*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 ” Video Rating: 5 / 5
Reggie Jackson is the team leader for a mobile Syringe Exchange Program that operates out of an RV in Washington, DC. The program provides clean needles to drug users in order to prevent the spread of AIDS/HIV and other blood borne diseases. This is especially significant given the high rate of AIDS/HIV in the District. Reggie is a former drug addict and has been living with AIDS/HIV and hepatitis C for 22 years. He uses his experiences to counsel the addicts that come to the RV to exchange their used needles for clean ones. See www.preventionworksdc.org for more information. All health statistics provided by the District of Columbia Department of health: www.dchealth.dc.gov Music provided by www.freeplaymusic.com
LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL! Rose and his LA Guns bandmate Tracii Guns formed Guns N’ Roses in March 1985. The band was a merger of LA Guns and Hollywood Rose, and featured musicians who had played for one or both groups, including Ole Beich and Duff McKagan. The band debuted at the Troubadour in Hollywood and proceeded to play the LA circuit, eventually building a fan following and attracting the attention of several record companies.[18][19] The lineup eventually solidified with Rose on vocals, Slash on lead guitar, Izzy Stradlin on rhythm guitar, Duff McKagan on bass and Steven Adler on drums. Guns N’ Roses was signed to Geffen Records in 1986 and released a four-song EP, Live ?!*@ Like a Suicide, on their own label, UZI Suicide, in December of that year. The band’s major label debut album, entitled Appetite for Destruction, was released in the United States on July 21, 1987. The record had a slow start, selling only 500000 copies in the first year of its release.[20] However, fueled by relentless touring and the mainstream success of the single “Sweet Child o’ Mine”, Appetite for Destruction rose to the #1 position on the Billboard 200 chart in the United States in the fall of 1988. To date, Appetite for Destruction ranks as the fourth best-selling debut album in the United States, has been certified 15x platinum by the RIAA, and has sold over 27 million copies.[21][22] With the success of Appetite for Destruction and its follow-up EP, GN’R Lies, Rose found himself lauded …
A clip from the Hazelden video entitled “Cross-addiction: The Back Door to Relapse.” Cross-addiction is the single greatest relapse factor. Those who seek treatment generally have an honest desire to remain abstinent from alcohol or another drug of choice. Yet most can also name a drug they’ve tried that they consider “safe” for themselves, one they believe they can control. The full-length video features first-hand testimony from recovering alcoholics and addicts, chemical dependency professionals, and a medical doctor which dispel the myth that there is any such thing as a “safe” substance for people in recovery. The full-length program ends with a message of hope as the recovering individuals share the joys and triumphs complete abstinence brought to their lives.
*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 “
Rose had tried to beat her addiction to drugs and alcohol many times on her own and failed. Then she found a six-month residential program that helps women struggling with substance abuse, mental health issues and homelessness. Offered through United Way partner agency The Next Door, the program was her saving grace.
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