Gascoigne, whose football clubs included Newcastle United, Tottenham, Lazio, Rangers and Everton, has had a long-term battle against alcohol addiction.
Except for pockets of research in academia, drug companies have devoted almost no funding to searching for cures for drug and alcohol addiction.
And the range of drug therapies will grow, he believes, as new genes associated with drug and alcohol addiction are found.
The social costs of family breakdown, welfare dependency, educational failure, crime, anti-social behaviour, drug and alcohol addiction are impossible to calculate.
Dr Griffiths and his colleagues argue that the mood-lifting effects of hallucinogens might be used to treat drug and alcohol addiction.
Lindsay Lohan acknowledged her drug and alcohol addiction in past court appearances.
The Duchess of Cambridge has launched a counselling programme aimed at reducing the impact of drug and alcohol addiction on children in Manchester.
It debilitates otherwise healthy people and may well prove the ultimate cause of drug and alcohol addiction, obesity and many industrial and auto accidents.
Public shock at Gascoigne's condition at the event on 31 January prompted his admission to a clinic in the United States for treatment for alcohol addiction.
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Kerouac, who had struggled with fame and alcohol addiction since the success of On the Road, ventured to Big Sur seeking solitude and a place to dry out.
Although the troubled star is free from his former alcohol addiction, he has suffered a relapse of the mental health problems which plagued him after his showbiz career slumped.
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Other Comic Relief plans include a broadcast from the Give It Up For Comic Relief concert, the brainchild of Russell Brand, raising money for people in the UK affected by drug and alcohol addiction, on 6 March.
Craig Fabrikant, a clinical psychologist at Hackensack University Medical Center, says that he doesn't believe that sex addiction exists in the same way that alcohol or cocaine addiction does.
Release also suggested greater government intervention was needed, similar to the approach taken with alcohol and cigarette addiction.
Sandi Jackson has firmly denied her husband had attempted suicide or was receiving help for alcohol or drug addiction.
Bob Probert was one of the most feared enforcers in the game, playing 16 seasons in the NHL despite struggles with alcohol and drug addiction.
The report said families counted as "troubled" had to exhibit certain characteristics - none of which actually related to alcohol or drug addiction or criminality.
The two drugs are naltrexone, used to treat alcohol and cocaine addiction, and bupropion (known mainly as Wellbutrin), an antidepressant, which also helps people quit smoking.
In 1994 Pouletty formed his third biotech startup and named it DrugAbuse Sciences, basing it in Paris and Los Altos, Calif. and devoting it solely to developing treatments for alcohol and drug addiction.
The National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism is watching new human trials of the antiseizure drug topiramate (Topamax) to study the effectiveness of dual treatment for alcohol and cocaine addiction.
The centre, which is run by Quarriers, has beds for 14 needy young people who, as well as being homeless, often have alcohol or drug addiction problems or mental health issues.
It's like alcoholism - you've got to address the addiction to alcohol itself as well as why people are drinking.
Pete Levy says he wants common sense policing for drug and alcohol crimes which recognises addiction as a health issue.
Speaking about the programme at the time, Prime Minister David Cameron referred to 120, 000 families who were plagued by drug addiction, alcohol dependency and crime.
Other rules are aimed against addiction to alcohol or drugs.
At its most extreme, people like Masellis will do just about anything to satisfy a hunger that can gnaw at the will just as hard as an addiction to alcohol, drugs or gambling.
Whereas alcohol and substance abuse has a chemical addiction, the buzz from gambling is a mental state of mind which is desirable.
Following two weeks in the Abbeycare residential alcohol treatment centre in Ayrshire in 2005, she gave up alcohol completely and now works as an addiction support worker for Abbeycare.
The temptation is to self-diagnose, says Dr Guy Ratcliffe, head of the Medical Council on Alcohol - a group set up in the 1960s to tackle medics with addiction problems.
The campaign seeks to re-educate Americans to the view that addiction is a brain disease and presents convincing evidence that drug and alcohol abuse causes neurological changes that can be seen in brain imaging studies.
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