Recent Addiction Articles page 6

International Herald Tribune - Spending as much as $900 to give a participant free nicotine patches and drugs to ease withdrawal, as well as phone sessions with smoking addiction counselors, can more than offset the estimated $16,000 or more in additional lifetime medical bills ...

MSN UK News - Doherty has appeared in court on a number of drug offences over the past year and was praised by an east London judge in April for "more than co-operating" in his struggle to beat his addiction. On Wednesday Doherty left court in triumph after a judge ...

Guardian Unlimited - Scientists have identified a brain region that is essential for experiencing drug cravings. The team hopes that discovery could lead to the use of medicines to shut down the region and diminish craving. The insular cortex or insula lies deep in the ...

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - This is a man committed to changing his life, but because of his addiction, he hasn't been able to do so," said Assistant Public Defender Karen Bailey-Turner. Giess didn't attend the sentencing but told probation officers that she hopes Boston can ...

New York Post - An R-rated Look at an X-rated Industry," the former Red Hot Chili Peppers and Jane's Addiction star, who now writes and directs XXX videos, says: "Rock and porn exist to break taboos. Rock used to have that rebellious 'up against the world' creed ...

Chicago Tribune - FTC officials have sued Trudeau repeatedly over the last decade, forcing him to stop selling products such as "pain-relief" adhesive tape, an "addiction-breaking" system and a cancer "cure" involving coral calcium. But instead of backing down ...

Detroit Free Press - Both are big on keeping fitness and diet changes simple, going one step at a time. The ultimate goal is "positive addiction": exercising to the point that you expect satisfaction from it and are driven to repeat it day after day and eating so ...

News.com.au - And there were that curious addiction to scarfs. As it was, Mifsud's personality and ability to sing songs of many different genres impressed voters and judges alike. "Daniel has been one of the nicest people we've had in all the five years," judge ...

BBC News - According to Jessie Jo Jacobs, who runs a treatment centre in Stockton to help women out of a lifestyle of prostitution and drug addiction, this targeting has been catastrophic for many recovering addicts. Crack cocaine had changed the culture of ...

News.com.au - This is likely the result of exposure to "pre-birth conditions'' that affected pedophiles' physical development, the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health reported in Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment. "This research does not mean ...