Archive for ‘addiction’ tag
Study: junk food as addictive as drugs
A new study has found that an addiction to junk food can be compared to that of drugs like cocaine.
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Healthcare for addicts?
Recently, Claire Murray, a former drug addict and dying young mother, was refused a place on the transplant waiting list after her initial liver transplant failed when she resumed her drug habit last year. Is this fair?
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Nature v nurture?
No doubt many of us have come across a friend who claims to have an 'addictive' personality type or thought of addiction as the result of the pharmacology of drugs acting on the individual. But how many of us truly believe it?
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Addiction Predilection?
Why is it that some people get addicted to drugs, and others never do? Is it the sort of thing you can predict – about another person, about yourself – before you even start?
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Elton John helping Eminem to kick drugs
Following on from a hit duet of Stan at the Grammys a few years back, Elton John says he is now helping Eminem kick drugs.
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