Depression, anxiety and addictions: obesity is a risk factor for many mental illnesses
© shutterstockIn France, in 2020, nearly 17% of adults suffered from obesity, according to an Inserm survey published in February ...
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Parkinson’s disease: beware of addictions
© GettyImagesSome treatments for Parkinson disease multiply the development of impulsivity, eating disorderssexual hyperactivity, compulsive urges to buy orgambling addictionaccording ...
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Couple: Lena Dunham gets rid of her addictions … including love!
© GettyImagesIn recent years, Lena Dunham has confided a lot about her state of health. Severely affected by endometriosis, she ...
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Chemsex: an epidemic close to that of AIDS according to the New York Times
This practice of taking synthetic drugs in a sexual context is wreaking havoc among the gay community. So much so ...
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How frustration can lead to addiction
A Texas addiction research team has identified frustration as a factor in substance use disorders. THE ESSENTIAL Conducted with rats, ...
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Alcohol, tobacco, drugs: heart disease threatens young people
Heart disease does not spare young people. Those who regularly consume alcohol, tobacco and drugs are nine times more likely ...
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Adolescence: being optimistic keeps away the temptations of drugs and alcohol
Teenagers who have an overall optimistic vision of their life (as well as their childhood, their daily life and their ...
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Stress, addictions, Alzheimer’s: what if the solutions came from our gut?
Our gut is actually "our second brain". Professor Gabriel Perlemuter, head of the hepato-gastroenterology and nutrition department at the Antoine-Béclère ...
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Sexual minorities: addictions increase the risk of psychiatric disorders
More than half of gay, lesbian and bisexual people who abuse alcohol or tobacco also have psychiatric disorders. THE ESSENTIAL ...
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Addictions: “Summer holidays are a good time to identify”
Given that it undeniably passes through self-diagnosis, work on addictions can be favored by the summer holidays. In question: contextual ...
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Coronavirus: the addictive behavior of the French is accentuated during confinement
Tobacco, alcohol, social networks, drugs… An Odoxa survey reveals the addictive behavior of the French during confinement. Alcohol, tobacco, drugs, ...
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E-health to fight against addictions
© Getty ImagesEvery year, the addictionsare responsible for 120,000 deaths in France. France would thus be one of the countries ...
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Musical artists affected by depression and addictions
A vast study carried out by the Cura collective reveals the dark side of the profession of artist. Fragile mental ...
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Alcohol and tobacco, the addictions that do the most damage to health
© gettyimages250 million years of life lost in 2015. This is how dangerous tobacco and alcohol consumption is for human ...
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© GettyImagesSome treatments for Parkinson disease multiply the development of impulsivity, eating disorderssexual hyperactivity, compulsive urges to buy orgambling addictionaccording ...
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Health and unemployment: “Losing your job is a trauma, in the clinical sense of the term”
American economists underline the link between unemployment in the world and the increase in illnesses and premature deaths linked to ...
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Fight against addictions: the trail of neurons that suppress addiction
Some of our neurons would suppress addiction reactions to drugs and alcohol. This is shown by a study that could ...
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Drug addiction: consulting a doctor in hospital increases the chances of starting treatment
An innovative addiction counseling program at the hospital encourages patients to start treatment to heal themselves. According to a recent ...
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News, social networks…: how our brain makes us addicted to information
According to a new study, information would play the same role as money and sweets on our brain by acting ...
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Opioid crisis: the American manufacturer Insys will pay 225 million dollars
Suspected of having paid bribes to doctors to encourage them to prescribe its powerful opioid fentanyl, the American laboratory Insys ...
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Fighting addiction through e-health will soon be possible
While the number of addicts is increasing in France, the government recommends fighting against addictions through e-health. In some French ...
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Opioids: varying dosages increases the risk of overdose
Whatever the dosage of opioids, changing the doses during the treatment multiplies by 3 the risk of overdoses. 200 people ...
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Cocaine: consumption reaches a record figure in France
The French Observatory of Drugs and Addiction warns in a report on the consumption of cocaine which has increased significantly ...
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Cocaine in France, nightmares and activated brain cells after death Cocaine: consumption reaches a record figure in France Brain: why do we have nightmares? Researchers have succeeded in reactivating dead pig brain cells
Cocaine consumption has reached a record figure in France, we finally know the origin of nightmares and researchers have succeeded ...
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Grief weakens the immune system
Mourners have elevated levels of inflammation, defective expression of immune cell genes, and reduced antibody reactivity. Losing a loved one ...
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Opioids: a drug against depression would facilitate withdrawal
Researchers have found that rapastinel, originally developed to treat depression, allows withdrawal from opioids in a few days in rats.Opioids ...
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Addiction to painkillers: at least 4 deaths per week due to opioids in France
While the United States is going through a deadly health crisis due to opioid addiction, the ANSM reveals that at ...
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Painkillers: 200 people die every day of an overdose in the United States
Opioids, derivatives of morphine, are wreaking havoc in the United States: every day, 200 people die from overdoses, collapsing in ...
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How our genes influence our use of tobacco and alcohol
Researchers have found genetic variants in some people that may predispose to increased consumption of alcohol and tobacco.The health dangers ...
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Anxiety: fake Xanax is wreaking havoc in the UK
More and more young people are buying copies of this anxiolytic on the internet. In Scotland, the number of deaths ...
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