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Kudzu for Alcoholism?
Common vine extract may inhibit drinking.Score one for traditional Chinese folk medicine. A compound called daidzin, found in kudzu vine, acts like the anti-drinking medication Antabuse. Daidzin interferes with the metabolization of alcohol and cause...
Recovery in 2009
Some resolutions for the New Year.The SoberRecovery site has put up a forum entitled: "Anybody up for New Year Resolutions?" You can read the thread at the link above. There are old ones, new ones, and in-between ones.From the practical...“i will b...
Nothing Beats Booze
Annual survey ranks alcohol as #1 problem.Drugs may make headlines, but alcohol is the elephant sitting in the corner of the room, according to Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA), a non-profit organization that conducts an annual surve...
Drugs for Alcoholism
Different meds for different drinkers Although there are still only three drugs officially approved by the FDA for the treatment of alcoholism, the research picture is beginning to change. In an article by Greg Miller published in the 11 April 2008 e...
Annals of Addiction: Richard Lewis
From The Harder They Fall"It's hard to know exactly when I became an alcoholic. What I do know is that growing up I felt misunderstood, not appreciated, and needing validation. I didn't feel I was getting it from important people in my life. They had...
Annals of Addiction: Grace Slick
From The Harder They Fall"There's a whole bunch of alcoholics on both sides of my family, but they function in the sense that everybody kept their jobs. There were no divorces, except for my grandmother, but she's not an alcoholic. She was just a wil...
Annals of Addiction: Malcolm McDowell
From The Harder They Fall"My father was an alcoholic, so I never really drank much. I kept away from it, but I didn't realize that cocaine was really the same thing. Alcohol eventually started getting a little out of control, but in the form of 'fine...
Ten Things to Know about Addiction
From "Rethinking Substance Abuse."In the closing chapter of their 2006 book, "Rethinking Substance Abuse,” editors William R. Miller and Kathleen M. Carroll attempt to sum up what has been learned about the science of addiction. Their useful contr...
Drug That Blocks Stress Receptor May Curb Alcohol Craving
Anxiety, drugs, and the brain’s “fear center.”A brain receptor for a neurotransmitter involved in stress and anxiety has become a primary target in the scientific war on alcoholism—the only kind of drug war that really matters.Researchers at...
Soros Funds Addiction Initiative
Urges insurance companies to close “treatment gap.” In a move designed to jump-start a reluctant insurance industry, philanthropist George Soros is pushing an addiction initiative aimed at the estimated 20 million Americans who cannot afford trea...
Making a Mockery of Drug Addiction
Drug and alcohol treatment tarnished by celebrity dabblersNewsflash: Lindsay Lohan in drug rehab for the… third time? Fourth? Fifth?Britney Spears, in and out of Malibu rehab three times in one week--so fast she barely has time to recover from the ...
