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According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration over 46 million people reported suffering from some form of substance abuse disorder . As street drugs have become more ...

These experiments demonstrate that powerful instinctive survival behaviors can be overcome by activating the brain’s reward pathway through the release of dopamine. Since rats do not have ...

Supporting someone with substance abuse. NBC 5 and Telemundo 39 have partnered with Metrocare, a provider of mental health ...

According to Janice Joplin, free will, like freedom, “is just another word for nothin’ left to lose.” According to Sigmund Freud, free will is when “the daemonic forces of the repetition compulsion” ...

What Is It Like To Be an Addict? Understanding Substance Abuse, by Owen Flanagan, Oxford University Press, 320 pages, $24.99 Addiction is a problem that defenders of liberty need to face, for if ...

Risk-taking and testing limits are a regular part of adolescent development. Many teens experiment with drugs, alcohol, or over-the-counter substances during this period. While the desire to ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Fear and humiliation may accompany an overdose patient to a hospital emergency department, and an understanding ...

In response to growing concerns about substance abuse among young people in the Upper East Region, Augustine Akugri, Regional ...