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Why This Doctor Believes Addictions Start In Childhood
Understanding the root causes of addiction can help us to better treat it.
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How we treat pain currently may contribute to opioid addiction
The pain intensity scale is often used to monitor a person's pain. But focusing too much on pain intensity could be contributing to the opioid epidemic.
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The horrifying way some drug addicts are now getting their fix
“When you have this kind of addiction . . . people will do just about anything to obtain these drugs, and they usually do,” a DEA official said.
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Teen athletes tell how injuries put them on the path to addiction
For some young sports stars, a pain-pill prescription can be the worst medicine.
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Anatomy Of Addiction: How Heroin And Opioids Hijack The Brain
Roughly 2.5 million Americans are addicted to heroin and opioids like Oxycontin. Researchers say addiction takes over the brain's limbic reward system, impairing decision making, judgment and memory.
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Concerns About A.D.H.D. Practices and Amphetamine Addiction
A young man’s suicide highlights issues in the treatment of A.D.H.D., as youths fake symptoms to feed their addictions to potentially dangerous stimulants.
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Are Older Americans at Risk for Alcohol or Drug Addiction?
Rates of alcoholism and painkiller addiction are growing among older adults, and the negative effects can be worse in later life. Are you at risk?
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When insurers deny treatment for drug addiction
In a nation where one American dies every 19 minutes from opioid or heroin overdose, addiction doctors are incensed that insurance companies are making patients wait for medication that can save them.
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How can it be an Addiction?
How can someone be addicted when there is no substance to be addicted to? Why do some people get addicted when so many others don’t?
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How to Use Technology to Fight Addictions
Nowadays, technology can be used to help us battle our everyday (and sometimes destructive) addictions.
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Everything you think you know about addiction is wrong
What really causes addiction -- to everything from cocaine to smart-phones? And how can we overcome it? Johann Hari has seen our current methods fail firsthand, as he has watched loved ones struggle to manage their addictions. He started to wonder why we treat addicts the way we do -- and if there might be a better way. As he shares in this deeply personal talk, his questions took him around the world, and unearthed some surprising and hopeful ways of thinking about…
