Drug addicted babies increasing in Boston
… abuse of opiates in Massachusetts. The number of babies born with drugs in their system is increasing rapidly. The drugs causing most of the baby's problems are opiates. … A substance-abuse counselor is located in each obstetrics clinic providing …
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DIY Opioid Antidote Gets Fast FDA Approval
Drug overdoses have become the leading cause of injury in the United States. More people between the … Today the Food and Drug Administration approved a long-awaited emergency drug-overdose treatment that family or community members can easily use to …
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Opioid Auto-Injector Can Help Prevent Overdose Deaths
Whether opioids are used by patients as prescribed by their health care professional or are misused or abused, these drugs have one important thing in common: They can all cause rapid and fatal overdose. FDA, along with other organizations, has been …
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Question by +: Splenda Addiction?
Ive been using the little packets of splenda alot lately now and i think im addicted to them is this good or bad?

Best answer:

Answer by Maddi
i dont think its bad
but i hate spenlda

Answer by mo_rox
I think in between.

Women, Sexual Abuse and Addiction
Dependent measures were obtained at each wave of the study and included questions about lifetime and new assault status, alcohol abuse, and drug use. Wave 1 use of drugs, but not abuse of alcohol, increased odds of new assault in the subsequent 2 …
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Do You Have an Alcohol or Drug Problem?
Alcohol and drug use can progress into abuse and even addiction so insidiously that sometimes people do not realize that it has become a problem for them and those around them. The following self-assessment tests can help you determine whether or not …
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2013 Mini-Stories of Addiction
The aim of this paper is to describe a conceptual framework of questions which an adequate theory of drug addiction must attempt to answer. First, a satisfactory definition of addiction is sought and it is concluded that it is best defined by repeated …
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Symptoms Of Addiction: Could Your Idea Of Fun Be Turning Into A Problem?
But uppers, downers, and other commonly abused substances aren't the only things people are addicted to. In fact, just substitute the word "behaviour" for "substance," and you open up the definition of addiction to all kinds of surprising dependencies.
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Are mentally ill people more likely to smoke, drink and do drugs?
Morphine addiction Smoking, drinking and drug use are significantly higher among those who have psychotic disorders than among those in the general population, says a new paper. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and …
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Stimulating brain cells stops binge drinking, animal study finds
Their work could lead to powerful new ways to treat alcoholism, other addictions, and neurological and mental illnesses; it also helps explain the underlying neurochemical basis of drug addiction. The findings, published in November in Frontiers in …
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South Bay Parenting: Lesson in giving is a valuable gift to 4-year-old
For three months, my 4-year-old is hopped up on toys like a crazed drug addict, salivating over wrapping paper, crawling out of his skin at the sight of plastic Hot Wheels cases. … But if the research bears out, my son wouldn't have issues with it. A …
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Iron Man: Addiction and the Lives We Tell
In certain respects, the addicts' narratives of recovery are similar to the accounts of recovery provided by drug workers and addictions researchers. The paper argues that the correspondence between addicts' own accounts of their recovery and those of …
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Is Ketamine Right for You? Off-Label Prescriptions for Depression Pick Up in …
Gary Stix, a senior editor, commissions, writes, and edits features, news articles and Web blogs for SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN. His area of coverage is neuroscience. He also has frequently been the issue or section editor for special issues or reports on …
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Insight: Research renaissance offers new ways out of depression
The 50 year-old doctor is among growing ranks of people with so-called treatment-resistant depression, and after 21 years fighting a disorder that destroyed her ability to work and at times made her want to "opt out of life", this is a last resort …
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