I work with companies to confront addiction in the workplace. The hidden crisis is costing corporate America millions.

Nicole Fox is the vice president of marketing and communications at Shatterproof, a national nonprofit dedicated to reversing the US addiction crisis through stigma reduction, treatment reform, and workplace education. One in six Americans have a substance use disorder, and 70% of them are employed.

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Business Insider

Fatal overdoses are down in most parts of the U.S. Worchester, Massachusetts has seen a dramatic drop in deaths. Officials credit a hands-on approach to helping drug users where they are for the drop in the number of overdose deaths there.

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Legalizing Cocaine Is the Only Way to End the Drug War

Mattha Busby is a freelance journalist and author who has written widely on health policy, drugs, society and culture. In 2015, she went to a cocaine-serving lounge bar, Route 36, in La Paz, Bolivia, and got high there. She wrote about it for Vice. Busby believes that legalizing and regulating cocaine is the only way to end the war on …

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The Intercept

Catherine, Princess of Wales, has finished her chemotherapy treatment and is gradually returning to public life. She made her first public speech in two years the other day at the Future Workforce Summit in London. She urged business leaders to see virtue in supporting caregivers and helping employees have healthy family lives at home. She also called for an end …

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MDMA helps with post-traumatic stress disorder

At the Fusion Festival, doctors carry out drug substance analyzes. Ecstacy consumption, for example, should become safer. Psychoactive substances could help with post-traumatic stress disorder, especially the party drug MDMA, but the researchers are facing problems.

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There are Armed Forces in the following countries: Canada, U.S. States, Territories, Military Districts, Zip codes, and Military Regions. - US Virgin Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, Marshall Islands, American Samoa, Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, Palau, Alberta, Canada, British Columbia, Canada Manitoba, Canada New Brunswick, Canada Newfoundland, Canada Nova Scotia, Canada Northwest Territories, Canada Nunavut, Canada Ontario, Canada Quebec, Canada …

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Saturday Top Comments: Breaking Addiction Behaviors

Brillig invites Daily Kos readers to join them at 10 pm Eastern for Top Comments. Mojo shares his story about his struggle with depression and neurodivergence. He is now in a slightly better place than he was before and he is looking forward to the future.

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Daily Kos

Gerardo, a yonqui del dinero, was addicted to inversión. He hizo his last operación in 2009, luego he entrado into terapia. The number of consultas vinculadas to the ludopatía bursátil has increased by 400% since 2005.

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2 facing charges after cocaine, fentanyl were found in Winnipeg apartment

WPS executed a search warrant on Nov. 26 and found 374 grams of cocaine, 8 grams of fentanyl and $62,500 worth of jewellery in an apartment suite along Adsum Drive. A 20-year-old man and a 23-year old woman are facing drug trafficking charges and have been released on Undertakings.

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