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'Survivor' Is Most Addictive Show On Television

Are you a "Survivor" junkie? You're not alone. The reality show has been named the most addictive show on television in a recent study measuring the "Emotional Attachment Index (EAI)" of North Americans'...

Are You Suffering from Internet and Compulsive Texting Addiction...?

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Zoos in battle over Knut the polar bear's riches

The world's most famous polar bear, who provoked fierce debates on animal rights, and also appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair, is now involved in another battle, this time over who will get all his money! I'm...

Chinese Kids Lighting 'Em if They Have 'Em - Teen Smoking Rising in China

Nothing says welcome to economicprosperity like the acquisition of bad and self-destructiveenjoyments. For Americans flush with cash during the Reagan years itwas cocaine. And for the Chinese just before the Olympics itsapparently the Marlboro Man."BEIJING, June 2 (UPI) -- A...

Junkie is the worst mum in Britain

" A FURIOUS coroner has branded a junkie mother irresponsible – after her three babies were born addicted to heroin. Stanley Hooper hit out after hearing Michaela Mullen’s daughter Chelsey was killed by a massive heart attack aged three months. Another of her children is...

Report Warns on Serious Mental Problems in Teens Using Pot

Marijuana is one of the world’smost commonly used illegal drugs. There are approximately 300 millionusers worldwide and 28 million users in the United States alone."Now, according to a new White House Office of...

Britons 'love fast food more than Americans'

"America's reputation as the home of fast food is under threat from the British, who are more addicted to burgers, chips and pizza than any other nation in the world. Almost half of all Britons would be unable to...

United Nations investigator, Miloon Kothari October 16, 2007

October 16, 2007 Miloon Kothari, Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing for the United Nations Human Rights Council, met with people in Vancouver, British Columbia. People spoke who have been homeless and people...

B.C. Gangland Slayings: Leaders, Residents want answers

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public Contributor Certainly answers in light of todays shooting on the same spot where two gangsters were gunned down just yesterday.  Answers, with a poignant question...

Lindsay Lohan Speaks: "I Am Addicted To Alcohol And Drugs"

Lindsay Lohan's people isued a press release today where she admits she is addicited to alcohol and drugs. Let's pause a minute. Okay, great."I very much want to be healthy and gain control of my life and career...

Getting Addicted - How Does It Happen?

Whether Alcohol or Drugs, you just found yourself not being able to get along without them. if you ever get to sober, you ask yourself whether you live to drink or you drink to live. You tell yourself you drink to...

Dear Lindsay

It’s time you got clean and we got a life"Hey Lindsay, You don’t know me, but I know you — in fact, thanks to the tabloids and the paparazzi, I know way too much about you. (At least you weren’t drooling...

China Man’s Dog Addicted to Instant Noodles

A Chinese man says his dogs are addicted to instant noodles and go on hunger strike if they don’t get them. Wang Haiying, of Nanjing city, says his four dogs now need to exercise after putting on weight from their diet. He said: “My daughter-in-law’s company gives out...

Williams enters rehab on birthday

"Pop singer Robbie Williams has been admitted into a rehab clinic in the US on his 33rd birthday, to be treated for a dependency on prescription drugs. It is not the first time the British star has entered rehab, having become addicted to drugs and alcohol after he left Take...

The Sleeping Pill, "STILNOX" May NOT Be GOOD For YOU.

""I went on them about three years ago because I was doing shift work . . . I noticed that I would forget where I was when I was awake. "I never said anything to my doctor because I thought the pills were doing what they were supposed to do. "They made me feel good and I just...

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