Hooked: Why Bad Habits Are Hard to Break

Published November 25, 2012

Hooked: Why bad habits are hard to break – Dr. Nora Volkow, the head of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, has revolutionized how science and medicine view addiction: as a disease, not a character defect. Morley Safer reports.

Addiction To Prescription Drugs Reaching Epidemic Proportions

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The Mayo Clinic warns that “prescription drug abuse or problematic use includes everything from taking a friend's prescription painkiller for your backache to snorting or injecting ground-up pills to get high.” The National Institute on Drug Abuse …
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Replacing addiction with a healthy obsession

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In 2008, the National Institute on Drug Abuse pledged $ 4 million to research the effect of physical activity on drug use. Preclinical research has provided evidence that exercise can help treat — and even possibly prevent — addiction, and now human …
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