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Study Casts Doubt on Porn Addiction, but Counselors Say It Exists

Study Casts Doubt on Porn Addiction, but Counselors Say It Exists
Carried out by Dr. David Ley, an Albuquerque-based clinical psychologist, the study finds that what has popularly been labeled pornography addiction in fact “fails to meet standards of addiction” — and that immoderate porn consumption doesn't cause …
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Defence rests without presenting any evidence
In statements to police, Jackson admits to an opiate addiction, which grew out of medicine prescribed to deal with chronic back pain. The final witness in the trial was Dr. Chitra Rao, the forensic pathologist who … But Rao said the presence of …
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Ingram speaks about heroin abuse in Kentucky
Ingram said 10 years ago, prescription drugs such as Oxycontin were the leading cause of overdose deaths, but that changed after the formulation of the drug was changed. With that change, heroin has been on the upswing as the drug of choice. Ingram …
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Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Unfinished Projects: What Happens in the Wake of … – E! Online

Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Unfinished Projects: What Happens in the Wake of … – E! Online


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Philip Seymour Hoffman's Unfinished Projects: What Happens in the Wake of
E! Online
But while Hoffman's last days may have been clouded by his struggle with his addiction (he had been sober for 23 years until he sought treatment in May 2013 for heroin abuse after suffering a relapse), his illustrious career is what the Oscar winner
With Hoffman's Death, A Look At Heroin UseWBUR
Phillip Seymour Hoffman Is Dead at 46TV.com
Philip Seymour Hoffman was 'far from disappointing in person'LA Observed
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Cupid’s cognitive science: Explaining love’s blindness, addiction and its … – National Post

It's Not Time to End War on Drugs

It's not time to end war on drugs
People say America is tired of fighting the drug war. That, as a country, we've spent far too much time, ….. People who smoke and drink are something like twenty times more likely to use cocaine according to data from the National Survey on Drug Use …
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Stars' herion overdoses shine light on what could be a fatal addiction
Regular heroin use, which happens frequently because of the ease of dependence, changes brain functions resulting in tolerance of the drug and dependence characterized by withdrawal symptoms. NIDA says heroin abuse is often associated with fatal …
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State must never allow recreational marijuana
14 quoted Gabriel Sayegh, the state director of the Drug Policy Alliance – described as a lobby for liberalized drug use – as responding to Cuomo's initiative: “It's great if they want to move something forward that gets the ball rolling – cool, do it …
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Guest Essay: Addiction Is Never Completely Cured – Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

Guest essay: Addiction is never completely cured – Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

Guest essay: Addiction is never completely cured
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
"It didn't have to happen," proclaimed a headline. Philip Seymour Hoffman did not have to die. Nor did the 65 people (80 percent male, 82 percent white) who died of opioid overdose in our region in 2013. What waste! Why? Nobody chooses to become an 
Actor's death offers lesson in addictionChicago Tribune

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Stars’ herion overdoses shine light on what could be a fatal addiction – Las Cruces Sun-News

Stars' herion overdoses shine light on what could be a fatal addiction
Las Cruces Sun-News
Regular heroin use, which happens frequently because of the ease of dependence, changes brain functions resulting in tolerance of the drug and dependence characterized by withdrawal symptoms. NIDA says heroin abuse is often associated with fatal 

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Foster: Stop Cutting Heroin Addiction Help – Chicago Daily Herald

Foster: Stop cutting heroin addiction help – Chicago Daily Herald

Foster: Stop cutting heroin addiction help
Chicago Daily Herald
U.S. Rep. Bill Foster, a Naperville Democrat, took to the House floor this week to criticize cuts to federal money used to fight heroin abuse, in the same week that award-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman died from an apparent overdose. The drug of 

How to Stop Addiction – Google News

Aaron Sorkin: Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Death Saved 10 Lives – TIME


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Aaron Sorkin: Philip Seymour Hoffman's Death Saved 10 Lives
TIME
We should stop implying that if he'd just taken the proper amount then everything would have been fine. He didn't die because he was partying too hard or because he was depressed — he died because he was an addict on a day of the week with a y in it.
Philip Seymour Hoffman and the truth about curing addictionThe Guardian
Philip Seymour Hoffman On Heroin: 'If I Don't Stop I Know I'm Gonna Die'Gothamist
Breaking the cycle: Heroin's deadly grip on addictsCBS News
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Foster: Stop Cutting Heroin Addiction Help – Chicago Daily Herald

Foster: Stop cutting heroin addiction help – Chicago Daily Herald

Foster: Stop cutting heroin addiction help
Chicago Daily Herald
U.S. Rep. Bill Foster, a Naperville Democrat, took to the House floor this week to criticize cuts to federal money used to fight heroin abuse, in the same week that award-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman died from an apparent overdose. The drug of 

How to Stop Addiction – Google News

Breaking the cycle: Heroin’s deadly grip on addicts – CBS News

Breaking the cycle: Heroin's deadly grip on addicts
CBS News
Severe withdrawal symptoms are a large part of the problem of trying to kick a heroin or opiate addiction, Jaffe explained. He described the terrible sweating, shakes and diarrhea that addicts face once they stop using the drugs. “It's the reason why

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