Addiction

Anne Arundel County health briefs

2013-05-10 00:00:00

Rabies prevention The Department of Health offers information on how to prevent the spread of rabies and what to do in the event of exposure. Rabies is most often seen in raccoons, bats, foxes and skunks. Information: 410-222-7168 or visit aahealth.org....

Maryland families to get new tool in fight against drug overdoses

2013-04-26 19:27:00

Linda Fletcher lives in fear of reliving a nightmare: a son dying from a heroin overdose. Her son Kris Klipner succumbed to the drug in 2007. He was 28. Klipner's half-brother battles the same kind of depression as Kris. He suffers the same heroin...

Mocha Moms of Howard County a support group for stay-at-home mothers

2013-04-25 10:18:00

These groups meet regularly. ALS Resource support group — First Saturday, 12:30-2:30 p.m. Educational support for ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) patients, family members and friends. Owen Brown Interfaith Center, Conference Room 116B, 7246...

Maryland prison program saves money and lives

2013-04-18 08:41:00

We have a great capacity for placing people into categories and minimizing their humanity. One such category is "felons" and another is "drug addicts." We can easily forget that men and women who have been convicted of crimes or are suffering from...

Dogwood made good food and a difference in lives

2013-03-20 16:05:00

Has it been mentioned anywhere that the couple who ran the Dogwood Restaurant in Hampden tried to change the lives of desperate people while serving good food and drink? There aren't a lot of businesses willing to hire ex-offenders and recovering drug...

Heroin deaths rise as crackdown on prescription drug abuse succeeds

2012-12-07 18:34:35

As efforts to crack down on the abuse of prescription drugs have worked, a new problem has emerged, with addicts who can no longer get their fix by popping pills turning to the old-fashioned street drug heroin, health and law enforcement officials say....

'Real Housewives of Beverly Hills' recap, Twerking to empowerment

2013-02-05 05:46:00

Last night, I took another gander at the episode guide for this season of "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills," and realized this isn’t the last episode! We’ve got one more coming up. Plus, I forgot about the reunions, and reality show...

Stemming the spike in heroin deaths

2012-12-07 10:36:00

Health officials still aren't certain what is causing the alarming uptick in heroin overdoses that has occurred across Maryland recently. But it would be especially disturbing if the trend turns out to be an unintended consequence of state efforts to...

Burglaries, highway safety still major concerns, Harford sheriff says

2012-12-04 15:57:00

Property crimes involving drug addicts and highway safety concerns were among topics discussed at two well-attended town hall meetings hosted simultaneously at opposite ends of the county by Harford County Sheriff Jesse Bane and his commanders Saturday....

Many look to cash in on expanding Maryland casinos

2012-11-24 15:57:00

Dorsey Nicola was shaking the dice and staring down the green felt, where chips were stacked like miniature skyscrapers and multiplying. The craps table was hot last week as a half-dozen students lined the perimeter and Nicola kept throwing sixes. The...

Protesters accuse Hopkins of withholding Medicaid funds

2012-10-18 16:17:51

The owner of a Baltimore substance abuse center led a protest of more than 120 people Thursday morning at the doors of Johns Hopkins Hospital, saying the medical giant owes his organization more than $100,000 in Medicaid payments. The Rev. Milton E....

A caravan for peace

2012-09-08 03:00:00

One hundred and ninety six people were murdered in Baltimore last year. Recent figures show our violent crime rate is more than two and a half times the national average. Many of these crimes spawned from the illegal nature of the drug trade, and the vast...

Yes, Denzel Washington is strong as a pilot whose addictions make him anything but a faultless hero. Yet the movie goes nowhere new in its portrait of alcoholism or drug addiction, and the cheap ending serves as cop out to any potentially sticky moral questions.

2012-11-01 00:00:00

What happened: On a January cover story, Star magazine suggested Katie Holmes was a drug addict with the tease, "Addiction Nightmare: Katie DRUG SHOCKER! The real reason she can't leave Tom.

2011-12-08 10:11:35

Rock band Janes Addiction poses in advance of its new album, "The Great Escape Artist," at the Shangri-La hotel in Santa Monica.

2011-10-24 18:33:34