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    Social media is as harmful as alcohol and drugs for millennials

    OBSESSIONS CAN’T STOP, WON’T STOP The ultimate distraction. (Unsplash/Jacob Ufkes via CC0) WRITTEN BY Tony Rao   Visiting Lecturer in Old Age Psychiatry, King’s College London [...]

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    THE EPIDEMIC OF ADDICTION TO ELECTRONIC STIMULATION

    Electronic gadgetry and social media have become part of all of our lives. Everyone is “doing it” to some degree or another. I believe we all benefit from being conscious and cautious about [...]

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    My Journey from Being a Heroin Addict to Sober Fitness Instructor

    In many ways, from the outside perspective, my life looked perfect. I had a beautiful family, I went to a private girls school and I was really sporty. But I was the youngest of three girls. My [...]

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    Moderate alcohol consumption linked to brain decline

    By Catharine Paddock PhDPublished Wednesday 7 June 2017 718 The results of a new study have shown that even moderate alcohol intake can have a negative impact on cognitive health. A new study [...]

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    Heroin vaccine comes a step closer to human use!

    The vaccine has effectively stopped monkeys from feeling the effects of heroin (Credit: fotomaximum/Depositphotos) While it may not be possible to cure actual heroin addiction via a simple [...]

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    Posted June 9, 2017

    Animal therapy with dogs or horses may offer those with substance abuse disorder better relapse resistance, improved detox and faster recovery.

    According to partners of Foundations Recovery Network, pet or animal therapy for treating mental health disorders in substance abusers may make avoiding relapse a lot easier for sufferers of [...]

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    Adult Children of Alcoholics: Healing Lifelong Scars

    ACOAs are 3-4 times more likely than non-ACOAs to select partners who are alcoholic. It is estimated that there are 28.6 million children of alcoholics (COAs) in the United States, with more than [...]

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    The Addicts Next Door – New York Time

    Following is an article published by the New York Times that we thought might be of interest in case you did not get a chance to read it. Michael Barrett and Jenna Mulligan, emergency paramedics [...]

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    Kurt Angle’s Struggle to Overcome an Opioid Addiction

    May 2017 | By: Patricia Rosen Kurt Angle is more than one of the greatest Professional Wrestlers of all time. He’s a living Legend. And for the past four years, he’s been in recovery for opioid [...]

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    When you come to a fork in the road, take it.

    A quite smart, talented and successful 35-year-old woman had a fear of elevators, so she avoided them although she recognized that her fear was irrational. After learning to lower her anxiety [...]

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