Over 100000 people use opium in Afghanistan. How many are addicted to heroin? Should opium be used as medicine to calm children? Today, illegal processing in Afghanistan has made drugs cheaper and more available within the country… The result is that increasingly Afghans themselves are succumbing to the dangers of the country’s largest cash crop. A recent United Nations survey puts the number of heroin addicts throughout the country at 50000. That’s in addition to 150000 people who use opium. Poverty and unemployment are two causes of drug abuse. But in Afghanistan, there’s another reason: Antonio Maria Costa: ‘…during the past quarter century, so many conflicts — against the Soviets, against one another, the mujahadin, the Civil War period, the Taliban rules, the fight against the Taliban, all of this has created a context whereby people, especially internally displaced people, especially refugees, finding themselves in dire conditions, so some of them started to use opium as a way of just forgetting the daily chores, and the daily difficulties and the tragedies in life President Karzai: ‘…drug addiction unfortunately has come to Afghanistan, mainly as consequence of being refugees in our neighboring countries. It ruins families, its something that worries me a lot its something that we have not yet has done much unfortunately.’ Many of the country’s addicts picked up their habit elsewhere — in neighboring Pakistan … or Iran, where per capita heroin use is the … Video Rating: 4 / 5
2009 CBI National Student Production Awards Winner: Best Student Documentary Producers: Harry Fleckenstein, Missy Stankowski Director: Steven Klink Editor: Tim Hill Camera/Audio: Anthony Mennie, Michael Gorczynski For a FREE DVD copy of this movie please visit the Rowan University Center for Addiction Study website at www.rowan.edu or call 856-863-2175 This documentary tells the story four people and their struggles with prescription drug abuse and also of one woman overcoming the death of her mother, who passed away from the disease of addiction from an overdose. This film delves into the characters introduction to the drugs, their downfall from addiction into their rock bottom, and leading into their hope for freedom from active addiction touching on their recovery process. Lisa is a beautiful woman who grew up in a good family. During college she had many injuries due to sports and was introduced to Oxycontin. After taking prescription medication, she was thrown into a world she had no control over. In the end of her addiction, she ended up homeless with her children taken away from her. Today almost 3 years clean, she shares her story of recovery. Rodney is an African-American gay man who grew up in the ghetto. He was introduced to drugs and when we tried Percocet, he was off to the races. Through the world of drugs and the lifestyle that comes with it, he now lives with AIDS. At his darkest hour he found himself living in abandoned houses. Today he has been clean and …
Part 1 of movie about the life of Matt Talbot featuring Seamus Ford. One of 12 children, Matt was reared in absolute poverty in north central Dublin at a time when there were no social services, and even water was fetched from public horse troughs. Semi-educated by the Christian Brothers who put him in a class for poor boys not likely to attend school for long, they were right, for his schooling ended as soon as he found a job. A 12-year-old illiterate is lucky to find work at all, but young Matt took a job as a messenger for a wine and beer bottling company. He soon learned it was easy to help himself to a drink whenever he wanted, and by age 13, Matthew Talbot was a confirmed alcoholic. He earned a reputation as a hard worker, and for the next 15 years went from dock worker to brick layer and through it all he never stopped drinking. Alcohol claimed most of his wages, and he resorted to stealing and pawning to support his addiction. Then in 1884, Matt stayed away from work for an entire week, drinking heavily. Penniless and in debt to the local pubs, he waited for his friends after work; surely they would buy him a drink as he had bought them many times before. But they didn’t want to know him. He found himself physically, mentally, and spiritually bankrupt. He went home sober for the first time in years. He reflected on his life and concluded that it was out of control because of drink. He remembered his early religious teaching and a Pledge of Sobriety offered by the …
Part 27. AJ is looking out the patio door at his father…staring at the water. AJ wonders if Alan is wasted. Monica tells him that Alan needs their support for his recovery. AJ tells Monica that she’s right and will go sit with him. He’s worried about Monica too. He thinks she’s working too hard. Monica calls Taggart but hangs up before actually talking to him. She takes out the tape of Justus confessiong to Damian’s murder and plays it. AJ walks in and hears Justus’ voice and wonders if he’s here. Monica covers up by saying it’s just a tape she got from Narcotics Anonymous. AJ tries to be supportive, offers to take her to lunch, suggests Monica get a facial, which causes Monica to tell him that does nothing for her ego. Monica says she’s going to see Michael. AJ warns her about Jason but Monica tells him it’ll be ok. Robin argues with Jason that Michael should be with the Quartermaines. Emily comes in after stealing the paperwork that Edward had drawn up for custody. She tells Jason that she’ll testify that Michael belongs with Jason and is better off there than with the Q’s. Robin looks on sadly. Justus tells Jason he has nothing to worry about. Emily wants to take Michael to the park but Robin tells her that Jason doesn’t want them to leave the condo because it’s not safe. Emily thinks they should bring the park to Michael. Monica arrives to talk to Jason. Jason leaves to make a phone call, leaving Monica and Justus alone.
For the full version go to: tiny.cc Release Date: September 9, 2011 Studio: Lionsgate Director: Gavin O’Connor Screenwriter: Gavin O’Connor, Anthony Tambakis, Cliff Dorfman Starring: Joel Edgerton, Tom Hardy, Jennifer Morrison, Nick Nolte, Maximiliano Hernandez, Frank Grillo, Erik “Bad” Apple Genre: Action, Drama MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for sequences of intense mixed martial arts fighting, some language and thematic material) Plot Summary: Two brothers face the fight of a lifetime — and the wreckage of their broken family — within the brutal, high-stakes world of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighting in Lionsgate’s action/drama, “Warrior.” An ex-Marine haunted by a tragic past, Tommy Riordan returns to his hometown of Pittsburgh and enlists his father, a recovered alcoholic and his former coach, to train him for an MMA tournament awarding the biggest purse in the history of the sport. As Tommy blazes a violent path towards the title prize, his brother, Brendan, a former MMA fighter unable to make ends meet as a public school teacher, returns to the amateur ring to provide for his family. Even though years have passed, recriminations and past betrayals keep Brendan bitterly estranged from both Tommy and his father. But when Brendan’s unlikely rise as an underdog sets him on a collision course with Tommy, the two brothers must finally confront the forces that tore them apart, all the while waging the most intense, winner-takes-all battle of their lives. Video Rating: 0 / 5
2009 CBI National Student Production Awards Winner: Best Student Documentary Producers: Harry Fleckenstein, Missy Stankowski Director: Steven Klink Editor: Tim Hill Camera/Audio: Anthony Mennie, Michael Gorczynski For a DVD copy of this movie please visit the Rowan University Center for Addiction Study website at www.rowan.edu or call 856-863-2175 This documentary tells the story four people and their struggles with prescription drug abuse and also of one woman overcoming the death of her mother, who passed away from the disease of addiction from an overdose. This film delves into the characters introduction to the drugs, their downfall from addiction into their rock bottom, and leading into their hope for freedom from active addiction touching on their recovery process. Lisa is a beautiful woman who grew up in a good family. During college she had many injuries due to sports and was introduced to Oxycontin. After taking prescription medication, she was thrown into a world she had no control over. In the end of her addiction, she ended up homeless with her children taken away from her. Today almost 3 years clean, she shares her story of recovery. Rodney is an African-American gay man who grew up in the ghetto. He was introduced to drugs and when we tried Percocet, he was off to the races. Through the world of drugs and the lifestyle that comes with it, he now lives with AIDS. At his darkest hour he found himself living in abandoned houses. Today he has been clean and in …
The term recovery has become synonymous with substance abuse. Is it the best term to describe what life is like today for a recovered addict/alcoholic? Does it accurately describe how you feel? Is there a better name to describe it? What do you think?
Several interviews with recovered drug addicts show the recklessness and abandon they often feel when doing drugs. Some of them talk about having Virus C. In the middle of their testimonies, there are segments of showing a person digging his own grave. The message of the film is twofold: find your way out of addiction, and if you insist to do drugs, protect yourself by using a new needle.
This is a story about Mario and his mom who was treated after a month into a Drug Rehab Center for drug addiction treatment by Dr. Mohammad, certified in Addiction Medicine by the American Society of Addiction Medicine. For more information, you can visit www.malibuhorizon.com – a California Drug Rehab.
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