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Health & Wellness News tagged with addiction

Scientists Claim Junk Food Is as Addictive as Heroin
Health & Wellness  (tags: junk, food, heroin, addiction, drugs, obesity, health, healthcare, humans, research, warning, risks, illness, science, study, medicine, prevention, interesting, disease, diet, investigation, society, government, children, nutrition, family )

Tom
- 22 days ago - grist.org
Junk food elicits addictive behavior in rats similar to the behaviors of rats addicted to heroin, a new study finds. "This is the most complete evidence to date that suggests obesity and drug addiction have common neurobiological underpinnings."
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Internet Addiction Center Opens in US
Health & Wellness  (tags: internet, addiction, video games, obsession, OCD, computer )

Raffi
- 78 days ago - breitbart.com
Ben Alexander spent nearly every waking minute playing the video game "World of Warcraft." As a result, he flunked out of the University of Iowa. Alexander, 19, needed help to break an addiction he calls as destructive as alcohol or drugs.
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Synthetic Derivative Of Kudzu Vine Can Reduce Drinking And Prevent Relapse
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, disease, addiction, alcohol, Relapse, alcoholism, treatment, AlternativeMed, medicine, prevention, research, study, science )

Dee
- 102 days ago - sciencedaily.com
ScienceDaily (Aug. 13, 2009) -- Kudzu and its extracts and flowers have been used in traditional Chinese folk medicine to treat alcoholism for about 1,000 years. Kudzu contains daidzin, an anti-drinking substance.
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Problem Drinking 'Hits Over-60s'
Health & Wellness  (tags: Health, drinking, Elderly, alcohol, medicine, drug interactions, addiction, depression, stress, warning, risks, prevention, Body-Mind-Spirit, study )

Dee
- 131 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Alcohol misuse in people aged over 60 is becoming a widespread problem, research suggests.
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INTER-TRIBAL WELLNESS CENTER (ITWC): A Holistic Resolution for a Comprehensive Problem
Health & Wellness  (tags: Indians, American Indians, Native Americans, Health & Wellness, Addiction, Alcoholism, Recovery, Substane Abuse, culture, society, ethics, rights, humans, interesting, freedoms, disease, illness, medicine, treatment )

Kat
- 158 days ago - mtwytlc.com
The potential that is offered by this facility seems endless. The property includes 638 acres of both hilly and level pasture land. A river runs through the property and sweat lodges have been built on its banks. There are high points/ledges, private...
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Flipping The Brain's Addiction Switch Without Drugs
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, Addiction, brain, drugs, alcohol, nicotine, research, study, prevention, treatment )

Dee
- 179 days ago - sciencedaily.com
ScienceDaily (May 29, 2009)-When someone becomes dependent on drugs or alcohol, the brain's pleasure center gets hijacked, disrupting the normal functioning of its reward circuitry.
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Confessions of a Sleeping-Pill Junkie
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, addiction, sleeping pills, illness )

Brian
- 616 days ago - today.msnbc.msn.com
I was often awake for 48 hours straight. During those endless stretches of time, I watched TV, called friends in California, whimpered, wept, beat my pillow, flipped through tabloids and surfed the Internet. I didn't write, though I am a writer.
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Embracing a Life Without Meth
Health & Wellness  (tags: drugs, addiction )


- 617 days ago - seattletimes.nwsource.com
This young woman is proof that you CAN beat addiction.
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Cheese Has a Little Known Secret: Consumers Beware
Health & Wellness  (tags: diet, cheese, opiates, morphine, addiction, Addicts and Addiction, vegan )

Linda
- 636 days ago - gomestic.com
Most never know that they are addicted; people figure that they just like it. It is deeply disturbing to a cheese loving consumer that there are small amounts of addictive opiates involved in one of America's favorite foods.
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Your Doctor, Your Dealer: Legal Drug Craze Is New Killer
Health & Wellness  (tags: drugs, addiction, prescriptions, pain killers, antidepressants, sleeping pills, doctors, medicine, pharmacies )

Blue
- 652 days ago - guardian.co.uk
More Americans fall to prescriptions than street drugs, research shows.
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Smoking Marijuana Mental Disorder - Psychology With Sandy   video
Health & Wellness  (tags: marijuana, pot, drugs, psychology, psychiatry, dsm, apa, cannabis, mental, health, disorder, illness, addiction, stoned, high, 420 )

Gregory
- 669 days ago - youtube.com
ABSURD: According to the American Psychiatric Associations, Cannabis (Marijuana) intoxication is an official mental disorder listed in the DSM or Diagnostic and Statistic Manual of Mental Disorders.
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Scientists Develop Vaccine That 'Could Cure Cocaine Addiction' | the Daily Mail
Health & Wellness  (tags: usa, coccaine, addiction, vaccine, medication, addicts )

Chrissy
- 690 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
Two US researchers are developing a vaccine that they hope will help cure addiction to cocaine. The scientists, from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, hope the vaccine will become the first-ever medication to treat people hooked on the drug.
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Addicts Helped By Ancient Arts
Health & Wellness  (tags: addiction, alcohol, AlternativeMed, drugs, treatment )

Dagmar
- 715 days ago - buddhistchannel.tv
A PIONEERING scheme to tackle alcoholism and drug addiction in Islington using 1,000-year-old Buddhist meditation techniques has been hailed as a success.
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Kids Who Drink at a Young Age Are More Likely to Abuse as Adults
Health & Wellness  (tags: risks, children, binge drinking, addiction, alcohol abuse )


- 736 days ago - nydailynews.com
Kids drink for many of the same reasons adults do, say experts - to fit in, relax and increase their chances of 'hooking up.'
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Research Paves Path for Painkillers Without Addiction
Health & Wellness  (tags: painkillers, addiction, research, study, prevention, risks, treatment, illness, disease, abuse, death, doctors, drugs, ethics, health, healthcare, humans, interesting, medicine, protection, toxins, safety )

Barb
- 815 days ago - treatmentonline.com
Earlier this week we broke down the possible reasons for rising painkiller use in America, but we glossed over one fundamental reason because it is so obvious and seemingly unchangeable--painkillers both dull pain and trigger addiction. ....
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