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Fortnite may be a free video game, but it’s already earned $1 billion this year, as well as a cult following. USA TODAY Roughly a quarter of a billion mostly obsessed gamers are battling it [...]

Sitting cross-legged on a blanket in his Soho apartment, Barrett Pall inhaled toad-venom smoke through a glass stem pipe. Thirty seconds later, he was crying. “I was crying really hard, yelling [...]

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer called cannabis “a threshold drug that leads to the use of harder, very harmful drugs.” By Alex Norcia Aug 29 2019, 8:21am ShareTweet STENY HOYER IN [...]

Emily Pond Overeating during childhood was associated with increased risk for binge eating and binge eating disorder at age 16 years. Research data published in the British Journal of [...]

There’s been a dramatic uptick in self-poisonings. By Brian Resnick@B_resnickbrian@vox.com  Oct 7, 2019, 6:00am EDT In May, the journal Pediatrics published some alarming data: In the past [...]

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration have issued joint warning letters to four online networks, operating a total of 10 websites, illegally marketing [...]

Hundreds more people in the U.S. have been sickened by a mysterious vaping-related lung disease, and the death toll has risen to 18, according to federal health data released Thursday. The [...]

By Beverly A. Buncher, MA, PCC, CBC, CTPC September 30, 2019 Have you ever seen the X-Men character Wolverine where claws magically emerge from his knuckles when he needs them and then go back in [...]

By Terence T. Gorski  Depression is a serious problem that leads to relapse for many recovering people. The book, Depression and Relapse, helps people understand how similar tools can be used to [...]

Dr. Asa Don Brown, Ph.D., C.C.C., D.N.C.C.M., F.A.A.E.T.S. October 1, 2019 As a first responder and psychologist, I have been in the midst of some of the most horrific and unimaginable scenes. [...]