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		<title>Emotional Sobriety</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:28:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; You can conquer others with power, but it takes true strength to conquer yourself. - Lao Tzu,  Philosopher &#160; I asked Dr. Jason Powers, our Chief Medical Officer  to help me write on this topic and here is what we came up with: There are actually two types of sobriety: physical and emotional.  Physical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pill Mills in Our Own Back Yard: Harris County Texas provides easy access for prescription pill abuse.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recent data collected by the Texas Department of Public Safety demonstrates that in Harris County obtaining a prescription for often abused controlled substances is very easy.  In fact, some of the highest prescribing doctors in the state reside right here in Houston’s largest county, Harris County.   The clinics responsible for the highest numbers of abusable medications are known as “pill mills” because they appear more like mass-production factories than actual medical clinics.]]></description>
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		<title>Internet Can Help Curb Drinking Among College Students</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:10:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WEDNESDAY, Sept. 16 (HealthDay News) &#8212; Heavy drinking is a growing problem among university students, but an Internet-based intervention may help them control their alcohol use, a new study finds. Researchers analyzed data from a Web-based alcohol-use screening test taken by more than 7,200 undergraduate university students, aged 17 to 24, in Australia, and found [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trends in Drug Addiction: Women and Drug Addiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Statistics on Substance Abuse Among Women: 6 million women in the U.S. abuse or are dependent on alcohol Frequent binge drinking in women&#8217;s colleges increased by 124% between 1993 and 2001 Alcohol is involved in as many as 73% of all rapes and up to 70% of all incidents of domestic violence More than 7.5 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intervention is Better Than Cure: 5 Things You Can do to Ensure a Successful Drug/Alcohol Intervention</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An intervention is an arranged meeting between the addict/alcoholic and their close family members, friends, and possibly a neutral party like a therapist where the addict is lovingly confronted about their addiction or substance abuse problems. The key word and idea here is &#8220;lovingly&#8221; &#8211; there are a few different ways to conduct an intervention, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Interventions a Good Idea?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is an Intervention? An intervention is a facilitated meeting with the addict/alcoholic, friends, family members and other concerned parties. During the intervention process, the addict/alcoholic is lovingly confronted by people who care about them. You will be led in a frank discussion about using behavior and the consequences focusing on the feelings and experiences [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Where You Live Make a Difference in Your Drug/Alcohol Recovery?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we think about drug and alcohol recovery, the first thing that often comes to our minds are the hallowed hallways of some drug and alcohol treatment center or a newly released, recovered drug addict being embraced warmly by waiting family and friends. What we don&#8217;t think about or really take the time to consider [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Through to Our Kids About Drugs and Alcohol</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How many parents do you think sit down to talk to their kids about really important issues such as sex, drug abuse or alcohol abuse? Judging from the numbers of adolescents now facing their first and second stints in drug and alcohol rehab programs, I&#8217;d venture to guess not many. Then again, there are some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Depression: A New Kind of Gateway Drug</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 09:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a new kind of drug out, and it&#8217;s called Depression. Ok, so depression isn&#8217;t a drug per se; but doesn&#8217;t it function as a kind of gateway to other drug involvement? Think about it. All the Money Can&#8217;t Buy You Happiness We live stressful lives. Some of us lead more stressful lives than others; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tim Montgomery Indicted on Federal Heroin Trafficking Charge</title>
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		<comments>http://www.rightstep.com/blog/tim-montgomery-indicted-on-federal-heroin-trafficking-charge.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I used to represent N.C. State University, running cross country and track- and I distinctly remember the thrill of seeing both Tim Montgomery and Marion Jones (as well as several other elite athletes) practicing on the track. These were people we looked up to. But not anymore. It now seems that there aren&#8217;t any &#8220;clean&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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