We're All Mad Here

We're all mad here

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It is now extremely easy to qualify for DSM 5 attention deficit disorder and ask your doctor for a stimulant to help improve your cognitive performance. * And DSM 5 has introduced the interesting concept that behaviors are just as addicting as …
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United States: Understanding Dorner

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In a city home to both Hollywood and Skid Row, the place of residency for a large immigrant population, where the plagues of poverty and drug addiction consume whole neighborhoods, this is obviously reflected in the racist reputation of the LAPD. As a …
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Life in a Fix: Confessions of an Addicted Physician—Part 3

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I found a comfortable room that was close to the subway station and a shopping center. With help from a family member whom I thus far had failed to alienate I purchased a nice apartment in a middle-class neighborhood. I had friends, a job and a new life.
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Owning your 'stuff' is less painful than wishing it away

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Some of the people with whom I work who are in early recovery from drug and/or alcohol addiction wonder whether their cravings to drink and/or get high will ever stop. Family members of people who are struggling with compulsions, whether it is drugs …
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