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If you give up sugar for Lent, this post from CNN has insights on what you can expect over the next 40 days. Anyone who knows me also knows that I have a huge sweet tooth. I always have. My friend and fellow graduate student Andrew is equally afflicted, and living in Hershey, Pennsylvania -- the "Chocolate Capital of the World" -- doesn't help either of us. But Andrew is ... Continue Reading
Do you believe that drug addiction is a moral failing caused by too much hedonistic partying? Or is drug addiction a disease taking place in a chemically hijacked brain? Johann Hari, author of 'Chasing The Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs', asserts that none of these are true and almost everything we have been told till now about addiction is wrong. It is ... Continue Reading
This article reports a five-fold increase in deaths from prescription painkiller overdoses among women from 1999 to 2010 and looks into the possible reasons as well safe alternatives. Deaths from prescription painkiller overdoses are “skyrocketing” among women, according to a new report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that found such deaths have ... Continue Reading
