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Health Officials Call for Better Access to Addiction Treatment
Expanded access to addiction treatment drugs and services should be part of national strategy to combat overdoses from opioid pain medications, according to a commentary by leading federal health officials in the New England Journal of Medicine. The …
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Highs sellers eager to return to sender
National Poisons Centre toxicologist Dr Leo Schep told Radio New Zealand psychiatric and addiction services needed to prepare for an influx of people dealing with legal-high withdrawal symptoms. Clinicians who dealt with people affected by synthetic …
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Medicaid rates pinch treatment centers
The federal government is now picking up the tab for most of Washington's publicly funded treatment of drug addiction, courtesy of President Barack Obama's health care law. … If the raise happens, it would presumably avert the threatened closure of …
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Question by Yevette: Do you believe that drug addiction and alcoholism is a disease?

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Answer by tinker_bella1525
no. a disease is a virus that rapidly reproduces within bloodcells, and kills them.

Answer by aljea
Yes, a mental disease.
Addiction works like this:
Your brain has dopamine receptors, which are what make a person feel happy. When you are using drugs, the drugs attach to these receptors and make you feel happy. So then your brain wants these drugs to attach to these receptors to make you feel happy once again.

The Pulse: Court help for veterans who become addicts
One in five veterans has symptoms of a mental-health disorder or cognitive impairment, and one in six who served in Iraq or Afghanistan suffers from a substance-abuse issue, according to Justice For Vets, a division of the National Association of Drug …
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Survey: 90% of Chinese college kids play mobile games in class
According to a recent Netease Games survey, China's youth are apparently wasting their higher education playing Angry Birds.The post .
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Watch Out Twitter And Google+, Facebook's News Feed Is Getting Smarter And Smarter
Facebook has a difficult problem but all of the financial and technological resources to solve it. The same cannot be said for its competitors Twitter and Google+.
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Question by : I want to hear what you believe about addiction?
I want to know how you feel about it, think about it, what you want to know about it, anything. Do you believe its a disease or a choice? Why?

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Answer by M K
I believe it’s a choice. Because when you get addicted to something you chose to do it in the first place. People with diseases don’t get to choose whether or not they have a disease. But when you are addicted to something you are choosing to continue. Even though the choice gets harder and harder as you go on you can still choose. You just have to be strong enough to do it.
I think that addiction is a cowards way of getting out of things.

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We have to stop treating poor neighbourhoods as 'no go' zones | Chris Arnade
Misplaced fear of low income communities only makes things worse, perpetuating the problems and keeping resources away It was 1am when I was asked to go into a stranger's apartment in a building the police had identified as a gang stronghold. The gentleman, who I had met half an hour before at the corner bodega, wanted to show me something. He wouldn't say what. I climbed the dark stairwell …
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