I Was a Teenaged Anchorman

Published March 10, 2013

I Was A Teenaged Anchorman

Filed under: Cocaine Addiction Behavior

In this noisy closet, on March 5 of 1982, I began a crippling lifelong addiction to breaking news. Because the broadcast I produced and hosted aired just … Anyone's bad behavior in this television newsroom was ridiculed as "coke nerves," and in this …
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What Happens in Vegas Can Actually Be a Big Problem

Filed under: Cocaine Addiction Behavior

In May 2013, psychiatrists will start referring to gambling addiction instead as a behavioral addiction, the first disorder in that newly created category of the DSM-5. …. Nicotine dependence is not the same as cocaine dependence or alcohol …
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Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris urges funding for prescription tracking

Filed under: Cocaine Addiction Behavior

The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has urged states to use prescription monitoring programs to look for signs of reckless behavior by doctors, and at least six states do. CURES — formally the Controlled Substance Utilization Review …
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