Showing posts with label addictive. Show all posts
Showing posts with label addictive. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 25, 2007

A View From the Other Side: What Disease?

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A psychiatrist takes issue with the semantics of addictive disease in SLATE . See "Medical Misnomer: Addiction isn't a brain diseas...
Friday, July 20, 2007

Food Addiction

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Carbohydrates on the Brain, Food Rehab in the Future Earlier this month, Yale University hosted the first-ever conference on Food and Addict...
Tuesday, July 10, 2007

European Tree Yields New Alcoholism Treatment in Early Tests

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Anti-Smoking Drug Also Curbs Alcohol Craving A drug approved last year for smoking cessation has also shown promise for use against alcoholi...
Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Fearing Medicine

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By Dirk Hanson Have Americans become afraid of their doctors? Once upon a time, Americans went to their doctors to get pills. Doctors compla...
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Tuesday, June 26, 2007

New World Nicotine: A Brief History

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“Drinking the Smoke” The prototypically North American contribution to the world drug trade has always been tobacco. Tobacco pipes have been...
Thursday, June 21, 2007

Drug Rehab in China

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After two years of a nationwide “people’s war” against drug addiction in China, government authorities are claiming major accomplishments—b...
Sunday, May 13, 2007

Is Marijuana Addictive?

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The argument continues. For more, see Marijuana Withdrawal . See also Marijuana Withdrawal Revisited Marijuana may not be a life-threatening...
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Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Vaccinating Against Vices

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Developing a pill or a vaccine for a specific drug addiction has long been one of the tantalizing potential rewards of addiction research. N...
Friday, January 26, 2007

New Drug For Smokers

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First there was Wellbutrin, an antidepressant which helped cut down on the cravings and nicotine withdrawal symptoms for many addicted smoke...
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