Surgery Causes NFL Player’s Drug Addiction

Surgery Causes NFL Player’s Drug Addiction – “On Good Friday in April 2009, Greg Gaines’ daughters thought their father was about to die. Their father — a Nashville high school football legend, a standout player at the University of Tennessee and a seven-year NFL veteran — lay unconscious on a bedroom floor, making guttural noises as foamy liquid spewed from his mouth. His breath was faint. His eyes appeared to be shaking in their sockets. They thought he had finally lost his battle against prescription drug abuse, a legacy of his football career.” John Glennon, Tennessean Newspaper September 5,2010. Listen to Greg tell how he overcame this demon of drug addiction.

Number of painkiller-addicted newborns triples in 10 years

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It's published today in The Journal of the American Medical Association. That's about 13539 infants a year, or one drug-addicted baby born every hour, says the study's lead author, Stephen Patrick, a fellow in neonatal-perinatal medicine at the …
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No escaping Peru's drug rehab fires

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Clinics catch flame and kill addicts trapped inside. Health authorities are mulling reforms to make sure that doesn't happen. The Sagrado Corazon de Jesus drug rehab in Lima, Peru after a fire swept through killing over a dozen patients locked in their …
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