A Cure for Addiction?

A cure for addiction? – National Institute on Drug Abuse Director Nora Volkow explains how discoveries about stroke victims could help us find the cure for addiction.

Kentucky students to first lady Michelle Obama: Your food 'tastes like vomit'

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Students in a rural Kentucky county — and their parents — are the latest to join a growing national chorus of scorn for the healthy school lunches touted by first lady Michelle Obama. “They say it tastes like vomit,” said Harlan County Public Schools …
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Former Ohio governor, congressman Gilligan dies

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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Former Ohio Gov. and U.S. Rep. John J. Gilligan, a liberal Democrat whose creation of the state income tax was his most lasting accomplishment and also the undoing of his political career, died Monday. He was 92. Gilligan's death …
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Seminar on Drugs in North East and National Narcotics Policy in Guwahati

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It will be held from the 5th to 7th December 2013 at Don Bosco Institute, Kharguli. The three- day seminar will include discussions on the extent and prevalence of all kinds of drug abuse in the region, illicit cultivation of opium, production and …
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Drug czar Gil Kerlikowske talks tough on marijuana as pressure grows

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Nora Volkow, the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, who appeared with the drug czar at the Baltimore news conference, said surveys of marijuana use now showed “the highest rates ever” for regular consumption by high school seniors, at 6 …
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