Wellness Matters: Addiction Relapse Is a Risk, but Risk Can Be Reduced

Wellness Matters: Addiction relapse is a risk, but risk can be reduced

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Addiction is a chronic medical illness. Like asthma or diabetes, it is a lifelong disease that must be tended to and kept under control. People with diabetes sometimes lapse, neglecting to take their insulin and eating too much birthday cake. Those …
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Where The Rich And Famous Go For Addiction Treatment

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In the throes of his addiction, Taite was smoking crack every day, going for a week or more without sleep, and eating a Big Mac once a week just to stay alive. He was homeless at one point, too. He ultimately managed to pull himself out of addiction in …
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EDITORIAL: Drug treatment program's growth good development

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Vanderburgh County's courts, always a leader in providing drug treatment programs that ease the burden on prisons and jails and help many addicts return to productive lives, is about to step up the pace. Courier & Press staff writer Mark Wilson reports …
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