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11/23/2008
Family clinic reaches out to people with pain pill addiction (East Montgomery County Observer)
It wasn’t Sherry Matthews’ intention to treat patients for pain medication addiction when she opened We Care Affordable Health Care in Spring a year and a half ago, but now it accounts for 40 percent of her business.
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11/23/2008
Online interactive video games can feed dangerous addiction (Herald & Review)
DECATUR - Liz Woolley said it wasn't addiction to drugs or alcohol that robbed her of her son. Instead, the Tennessee woman believes it was an addiction to something many consider a fun, innocuous diversion: video games.
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11/23/2008
Drug Addiction: Environmental Conditions Play Major Role In Effective Treatment And Preventing Relapses, Animal Study ... (Science Daily)
Environmental conditions play a major role in treating drug addiction and in preventing relapses, according to new research. For the first time, researchers have shown that positive and stimulating environmental conditions make it easier to treat cocaine addiction.
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11/22/2008
Another Jane's Addiction Reunion Show (antiMUSIC)
A top story from this week. LA's own Jane's Addiction will be playing in their original form this Thursday at a relatively tiny venue
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11/22/2008
Italian teen diagnosed with PlayStation addiction (New Kerala)
London, November 22 : A 13-year-old Italian boy was diagnosed with PlayStation addiction, when his father rushed him to hospital finding him unresponsive to his surroundings.
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11/20/2008
Spain to test vaccine to treat cocaine addiction (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Researchers in Spain, which has the highest rate of cocaine use in the European Union, will test a vaccine next year that they hope will help addicts break free of their addiction to the drug, health officials said Thursday.
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11/21/2008
Vaccine for coke addiction? (News 24 South Africa)
Researchers in Spain will test a vaccine that they hope will help addicts break free of their addiction to the drug, health officials say.
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11/21/2008
"Fuel": A persuasive argument for kicking our addiction to oil (Seattle Times)
"Fuel," directed by Josh Tickell, is a dynamic and persuasive documentary about clean energy sources and America's doomed addiction to oil. It's a must-see, and not just for environmentalists.
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11/21/2008
Nigeria: Addressing the Drug Addiction Menace (AllAfrica.com)
From time immemorial it has always been said that there is nothing that has disadvantages and yet does not have advantages. But today, it is believed that drug addiction has no advantages whatsoever.
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11/23/2008
"LOVE JUNKIE" (New York Post)
Nobody grows up hoping to become an alcoholic or a heroin user; people don't sit around thinking of ways to become compulsive eaters or gamblers. But sex addiction? Didn't David Duchovny's stock rise the minute he checked himself into rehab for it?
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| Addiction - Information from Wikipedia on this condition which involves the excessive physical or psychological dependence on something.Addiction and Alcoholism Treatment - Free online books, journals. The best collection on intervention techniques, substance abuse, recovery, relapse prevention, sobriety.Addiction Inbox - Articles and health studies about addiction and alcoholism, including the most recent scientific and medical findings.Alcohol and Adolescent Brain Development - Explores recent scientific evidence that alcohol affects adolescents and adults differently. Also discusses recent findings regarding adolescent brain development.The Drug Discrimination Bibliography - Drug Discrimination is widely recognised as one of the major methods for studying the behavioral and neuropharmacological effects of drugs and plays an important role in drug discovery and investigations of drug abuse. This page provides access to Dr. Ian Stolerman's ongoing Comprehensive Bibliography of Drug Discrimination Research. Search bibliography for combinations of training drug, pretreatment drug, methodology.Journal of Psychopharmacology - Peer-reviewed, international journal that publishes original research and review articles on preclinical and clinical aspects of psychopharmacology, the study of the effects of substances on the brain.Marijuana Special Report from The New Scientist - Visual guide to brain regions involved in the mediation of cannabis actions - geared to the lay person. Links to a variety of articles on cannabis/Marijuana.Mind Over Matter: The Brain's Response to Methamphetamine - An online magazine series exploring the brain's response to drugs. In this issue, it investigates many facts about the stimulant drug methamphetamine.National Institute on Drug Abuse - Comprehensive web-site with research and treatment reports and news. Includes a site for teachers and students with educational materials. Fact sheets on drug abuse, including the most recent economic costs report.Society for Neuroscience Brain Briefings - For the layperson interested in the science behind addiction: and in the brain in general. Current topics include: Nicotine and the brain, Addictions path, the brains stash, and the opiate receptor.
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