All You Need to Know About Hair Follicle Drug Testing – Voice Article

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Serenity Place expanding to serve more women with addictions

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Road to recovery. Though success rates are hard to come by, and relapses are common, “the best outcomes occur with longer durations of treatment,” according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Nationally, between 60 percent and 70 percent of …
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Leif Garrett talks drug addiction, warns Justin Bieber of pitfalls of fame

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Former teen idol Leif Garrett is doing well these days after struggling with a harrowing decades-long drug addiction that destroyed his career, health and life at the height of his fame. Garrett, 51, said it was easy to fall prey to drugs and partying …
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Food addiction: does it really exist?

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In short, it looked very much as though the animals were addicted to a drug, even tolerating "foot shock" (running over an electric grid) to get their fix. Today, the food addiction model is still relatively young and controversial. However, says Avena …
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Head of National Institute on Drug Abuse is nominated for civil service award

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For 10 years, Nora Volkow has been the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, overseeing a budget of nearly $ 1 billion and much of the world's research on one of medicine's most controversial subjects. It isn't surprising that she has her …
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