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General Science
Quitting Smoking
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010 - 15:52:37 - Ehud Rattner
Blocking thoughts of cigarettes helps reduce smokers' intake at first, but means they smoke more than usual when they stop suppressing, according to...

Medicine
How Smoking Causes Lung Cancer
How Smoking Causes Lung Cancer
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
Millions of people die each year from smoking. This 3D medical animation is part of an anti-smoking campaign ad, showing how...

General Science
A Helping Hand for Addicts
Monday, June 29th, 2009 - 13:55:24 - Ehud Rattner
Vincent Clark, of the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, thinks he has something like a crystal ball for drug addicts. By applying traditional...

Medicine
World's Most Dangerous Drug
World's Most Dangerous Drug
Thursday, May 7th, 2009
Methamphetamine is a very addictive stimulant drug that affects the central nervous system. The white, odorless...

Medicine
Menthol Cigarettes Are More Addictive
Monday, January 12th, 2009 - 18:41:57 - Ehud Rattner
Menthol cigarettes are harder to quit, particularly among African American and Latino smokers, according to researchers at the University of Medicine...

Software
Compulsive Gamers 'Not Addicts'
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008 - 12:06:40 - Ehud Rattner
Ninety per cent of the young people who seek treatment for compulsive computer gaming are not addicted. So says Keith Bakker the founder and head of...

General Science
Impulsivity Linked to Cocaine Addiction
Sunday, June 8th, 2008 - 16:20:23 - Ehud Rattner
Call it the chicken-and-egg debate of the addiction world: Cocaine addicts are known for being frenetic, but which came first, the behavior or the...

Medicine
Brain 'Reboot' to Stop Drug Addiction?
Saturday, April 12th, 2008 - 10:06:31 - Ehud Rattner
Scientists for the first time have identified long-term changes in mice brains that may shed light on why addicts get hooked on drugs—in this case...

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