Hooked: Why Bad Habits Are Hard to Break

Published November 26, 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.

Double Take: Pros and cons of legalizing marijuana

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I've been overhearing stories of so-and-so's weed weekend since seventh grade. According to a 2011 survey from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, 22.6 percent of high school seniors reported using marijuana in the month preceding the survey, and 6.6 …
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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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