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The Sad Truth about Philip Seymour Hoffman
Addiction wasn't incidental to his talent: It was its essence
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Selling a Poison by the Barrel: Liquid Nicotine for E-Cigarettes
“E-liquids” used to refill e-cigarettes are potent, unregulated neurotoxins. Evidence of the potential dangers is already emerging.
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Electronic cigarettes ‘don’t aid quitting’, study says
The controversy over electronic cigarettes has been reignited today with the publication of a study claiming that they do not help smokers to quit their habit.
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Is This the Golden Age of Sex Addiction Films?
A trip to the movie theater is an experience of what the culture wants to sell you; often, it's sex, in some form or fashion. Which is why it's been interesting to see movies about sex addiction...
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Young male smokers may raise obesity risk in their future sons
Men who start smoking before the age of 11 risk having sons who are overweight, British researchers have found, adding to evidence that lifestyle factors even in childhood can affect the health of future offspring.
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Scientists Link Selfies To Narcissism and possible Mental Illness and Addiction
It seems that some people simply can't stop turning the camera their way for that perfect social media photo, and now psychologists say taking selfies can turn into an addiction for people already affected by certain psychological disorders.
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‘An Addict With Friends’
The night the police came for Robert Aaron, he was at home in the Mott Street apartment where he has lived for the last quarter century, making a coconut pudding called tembleque. Mr. Aaron, whose legal name is Robert Aaron Vineberg, is a 57-year-old musician who has played with David Bowie, Wyclef Jean, Mick Jagger and Amy Winehouse, among others, a genial man with a pencil-thin mustache and a grasp of half a dozen languages.
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Risks Of Popular Anxiety Drugs Often Overshadowed
The drugs first burst onto the scene in the 1950s and '60s and quickly became known as "mother's little helper," the mild tranquilizer that could soothe frazzled housewives' nerves. More than four decades later, benzos — including Valium, Xanax, Klonopin and Ativan — are used to treat anxiety, mood disorders and insomnia.
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E-Cigarette Restrictions 'For The Children' Could Be Deadly For Adults
Last year I gave our oldest daughter an electronic cigarette kit for her 20th birthday. At that point Francine, who started smoking at 17, was going through two or three packs of Camels a day—which was pretty impressive, especially since she was not allowed to smoke inside the house...
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A better e-cigarette is coming but you’ll need a prescription
A new company is trying to invent the safest, most sophisticated electronic cigarette on the market. But unless you’re trying to quit smoking, the firm’s founder says the product isn’t for you: It’s intended to be a new kind of inhaler that delivers a precise, physician-approved dose of nicotine to help smokers break their tobacco habit.
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7 Things I Learned During My Year Without Alcohol
Wow, I can't even believe I'm typing this! If you're reading this, it's because I made it. I made it to one full year without alcohol. On May 6, 2013, I took my last drink. I will never forget how it felt. I was sick and tired of being sick and tired. I was tired of being the party girl, I was tired of feeling like sh*t, I was tired of disappointing and embarrassing my friends and loved ones. I decided I needed a big change.
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Breaking bad in Tehran: how Iran got a taste for crystal meth
Cheap, widely available and used by students and housewives alike, crystal meth is taking the Iranian capital by storm. The author of a new book about the country reports on an addiction that even the repressive regime is struggling to control
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The Controversial Answer To America's Heroin Surge
With heroin use at epidemic levels, harm reduction — a bold, long-contested approach to treating addicts — is gaining political traction. But are we ready to make it easier to shoot heroin even if it means fewer deaths?
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Lighter tracks your smoking habits to shame you to quit
Ask any smoker: quitting is hard. Cigarettes become a part of your daily life, a habit that's not only hard to break, but hard to keep track of. "Tracking is one of the most important factors in one's health," Ata Ghofrani told us at a recent Haxlr8r event. "Being cognizant of our smoking behavior."
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Food should be regulated like tobacco, say campaigners
The food industry should be regulated like the tobacco industry as obesity poses a greater global health risk than cigarettes, say international groups. Consumers International and the World Obesity Federation are calling for the adoption of more stringent rules. These could include pictures on food packaging of damage caused by obesity, similar to those on cigarette packets.
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E-cigarettes boost quitting success among smokers, study finds
Smokers trying to quit are 60 percent more likely to report success if they switch to e-cigarettes than if they use nicotine products like patches or gum, or just willpower, scientists said on Tuesday.
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E-Cigarettes Help Smokers Quit, Study Says
A new study might clear some of the air in the e-cigarette debate: Researchers in the U.K. claim that e-cig users are 60 percent more likely to quit smoking than smokers who use traditional methods such as nicotine patches or gum.
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"I'm PTSD — Paid Till Suicide or Death"
An Amtrak train is a terrible place to shoot dope. My seat mate tells me this after the train jerks, causing his syringe to slip from his vein. I take his word for it. Jarek Camac and I are on our way to Los Angeles. For Jarek, a decorated Army combat veteran, it’s a trip meant to both figuratively and literally deliver him from addiction to sobriety, from his old life of using in Delaware to a clean life in California.
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Typical heroin user in America is a white woman in the suburbs
Fifty years ago researchers reported that the average first-time heroin user is a 16-year-old of color, but now a study says that a typical user is more likely a 23-year-old white woman from the suburbs.
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People Severely Underestimate — or Lie About — How Much They Drink
The researchers surveyed over 40,000 people with standard alcohol survey questions about their quantity and frequency of alcohol consumption — “How many drinks have you had in the past month?” and so on. But in a smart twist, they then asked a more immediate question: “How many drinks did you have yesterday?” This method is useful for detecting under-reporting because of the improbabilities it reveals.
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