Smartphone App Can Help Alcoholics Stay Sober

Smartphone App Can Help Alcoholics Stay Sober
A new app aims to prevent alcoholics and drug addicts from relapsing, and researchers say it actually helps. The A-CHESS app features audio relaxation, communication with support groups, and even sends an alert if users go near a high-risk location …
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New Pew Poll Reveals Americans Ready to End War on Drugs
A new national survey released today by the Pew Research Center reveals that a broad majority of Americans are ready to significantly reduce the role of the criminal justice system in dealing with people who use drugs. Among the key findings of the …
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The Alcoholic Stockbroker and the Forgotten Alcoholic Doctor
By finding that a patient suffering from a particular disease is helped by meeting with other, similar sufferers, they started what we now take for granted: same-disease support groups (breast cancer, child abuse, war-trauma, etcetera). By realizing …
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