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Addicted to smoking, gambling, or sex... old habits die hard. Today, there’s a new generation of dependencies: clubbing drugs, mobile phones... Some of these addictions require new solutions.

By Mairead DUNDAS

We begin in the United Kingdom where heroin and cocaine consumption is falling, but the use of so-called clubbing drugs is on the rise. There is a new type of drug user, and they are taking the health system by surprise. We head to Leeds where a treatment centre has been designed specifically to deal with this challenge.

Next we head to Oregon, home to the worst methamphetamine epidemic in the United States. However, a radical programme is forcing addicts to decide between drug rehabilitation treatments and giving up their children. The early results are remarkable.

Finally, we look at how Requip, a medicine used to treat Parkinson’s disease, has led certain patients to develop gambling and sex addictions. We see what happens when a prescription drug triggers compulsive behaviour.


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CURBING/ARRESTING ALCOHOLISIM

by plyihcky247 - 16/08/2012 - 13:24

I CAUGHT A BRIEFING THAT THERE IS A NEW DRUG TO ARREST ALCOHOLISM. ON YOUR NEWS CHANNEL SUNDAY @ 5:45PM ? PLEASE ADVISE.

lie too me.

by Anonyme - 09/07/2012 - 18:15

sex addiction? Dose not exist. A bunch of people wanted to hide what they did to people through laws and forced drugging of inmates so when they when in before a judge the inmate knew little more than their names and forced them to take plea bargains, sometime life sentences and placed them into the political digital wooden stocks telling them give me money & I will take your name off the internet which is extortion but as for sexual addiction talk to your drug AA boys who get tons of coke meds who call themselves fixing women who get drummed out of the entertainment field which where the MKULTRA started in NY to try to get people they made hooked to heron in the 40's and 50's so just try to tell me where it all began.

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