In the latest iteration of ICD, gaming disorder falls under the umbrella of addiction.Medscape Internal Medicine (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)MedWorm Message: If you are looking to buy something in the January Sales please visit TheJanuarySales.com for a directory of all the best sales in the UK. Any income gained via affiliate links keeps MedWorm running.
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(NEW YORK) — The head of the nation’s top public health agency says the opioid epidemic will be one of his priorities, and he revealed a personal reason for it: His son almost died from taking cocaine contaminated with the powerful painkiller fentanyl.
“For me, it’s personal. I almost lost one of my children from it,” Dr. Robert Redfield Jr. told the annual conference
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Aurora Health Care is unveiling a $35 million expansion and remodeling at its Wauwatosa behavioral health campus that the health care system says will improve access to mental health and addiction-treatment care in southeast Wisconsin.
The final project of the initiative announced in October 2015 is a new Dewey Center that doubles Aurora’s capacity for residential addiction treatment. The 75,4
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(Wiley) In an Addiction Biology study, the estimated prevalence of very high risk drinking level (VHRDL, defined as drinking>100 g of ethanol per day) in 13 European Union countries was 0.74-0.85 percent, with a risk of disease or injury of 13.5 per 100 people with VHRDL per year. (Source: EurekAlert! – Medicine and Health)
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(University of Connecticut) Gyms are places people go to get healthier. But nearly half the gyms in the U.S. contain a potentially addictive carcinogen — tanning beds, report UConn researchers in the July 18 issue of JAMA Dermatology. Exercise reduces the risk of every cancer except melanoma. Tanning beds in gyms make tanning seem like part of a healthy lifestyle, undermine public health messagin
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