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Connecticut Alcoholism Treatment Program Offers Comprehensive Approach To Treating Addictions

On a quiet afternoon, you can find a variety of individuals from all walks of life actively participating in Mountainside Addiction Treatment Center's variety of programs. But, from an outsider's perspective, you would never know that the activities these individuals are participating in, actually equip them for life-long continued self-recovery ...

Yeadon Pharmacy Backs National No Smoking Day

A Yeadon pharmacy is getting behind next Wednesday’s national No Smoking Day (10 March) by taking up temporary residence at two local health centres in a bid to help members of the community stop smoking. Following the success of last year’s event at Yeadon Health Centre, staff from The Co-operative Pharmacy in ...

Self-control impulse impaired in addicts’ brains, possibly inherited

A study, appearing in Science Mag, says that there seems to be a presence of abnormalities in the brain of addicts that regulate self-control mechanisms. Researchers at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom studied brain scans of 50 pairs of siblings, one of each pair being a cocaine addict and the ...

Kim Richards Admits To Alcoholism

Much speculation encircled Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and previous child-actress Kim Richards this television season. On the show, it was clear Ms. Richards was struggling with issues in her life. Her erratic behavior caused her fellow cast members to accuse her of using crystal meth on screen. Kim Richards, as ...

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