Hospital-based Internet addiction center to open
"We are focused on a digital diet, similar to treating food addiction, where you can't give up food as the answer no more than you can entirely give up the Internet as the answer," she said. Young developed her own brand of therapy for treating …
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Food addiction: How processed food makes you eat more
More research is needed to examine the relevance of the idea of food addiction and the treatment of eating disorders and obesity. But the fact that a food property may affect addiction centres in the brain, independent of calories or pleasure, provides …
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New group to help alcoholics and drug addicts recover
A NEW group made up of recovering drug addicts and alcoholics has been formed to help NHS bosses shape their treatment. It has been created by patients using the Edward Myers substance abuse unit at the Harplands Hospital in Hartshill. The group will …
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Is food truly addictive?
The 'major' addictions, like alcoholism and drug abuse, stimulate significant amounts of research and are now largely well characterised, but others, like pathological gambling and internet addiction, are much less understood. And then there is food …
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North Carolina Senate OKs drug testing requirement for welfare
An applicant or recipient determined to be addicted to alcohol or drugs must complete a substance abuse treatment program and submit to drug testing, however, to continue qualifying for benefits. Bill supporters said the state should go a step further …
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Suspect freed for rehab
Suspect freed for rehab Save. Jan. 25, 2013, midnight. AN Albury man allegedly involved in a drug syndicate supplying “ice” in the region has been released from custody to attend residential drug rehabilitation in Sydney. … Ms Greenwood imposed a …
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Tonight's Arnaudville meeting canceled
On the other hand, the Bayou Behavioral Health Center has expressed an interest in leasing the facility for a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center. The hospital board, which remains in place even though the hospital is no more, had called tonight's …
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Life in the age of internet addiction
"Internet addiction is the same as any other addiction — excessive release of dopamine," says Hilarie Cash, executive director of the reStart program for internet addiction and recovery, a Seattle-area rehab program that helps wean people off the …
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