It Affects Us All: One Family’s Perspective on Addiction

It Affects Us All: One Family’s Perspective on Addiction – Drug use and its damaging effect on families and relationships – which is something the Lajeuenesse family learned firsthand.

Breast Cancer Drugs Are Hiding in Bodybuilding Supplements

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Also known by the delightful slang terms of “gyno” or “bitch tits,” it's a common side-effect of taking anabolic steroids. A 2012 report on “human enhancement drugs” explains that steroid users often take tamoxifen to prevent gynaecomastia, though it's …
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For Maine babies exposed to drugs, disadvantages mount after leaving hospital

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While scientists are still researching how the babies fare over the long term, illicit drug use during pregnancy is associated with a variety of harmful effects, ranging from low birth weight to developmental delays, according to the National Institute …
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Turn tide on heroin deaths now, Minnesota officials told

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Although identifying no one specifically, Dr. Joseph Lee, medical director of Hazelden's youth facility, told Klobuchar and other roundtable participants that calls about celebrity deaths can be discouraging to Lee because “it takes the problem far …
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