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Hypnotherapy and Addiction
Is an addiction taking over your life? With any problem it is very difficult to acknowledge there is a problem and breaking the habit seems impossible. It can take over your life and cause problems in relationships, careers and finances. Seeking help...
The Marketing of Tranquillity
Tranquillity Before the second half of the 19th century, the dominant medical and popular notions of disease rested on a humoral theory, first put forward by Hippocrates and Aristotle, and then Galen, later in the 2nd century AD. According to this th...
Physical Dependence: type 2
In 1954, Olds and Milner discovered that there appeared to be pleasure spots in the brain. Implanting electrodes in certain areas of the brain, through which a rat can give itself an electric current by pressing on a lever, produced in most brain are...
What is consent?
Over the past two decades there appears to have been a shift within health care from an expectation that patients with medical problems should entrust themselves passively to the care of physicians to an expectation that they should co-operate in the...
Psychological Factors in Drug Use and Drug Abuse
If the induction of appetites and cravings, which has been hitherto seen as psychological dependence, is not in fact any more psychological than the physical dependence that underlies withdrawal, is there any other psychology involved? There almost c...
What is Liability
Separation Liability Liability for drug induced injuries did not become an issue of general concern until quite recently. However, a number of drug-induced problems from thalidomide in the 1960s to Opren and diethylstilbestrol in the 1970s have cause...

