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Psychiatrists Have New Term for Compulsive Gambling: Behavioral Addiction

Psychiatrists Have New Term for Compulsive Gambling: Behavioral Addiction

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In May psychiatrists will start referring to gambling addiction instead as a behavioral addiction, the first disorder in that newly created category of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), the textbook for psychiatry that's …
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The Painful Truth About Prescriptions

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Editorial: Don't Be Numb to Painkiller Dangers

Editorial: Don't be numb to painkiller dangers

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Legally obtainable painkillers killed more people than heroin and cocaine combined. About half those deaths involved at least one other drug and often alcohol. It's chilling to think about, … For every death, the CDC reports, 10 people are admitted …
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I love Cheetos! Am I addicted?

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Study's Recruitment Efforts Highlight the Challenges Facing Researchers in

Study's recruitment efforts highlight the challenges facing researchers in

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He said participants — only six cocaine users were needed — had to abstain from drugs and alcohol for at least two weeks before the brain scans. Their abstinence was verified through blood and urine tests. After the brain scans, the participants were …
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Class comes last on cocaine carousel

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From Sanjay Dutt to Salman Khan — Bollywood's Best Test the Law

From Sanjay Dutt to Salman Khan — Bollywood's best test the law

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From Sanjay Dutt to Salman Khan — Bollywood's best test the law. On screen they … Khan was arrested under the Narotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substance Act, after being caught buying cocaine from a drug dealer in Mumbai on 5 May 2001. AFP. photo …
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'Messiah' loses bid to suppress evidence in drug trial

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Stevie Nicks Opens Up on Cocaine Use and Her Affair With Mick Fleetwood

Stevie Nicks Opens Up On Cocaine Use And Her Affair With Mick Fleetwood

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In a new episode of “Oprah's Master Class,” airing on Sunday, March 24, at 10 p.m. ET on OWN, the singer opens up about her drug addiction, how it led to a reckless affair with bandmate Mick Fleetwood and what years of cocaine use did to her body. In …
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Depeche Mode's Dave Gahan: 'My screaming soul floated above me when I died

Meth Scourge Is Growing

Meth scourge is growing

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The drug in its methamphetamine form was synthesized in 1893. During World War II, both sides used it to fight fatigue and suppress appetite in military personnel. Nowadays, it's only two FDA approved uses are to treat attention deficit hyperactivity …
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Study Pinpoints, Prevents Stress-Induced Drug Relapse in Rats

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Moreover, this new understanding allowed the researchers to prevent relapse to drug seeking in the animal model. When they treated rats that had recovered from cocaine addiction with a chemical that blocks the "kappa opioid receptors" that stress …
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