Posts Tagged ‘addictive behaviors’
Demi Lovato Talks About Her Messy Life as a Drug Addict
Demi Lovato talks about her messy life as a drug addict
Some addict-stars spend years abusing drugs before they hit bottom. For singer/songwriter Demi Lovato, it was when she was just 19, when she couldn't go 30 minutes without cocaine and even took to smuggling it on airplanes. Now 21, Lovato opened up …
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Studies explore potential origins of addiction and treaments
According to the World Health Organization, 15.3 million people worldwide suffer from drug use disorders. A variety of brain areas and processes play a role in addictive behaviors, complicating treatment and costing millions of dollars and lives each year.
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FAMNEWS Vol. 1, Episode 12 — DRUG ADDICTION II – For FAMU Researcher Carl Goodman, the laboratory is a place where mysteries are solved and lives are saved — especially when it comes to his research on drug…
Is Nigella Lawson a Drug Addict? – Allvoices
Is Nigella Lawson a drug addict? – allvoices
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Is Nigella Lawson a drug addict?
allvoices Could Nigella Lawson's facade of being a "domestic goddess" be nothing more than a false mask to hide a party girl exterior? According to the celebrity chef's estranged husband Charles Saatchi, she abused drugs daily but tried to conceal this from him … Nigella Lawson 'Used Cocaine, Cannabis and Pills Daily During Saatchi Marriage' Row about Nigella's decade of daily cocaine use ended in Charles Saatchi's … Nigella Lawson 'off her head on drugs', court hears email from ex-husband … |
Challenging the drug war lies – Socialist Worker Online
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Challenging the drug war lies
Socialist Worker Online With no apologies, Hart takes on the racist "war on drugs" and challenges the hysteria and junk science that is used to pressure politicians to pass draconian drug laws and turn the public against drug users and dealers. As a researcher, Hart marshals … |
Guess What? the 'Knockout Game' Is America's Latest Phony Panic
Guess What? The 'Knockout Game' Is America's Latest Phony Panic
In both cases, you could find instances that fit either description, but in a country with tens of millions of teenagers, where you could find examples of almost any behavior, you need more than a few anecdotes to prove a trend. With the “knockout game …
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Teen athletes prone to drink, less likely to use drugs
They also found that alcohol use was greater among students who engage in sports, according to the results published in Addictive Behaviors. "We have enough data to show that sport participation could play an important role in substance use prevention.
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The Holistic Sanctuary Assails Showtime's Portrayal of Heroin Addiction and …
CBS News also reports that heroin addiction among young people is on a significant rise, with 669,000 new users in 2012. Their investigation coincides with findings of increased heroin use among affluent middle-class teens, while other spikes in less …
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Addiction Definition in Flux
Addiction definition in flux
In September, Yale professor of psychiatry Marc Potenza published a letter in the journal “Addictive Behaviors” on how the definition of “addiction” had broadened in the new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) …
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Ohio AG Calls Heroin a Statewide Epidemic
The Attorney General's Heroin Unit, which will include investigators, lawyers, and drug abuse awareness specialists, will assist in combating issues associated with the heroin epidemic, such as crime, addiction, and overdose deaths. The decision to …
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Nurses on leading edge of public health strategies
The strategy has also identified seven priorities that are most likely to reduce the leading causes of preventable death and major illness: tobacco-free living; preventing drug abuse and excessive alcohol use; healthy eating; active living; injury- and …
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Stony Brook Researchers Receive $3.8 Million NIH Grant to Develop Drugs for Pain, Inflammation
Stony Brook Researchers Receive .8 Million NIH Grant to Develop Drugs for Pain, Inflammation
A multidisciplinary research team at Stony Brook University has received a five-year $ 3.8 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health, to develop new drugs for pain, inflammation, and potentially drug addiction. The drug development strategy is based on their discovery of intracellular transporters known as FABPs (fatty acid binding … Causes of Drug Abuse – Yahoo News Search Results
Sons of Cocaine-Using Fathers May Resist Addiction to Drug, Penn Medicine Study Suggests
SAN DIEGO — A father’s cocaine use may make his sons less sensitive to the drug and thereby more likely to resist addictive behaviors, suggests new findings from an animal study presented by Penn Medicine researchers at Neuroscience 2013, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. Causes of Drug Abuse – Yahoo News Search Results
What Is the Story to the Black Parade?
Question by Kamella Elena: What is the story to The Black Parade?
So, I recently discovered My Chemical Romance and I heard there was a story. So, can anyone IN DETAIL explain it to me? Track by Track.
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