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Harley Loco by Rayya Elias – review
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"At the peak of my addiction," she calculates during one of many spells in rehab, "I had been shooting heroin and cocaine into my veins every twenty minutes, sometimes around the clock. At thirty years old, I hadn't been off drugs and alcohol for forty …
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Philadelphia man referred to Drug Court for cocaine sale try
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If he successfully completes Drug Court, a substance abuse rehabilitation program designed to serve as an alternative to incarceration, he will have his guilty plea vacated and he will be allowed to enter a guilty plea to the lower level felony of …
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Question by ? Plea for Peace!: why do a lot of schizophrenics like to smoke cigarettes and drink coffee?
i’ve read that something like 90% of schizophrenics smoke cigarettes, and i’ve also heard that a large percentage drink a lot more coffee than those considered normal.

does anyone have any ideas? the smoking i can understand if it’s an obsessive behavior, but i wonder if the nicotine in cigs or the caffeine in coffee has anything to do with it?

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Answer by gardensallday
I think I read recently that they have an inability to experience pleasure normally, and cigarettes fill that need. I don’t know about the coffee. I will say that I drink a hell of a lot of coffee & I have bipolar. Oh wait, found this on schizohprenia.com:

Scientists find link for smoking, schizophrenia – Schizophrenia Update, January 2004    Read more...

Meet former Mount Olive High School wrestler Sean 'Shorty Rock' Santella: Man …
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He said he started using cocaine to kill his appetite so he could more easily lose weight for wrestling. But the drug use got worse and he said many of his friends have died of overdoses or went to jail. He was well known by local police but for all …
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Redwood City: Man accused of attacking student faked mental illness, DA says
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Maurice Banks, 47, claimed he was hearing voices and seeing hallucinations, but a judge concluded Monday he exaggerated his symptoms and ordered the case to proceed. San Mateo County Superior Court Judge Robert Foiles made his ruling based on …
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A teenaged girl's lonely journey
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'Exhausted, teary, shakes': What quitting sugar is really like
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MY NAME is Polly, and I'm a sugar addict. When I'm tired, upset or hormonal I reach for a chocolate bar, biscuit or cupcake. I add sugar to my … Luckily, I'm neither overweight nor unhealthy, so I figure I don't need sweet rehab quite yet – or do I …
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Opioid Receptor Discovery Could Lead To Painkillers With Fewer Side Effects …
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The discovery of a new binding site in pain-sensing nerve cells could lead to prescription drugs that are as effective as morphine, Vicodin, and Oxycontin, but have lower risk of side effects, tolerance, and addiction. By Ashik Siddique | Jun 10, 2013 …
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Keith Richards Stabbed Syringe Of Drugs 'Straight Through His Shirt,' Says …
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Legalize it, all of it
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Are they addicts? Do they need treatment? Therapy of some sort? It's not for me to say. What I can say is that I agree with the libertarian leaning Stossel, who noted that after heroin and cocaine possession was decriminalized in Portugal, teen use …
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Drug-dealing Duluth nurse gets jail, second chance at treatment
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Here you have someone who has a great amount of trust placed in her by virtue of her education, who potentially puts people's lives at risk by medicating them, and that is just as bad as someone who sells cocaine or crack or heroin.” Probation officer …
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ADHD Meds Don't Raise Risk of Drug Abuse in Adulthood: Review
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'Gay Cure' App Claims To Help Users Find 'Freedom From The Bondage Of …
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… this way' and offers to help them find 'freedom from the bondage of homosexuality,'" the petition says. "These so-called treatments can cause terrible harm to lesbian, gay, bi, and trans people, or anyone forced to try to change who they are or who …
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Heroin blamed for eight deaths in Kerry town in two years
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Gardaí confirmed the statistic after a woman was found dead in her apartment following a suspected heroin overdose; she would be the eight fatality. Natasha Donovan. By Anne Lucey … Heroin and drugs paraphernalia was found near her and although an …
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