Their stories came spilling out, some jumbled, others perhaps exaggerated, and they documented some of the social ills that plague today's Iran: divorce, parental abandonment, addiction, child abuse, unemployment, poverty, premarital sex.
Imagine someone describing Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch as a novel that depicts the everyday lives of American men and addresses the issue of drug addiction, child abandonment, and organized crime.
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Part Two, "Traveling", focus on the hardships, such as drug addiction, child abuse, inner-city life, and conditions in the Old South, that the author and others have experienced.
When I fell into conversation about why they were there, they first answered that they were just curious but as the retreat wore on and we became more comfortable tales about heroin addiction, child abuse, and repeated failed suicide attempts crept out.
They should play crucial roles in solving problems affecting people's lives, i.e. human trafficking, drug addiction, child labour, violence, war and HIV/AIDS.
Stop arguing about who is more feminist than thou, and start doing something about women living in poverty, mothers suffering from depression and addictions, children facing preventable diseases and violence, and elders lacking sufficient health care.
They relate a dismal roll-call of anxiety, stress, depression, alcohol and opiate addictions, child abuse and suicides.
So far, only a few studies have examined the prevalence of food addiction in children with the YFAS for children (YFAS-C).
Online gambling, critics contend, feeds addiction, corrupts children, wrecks families, bankrolls criminals and launders money.
