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Nicotine Addiction Is a Disease and Not a Weak Character Trait – Jim Dunford

Nicotine Addiction is a Disease and Not a Weak Character Trait – Jim Dunford — In Part 1 Dr. Dunford discusses the affects of nicotine addiction and how it affects our lives. Addiction is a disease and not a weak character trait. People…


Misuse of medications cause harmful effects for students
“There's a lot of different factors,” Kristen Harper, a research associate at Tech's Center for the Study of Addiction and Recovery, said. “There's environmental factors, there's biological, there's genetic, there's predisposition if somebody in a …
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New case studies link smoking synthetic marijuana with stroke in healthy
"Since the two patients were siblings, we wondered whether they might have any undiagnosed genetic conditions that predisposed them to strokes at a young age. We rigorously looked for those and didn't come up with anything," said senior author W. Scott …
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