Stress Awareness and Cancer – Tips for Coping with a Diagnosis and Treatments
Consider asking physicians the following questions to help find the best treatment or combination of treatments for your situation. … Get help scheduling treatments: Many cancer centers have social workers who help cancer patients deal with their stress.
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Freeze the fat off!
After the initial treatment cycle is complete, you can attain further reductions with additional procedures. Here at The Martin Center we will discuss and design a plan that suits you best. As with all medical treatments it is important to remember …
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Karmanos Cancer Institute offers lung cancer screening program
Devin: NOW TO "GOOD HEALTH": CATCHING LUNG CANCER EARLIER IS THE BEST WAY TO BEAT THE DISEASE. Ruth: WHO SHOULD BE … FOR FORMER AND CURRENT SMOKERS, SCREENING CAN OFFER PEACE OF MIND OR A HEAD START ON TREATMENT AND IT'S A MESSAGE THAT ONE LOCAL …
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Elizabeth Furse, Washington County commissioner candidate, talks about Gain …
The question: What would be the best use of Gain Share funds? What the candidate has to say: Furse sees Gain Share as a means to replace social services that the county lost by offering tax abatements to corporations. She wants to invest the funds in …
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Understanding Lung Cancer
Yuma, Arizona (NAPSI) – While global lung cancer rates are going down, the condition is still the leading cause of cancer death in theUnited States. Fortunately, there are steps you can take to protect yourself and your family. The Problem. Like all …
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Jewish perspectives to illumine ICS conference on mental illness
He edited the National Center for Jewish Healing's first book, “Healing of Soul, Healing of Body” and is the author of “Guide Me Along the Way: A Jewish Spiritual Companion for Surgery.” Mental health treatment in Judaism revolves around two axes …
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Roche Suffers Cancer Treatment Setback
Basel-based Roche said a phase III study of onartuzumab, a drug developed to control certain types of non-small cell lung cancer, lacked "clinically meaningful efficacy." The study was designed to measure whether onartuzumab, used with the oral drug …
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Brentiximab Vedotin removes cancer patient's 70 lethal tumours in 12 weeks
Scans of Mr Brook's body before and after treatment. The left shows him riddled with 60-70 tumours from Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma. The right scan is 12 weeks after he became the first person outside the U.S. to have a pioneering cancer drug. The black …
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Scutari's Bill Drop Imminent and a Gazillion Marijuana Myths
Won't be long before Senator Nick Scutari drops a bill to legalize marijuana for adult recreational use in NJ. I'm guessing his marijuana legalization bill hits the hopper on (or about) March 25th. For folks like me working to end marijuana prohibition …
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Alcohol, marijuana and American youth, Part 2
But not always apparent is the fact that compared to cigarette smoking, marijuana smoking increases by fourfold the concentration of tar chemicals from joints that cause lung cancer, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Studies also …
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Medical Marijuana and Halacha
Few in either the halachic world or l'havdil the medical world would argue that if the chemical components of marijuana (THC) were used in medicines that followed the normal way in which medicines are approved, then its use might be recommended and …
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Question by eyedocwood: Internet Addiction?
Wondering if anyone has any experience treating internet addiction and if so what methods were used. Are SSRI’s often used for this type of behavior?

Best answer:

Answer by Pam Ragland
Dear “Eyedocwood”,
Internet addiction is one of the fastest growing addictions today, because it is so available. I have experience with addictions of all kinds. I include Internet Addiction in my book “The 7 Whys of Addiction: The Hidden Secrets that Cause Addiction and The 3 Keys to Finally Be Free of Them”, because it is so prevalent today.

It helps to understand how addictions happen to understand this addiction & how to treat it. First, all addictions are an avoidance mechanism.

They can start out harmless enough. What happens with any addiction, internet included, is it starts as a simple habit. It may be the habit of surfing the internet or playing games at night for example. Then, when it is truly an addiction, it progresses & has a greater impact on your life. I created a scale to explain this (in my book) I call “ACS” or the “Addiction Continuum Scale” because every addiction is a progression. It starts out as a simple habit and progressess over time.

How quickly it progresses into something more harmful to you depends on why you have the addiction in the first place and how aware you are of the process.

SSRI’s shift the neuro transmitters in your brain. These are your brain’s reward centers… So, from that perspective IF you are feeling pain you then avoid with your addiction, you may feel better.

However, these do nothing to determine the reason you are avoiding in the first place. They are a patch, and will never cure an addiction. This is like treating your cough with cough medicine when you have lung cancer. It treats the symptom not the cause. In fact, sometimes they are like putting a lid on a volcano which later explodes. I know those who love prescription drugs as a treatment won’t agree with me, but this is what I have observed.

I recommend getting rid of the triggers, and changing your habits. I talk about this more in a free report, and my book. Both are available in the source list if you would like more information.

Make no mistake, any addiction gone untreated will get worse. It is simply a matter of how fast.

Warmly,
Pam Ragland

Alcohol vs. Marijuana (Part 1)
It suffices to say here that justifying the use of one drug because it's not so dangerous as another drug is weak reasoning in any book and bad grounds for justifying usage of either of them. And such a statement coming from a sitting president of the …
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Disagreement as NACADA opts to wait for audit
NAIROBI Kenya, Jan 31 – The National Authority for the Campaign Against Alcohol and Drug Abuse (NACADA) board has resolved to allow auditing by the Treasury to continue while officers implicated in corruption allegations stay in office. The board …
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Meet the Anti-Pot Activists
Correlations between her students' performance (“they weren't focusing”) and their apparent use of the drug ("they were probably smoking pot") concerned Lowe. But it wasn't until …. The book is closed on that one,” he told The Daily Beast. It's …
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Question by fancychancie: How to get my brother to stop smoking pot and start going to school?
I am 22, my sister is 20, my little brother (star of this discussion) is 15, my dad is 54. My little brother is a major pot smoker and it has ruined his 1st year of high school cause he is ALWAYS ditching to go smoke. My dad has given him drug tests and he will fail them, so my dad will take away his Xbox, phone, allowance basically everything he enjoys. NONE of this seems to phase him, he’s still ditching, smoking, getting all Fs. We have talked with the school counselor multiple times and each time it ends in something along these lines “Well, he is on my list, but keeping him in school and not smoking isn’t my job.” He DOES NOT want to help, my dad has to work to support us so he can’t follow him around all day and make sure my brother is attending. My dad is at his wits end, any more suggestions that will help us get a grasp on this kid again will be much appreciated!
Thanks

Best answer:

Answer by vatsalya
Is he a human? He doesnt wanna help, study, work. Let him smoke, he’ll die someday you take his xbox and enjoy. Or take a fake lung cancer test and say that he has lung cancer and is gonna die after 4 months and cant be saved now.

Answer by cr
You could try giving him back his Xbox or phone, etc. or try to find something that he will enjoy more than smoking pot. If he finds a new hobby, game, friend (who is a good influence) or whatever, he may be more interested in the game and possibly smoke less and less. As for him ditching school, I don’t know, sorry. Hope my advice may have helped at all though.

Heroin addicts ' told to leave hospital'
Kimberley – The Northern Cape Department of Health's commitment to assisting drug-addicts with rehabilitation has come under fire after two heroin users were told to leave Kimberley Hospital, shortly after admitting themselves in an attempt to come …
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Films explore consequences of technological advances
Valarie Veatch said she first heard about the South Korean couple in 2010 from news reports about their trial, where their attorney successfully made a case that their clients suffered from an addiction to Internet gaming, akin to alcohol, drug or …
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Founder of Recover Wyoming shares her walk with addiction
She lost jobs. She collected DUIs. She was kicked out of family functions. And at one point, her sister even planned her funeral. But experiencing those lowest of lows, and rising above them, later inspired her to found Recover Wyoming and lead other …
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