Coca-Cola Played Both Sides Of The Drunk
Driving Debate  

At various moments over the past two decades, Coca-Cola, the massive soft-drink conglomerate, has aligned itself with Mothers Against Drunk Driving in campaigns to promote vehicular safety. In 1996, the company teamed up with Wal-Mart to donate more than a quarter million dollars to MADD.

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Dating a Recovering Addict: Book Offers
Some Advice

For some, discovering that your new love interest is in recovery for alcoholism or drug addiction might be a red flag. That was never the case for Karen Nagy. When she first started dating a man in recovery, she welcomed the challenge to be by his side on his path to sobriety. But as their relationship evolved, Nagy desperately wanted advice from someone who had walked in her shoes. She remembers being unable to find a resource, so she decided to write her own book, "[Girl] Friend of Bill: 12 Things You Need to Know About Dating Someone in Recovery" (Hazelden).

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Hallucinating Away a Heroin Addiction

This junkie is about to begin a three-day, neo-African, sometimes-terrifying, ritualistic trip. Can it help her get clean? It's been 56 hours since Grace Bergere's last shot of heroin-too long. Curled into a fetal position on an outdoor, candle-lit matt in Costa Rica, the 18-year-old trembles in fear.

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Zac Efron Feels 'Great' Post Addiction Admission

Washington: Zac Efron recently said that he has no regrets for revealing his addiction. The star told Matt Lauer that he felt great after addiction revelations as it was a weight off his chest and that it was a fantastic time, asserting that his movie `Neighbors` was a great icing on the cake, reportedly. He said that he feels great, asserting that he feels really blessed to be working with the group of group of guys and couldn`t be better right now, adding that he`s really excited.

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Rosie O'Donnell Compares Sugar Addiction to Being an 'Alcoholic'

Her unhealthy lifestyle was one of the reasons she suffered a near fatal heart attack back in 2012. And now, despite her healthier lifestyle, Rosie O'Donnell still gets the urge to grab sweets in the same way an alcoholic needs the bottle. She even likened sugar to heroin as she discussed the challenges she faces as she tries to eat well and live healthily.

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Britain: "Cocaine Found In Our Drinking Water"

Benzoylecgonine, the form of cocaine that is generated once the drug has been processed by the body, was found in tap water at four test sites. Cocaine use in the UK is now so common that traces of the drug can be found in our drinking water, tests show. Inspections of tap water at four different sites found a metabolised form of the illegal drug, which showed it had already passed through the human body.

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Women Addicts in Iran Begin Seeking Treatment Despite Taboo

They are female drug addicts, a growing class of people with a habit so taboo in this traditional Islamic society that some Iranians believe they deserve death. But the modest facility here, a substance-abuse rehabilitation center for women, is one sign that attitudes are slowly changing as Iran begins to confront an uncomfortable problem that long went ignored.

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How The Fabulous
Palm Springs Follies High-Kicked My Sobriety

During those two and half hours I shed all the fear and anxiety that getting sober had wrought. The show did what booze used to do for me and no longer could: It made me euphoric. Even if The Fabulous Palm Springs Follies can't go on kicking, I will forever view that chorus line of still-sexy legs high kicking above the footlights as a farewell to booze and a salute to my sobriety.

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Methodist Minister Filmed on All-night Cocaine Binge VIDEO

Last week Paul Flowers appeared in court, insisting that he was remorseful and determined to 'permanently' resolve his drugs problem. But a video has revealed that just days earlier, the disgraced former Co-op Bank chairman was snorting cocaine and entertaining rent boys. The former Methodist minister was covertly filmed in his rent-free church house..

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Addicted And Pregnant: 'The Most Heart-Wrenching Experience of My Life' AUDIO  

I tried to stay sober, but I couldn't live completely clean. I was able to refrain from drug use, but I never stayed away from alcohol for long. I have memories of trying to disguise my pregnant stomach when entering liquor stores, only to return home, drink alone and cry by myself. I talked to the baby inside of me, apologizing for my shortcomings.

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Slipping Into Addiction is Easy, Reclaiming Your Life Can Be Hard 

Christopher Lemay, left, and chef and television personality Anthony Bourdain. Bourdain visited the area recently for his Parts Unknown CNN show. Lemay is recovering from an opioid addiction. Bourdain's memoir deals frankly with heroin addiction in his younger years. Lemay began developing a serious addiction to Percocet in the year after high school, he said, in the pressure of starting out in the real world.

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Musician Gives Concerts, Guitars to Inmates

This greeting, an echo from an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, marks the start of Wayne Kramer's recent visit to the Los Angeles County Jail. He's been in and out of dozens of jails and prisons all over the United States for his charity, Jail Guitar Doors. When they're done, they will leave behind musical instruments that will be used in song writing workshops for the detainees.

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Rob Ford: 'Rehab is Amazing'

Crack-smoking Toronto Mayor Rob Ford thinks "rehab is amazing" and compared it to his childhood memories as a football player. A second video of Ford smoking crack was the final straw for the drug-loving mayor, who checked himself into an unknown in-patient rehab facility last week. "I feel great," Ford said in an interview with the Toronto Sun on Wednesday. "Rehab is amazing. It reminds me of football camp. Kind of like the Washington Redskins camp I went to as a kid."

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Life After Rehab:
How to Stay Sober in the Outside World

If you are in recovery, or know someone who is, Life After Rehab is exactly what you need, an entertaining roadmap to higher consciousness. Michael Hoffman practices as an author and psychotherapist in Dana Point, California. His writing and counseling, based on the consciousness teachings of Dr. Carl Gustav Jung and Siddhărtha Gautama Buddha, discuss the emotional and spiritual freedoms all people deserve.

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