Drug Addicts Beaten To Reduce Their Cravings In Siberia
A gang in Yekaterinburg, Russian allegedly handcuffed drug addicts to beds to wean them off drugs, according to the paper. Other psychiatric treatments can seem counterintuitive as well. Just last November, The New York Times reported that research …
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How some criminals get legal firearms
The death of a teenager "was not something that James ever considered when he sold the firearm," his attorney, Assistant Federal Public Defender Mark Hosken, wrote in court papers. "Today, that event is something James … Stolen guns are also commonly …
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Drug Addicts Beaten To Reduce Their Cravings In Siberia
A gang in Yekaterinburg, Russian allegedly handcuffed drug addicts to beds to wean them off drugs, according to the paper. Other psychiatric treatments can seem counterintuitive as well. Just last November, The New York Times reported that research …
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Breakthrough: Research delves into link between drug use, decision-making
Description: An area of the brain known as the orbitofrontal cortex, already thought to be key in decision-making, is now considered responsible for spur-of-the-moment choices but not for those based on habits, according to recently published research.
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My 1000-mile walk back to happiness: How author Cheryl Strayed got her life …
… has been richly rewarded. Wild is a New York Times number-one bestseller in the US, was the volume with which Oprah Winfrey chose to relaunch her unfeasibly influential book club, and it's about to be published in the UK. … The marriage was …
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Michael Barrymore is dead – or so says Michael Barrymore: Shamed comic kills …
In an interview with The Independent, Barrymore said: 'Nobody's written a book on how to handle fame, or the downside of it. We loved each other. I loved her, and she loved me too much.' After the break-up, he descended into a public spiral of drink …
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Police: Lowell bank robber had cab waiting
LOWELL — A Lowell man with a five-page criminal record allegedly admitted to police he took a cab to and from robbing the Lowell Five Cent Savings Bank on Wood Street Thursday to get cash to feed his heroin addiction. In Lowell District Court on …
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