Reel to Reel | Week of January 24, 2013

Reel to reel | Week of January 24, 2013

Filed under: Drug Addiction Help Denver

Interviews, recreations and rare archival material reveal how Bill Wilson, a hopeless drunk near death, found a way out of his own addiction and then forged a path for countless others to follow. … To Survive A Plague is the story of the efforts that …
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SAM Tried to Make Us Go to Rehab, We Said No, No, No

Filed under: Drug Addiction Help Denver

Instead, they are dressed up in the language of concern and compassion, of treatment and rehabilitation, and of ending the worst elements of the drug war, such as mandatory minimum sentencing, "stop-and-frisk," and arrests for personal marijuana …
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Colorado ERs take steps to stop pain pill abuse

Filed under: Drug Addiction Help Denver

Metro-area emergency doctors are restricting public access to dangerously addictive painkillers, responding to an epidemic increase in overdose deaths while state policymakers ponder a wider attack on the problem. Signs will go up soon in Denver Health …
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