Philip Seymour Hoffman and Sally Bercow: What Prompts a Fall Off the Wagon?
Philip Seymour Hoffman and Sally Bercow: What prompts a fall off the wagon?
What is it that causes people who have been sober for a long period to fall off the wagon, "slip" or relapse? This week we've had Philip … It is no surprise that actors and writers are so prone to addiction – people with long stretches of inactivity …
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For Better Sensory Information Processing, You Need To Be Asymmetrical
and KU Leuven in Belgium write that, in zebrafish at least, loss of brain asymmetry can have significant consequences on sensory processing, raising the possibility that defects in the development of brain functions on either the left or right on the …
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Heroin on the rise in Iowa, around rural Midwest
Beyond the high-profile heroin-related deaths, however, thousands of heroin addicts die every year without so much as a mention of the cause in their local newspaper. According to the 2012 … over him," Ross said. "I mean, it literally has rewired his …
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What Philip Seymour Hoffman's death tells us about addiction
Addiction causes chemical changes in the brain that remain long after a person stops using the substance, said Volkow, who described the condition as “a chronic disease with a very long duration.” Abstinence or substitute medication is often required …
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