Depression Tie to Help Lundbeck Pill to Curb Drink Binges
Depression Tie to Help Lundbeck Pill to Curb Drink Binges
Filed under: treatment of alcoholism
Selincro, if approved, would be the first drug designed to treat alcohol abuse while allowing patients to continue drinking. Besides the EU, the company also plans to seek approval next year in Russia, where every fifth death results from alcohol abuse.
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The Illnesses That Flesh Is Heir To
Filed under: treatment of alcoholism
Melville similarly surmounted family tragedies, critical neglect, profound depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, alcoholism, cardiac failure and agonizing arthritis to write "Billy Budd," the late masterpiece that showed how his mind could still …
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US military's alcohol-soaked culture taking toll on servicemembers
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Troops and their families are asked about their alcohol use at every medical appointment. The Army is testing a program that allows confidential alcohol treatment. The Marine Corps will soon start random alcohol testing of all Marines, with at least …
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Hofmann’s Potion – Albert Hofmann LSD Documentary
By the mid-1950s, LSD-research was being published in medical and academic journals all over the world. It showed potential benefits in the treatment of alcoholism, drug addiction, and other mental illnesses. This film explores those potential benefits, and the researchers who explored them. QUOTES: Myron Stolaroff: In a good LSD experience you resolve your inner conflicts, and the loads and the barriers that have developed. You begin to reach down into the depth of your own being. You see more and more levels of being. More and more levels of understanding. Often we like to blame our feelings on other people. And what they are doing to us. But if I feel that it’s my feeling and I’ve produced it, then I’m the only one who can resolve it. And fortunately, these substances allow you see and recognize this. And resolve it. Ram Dass: I wasn’t born as Richard Albert. I was just born as a human being. And then I learned this whole business of who I am, and whether I’m good or bad, or achieving or not. All that’s learned along the way. You see all those learned things separate. You become is a point of awareness. That’s all that is left. I remember the first time this happened to me, as professor went, and middle class boy went, and pilot went, and all of my games were going off into the distance. I got this terrible panic, because, indeed, I was going to cease to exist. And I got the panic, which is the panic that precedes psychological death. Because indeed Richard Albert was …