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"Study: Teen pot use, IQ linked"
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"The D.S.M. Gets Addiction Right"
The New York Times, By Howard Markel, June 5, 2012
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"Are You a Food Addict?"
Men’s Health, By Paul Kita, April 10, 2012
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"New wrinkle in pot debate: stoned driving"
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"Xanax Can Be Addictive, Dangerous: Doctors 2:46"
NBC Washington, By Doreen Genzler, February 17, 2012
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"Creatively confronting addiction"
The Lancet, By Denna Jones, January 7, 2012
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"Are You Inhaling Secondhand Coke?"
Science Now, By Elizabeth Norton, December 15, 2011
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"Teen Smoking, Drinking Down, Marijuana Use Up 1:15"
ABC News, By Mikeala Conley, December 14, 2011
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"Survey: More teens using synthetic drugs"
USA TODAY, By Donna Leinwand, December 14, 2011
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"Designer Drugs Fry Brain Like Ecstasy"
Live Science, By Jennifer Welsh, December 14, 2011
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"Moms on Drugs: The Prescription Pill Epidemic"
Parents Magazine, By Andrea Barbalich, November 1, 2011
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"Generation Wired"
Parade Magazine, By Emily Listfield, October 7, 2011
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"An Addiction Vaccine, Tantalizingly Close"
The New York Times, By Douglas Quenqua, October 3, 2011
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"Washington’s 100 Most Powerful Women"
Washingtonian, By Leslie Milk, October 3, 2011
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"Don't study the video game, study the player"
USA Today, By Sharon Jayson, September 15, 2011
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"Who Falls to Addiction, and Who Is Unscathed?"
The New York Times, By Richard A. Friedman, M.D., August 1, 2011
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"The promise of genetic research"
Addiction Professional, By Barbara Hesselgrave, July 15, 2011
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"Stoned driving is uncharted territory"
Los Angeles Times, By Ralph Vartabedian, July 2, 2011
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"Coaches suspect steroid use on the decline"
Yahoo Sports, By Dallas Jackson, June 27, 2011
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"Why Smokers Gain Weight When Quitting"
WebMD, By Daniel J. DeNoon, June 10, 2011
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"US Teens Using More Marijuana (24:08)"
PressTV: American Dream, By Michelle Katz, January 24, 2011
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"Drug overdoses on the rise in most age groups"
Reuters Health, By Genevra Pittman, December 23, 2010
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"U.S.: More teens smoke marijuana than cigarettes"
USA TODAY, By Rita Rubin, December 14, 2010
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"The Killers in Your Medicine Cabinet"
Reader's Digest, By Alexis Jetter, December 1, 2010
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"Education is key to smoke-free air"
Columbia Daily Tribune, By Evelyn Robertson, November 18, 2010
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"Fighting Teen Drug Use with Plain Facts"
TIME, By Maia Szalavitz, November 10, 2010
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"Longer-lasting options to treat drug addiction"
Associated Press, By Lauran Neergaard, October 18, 2010
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"Monthly Injection Approved To Fight Drug Addiction"
NPR, By Richard Knox, October 13, 2010
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"Can Internet use trigger depression?"
Reuters, By Frederik Joelving, October 4, 2010
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"Lasting Pleasures, Robbed by Drug Abuse"
The New York Times, By Richard A. Friedman, August 30, 2010
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"Prescription Painkiller Addiction: 7 Myths"
WebMD, By Miranda Hitti, August 2, 2010
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"How to Take Control of Your Cravings"
Ladies Home Journal, By Leslie Goldman, August 1, 2010
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"Drug War Statement Upstaged at AIDS Gathering"
The New York Times, By Donald G. McNeil Jr., July 22, 2010
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"Does Teen Drug Rehab Cure Addiction or Create It?"
Time.com, By Maia Szalavitz, July 16, 2010
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"Desperate Addicts Inject Others' Blood"
The New York Times, By Donald G. McNeil Jr, July 12, 2010
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"Secret of AA: After 75 Years, We Don't Know How It Works"
Wired, By Brendan I. Koerner, June 23, 2010
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"The Anatomy of Craving"
SELF Magazine, By Melissa Chessher, June 1, 2010
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"Anabolic steroid users may face heart trouble"
Reuters, By Frederik Joelving, April 30, 2010
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"Nicotine vaccine effective in early tests"
CNN.com, By Val Willingham, April 22, 2010
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"Mapping drug addicts' tracks"
Science News, By Laura Sanders, April 15, 2010
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"Can Eating Junk Food Really Be an Addiction?"
TIME, By Maia Szalavitz, April 3, 2010
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"Katie Couric's Notebook: Food Addiction"
CBSnews.com, By Katie Couric , March 31, 2010
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"Forget the Cocaine Vaccine"
Newsweek, By Sharon Begley, March 5, 2010
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"Superwoman syndrome fuels pill-popping"
MSNBC.com, By Karen Asp, February 24, 2010
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"Are Doctors Too Reluctant to Prescribe Opioids?"
Time.com, By Maia Szalavitz, February 24, 2010
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"A Common Cut in Cocaine May Prove Deadly"
Time.com, By Maia Szalavitz, January 20, 2010
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"Opioid painkiller overload"
latimes.com, By Valerie Ulene, January 11, 2010
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"Cocaine changes how genes work in brain"
Reuters.com, By Julie Steenhuysen, January 7, 2010

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