The Faces of Drug Addiction

The Faces of Drug Addiction – If you want to learn more on what addiction and how it can be treated I can not urge enough to see Pleasure Unwoven by Kevin McCauley Dr Kevin McCauley gives…

'Salt Sugar Fat' by Michael Moss

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If not addiction, the love of hyper-processed foods may be what Dr. David A. Kessler, a former Food and Drug Administration director, called “conditioned hypereating” in a 2009 book that covered some of the same ground. Importantly, Mr. Moss reports …
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Processing Food, Processing… You?!

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Our cultural definition of food, itself, is being processed. I remember one twilight at a gas … In essence, they addicted everyone to their drug — and then pretended the drug was a treatment for a condition that just happened. Our heroes from Star …
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Oxycodone: Drug Whys

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The working definition of an opioid-tolerant patient is someone taking at least 60 milligrams of oral morphine daily, 25 micrograms per hour of transdermal fentanyl, 30 milligrams of oral oxycodone daily, 8 milligrams of oral hydromorphone daily, 25 …
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