Dr. Nora Volkow: How Drug Addiction Hijacks the Brain

Dr. Nora Volkow: How Drug Addiction Hijacks the Brain – Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, explains addiction pharmacologically and looks at how drugs of abuse take control of the r…

Titan Plunges After FDA Rejects Drug–Addiction Treatment

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Drug Abuse. More than 12 million people reported using prescription painkillers recreationally or without a prescription, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The drugs were involved in 14,800 overdose deaths in 2008, more than …
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Daniella Westbrook breaks silence on history of drug addiction – AllVoices

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Daniella Westbrook recently appeared on BBC One's “Songs of Praise” and shared details of the dark period of her life as a drug addict. In the show's special episode devoted to “fame and faith,” the former “EastEnders” star told host David Grant that …
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Not all drug addicts and alcoholics are bad parents, says Scotland's Children …

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DRUG addicts and alcoholics are not necessarily bad parents, according to Scotland's Children's Commissioner Tam Baillie. He has warned MSPs about the dangers of assuming that children of addicts would be better off if they were taken into care.
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