How Can You Help Someone Struggling With Addiction?

Published January 27, 2013

How Can You Help Someone Struggling with Addiction? – Is someone in your life struggling with addiction? Do you know if you should help them, or how? KATU News in Portland, Oregon interviews Hazelden’s Dr. Vern Williams who speaks candidly about what we can do to help a person struggling with addiction, in light of Amy Winehouse’s death. For more information about Hazelden, please visit www.hazelden.org or call 800-257-7810.

Beaverton nurse given probation on heroin charges

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Harp is to undergo drug abuse treatment, enroll in a parenting program and is to have no contact with Hackney. She may not have contact with her children unless she has permission from Oregon DHS and her probation officer. If Harp does not comply with …
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Colorado second in nation for prescription drug abuse

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The National Survey on Drug Use and Health found that 6 percent of Coloradans 12 years and older used painkillers for a non-medical purpose in the past year. The rate in Oregon was 6.37 percent. The abuse of painkillers was highest among Coloradans …
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Crime in Merced up 25%

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"Drug addicts, the people we pick up for nonviolent crimes, nonsexual crimes and nongang-related crimes, they are being kicked out (of the jail)," Andrade said. "So that puts pressure back on us. They are not even … The overall FBI figures show the …
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