What Is Addiction?

Published April 13, 2013

What is addiction? – In an informal therapy group, Dr. Nora Volkow, Director of NIDA, discusses addiction as a brain disease with addicts and family members. She notes the enviro…

Headroom faces shortfall

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Members of Dunfermline area committee were recently updated on how the Scottish Governent's Getting It Right for Every Child approach was being adopted in Fife. Mr Hanvey Headroom's work should have … sexual health to prevent teenage pregnancy. But …
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Sister escaped 'Trigger Town,' but bleak fate snared brother

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What had upset him, she said, was reading presentencing evaluations that detailed his sad, violent upbringing in a West Pullman neighborhood drug house — born to a drug-addicted mother, bagging marijuana at 7 as punishment for acting up, suspended …
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