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Showing posts with label Addiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Addiction. Show all posts
Saturday, November 23, 2024

The Best Way to Stall Dementia: Quit Smoking

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 From Cornell University While the number of smokers is at a historical low, data demonstrates that smoking still affects public health. Smo...
Saturday, December 2, 2017

Smart phone addiction alters brain chemistry

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From Health Day on 11/30/17: THURSDAY, Nov. 30, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Teens fixated on their smartphones experience changes to their ...
Wednesday, September 27, 2017

183,000 Americans have died from prescription opioid drug overdoses in the last 16 years.

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Between 1999 and 2015, more than 183,000 people in the United States died from prescription opioid overdoses such as OxyContin (oxycodone) a...
Wednesday, August 16, 2017

7-Fold Spike Seen in Opioid-Linked Fatal Car Crashes

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From Med Line Health Day on 07/31/17: MONDAY, July 31, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- In yet another sign of just how deadly the U.S. opioid ep...
Friday, August 4, 2017

Families pay a key role in the treatment of addiction

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Sociologist, Robert Ackerman, spreads the message that families play a key role in the treatment of addiction. Here is part of his message...
Wednesday, July 5, 2017

Social workers impacted by the opioid epidemic

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From News 5 Cleveland on July 3, 2017 AKRON, Ohio - Heroin overdoses are skyrocketing across the U.S., especially here in Ohio. Nearl...

Opiod addiction is a family problem

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Opioid addiction contributes to increase in children in the foster care system. For more click here.
Friday, March 10, 2017

GOP health-care bill would drop addiction treatment mandate covering 1.3 million Americans

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From the Washington Post on 03/09/17 The Republican proposal to replace the Affordable Care Act  would strip away what advocates say is...