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My Addiction News
April 9th, 2008
Research in Motion’s BlackBerry has become so essential to users that it has earned the nickname ‘CrackBerry’, reflecting a trend among users that researchers at the University of Northampton […] Continue Reading…
March 30th, 2008
Ritalin (methylphenidate), the widely distributed drug to treat ADHD and ADD, triggers similar pathways as cocaine in the human brain when abused in high dosages, according to Margaret Dykeman, […] Continue Reading…
March 23rd, 2008
A number of government-sponsored pilot programs using the ancient Chinese practice of acupuncture to help treat addicts are underway in US counties from California to Florida. In and […] Continue Reading…
March 19th, 2008
On March 17, 2008 cable network A&E premiered an episode of the one-hour documentary “Intervention”, profiling 34-year-old entrepreneur, cancer survivor, and sever alcoholic Lawrence Ryan. At the end […] Continue Reading…
March 17th, 2008
According to an editorial in this month’s issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry written by Dr. Jerald Block, a psychiatrist at the Oregon Health and Science University in […] Continue Reading…
March 14th, 2008
In an op-ed piece for Forbes, Dr. Patrick Bordeaux, a member of the American Society of Addiction Medicine and of the Academy of Addiction Psychiatry, wrote that the recent […] Continue Reading…
March 10th, 2008
The latest trend among some Australians to end their smoking habit involves laser therapy, but experts are crying foul.
Laser therapy is a thirty-minute procedure that involves a low-level laser […] Continue Reading…
March 8th, 2008
The United Nation’s International Narcotics Control Board issued its annual report this week saying that some harm-reduction programs in Canada violate international drug-control treaties and should be shut down. […] Continue Reading…
February 26th, 2008
The ugly reality for many US marriages was virtually unthinkable just twenty years ago.
Divorces due to online activities of one spouse such as viewing pornography, joining virtual worlds, and […] Continue Reading…
February 17th, 2008
Looking at a handful of major studies carried out by a Harvard-led team of researchers, a study published in the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry found that, contrary to most […] Continue Reading…
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