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Legal Heroin: Is Virtual Reality Our Next Hard Drug
So video games are addictive—this we know. It comes down to dopamine, one of the brain’s basic signaling molecules. Emotionally, we feel dopamine as pleasure, engagement, excitement, creativity, and a desire to investigate and make meaning out of the world. It’s released whenever we take risks, or encounter novelty. From an evolutionary standpoint, it reinforces exploratory behavior.
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In Rural Jails, E-Cigarettes Are a Calming Vapor
As city governments and schools move to ban or restrict the use of e-cigarettes, one place increasingly welcomes the devices: the rural county jail. Though traditional cigarettes are prohibited from most prisons and jails because of fire hazards and secondhand smoke, a growing number of sheriffs say they are selling e-cigarettes to inmates to help control the mood swings of those in need of a smoke, as well as address budget shortfalls
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Impulsive Personality Tied to Food ‘Addiction’
According to new research, people with impulsive personalities are more likely to develop an addiction to food. Investigators from the University of Georgia determined the same kinds of impulsive behavior that can lead some people to abuse alcohol and other drugs may also lead to an unhealthy relationship with food.
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Police carry special drug to reverse heroin overdoses
A drug that is highly successful in reversing heroin overdoses is being carried by some police agencies as a way to give quicker treatment before paramedics arrive
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Aaron Sorkin: Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Death Saved 10 Lives
The creator of 'The West Wing' and the renowned actor shared a struggle with drug addiction. Sorkin remembers a performer who dominated the real estate upon which his characters walked...
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The Problem with Labeling Energy Drinks 'Gateway Drugs'
A recent study finds a correlation between energy drink use and drug use in kids, but it's not that easy.
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When calling 911 can land you in jail
As Philip Seymour Hoffman’s friends, family and admirers come to terms with his tragic and untimely death and fentanyl-laced heroin kills addicts across the Northeast, the media have responded to the news in the best way it knows how: with a seemingly endless stream of programming on the dangers of heroin and the tenuous lives of those who use it. Unfortunately, even when they get it right, there are often crucial factors missing from the discussion.
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Smoking and stigma: The War on Smoking Has Gone Too Far
Let's Not Wage War on Smokers Quitting smoking is good. Stigmatizing smokers isn't.
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Flying High
It might not be an addiction, but my obsession with frequent flier programs comes pretty close.
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How Many Cigarettes Make You a Smoker?
A surprising number of people smoke often but still don't consider themselves smokers, according to a new study.
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This chart suggests America’s addiction to television is not normal
Millions of Americans (including Barack Obama, apparently) attempted to binge-watch at least some of their way through the 13 hour-long episodes of the second season of Netflix’s hit political thriller House of Cards, which was released last weekend (a long holiday weekend in the US). Binge-watching is far from being a US-only phenomenon, as evidenced by the fact that the UK-based Oxford Dictionaries short-listed it for word of the year in 2013.
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Indonesia's resort island of Bali has awesomely refused to host the world's largest tobacco trade fair
Cigarette advertising in Indonesia is so offensively prevalent no one blinks an eye when Philip Morris sponsors a refugee camp, let alone a children's concert. This is a country where a huge billboard in Jakarta promoting the cigarette brand LA Lights reads, in really big letters, "Don't Quit." Even worse — if it can be worse — the "Do" and the "it" are highlighted in bolded red.
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Does America Need a Bacon Intervention?
Some food researchers have noted that humans have an innate craving for foods that contain three basic ingredients: salt, sugar and fat. Bacon, of course, has copious amounts of salt (sodium) and fats — and when combined with maple syrup or any other sweetener, you've hit a food trifecta.
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Heroin's lethal comeback
The urban drug scourge of the 1960s and '70s is enjoying a nationwide resurgence — and destroying lives
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Cold Day in Europe – TPD Has Come to Pass
The other shoe has finally dropped across the sea in Europe. The dreaded Tobacco Products Directive, including article 18 has been passed by a disturbingly comfortable margin The TPD in general deals with... tobacco products in Europe and includes a few restrictions including only allowing cigarettes to be sold in packs of 20 (instead of…
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Hoffman died from toxic drug mixture
Philip Seymour Hoffman died from a “speedball,” a concoction that has killed several other celebrities, the city’s Office of Chief Medical Examiner said Friday. Hoffman’s death in his Village apartment…
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Hidden Costs Series: Cigarettes
View full post: http://www.insurancequotes.org/hidden-cost-cigarettes For smokers and non-smokers alike, the following video offers some great details on just why smoking is so expensive, in so many ways.
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Holder admits heroin is now 'urgent public health crises'
As deaths related to heroin and prescription drug overdose continue to rise, US Attorney General Eric Holder called the spike an “urgent public health crises” on Monday and pledged to expand the Justice Department’s effort to combat the problem.
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The truth about caffeine: Why we know so little about our favorite addictive drug
In a culture where we worry about unregulated chemicals and food additives, it’s shocking how little we know about one of the most common ones: caffeine. We spend a lot more time consuming the drug than we do thinking about it, says author Murray Carpenter. Meanwhile, none of the companies peddling it have been willing to talk about it. And the FDA, up until very recently, has been remiss in not regulating it.
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Does Alcoholics Anonymous Work?
For some heavy drinkers, the answer is a tentative yes
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