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03Jun2017 | Puerto Vallarta Hosts 'Drug Use: Risks and Consequences' Conference Juvenile Integration Center As part of the closure of the event, some of the attendees were involved, providing diverse opinions against drug use, due to the serious consequences they have on the general population, and thus is considered a public health problem. |
18Jan2016 | Events Not to Miss This Week in Vallarta-Nayarit PVAngels A lot is going on around Banderas Bay this week including Dinner Theater, Live Concerts, Charity Bingo, Bucerias Festival, Fundraisers, Vallarta Cup, Sobriety Under the Sun, Farmers Markets every day of the week, and so much more. |
03Jan2016 | Serenity Group of AA to Host 'Sobriety Under The Sun' Convention in Puerto Vallarta PVAngels This, our 14th annual convention, once again promises to be another memorable weekend with a great speaker line-up, workshops and AA and Al-Anon meetings. Join us on January 22-24, 2016. |
27Jun2015 | Juvenile Integration Center Puerto Vallarta Reports on Marijuana Comsumption Juvenile Integration Center It is noteworthy that at the national level, cannabis use was 70.3 per cent in 2008 and rose to 87.4 per cent in 2014, a 17 percent increase in just six years. |
19Jun2015 | Juvenile Integration Center of PV Joins Mexico's Race Against Addictions Juvenile Integration Center In Puerto Vallarta, the Sports Meeting will begin at 8:00 am on June 28 at the Agustín Flores Contreras Sports Arena (across from the Sheraton) as 55 cities across Mexico race simultaneously. |
27Jun2014 | Health Fair and Race Against Drugs at Vallarta's Sports Stadium Juvenile Integration Center The Juvenile Integration Centers invite you to the national race against addictions. On Sunday, June 29 a simultaneous race will be held in 31 states of Mexico to promote healthy lifestyles. |
14Jun2014 | Run the Race for 'International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking' Juvenile Integration Center The Juvenile Integration Center of Puerto Vallarta invites children, youths and adults of all ages to participate on June 29 at the Sports Stadium in the walk and race against drug abuse and illicit trafficking. |
10May2013 | 'Glee' Stars Lea Michele and Cory Monteith's Post-Rehab Puerto Vallarta Vacation E! OnLine The Glee stars were spotted Monday in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, earlier this week enjoying lunch. But this isn't the first time they've been spotted together since Cory checked out of rehab late last month. |
27Dec2012 | Puerto Vallarta has 19 Recorded Drug & Alcohol Rehabilitation Centers Vallarta Opina The State of Jalisco has 250 rehabilitation centers on record, of which 19 are located in the municipality of Puerto Vallarta. Sixty-nine of the centers are recognized at the federal level according to the Secretariat of Health Jalisco. |
02Oct2017 | While Fighting a War on Drugs, Mexico Has Become a Drug Consumer Nation The Fulano Forum The illegal business is no longer to just pass the drugs over the border nor the illegal landing strips for airplanes to bring in cocaine from Colombia and Bolivia. |
22Sep2017 | Life-Saving Drug to Reverse Overdoses Should Come Over the Counter Human Rights Watch The US federal and state governments are taking insufficient action to ensure access to the life-saving medication naloxone to reverse opioid overdose, resulting in thousands of preventable deaths. |
07Sep2017 | New Whitney Houston Documentary Takes a Deeper Look at Addiction Battle The Fix Houston’s brothers, bodyguard, and long-time friends speak out about the legendary singer’s life and tragic death in the new documentary. |
04Sep2017 | How You Can Stay Sober with the Aid of Technology The Fix The internet can be a great resource for people recovering from addiction by providing information as well as connections. |
26May2017 | Mushrooms and Marijuana Are the Safest Recreational Drugs, According to New Survey Mic According to the annual Global Drug Survey, psilocybin hallucinogenic mushrooms are the safest recreational drug - with marijuana a close second. |
17May2017 | US and Mexico Pledge to Bolster Efforts to Combat Deadly Tide of Fentanyl Reuters The United States and Mexico pledged to step up efforts to beat the growing threat of fentanyl, a synthetic opiate up to 50 times more lethal than heroin blamed for the deaths of thousands of people in recent years. |
05Mar2017 | North American Cocaine Use Is Way Up. Colombia's Coca Boom Might Be Why The Washington Post While much of the recent attention on drug abuse in the United States has focused on the heroin and opioid epidemic, cocaine has also been making a comeback. It appears to be a case of supply driving demand. |
01Mar2017 | POTUS Promised to End the Opioid Painkiller and Heroin Epidemic. A Wall Won't Do That Vox The evidence shows that stricter border security just can’t overcome drug traffickers - but a solution is desperately needed. |
03Feb2017 | Tostitos' Super Bowl Bag Hooks You Up with Uber if You're Too Drunk to Drive The Fix Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Uber, and Tostitos teamed up for Super Bowl 2017 with the goal of preventing inebriated partiers from driving. How? By creating the first-ever, limited-edition, alcohol-activated bag of chips. |
25Jul2016 | Counterfeit Pills Laced with Deadly Opioid Infiltrating Drug Market, DEA Says The Guardian The illegal drugs look like known prescription painkillers and contain high amounts of fentanyl as law enforcement says problem is expected to escalate. |
23Jun2016 | Relieving Pain and Fighting Addiction: We Have to Come to Grips with the Challenge AlterNet The use of opium-based analgesics to treat pain is quite a conundrum. Can we find a better way? |
02May2016 | Dying for Treatment - Inside America's For-Profit Drug Rehab Industry VICE VICE editor Wilbert L. Cooper traveled to Southern California, the region with the highest concentration of high-end rehab clinics, to explore the peculiar and troubling side of the for-profit addiction treatment industry. |
28Apr2016 | Inside the Secretive, Abusive World of Mexico's Private Drug Rehab Centers VICE News Mexican authorities provide very limited treatment for addicts, and almost no residential care, which means families struggling to cope rely almost exclusively on privately-run centers. |
14Apr2016 | Groundbreaking First-Ever Study Reveals Effects of LSD on the Brain The Fix The crowdfunded study could have potential implications for LSD to eventually become a viable option for treating addiction and depression. |
12Apr2016 | Mexico's Catholic Church Greenlights Medical Marijuana, Nixes Recreational Use PanAm Post The Mexican Episcospal Conference declared it is in favor of the medical use of marijuana, though noted the harmful effects addiction can have to society over longer periods of time. |
24Mar2016 | World Health Commission Calls for End of Drug War The Daily Caller An international commission of medical experts is calling for global drug decriminalization, arguing that current policies lead to violence, deaths and the spread of disease, harming health and human rights. |
24Feb2016 | New Documentary Shows What a Humane Approach to Addiction Actually Looks Like The Huffington Post "Frontline" cameras spent a year chronicling not only the quiet devastation of the opioid epidemic but also the attempts of police officers and social workers, public defenders and prosecutors, to save the lives of addicted people without locking them up. |
22Feb2016 | Mexico City Develops Standards for Treating Female Substance Abusers Global Press Journal Olga Badillo Gonzlez opened the Crisol Amor y Esperanza rehabilitation center after working at another coed facility. She says she opened her own center after seeing first-hand the need to support women and provide them with specific care. Almost always, rehabilitation is aimed at men. |
12Jan2016 | MADD Starts #FightAffluenza Petition to Move Ethan Couch's Case to Adult Court Inquisitr Mothers Against Drunk Driving, the international advocate pushing for an end to drunk driving, has started an online petition lobbying the Texas judicial system and called on supporters to spread awareness using the #FightAffluenza hashtag. |
24Dec2015 | Not Home for the Holidays? Set Up an Out-of-Town Meeting for Staying Sane & Sober The Fix If you haven’t done this in the past, you are going to be impressed. Across the world, 12-step members are so open and giving to out-of-towners, particularly over the holidays. |
07Dec2015 | A Divided Country Readies for Mexico's 2016 Domestic Drug Policy Debate InSight Crime The stage is now set for a 2016 drug debate between Mexico's courts and the Pena Nieto administration, with the two sides currently at odds over drug policy. Popular opinion, however, appears to favor the administration. |
03Nov2015 | Drugs, Booze and Anxiety Raise Death Rates Among White Middle-Aged US Citizens New Scientist A heady mix of booze, drug addiction and financial anxiety is dragging white, middle-aged people in the US to an early grave. |
31Aug2015 | How the Prescription Painkiller Fentanyl Became a Favored Street Drug Delaware Public Media Fentanyl is a favored painkiller because it acts fast. But it's also 80 to 100 times more potent than morphine. The powerful drug has made its way to the streets and increasingly is being used to cut heroin - resulting in a deadly combination. |
01Jul2015 | Attorney General Arely Gomez Gonzalez Says 'Criminalization of Drug Users Intolerable' La Jornada According to the National Addiction Survey, almost six million Mexicans have tried illegal drugs at least once. Of this number, almost 400,000 are under 18. |
27Jun2015 | LatAm Countries Mull Failure of US-Led War on Drugs, Planning to Change Course Xinhua News Agency On the UN-designated International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, Latin American countries mulled the failure of the hardball tactics in fighting drugs, planning to change course in the drug war. |
30Apr2015 | Alcoholism Shortens Lifespan By Nearly a Decade, Long-Term Study Finds The Fix Most are fully aware that heavy drinking is hard on the body, but a new study revealed alcoholism actually reduces one’s lifespan by an average of 7.6 years. |
22Mar2015 | A Legal Drug That's 50 Times More Powerful Than Heroin Blamed for Spike in Fatal Overdoses Business Insider Federal drug enforcement officials last week issued a nationwide alert about the dangers of fentanyl, a powerful opioid often used to increase the potency of heroin and blamed for an “alarming” spike in deadly overdoses. |
14Mar2015 | Street Heroin Is Cheaper Than Oxycontin, and Overdoses Are Increasing Epoch Times The opioid drug OxyContin was changed to make it harder for people to abuse, but the modification had limited value. People may have simply switched to the less expensive but just as dangerous drug heroin. |
29Nov2014 | Heavy Drinking Increases a Woman's Injury Risk More Than a Man's Reuters Health Heavy drinking increases the risk of being injured, and far more so for women than men, researchers say. In a review of emergency department admissions in 18 countries, they also found that violence was involved in twice as many drinking-related injuries as were traffic collisions, falls or other causes. |
13May2014 | UN Agency Urges Greater National Action to Curb Alcohol-Related Deaths, Diseases UN News Centre More than three million deaths in 2012 were linked to alcohol with a steady increase in alcohol use among women, the United Nations health agency today reported calling on Governments to do more to prevent alcohol-related deaths and diseases. |
27Apr2014 | Narconon Residential Drug Rehab Wing for Women Opens in Tijuana PRWeb In early April 2014, with festivities and drug education lectures, Narconon Tijuana in Baja California opened services for adult women to augment its existing service to adult men. |
24Apr2014 | Is Brain Restoration Therapy 'Too Good to Be True' for Addiction and Disease? The Fix Could megadoses of energy-giving NAD - which allegedly relieves withdrawal symptoms, flushes out stored drugs in the body and replenishes balance in the brain - really be the cure-all for addiction as well as many other diseases and mental health disorders? |
18Apr2014 | To Fight Hunger, Mazatlan Fishermen Donate Free Fish to Poor Families The Mazatlan Messenger In keeping with the Mexican National Crusade Against Hunger, directors of the National Chamber of the Fish and Aquaculture Industry united their forces this week to donate two tons of fresh fish to 2,000 families with limited economic resources living on the periphery of the city. |
09Apr2014 | Could a Reality TV Show Really Help Get Latin America Off Drugs? Newsweek If a reality show can reduce teenage pregnancies, why couldn't you make one to do the same for drugs? That was one of the ideas put forward at a forum on drug policy in Panama. |
23Feb2014 | Addiction Recovery: There's an App for That The Fix You might not know it yet, but your best friend and worst enemy in recovery may be the same tool you use everyday - your smartphone. |
15Jan2014 | Alcohol Consumption Cause of Nearly 80,000 Deaths Per Year in the Americas EurekAlert! A new study has measured the number and pattern of deaths caused by alcohol consumption in 16 North and Latin American countries. |
31Aug2013 | Time for Intervention: Drug Overdoses Are Killing More People Than Cars, Guns The Huffington Post The world can be a dangerous place, but even with all the bad drivers, treacherous heights and violence, more people are dying from drug overdoses than from any other cause of injury death, including traffic accidents, falls or guns. |
19Apr2013 | Can Virtual Reality Software Tools Treat Addiction? Popular Science The idea is that people will develop coping strategies, then take those strategies back to the real world. With coping mechanisms in their tool kits, users will get better, faster. But just because someone says no in a fake world, does that mean he'll say no in real life? |
16Mar2013 | A New Way to Party as Second 'Sober St. Patrick's Day' Goes Global The Fix You don't need to be wasted this weekend to show your love o' the Irish: Sober St. Patrick's Day is kicking off booze-free festivities across the globe this year. |
06Feb2013 | How Mexico City's Drunk Driving Crack Down is Making the City Safer The Atlantic Cities Mexico has one of the world's worst road safety records. But authorities say the message is slowly getting through that the country's laws are there to be obeyed. And there is evidence, particularly in Mexico City, that attitudes towards drunk-driving are changing for the better. |
25Jan2013 | As Mexico's Traffickers Ship Drugs North, They Leave Addicts in Their Wake The Christian Science Monitor Exponential growth in the trafficking of drugs through Mexico – destined for the large consumer market to the north – is leaving a growing number of addicts in its wake. |
08Jan2013 | The Fix: Are You an Invisible Alcoholic? The Fix High-functioning alcoholics are often hiding in plain sight - and they're often more dangerous than drop-dead drunks. |
31Dec2012 | Safer Streets: Mexico City Targets Drunk Drivers, Reduces Traffic Accidents Infosurhoy.com Nine years after its introduction, the Conduce Sin Alcohol (Drive Without Alcohol) program has reduced the number of accidents and deaths on the streets of Mexico City. |
18Oct2012 | Study Shows Alcoholism May beTwice as Deadly for Women as for Men MyHealthNewsDaily The women with alcohol addiction were five times more likely to die during the 14-year period of the study than women in the general population were. Among men with alcohol addiction, the death rate was about double that of men in the general population. |
12Oct2012 | New Indie Film 'Smashed' Tackles the Real Dangers of Social Drinking The Fix A movie out this weekend, which was a critics' favorite at both the Toronto and Sundance film festivals, follows a first grade teacher whose nightly drinking binges see her lose control of her life, leading her to attend AA meetings. |
06Oct2012 | Visions Theater Company: From Church Basement to Big Screen The Fix A long-running play about addiction and recovery that has reached thousands of addicts has become a movie. |
05Oct2012 | The Disturbing Truth About Workaholism The Fix Many people view "workaholism" as a virtue, or even a joke. But a spate of recent studies suggests the condition should be taken much more seriously. |
20Sep2012 | YouTube Videos Spread Recovery Hope The Fix Young People in Recovery is a series of stories told by young men and women about their new lives in recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs. |
31Aug2012 | Today is International Overdose Awareness Day overdoseday.com Commemorating those who have met with death or permanent injury as a result of drug overdose, International Overdose Awareness Day also acknowledges the grief felt by their families and friends. |
17Aug2012 | The Different Types You Find in AA The Fix Go to enough meetings and you'll start to notice that many of the least appealing people you encounter can be divided into one of several different types. Here is our guide to eight of them. |
02Aug2012 | Film to Sensationalize Drug & Alcohol Recovery The Fix Greg Williams is seeking to create something unique. He's making a feature-length documentary about the estimated 23.5 million recovering Americans that he hopes will "sensationalize" their story: The Anonymous People. |
12Jun2012 | "Bill W. Day" Celebrates AA Co-Founder The Fix Hundreds gathered at Bill Wilson's grave Sunday on the 77th anniversary of the movement he pioneered. |
28May2012 | A Handy Guide to 12-Step Lingo The Fix AA has a lingo all its own - one that its members find equal parts off-putting, comical, and engaging. It's no wonder that scientists interested in social groups, language and customs often study AA. |
18May2012 | Bill W.: The First Intimate Documentary The Fix The AA co-founder had to wait 40 years after his death for an up-close and personal documentary, complete with a never-before-seen archival trove. |
06May2012 | Why Bill W. Wrote the 12 Steps Twice The Fix The AA founder penned two versions of the 12 Steps, separated by 15 years and a lifetime of troubles. Their differences will surprise you. |
20Apr2012 | Does AA Really Work? A Round-Up of Recent Studies The Fix Scores of studies have tried to analyze the effectiveness of Alcoholics Anonymous. But statistics about the group's success rates are contradictory and often surprising. |
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