For years, drug manufacturing giant GlaxoSmithKline has promoted their best-selling antidepressant paroxetine (Seroxat) as safe and easy to quit taking.
* 'We lowered the dose of medicine and two weeks later Julia called to say that the bottom had fallen out: `I'm a witch again.' She felt lousy - pessimistic, angry, demanding.
Over the past 200 years, doctors have prescribed an almost uninterrupted succession of 'addictive' drugs, always in the belief they would not cause dependence or that patients would be mainly responsible if they did.
Legal drug addiction is the biggest cancer in our society today. ...
In wealthy countries a majority of children are born with the use of pain relieving drugs. In wealthy countries drug addiction is increasing. ...
Each year, around 120,000 smokers in the UK die from smoking-related illnesses. Non-smokers are at risk, too, as second-hand tobacco smoke can increase their chances of lung cancer by as much as 19 per cent (IARC [International Agency for Research...
A fascinating study published in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine in September 2005 draws some remarkable conclusions about the awareness in preschoolers of their parents’ drinking and smoking habits.
The reason why the romantic love relationship is such an intense and universally sought-after experience is that it seems to offer liberation from a deep-seated state of fear, need, lack, and incompleteness that is part of the human condition in its...
For years the immediate precursor in the synthesis of methamphetamine was tightly controlled until a clandestine chemist devised a synthesis of methamphetamine from the easily available precursor; ephedrine, a sympathomimetic amine widely used in...
Acupuncture is a foundation for psycho-social rehabilitation so that counseling, drug-free contracts, educational and employment referrals, and Narcotics Anonymous are essential parts of the program. Acupuncture not only controls withdrawal symptoms...


