Meth Addiction
States continue to wrestle with meth addiction: Oklahoma's system will allow pharmacists to learn who has bought the drug--and in what amounts.(Addiction ... An article from: Clinical Psychiatry News [H] [T] [M]
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The young girl, Angela Fatino, battled an addiction to methamphetamine for 2 1/2 years. She died on October 8, 1997.The death was determined to be ...
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&Quot;I didn't even feel that much different -- I wasn't really high," Susan said. "The one thing I do remember very specifically was that I felt good, I felt safe -- I felt alert, awake, very calm and later, in experimenting, that feeling was available to me in much more extremes -- much more strongly of being powerful and being safe." You're awfully judgmental. Your inability to relate to the vice-grip of addiction does not diminish the reality of what addicts go through. Guess what. I can't relate either. The difference between you and I is that I have empathy. I have empathy and I've actually spoken to addicts at length, intimately, and made an effort to understand those who are not like me. I'm fortunate in that I do not have an addictive personality. I'm also fortunate that no heavy drugs presented themselves to me when I was at my lowest point as a self-destructive teenager. You see, I suffered through horrible abuse every day of my life, throughout my childhood....
Zak Ibsen Was Saved by the Beach - Goal Blog - NYTimes.com
Zak Ibsen played soccer in Germany, for the United States national team and in Major League Soccer. Growing up on the California coast, he also played the game on the beach.
But his life was nearly ruined, not by his addiction to the sport he loves — but to crystal methamphetamine.
This was supposed to be an article about how Ibsen, a 37-year-old guy, represented the United States as it attempted to qualify for this autumn’s FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup in Dubai. In a way, it still is, or was, until Ibsen talked about how crystal meth helped end his M.L.S career in 2002, then left him homeless and living out of his van. In those years, he somehow managed to stay clean for finite periods of time, long enough to play for the United States in the 2006 and 2007 beach soccer championships (both in Rio de Janeiro), before descending back into a drug-induced maelstrom that few people ever escape from.
“I was not a good guy to have around,” Ibsen said in a telephone interview from his home in San Francisco, where he lives now with his girlfriend and 2-year-old son. “I guess it’s kind of weird, because I have a part-time job at a brewery. But there’s no drinking and no drugs for me.”
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The program takes one step further the anti-meth campaigns instituted in several states that use before and after photographs of real meth addicts to show and morenbsp;raquo;
The Columbian - Jan 05, 2010
The dual benefits were obvious: Thieves abhor paper trails, and meth addicts aren#39;t likely to wait 10 days for the cash. It was one of the most powerful and morenbsp;raquo;SitNews - Jan 06, 2010
Recently I did a PSA radio ad, what I feel is a honest attempt to reach out to an addict, or someone who may still be suffering with MethPayson Roundup - Dec 31, 2009
Recovering from a meth addiction takes a full two years or more. In Indiana and many other states across the country, the children are put at extreme riskWCIA-3 News - Jan 07, 2010
He#39;s been battling a meth addiction for 15 years. He says he#39;s been in and out of prison, and never kicked the habit. Until now. and morenbsp;raquo;