Dr. Nora Volkow: How Drug Addiction Hijacks the Brain

Dr. Nora Volkow: How Drug Addiction Hijacks the Brain – Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, explains addiction pharmacologically and looks at how drugs of abuse take control of the r…

Schumer Launching Campaign To Reclassify Addictive Prescription Drug

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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — There is a new push under way to reclassify a highly addictive and potentially dangerous narcotic painkiller that may already be in your medicine cabinet. Hydrocodone, better known by its brand name Vicodin, is derived from …
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Pete Wentz opens up about his drug addiction and divorce to Ashlee Simpson

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Pete Wentz was recently interviewed by Rolling Stone Magazine [via Radar Online], and he discusses his past issues with drug addiction as well as his painful divorce from Ashlee Simpson. Less than five years ago, Wentz was the lead singer of Fall Out …
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