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Cocaine Vaccine Can Stop Addiction

A british pharmaceutical company, Xenova, has developed a vaccine that could help cocaine addicts break their addiction. The vaccine, TA-CD, blocks the body from absorbing cocaine into the brain, and therefore does not produce a high. The scientists who developed the vaccine...

Alcoholic Celebrities Who Have Undergone Rehab

There are literally countless well known, even well loved celebrities, who are very much in the public eye, who have undergone an alcohol rehab program. While some have managed to kick the habit successfully with their alcohol addiction rehab, others have gone on to relapse,...

Clinic for internet addicts opens in US

" If you have to take a quick break from reading this article to check your Blackberry, send a text or reboot your Xbox 360 before you reach the end of this paragraph, then the good news is that help is at...

China Internet addict beaten to death in rehab

A sixteen-year-old Chiness teen, Deng Senshan was beaten to death during a treatment for internet addiction.  Three supervisors, who allegedly beat the boy were arrested, and the case is still under...

Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired - Addiction can be Treated

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Meth Rats

In this episode, Lester and Charlie open their hearts to the forgotten soldiers in the war against drugs - Meth Rats

Seroxat / Paxil antidepressant – addiction is real.

Can your Doctor differentiate between you as a patient being unhappy through circumstances as to your life events from physical degradation of your mind; from chemical imbalance caused by reactions by other medications, from chemicals in foods/beverages, from chemicals in the...

Psychologists: Gaming is not an official addiction

Video games and addiction seem to be the buzzwords of late 2008 and early 2009 ; with an abundance of news stories plastered online and offline.  The real question is, should excessive gaming be legally considered an addiction like gambling and alcoholism? To start, the...

Treat Addiction as a Disease, MDs tell Victoria BC Government.

Barry Artiste Op/Ed Wow! It appears some Doctors seem to be so unclear on the concept of the meaning of the term "Disease"!  I have so many problems with this Leftard Crap by these Medical Wonks!  The...

Judge rules that smoker's death was from addiction to cigarettes

A jury in Florida ruled earlier today that a man who died of lung cancer in 1997 at the age of 55, died from his addiction to cigarettes - this could be a major setback for the cigarette company Philip Morris as this...

The Palestinian Addiction

At Contentions, Bill Siegel has an excellent analysis in which he compares the 'Palestinians' to alcoholics or drug addicts. The entire concept of a “peace process” is, perhaps, the enabler’s most seductive tool. Peace does not require a process. When peace or the...

Vancouver Injection Clinics - An Enlightened Alternative to Incarceration ?

According to Miller-McCune magazine, Vancouver, BC, is the only city in North America with the political will to at least study alternative approaches to dealing with the seemingly intractible social issues of...

Straight Talk about Harm Reduction: An Open Letter to Margaret Wente

The following was written by Dr Bruce Alexander and presented as a keynote address to a meeting of the Four Pillars Coalition on 3 October 2008 at the Segal Centre in Vancouver. It is a response to a series of...

Unhappy people watch more TV

What makes human beings happy? In an effort to give more insight to the question, studies have been done to measure the levels of activities of happy and unhappy people. So far, they've found that unhappy folks...

U.S retired Judge abuses power, sentencing 23 yr old to over a century in pri...

Judge Joseph E. Spruill Jr. of Fredericksburg, VA. sentenced a 23 year old man to over a century behind bars! Spruill sentenced Kiser to 120 years for robbing a pharmacy of prescription medication. Kiser was...

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