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College prevention programs used to dealing with alcohol and illicit drugs are devoting more attention to drugs like Ritalin and Adderral, but with limited success. Richard Clark, director of medical toxicology at the University of California at San Diego, said that the drugs are being used as mood-lifters and appetite suppressants as well as to improve concentration.
Preliminary studies investigated the effect of two herbs, kudzu (Pueraria lobata) and St. John's Wort (Hypericum perforatum) on alcohol intake. Male and female subjects who took the kudzu capsules drank an average of 1.8 beers in 90 minutes, compared to the average of 3.5 beers consumed by the subjects who took the placebo. Recent preminary studies have found that St. John's Wort may also decrease alcohol intake.
Tiger Woods, who recently admitted to multiple extramarital affairs, said he is receiving treatment. David Duchovny, who plays a sex-obsessed professor on the TV show Californication, underwent rehab in 2008. Dr. Drew Pinsky has launched a reality series dealing with the subject. Sex addiction talk seems to be everywhere. But mental health experts are split on what underlies such behaviour.
Moderate alcohol consumption prior to a traumatic event like a car crash or sexual assault has been linked to higher rates of flashbacks among victims. Researchers from University College London also found, however, that no increase in flashbacks was reported by those who drank heavily before their trauma.
The biological discoveries have been so much more illuminating than the Freudian notion that addiction stems from "dependency needs" dating to childhood. It's understandable, then, that more funding, and seemingly all the excitement, has gone to discover medications and vaccines for addiction, not to implement behavioral therapies. And although the media laud the smallest steps toward a cocaine vaccine, when a study shows—yawn—that rewarding abstinence can get addicts off meth, that couples counseling can treat alcoholism, or that cognitive-behavior therapy can break the grip of coke addiction … silence.
Teens exposed to secondhand smoke have measurably thicker arteries than adolescents who are not exposed, suggesting that for children "even a little exposure to tobacco smoke may be harmful for blood vessels," according to researcher Katariina Kallio of the University of Turku in Finland.
What are the odds of Bad Blake, Jeff Bridges’ alcoholic, chain-smoking country singer, overcoming and/or surviving his demons? The premise [of the movie "Crazy Heart"]: Otis "Bad" Blake ( Jeff Bridges) is a 57-year-old country singer and songwriter who has fallen on hard times. He's an alcoholic and chain smoker. He's experiencing frequent blackouts and episodes of vomiting from the alcohol, and he has jitters when he goes more than a few hours without a glass of whiskey. While playing in a small nightclub in Santa Fe, N.M., he becomes romantically involved with a newspaper reporter played by Maggie Gyllenhaal and befriends her 4-year-old son, Buddy (Jack Nation). But he continues to drink.
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Dr. Kern is a certified addictions specialist with thirty years of experience and a private practice in Los Angeles, CA. He was one of the first professionals in the United States to promote and use non-12-step addiction treatment approaches. His website, habitdoc.com alcohol treatment program, brings his alternative addiction treatment services to a world audience.

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