Category: Addiction
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For long term success, an alcoholic must learn not only how to stop drinking, but also how to start eating. Most alcoholics that are admitted into detoxification centers are massively malnourished, and seriously depleted of thiamin, vitamins A, B-12, and C, folic acid, and the essential minerals calcium, magnesiuum, potassium, and zinc. These deficiencies are…
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One of the newest forms of preventable injury comes via your cell phone. Now that these devices are ubiquitous and addictive, we are seeing some very serious medical consequences not only for drivers, but for pedestrians.
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Insomnia is very often a simple disorganization of ones time, diet, or habits. But for many, the lack of sleep makes them look terrible, and feel even worse.
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Alcoholism is a disease, and a remarkably common one at that. Between one third and a half of all patients in general hospitals are alcoholic, and the costs of treating drunkenness are truly staggering, pardon the pun.
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Have you tried to quit smoking by using nicotine replacement therapy but failed? Well, it may be because you are drinking that morning cup of Joe while chewing nicotine gum or just after putting your nicotine patch on.
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We all know about the effects of alcohol on driving skills, but we should also be more aware of the effects of drugs behind the wheel.
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There are thousands of chemicals other than nicotine constituents in cigarette smoke, of which one, or several, may affect mood in much the same way as a group of antidepressant medications
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One of the most difficult of all addictions is to nicotine. It is said by addicts and therapists alike to be a more difficult substance to quit than alcohol, morphine, or even heroin.