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J&J Hit With $8 Billion Jury Award Over Antipsychotic Drug
A Philadelphia jury ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $8 billion in damages to a man who said his use of J&J’s antipsychotic Risperdal caused enlarged breasts.
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Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay $572M for fuelling Oklahoma's opioid crisis
An Oklahoma judge has found Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiaries helped fuel the state's opioid drug crisis and ordered the consumer products giant to pay $572 million US to help address the problem.
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What You Need to Know About Obsessive Compulsive Disorder - MentalWealth
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More Kids Are Getting Placed In Foster Care Because Of Parents' Drug Use
With drug use surging in the past decade and a half, many parents are losing custody of their kids. But is foster care the best solution?
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10 Things You Need to Know if You're the Parent of an Addict
If you have a son, daughter or other family member who is an addiction. You'r in good company. We do too. Here are ten things we've learned.
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Your Kids Think You’re Addicted to Your Phone
The kids are all right. But the parents? Since 2016, adults have grown much more concerned about the time they spend on mobile devices even as their teenage children have grown far less worried about their own use, according to a new report from Common Sense Media, a nonprofit children’s advocacy and media ratings organization.
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World Health Organisation makes 'gaming disorder' a recognised illness
The 194 members of the World Health Organisation have recognised 'gaming disorder' as an illness at the 72nd World Health Assembly today. The WHO finalised the eleventh revision of its International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-11) in June last year, which included gaming disorder. The disorder is described as: 'a pattern of behaviour characterised by impaired control over gaming, increasing priority given to gaming over...
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As nation struggles with opioid crisis, workers bring addiction to the job
A new survey found that 23 percent of respondents have used drugs or alcohol on the job.
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Pharmaceutical abuse sent more than 350,000 people to the ER in 2016
The misuse of prescription drugs and over-the-counter medications resulted in an estimated 358,000 trips to U.S. emergency departments in 2016 — and almost half of those cases involved young people ages 15 to 34, according to a new study based on a national public health surveillance system.
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Opioid crisis shows partnering with industry can be bad for public health
“Show me the bodies!” someone demanded at the end of my lecture a few years ago. As a scholar of public health ethics, law and policy, I had just warned an audience of professors and university administrators about the perils of partnering with, or taking money from, corporations – a common practice in public health research and policymaking.
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Pizza and chocolate can be just as addicting as drugs and alcohol, study suggests
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This Podcast Gives You the Straight Dope About Drugs
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Debate Over Gaming Disorder Is Not All Fun and Games
The World Health Organization (WHO) received a lot of attention recently for adding a new and controversial diagnosis called gaming disorder to the latest revision of its global diagnostic system, the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11). Gaming disorder, a diagnosis for individuals who excessively play video games, is now included in the substance use and addictive behavior disorders section of the manual. However, gamers and the gaming industry have strongly objected to this new disorder and have asked WHO to reconsider including gaming disorder in ICD-11.
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Family behind OxyContin maker engineered opioid crisis, Massachusetts AG says
In a lawsuit, the state targets eight members of the Sackler family.
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Fentanyl Surpasses Heroin As Drug Most Often Involved In Deadly Overdoses
Fentanyl is now the drug most frequently involved in overdose deaths in the U.S., according to a National Vital Statistics System report published Wednesday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The report sheds a bright light on the changing nature of America's drug landscape — and the devastating number of overdose deaths that have occurred in the U.S. in recent years.
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The Unsettling Psychology of an Amazon Prime Addiction
We are all in the throes of an Amazon addiction, but some of us are in deep. Some 71 percent of Americans are Amazon Prime...
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Fears About Kratom Use During Pregnancy Are Overblown
Like people in general, pregnant people use non-prescribed drugs for many reasons. Opioids and stimulants are increasingly popular, as well ...
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South Koreans lock themselves up to escape prison of daily life
For most people, prison is a place to escape from. For South Koreans in need of a break from the demands of everyday life, a day in a faux jail is the escape.
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