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Mental health and addiction issues in Ayrshire village to be addressed as bid launched to draft in experts

Netherthird Initiative for Community Partnership is one of the groups.

Daily Record

Matthew Perry ‘spent $9m trying to get sober’ during addiction to prescription drugs

The Friends actor told The New York Times that he had been in rehab 15 times during his career

Evening Standard

Friends star Matthew Perry admits he spent whopping $9m on getting sober

Friends star Matthew Perry has admitted he has spent a fortune on facing his demons as he struggled to overcome his alcohol and drug addiction over the years since finding fame

Daily Mirror

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RAF Veteran marks two years of sobriety with Ilkeston group in celebratory walk

"True recovery is only achieved when you do it for yourself"

Nottingham Post

Ex-Leeds United forward opens up on his gambling addiction

Cibicki is currently serving a four-year ban for match fixing.

Leeds Live

Scottish dad turns his life around after drug addiction led to begging on the streets

Leeh, 37, is now back in touch with his three sons and has rebuilt his relationship with his parents, who paid for a last-gasp drug detox.

Edinburgh Live

'Fiercely intelligent' student found dead in university dorm after heroin overdose

Dylan Causero who had a lengthy history of drug misuse dating back to his mid teens had been trying hard to get himself clean just weeks before his tragic heroin over dose.

Daily Record

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Faith lost all her teeth through drug addiction - now she's smiling again thanks to dentures

Faith became addicted to meth aged just 14

Wales Online

Recovering Scots drug addict turns life around to become skydiver after kicking heroin habit

Leeh Howell's life was in a desperate free fall with him begging on the streets of Stirling to feed hit addiction before he was entered into rehab.

Daily Record

Ballarat gambling harm on the agenda as city loses $1 million to pokies each week

Dan Irwin was 16 when he started gambling. Over 25 years he lost everything that mattered and decided it was time to turn his life around.

ABC News

Delivery driver hits robber over head with plank of wood after raid on pharmacy

Rewards were handed to have-a-go hero and a chemist who tackled the armed offender

Liverpool Echo

Can gaming 'addiction' lead to depression or aggression in young people? Here’s what the evidence says

A Victorian coroner has cited problematic gaming behaviour as the driver of a mood disorder which contributed to the 2019 death of regional school boy Oliver Cronin.

The Conversation

Matthew Perry's darkest moments as he admits drug addiction almost killed him

Matthew Perry is one of the world's finest comedic actors, but the Friends actor has battled some demons over the years. As he shares his story, we take a look at how the star's darker moments can help others going through something similar

Daily Mirror

'Friends' actor Matthew Perry shares a near-death experience in his memoir

Actor Matthew Perry, who is best known for playing the role of Chandler Bing in 'Friends', is all set to release his new memoir 'Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing' on November 1. News is that, in the memoir the actor opens up about his addiction journey.

The Times of India

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Daily Mirror

Matthew Perry had colostomy bag for nine months and underwent 14 stomach surgeries

Lorraine host Ranvir Singh alongside showbiz expert Ross King explained that Friends star Matthew Perry endured 15 trips to rehab in a bid to conquer his demons and battle his addictions

Dynamite News

Study: Pain Relief Without Side Effects And Addiction, Better Than Opioids

New substances that activate adrenalin receptors instead of opioid receptors have a similar pain-relieving effect to opiates, but without the negative aspects such as respiratory depression and addiction. New findings are a milestone in the development of non-opioid pain relief.Read more on Dynamite News:

The Independent UK

Postcards from the Edge at 35: How Carrie Fisher’s fiction put her back in control

In the late Eighties, Carrie Fisher went to rehab for drug addiction – a few years later, she turned her experiences into a celebrated debut novel. Kat Lister looks back on how the Star Wars legend chose comedy in the quest for truth over shame

The New Daily

Friends star Matthew Perry was given ‘2 per cent chance to live’

Matthew Perry was on life support with a "2 per cent chance to live" when his colon burst from an opioid addiction.

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Chicago Sun-Times

Criminalizing drug use won’t help stop addiction

Drug addicts need treatment, as Peter Bensinger rightfully pointed out, but he is badly mistaken to think that the criminalization of drug sales and possession are also deterrents.

Tribune News Service

Matthew Perry ‘grateful to be alive’ after addiction battle that once gave him 2% chance to live

“Friends” actor Matthew Perry feels “grateful to be a live” after a lengthy battle with addiction and repeated trips to rehab, he said in a new interview.

Irish Mirror

Kenneth Egan and Philly McMahon call out TD Paul Kehoe's derogatory term for drug addicts

Paul Kehoe irritated many when he referred to O'Connell Street being overrun with 'druggies'

Evening Standard

Friends star Matthew Perry reveals opioid addiction and details near-death experience

The Chandler Bing actor’s colon burst from opioid overuse and what followed was five months in hospital and nine with a colostomy bag

Daily Mirror

Matthew Perry nearly died and spent weeks in a coma during terrifying addiction battle

Friends actor Matthew Perry says his family were told he only had a 2% chance of surviving a terrifying opioid overdose and he was left using a colostomy bag following his near-death experience, as he opens up about his battles with addiction

The Guardian - UK

A promise to my brother pulled me back from my drug addiction

I was four years clean when my beloved brother died – I had promised him I would finish my memoir, so that’s what I did, says author Matt Rowland Hill

Chicago Tribune

Illinois fines Celtic health insurance company $1.25 million

The Illinois Department of Insurance is fining health insurer Celtic Insurance Co. $1.25 million for allegedly failing to cover mental health and addiction at the same levels as other medical issues.

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