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Google’s Plan To Make Tech Less Addictive
Just don’t quit entirely, okay?
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Children of the Opioid Epidemic
In the midst of a national crisis, mothers addicted to drugs struggle to get off them — for their babies’ sake, and their own.
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Your Coffee Addiction, by Decade
By your early forties, the best part about going to bed is imagining the coffee you’re going to drink in the morning.
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Why America’s cocaine problem is now a fentanyl problem too
Synthetic opioids and cocaine are together linked to more overdose deaths. There are some theories for why.
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Amid the opioid epidemic, white means victim, black means addict
America’s social hierarchies rule everything – even the opioid epidemic. You don’t have to dig deep to find the hypocrisy and insult to people of color.
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How Can Science Combat the Opioid Crisis?
What opioid addiction treatments are more effective and can we vaccinate against addiction?
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You’re Addicted to Your Smartphone. This Company Thinks It Can Change That
Boundless Mind is here to disrupt the addiction
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Many People Taking Antidepressants Discover They Cannot Quit
Victoria Toline would hunch over the kitchen table, steady her hands and draw a bead of liquid from a vial with a small dropper. It was a delicate operation that had become a daily routine — extracting ever tinier doses of the antidepressant she had taken for three years, on and off, and was desperately trying to quit. “Basically that’s all I have been doing — dealing with the dizziness, the confusion, the fatigue, all the symptoms of withdrawal,” said Ms. Toline, 27, of Tacoma, Wash. It took nine months to wean herself from the drug, Zoloft, by taking increasingly smaller doses.
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Is chronic pain something more people should accept?
Amid the opioid crisis, the concept of “pain acceptance” is gaining credibility.
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Opinion: The Opioid Crisis Isn't A Metaphor
Drug users don't take heroin because of postindustrial despair — they do it because withdrawal feels worse than anything you can imagine.
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Where Marijuana Is Legal, Opioid Prescriptions Fall
Two new studies support this correlation
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There's a Dangerous Rumor Circulating About Fentanyl
You can't overdose on the opioid just by touching it.
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Five Manhattan Doctors Indicted For Accepting Bribes And Kickbacks From A Pharmaceutical Company In Exchange For Prescribing Powerful Fentanyl...
Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced the unsealing today of an Indictment in Manhattan federal court charging five Manhattan doctors, GORDON FREEDMAN, JEFFREY GOLDSTEIN, TODD SCHLIFSTEIN, DIALECTI VOUDOURIS, and ALEXANDRU BURDUCEA, with participating in a scheme to receive bribes and kickbacks in the form of fees for sham educational programs (“Speaker Programs”) from a pharmaceutical company (“Pharma Company-1”) in exchange for...
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For doctors, more opioid prescriptions bring more money.
The more money a physician receives from an opioid manufacturer, the more likely he or she is to prescribe opioids, according to an exclusive analysis by CNN and researchers at Harvard University's schools of medicine and public health.
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The Poison We Pick
The scale and darkness of this epidemic is a sign of a civilization in a more acute crisis than we knew. By Andrew Sullivan.
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The Myth of What’s Driving the Opioid Crisis
Doctor-prescribed painkillers are not the biggest threat.
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Americans Invented Modern Life. Now We’re Using Opioids to Escape It.
The scale and darkness of this epidemic is a sign of a civilization in a more acute crisis than we knew. This nation pioneered modern life. Now epic numbers of Americans are killing themselves with opioids to escape it.
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Americans Invented Modern Life. Now We’re Using Opioids to Escape It.
The scale and darkness of this epidemic is a sign of a civilization in a more acute crisis than we knew.
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The opioid crisis in Delaware
“It is perhaps the defining feature of someone my age and from my state to have a friend, sibling, or cousin who has died from opioid addiction.” By Paul Blest.
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I've treated many people like Tom Petty. Drugs are only part of their story
A cocktail of drugs — opioids, benzodiazepines, and an antidepressant — contributed to Tom Petty's death from an accidental overdose. It could have been prevented.
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