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ADHD Medication in Childhood Does Not Increase Addiction Risk
Taking medication for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) as a child does not increase — or decrease — the risk for later addiction or alcoholism,...
Cure Your Work Addiction. Here’s How
Unless you start delegating tasks you would normally trust only to yourself, you're doomed to keep running in place, headed for burnout.
Viewpoint: We Need to Rethink Rehab
Our current treatment system for addiction is unnavigable, unregulated, and unsuccessful. It needs an overhaul
Are You Happy? You Might Have Hypocretin to Thank
Move over dopamine, there’s a new “pleasure” molecule that could broaden our understanding of the chemistry of joy, laughter, addiction and even anger. As...
U.N. Report Suggests Some Autism & Addiction Treatments Are Akin to Torture
So-called treatments for drug users and the disabled in some places of the world—including the U.S.— are far from helpful, says a new United Nations (U.N.)...
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LIFE in the Middle East: Power and Petroleum in the Gulf in 1945
Oil. A simple word that for much of the 20th century, and well into the 21st, has meant unimaginable wealth for a very few; plentiful and (for a time, at least)...
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Gollum’s Getup: How The Hobbit‘s Groundbreaking Technology Works
At a pivotal point in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit, our hero encounters Gollum, the haggard creature moviegoers will recognize from the director’s The Lord of the...
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National Briefing | Health: Betty Ford Center and Hazelden Seek Business Partnership
With the Affordable Care Act poised to make addiction treatment available to millions of new patients, the groups are pursuing a formal business alliance. ...
Research Hints at New Approach to Addiction
Stimulating a specific part of the brain reduced compulsive cocaine seeking in rats. The finding suggests a potential approach to change addictive behavior. ...
NIH researchers identify pathway that may protect against cocaine addiction
against cocaine addiction.... pleasure, and addiction -- can reduce cocaine-seeking behavior in mice. ...
Well: Getting the Right Addiction Treatment
There are many factors to consider before starting a treatment program for addiction ... An Insider's Guide to Addiction and Recovery,'' William Cope Moyers explains that'' there...
