Real World Addiction

Published February 21, 2013

Real World Addiction – Austin is suffering from withdrawals and needs to make a choice between his addiction and his relationship with his girlfriend Ariel.

Can you become addicted to chocolate?

Filed under: addiction withdrawal

That's likely because foods that deliver a lot of sugar and fat — like chocolate — trigger reward pathways in the brain. In some animal studies, restricting these foods induced a stress-like response consistent with the “withdrawal” response seen in …
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Your Health with Dr. Stephanie: Task force takes aim at infant drug addiction

Filed under: addiction withdrawal

I have seen first-hand at hospitals in Tampa and South Florida the heart-wrenching suffering these newborns experience from withdrawals. Sensitive to sound and light, they are tucked away inside incubators and bassinets in darkened neonatal intensive …
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Woman Dies From Her Coca-Cola Addiction Death?

Filed under: addiction withdrawal

Her family said she had developed an addiction to Coca-Cola and would get withdrawal symptoms, including "the shakes", if she went without her favourite drink. "(She would) go crazy if she ran out… she would get the shakes, withdrawal symptoms, be …
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