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Booze
apps slammed for targeting young people
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 JCU's
professor Lynn Eagle and her team of researchers conducted a study
involving alcohol use and discovered almost 80% promote heavy drinking.
She explained many
of the apps are aimed at young people and likely to work well. In
addition, she noted there are no age restrictions on any of the apps.
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Pot Pie,
Redefined? Chefs Start to Experiment With Cannabis
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Recreational
marijuana is both illegal and controversial in most of the country, and its
relationship to food does not rise much above a joke about brownies or a
stoner chef's late-night pork belly poutine.But cooking with cannabis is
emerging as a legitimate and very lucrative culinary pursuit.
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Resolutions
can harm mental health
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During
the next few weeks, prepare to be barraged by admonitions to make New
Year's resolutions. These messages connect with us because we aspire to
be better people. Research indicates that the most popular resolutions in
2014 focused on losing weight, getting organized, spending less/saving
more, enjoying life to the fullest and staying fit and healthy.
About 50 percent of
us make such resolutions every year. What a great opportunity to reflect
upon our lives and make a commitment to change the way we think, act and
feel. Who wouldn't want to be healthier, happier and more engaged with
our work, family and friends?
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Scientists
show that drunk birds 'slur' their songs
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Sometimes
science means getting a bunch of finches sloshed. Or at least
giving them blood alcohol levels of around .08 percent, which is pretty
crazy by bird standards. In a study published last week in PLOS ONE,
researchers from the Oregon Health and Science University tempted zebra
finches with spiked juice -- but not because they wanted to help the lab
animals ring in the new year in style.
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Facilities
targeting specialized needs of opioid-dependent and pain patients
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Some addiction
treatment facilities treating opioid addiction, sometimes complicated by
concurrent severe pain, are finding that service quality can be improved
in small-group treatment settings with a narrower focus on the opioid
patient alone. Click
here to read more.
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Lawsuit seeks
to make drugmaker pay for OxyContin abuse
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Prescription
drug abuse has killed more than 20,000 Americans a year, filled
jails and treatment centers and spawned a resurgence in heroin use. And
nowhere is the pill problem more prevalent than in Kentucky's
Appalachians, where officials trace its roots to the aggressive marketing
of one potent drug: OxyContin. Click
here to read more.
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'Cannabis is
a mental health issue': the ex-offenders using rap as therapy
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Myanmar
Returns to What Sells: Heroin
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A decade ago,
Myanmar seemed on course to wipe out the opium fields and
heroin jungle labs along its eastern border, the notorious Golden
Triangle. A decade ago, Myanmar seemed on course to wipe out the opium
fields and heroin jungle labs along its eastern border, the notorious
Golden Triangle.Today, valley after valley in these mist-shrouded
mountains is covered with resplendent opium poppies, tended by farmers
who perch on steep hillsides to harvest the plant's sticky, intoxicating
sap. Please
click here to read more.
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The real cost
of hangovers
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Considering
how much hangovers cost countries and companies, not to mention the pain
people suffer, you would think someone would have come up with a cure by
now. But so far, no luck, though it's not for want of trying. Numerous
age-old remedies and commercial products are available - everything from
herbal potions to IV drips - and they are all put to good use during the
holiday season. But, do they work? And what is the cost to employers of
all that recovery downtime?
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4 Things To
Understand About Youth, Mental Health & Juvenile Justice In
The US
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Almost
2 million youth - those under the age of 18 - are arrested each year in
the US, which is more than 5,000 delinquency cases per day. Of those,
approximately 95% are not accused of violent crimes (murder, rape or
aggravated assault). Yet, these youth are often incarcerated in the juvenile
justice system, causing more harm than good to the academic, social and
personal growth of our youth, despite best efforts from experts to reduce
incarceration. According to University of Chicago professor and Co-Director
of the University's Crime Lab Harold Pollack, PhD, rightly notes,
"There is good reason to believe that economical, evidence-based
interventions are helpful. We need to develop and deploy-at-scale-good
interventions outside the criminal justice system that prevent youth
violence."
Please
click here to read the rest of this story.
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What Heroin
Addiction Tells Us About Changing Bad Habits
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It's a
tradition as old as New Year's: making resolutions. We will not smoke,
or sojourn with the bucket of mint chocolate chip. In fact, we will
resist sweets generally, including the bowl of M&M's that our
co-worker has helpfully positioned on the aisle corner of his desk. There
will be exercise, and the learning of a new language. Click
here to continue reading.
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Top Five Drug
Stories of 2014
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Look
at any list of the top news stories of 2014, and you'll be left wondering
how we made it through. From ebola outbreaks to Ferguson protests, the
ice bucket challenge and tragic celebrity deaths, it's been quite a year
in news and pop culture. It's also been an eventful year for those of us
who care about our nation's drug policy-and the millions of men, women,
teens, and families who are affected by it every day. That's why we've
created our own list. A lot has happened on the drug front in the past 12
months; here are the highlights.
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How to Curb
Binge Drinking: Raise Taxes on Booze
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As
the government learned during Prohibition, an outright ban on alcohol
isn't an effective way to stop Americans from boozing. But a new study
suggests that more subtle changes to the law could help curb binge
drinking.
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Study finds
conditions of retirement can lead to substance abuse disorders among
older adults
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Close
to three million Americans aged 55 and older suffer from alcohol
abuse-and this figure is expected to reach nearly 6 million by 2020.
While alcohol abuse remains prevalent among them, the rate of illicit
drug abuse in adults over 50 more than doubled between 2002 and 2013.
Many of the older Americans suffering from substance abuse are retired.
But according to Tel Aviv University research, it is not retirement alone
that leads to drug and alcohol abuse, but rather a host of circumstances
surrounding leaving the work force, which often coincides with painful
later-life events such as the death of spouses and friends.Click
here to continue reading.
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A Dangerous
Trend: The Move Away from Abstinence Based Addiction Treatment
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The face of
addiction treatment is changing, and not for the better.
Betty Ford and
Hazelden have long been beacons of hope in the addiction treatment
community, two well-known and respected centers that used 12-step
treatment and abstinence based recovery to help thousands of people
recover from addiction for decades. Please click here to
continue reading.
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Overdose
Deaths due to Prescription Painkillers May Peak Soon: Study
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Will
the number of overdose deaths attributed to prescription drugs peak in a
few years? A new analysis suggests this may be possible when viewing the
problem as an epidemic. After applying a theory known as Farr's Law, a
group of Columbia University professors calculate that the number of
prescription drug overdoses each year in the U.S. will peak in 2017 at 16.1
deaths per 100,000 people, and by 2034 will fall back to much lower rates
last seen in the early 1980's. Please
click here to continue reading.
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Should
treatment centers consider retiring the graduation ceremony?
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As
the addiction field's perspective on treatment shifts away from episodic
care and becomes more about ongoing recovery management, does this make
the traditional "graduation ceremony" for patients an outdated
concept? Please
click here to continue reading.
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