate one as commonplace as smoking ciggies, he's quickly climbed a ladder of addiction that doesn't have many rungs …
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