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The woman 'married' to a fairground ride, the lady who eats bricks and a Pamela Anderson obsessive: New TV series documents the strangest addictions

The woman ‘married’ to a fairground ride, the lady who eats bricks and a Pamela Anderson obsessive: New TV series documents the strangest addictions

Linda Ducharme, 56, has married an Sky Diver fairground ride called Bruce, who does not currently work. She has objectum sexual, an orientation in which a person finds inanimate objects attractive But Linda Ducharme, of Tampa, Florida, has decided to forgo relationships with men for those with metal.  The 56-year-old is ‘happily married’ to a skydiver carnival called Bruce – as she is sexually a
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I was addicted to the ‘crack cocaine’ of gambling

How a mother of six lost $500,000 through her addiction to slot machines. (Source: CNN.com – Health)MedWorm Sponsor Message: Directory of the best January Sales in the UK. Find the best Christmas presents too.
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The burden of disease attributable to cannabis use in Canada in 2012

ConclusionsThe cannabis‐attributable burden of disease in Canada in 2012 included 55,813 years of life lost due to disability, mainly caused by cannabis use disorders. Although the cannabis‐attributable burden of disease was substantial, it was much lower compared with other commonly used legal and illegal substances. Moreover, the evidence base for cannabis‐attributable harms was smaller. T
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Dose-dependent effects of alcohol administration on behavioral profiles in the MCSF test

The acute effects of alcohol administration are age-, dose-, time- and task-dependent. Although generally considered to be a sedative drug, alcohol has both stimulatory and depressant effects on behavior, depending on dose and time. Alcohol-induced motor activating effects are consistently shown in mice but rarely demonstrated in adult, outbred rats using conventional behavioral tests. The aim of
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Alveolar macrophage inflammatory mediator expression is elevated in the setting of alcohol use disorders

We examined the effect of AUDs on profiles of cytokines, chemokines, and growth factors in human AMs isolated from bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) samples from 19 AUD subjects and 20 age-, sex-, and smoking-matched control subjects. (Source: Alcohol)
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