West Salem Student's Forum Highlights Danger of Heroin
West Salem student's forum highlights danger of heroin
WEST SALEM — Drug addiction isn’t just a community problem for Carly Davis, though she’s noticed it’s become more prevalent in her rural hometown.
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HELP ME!! Anxiety – Panic Sufferer… PLEASE I’m So Lost and Sad?
Question by fun11: HELP ME!! Anxiety – Panic sufferer… PLEASE I’m so lost and sad?
Hello,
I am a 30 year old female in good health. No other problems beside anxiety. I do not drink, smoke, do drugs or drink caffeine. I currently do acupuncture.
When I was 17 I… Continue reading
Hunger and Drug Addiction Share Similar Neural Mechanism
Hunger and Drug Addiction Share Similar Neural Mechanism
The findings lend additional credence to a hypothesis arguing that food and drug addiction are not that different after all, at least as far as the chemistry of the brain is concerned. Details of the new study appear in the February 9… Continue reading
Prescription Drug Abuse Task Force Makes Progress
Prescription drug abuse task force makes progress
Enough hydrocodone was prescribed in 2010 to keep everyone in the U.S. medicated around-the-clock for 30 days. In late December, the Indiana Attorney General's Prescription Drug Abuse Task Force made efforts to tackle the prescription drug abuse …
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My Conversation With Jamie Lee Curtis: Drug Addiction in America – Huffington Post
My Conversation With Jamie Lee Curtis: Drug Addiction in America – Huffington Post
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My Conversation With Jamie Lee Curtis: Drug Addiction in America Huffington Post Tonight on PBS, I have an open and transparent conversation with award-winning actress and best-selling children's author Jamie Lee Curtis. The star candidly discusses her… Continue reading |
Doc: My State in Addiction Stranglehold
Doc: My state in addiction stranglehold
That same data indicated we had one of the highest rates of prescription drug addiction among adolescents and young adults in the country. We still do. It's only been recently that the rest of the country has awakened to this crisis. In 2011, the… Continue reading
Hunger and Drug Addiction Share Similar Neural Mechanism
Hunger and Drug Addiction Share Similar Neural Mechanism
Scientists with the Universite de Bordeaux in France discovered in a new study that food and marijuana cravings share the same neural mechanism in the human brain. The team found that the same receptors light up in mice when they are deprived… Continue reading
Philip Seymour Hoffman's Death Highlights Heroin Addiction in US
Philip Seymour Hoffman's death highlights heroin addiction in US
His loss marks the latest celebrity death in recent years linked to drugs. Cory Monteith, star of "Glee," also died of a heroin overdose, and Heath Ledger died in 2008 of prescription drug abuse — including opiate painkillers. Yet, the problem… Continue reading
Hunger and Drug Addiction Share Similar Neural Mechanism
Hunger and Drug Addiction Share Similar Neural Mechanism
Scientists with the Universite de Bordeaux in France discovered in a new study that food and marijuana cravings share the same neural mechanism in the human brain. The team found that the same receptors light up in mice when they are deprived… Continue reading
It Is a Disease and Needs to Be Treated as Such
It Is a Disease and Needs to Be Treated as Such
Finally, there are effective medications that treat drug addiction by blocking the rewarding effects of drugs and decreasing drug cravings. Let’s examine each of these. A recent study of heroin addicts found that at the end of one year… Continue reading