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A 12 Days Of Christmas Blog Meme
Wrapping it up. From DrugMonkey’s blog: “The rules for this blog meme are quite simple. Post the link and first sentence from the first blog entry for each month of the past year.” (Credit to Janet Stemwedel and John Lynch for the idea.) Here are the 12 first lines from 2011 here at Addiction Inbox. Click ….
Read more ›Are You Okay?
A variety of drinking tests: the good, the bad, and the silly. Here’s a short, no-nonsense questionnaire that uses your weekly drinking habits to produce an at-a-glance comparison of how your intake stacks up against others your age and sex. For example, your result might say: “Only 4% of the adult male population drinks more ….
Read more ›The Economic Cost Of Heavy Drinking
Some food, or rather, some drink for thought. A recently released study conducted for the CDC Foundation estimates that the economic costs of excessive drinking in American totaled $223.5 billion in 2006. Binge drinking accounted for 76.4%, or $170.7 billion of the total costs, according to the report. Binge drinking is defined as 4 or more ….
Read more ›The Triumph Of Synthetics
Designer stimulants surpass heroin and cocaine. A troubling report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) shows that amphetamine-type stimulants (ATS) have, for the first time, become more popular around the world than heroin and cocaine. Marijuana remains the most popular illegal drug in the world, and the use of amphetamines has ….
Read more ›End Of The Line For Joe Camel?
The tobacco industry’s war against plain packaging. After years of tightening regulation and dramatic declines in the number of adult smokers, Big Tobacco is targeting teenagers like never before. The fact that they intend to do it with aggressive package advertising has run up against plans in the U.S., the U.K., and Australia to force ….
Read more ›Heavy Drinking Impairs Serotonin Function More Rapidly In Women
My article on women and alcohol. There are very real gender differences in the way men and women are affected by alcohol. Here’s my summary of the subject in a December 16 article for Scientific American Online: “Women’s Response to Alcohol Suggests Need for Gender-Specific Treatment Programs” A new study underscores that the physical consequences ….
Read more ›Is Coumadin The Most Dangerous Drug In America?
Common drug most likely to land seniors in the hospital. High-risk drugs for seniors aren’t the ones you might think. Take warfarin, trade name Coumadin. Millions of seniors do. For people with certain kinds of heart trouble, or who have had a stroke, Coumadin works against the blood’s tendency to clot, and saves lives. In ….
Read more ›Nothing Organic About Rodale’s New Book On Addiction
Raw carrots won’t cut it. How times have changed. You’ve heard of Rodale, the outfit that kicked off organic gardening in America, and publishes Prevention Magazine and Organic Gardening?Founded in 1947, the Rodale Institute’s mandate was to publicize J.I. Rodale’s personal vision of healthy soil and healthy food. So it was with great astonishment that ….
Read more ›A Six-Pack Of Prior Posts
Don’t fear the chemistry. This isn’t a top 10 list, just a compilation of five previous posts here at Addiction Inbox that have continued to draw reader interest since they were first published. If there is a theme running through this set, it is neurochemistry at its most basic level. Take a look, if any ….
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