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- The Marketing of Tranquillity by Addiction Treatment and Mental Health Blog on Nov 10, 2009
Before the second half of the 19th century, the dominant medical and popular notions of disease rested on a humoral theory, first put forward by Hippocrates and Aristotle, and then Galen, later in the 2nd century AD. According to this theory, there w...
- What is Liability by Addiction Treatment and Mental Health Blog on Nov 6, 2009
Liability for drug induced injuries did not become an issue of general concern until quite recently. However, a number of drug-induced problems from thalidomide in the 1960s to Opren and diethylstilbestrol in the 1970s have caused widespread public d...
- Psychological Factors in Drug Use and Drug Abuse by Addiction Treatment and Mental Health Blog on Nov 6, 2009
If the induction of appetites and cravings, which has been hitherto seen as psychological dependence, is not in fact any more psychological than the physical dependence that underlies withdrawal, is there any other psychology involved? There almost c...
- What is consent? by Addiction Treatment and Mental Health Blog on Nov 6, 2009
Over the past two decades there appears to have been a shift within health care from an expectation that patients with medical problems should entrust themselves passively to the care of physicians to an expectation that they should co-operate in the...
- Physical Dependence: type 1 by Addiction Treatment and Mental Health Blog on Oct 28, 2009
Before considering this in detail, we must exclude a type of physical dependence that occurs with a great number of drugs and ordinarily is of little consequence. Many drugs will cause rebound symptoms once they are discontinued. This happens particu...
- Ten Facts About Onions by pickleandpreserve on Oct 27, 2009
image source wikimedia commons1. Onion is a term used for many plants in the genus Allium, but usually refers to Allium cepa the garden onion.2. Traces of onion remains have been found in Bronze Age settlements dating back to 5000 BC.3. Alexander the...
- Ten Facts About Onions by pickleandpreserve on Oct 27, 2009
image source wikimedia commons1. Onion is a term used for many plants in the genus Allium, but usually refers to Allium cepa the garden onion.2. Traces of onion remains have been found in Bronze Age settlements dating back to 5000 BC.3. Alexander the...
