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Woman in Fatal Crash Killing Toddler Tested Positive for Cocaine, Methadone

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It’s so sad that horrible things must happen before some people get a clue — DRUGS KILL. And if you’re stupid enough to get behind the wheel of a car while on drugs or alcohol, you might kill someone else — even your own child. Could you live with yourself?

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Police: NM woman in crash that killed 3-year-old son had cocaine, methadone in

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Cocaine Addiction: Munchies Addictive Like Drugs

If you ever feel like you just can’t live without your favorite munchies, you may be experiencing the same addictive influences as cocaine and other hard drugs. Checkout what the Yale University researchers are finding…

Food cops target munchies

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But just in time to ruin the beginning of some good holiday cheer, America’s food police have an ominous warning: Our favorite munchies may be addictive like cocaine and other hard drugs. Yale University academics have proposed a new “food addiction” …
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Cocaine Effects: Freud, Halstead Virtually Destroyed by Cocaine Abuse

Cocaine Effects: Sigmund Freud

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Cocaine users frequently justify their abuse of the drug by referring to cocaine use and experimentation by Sigmund Freud, recognized as the father of psychoanalysis. Thing is, they usually don’t know the full story.

Cocaine addiction nearly destroyed Freud, according to medical historian Dr. Howard Markel, in his book “An Anatomy of Addiction”.

Another “medical revolutionary”  from the last century, William Halstead, also faced the same fate. Halstead isn’t as well-known as Freud, but he is considered the father of modern sugary.

How comforting is that thought — a coke addict doing surgery? Hmmmm…