Addiction

It all gets started innocently enough, a few alcohol based drinks, one or two capsules or possibly a needle so the spiral starts. Quickly drugs and alcohol can grant a normally bashful guy or girl a gift of recognition, regularly bringing them to the life of the party standing. Those who have misused alcohol and [...]

$1.2m ChCh bipolar study is first for NZ

Huge ups, and huge downs. Sufferers of bipolar disorder can feel deeply depressed, and yet at other times, maniacally up.

Sober and Proud: Grace Slick

Grace Slick, given birth to as Grace Wing, referred to as the First Lady of Acid Rock. For the duration of her amount of time in the music business, she’d become the lead singer of unique bands which includes the Great Society, Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship and Starship. In the well known media, among her [...]

Swedish researchers in ‘depression gene’ find

Swedish researchers at Sahlgrenska Academy in Gothenburg have managed to identify a gene which they believe has a strong connection to bipolar disorder.

The Bipolar Disorder Drug Market Will Decline from $6.5 Billion in 2010 to $4 Billion in 2020, Owing Largely to …

Decision Resources, one of the world’s leading research and advisory firms for pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that, owing largely to increasing generic competition within the atypical antipsychotic drug class—starting with Zyprexa’s …

Laguna Beach/The Hills Hottie Jason Wahler Alcoholism

Jason Wahler admits that it ended up being reality tv which made him use booze at the age of 18. His partying lifestyle got him into trouble adequate that he joined rehab seven times and was imprisoned six instances, all under the influence of alcoholic beverages. Wahler confesses he tried using drugs but that booze [...]

Antipsychotics: Modest Benefits for Non-Approved Conditions

A new research review shows that powerful drugs approved to treat schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression may have modest benefits when they are prescribed for certain other mental and behavioral problems.

Zeta-Jones’s courageous admission boosts bipolar campaign in Scotland

FILM star Catherine Zeta- Jones’ admission that she had bipolar disorder has sparked a national campaign about the illness in Scotland.

Drug Abuse in the NBA

In virtually any sports activity you can find people that are naturally attracted to illegal drugs. Several unique types of medicines are misused amid NBA participants, including marijuana, alcohol and anabolic steroids. Considering that players are expected to perform when becoming signed with multi-million dollar deals, it’s not an unexpected that some consider overall performance [...]

It’s a disease

Recent high profile deaths have put suicide and mental health in the headlines. Society stills struggles to understand that depression and bipolar affective disorder along with other mental health disorders are diseases just like cancer or heart diseas…

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