Next Door but Invisible- the World of Homelessness and Drug Addiction

Next Door But Invisible- The World of Homelessness and Drug Addiction – *I don’t own this video. I’m uploading it in order to add captions to it since Overstream.net (and every other third party pulling from YouTube) is down .* Original here: www.youtube.com “Penn medical anthropologist Philippe Bourgois and UC grad student Jeff Schonberg study the lives of homeless heroin addicts in San Francisco. SAS Frontiers, September 2009 ”

Study: Unkindness linked to alcohol, drug abuse in black populations

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"There is a connection here, and while more work is needed to understand the cause and effect, especially if a substance abuse problem could be one of the reasons people are treated unfairly, people need to realize how they treat others can affect them …
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Idaho DUI courts helping change, improve lives

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"He chose to wake up." Before they are admitted, everyone who applies to DUI court takes a test to determine the level of their addiction and how likely they are to reoffend. … The ignition interlock that tests for alcohol in a client's vehicle costs …
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Meds a good 'first step' for treating alcoholism

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Two drugs commonly used to treat alcoholism may be appropriate for people in different stages of recovery, a new analysis confirms – likely because they work differently in the brain. The drugs, acamprosate (marketed as Campral) and naltrexone (ReVia …
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