Christopher Kennedy Lawford: In Recovery, Life and a Life's Mission

Christopher Kennedy Lawford: In recovery, life and a life's mission

Filed under: drug rehab treatment methods

The book, his third, brings together self-care treatments for the seven most toxic compulsions: alcohol dependence; drug dependence; eating disorders; gambling; hoarding; smoking; sex and porn. Lawford, who has a master's in clinical psychology from …
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Curb Expense of Drug Side Effects

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Find out how many alternative drug options are available if that first drug produces intolerable side effects. Substitutes are available in many cases. Rethink dosage and timing. … But adding a generic diabetes drug, such as metformin or topiramate …
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Amid growing use of 'off-label' drugs, health experts call for closer scrutiny

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The drug, Diane-35, is regulated for temporary acne treatment, but Braun's been using it on a permanent basis as a birth control pill — even though it has been linked to the deaths of nine Canadians since 2000. That doesn't seem to faze Braun. "I …
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Heroin, prescription drugs often to blame for overdose fatalities in county, state

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Of those, 52 involved heroin, a drug that can cause a surge of euphoria and clouded thinking followed by alternately wakeful and drowsy states, according to the National Institute of Drug Abuse. Drug overdose deaths in McHenry County … potentially …
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