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Drinking Surged During The Pandemic. Do You Know The Signs Of Addiction?
Those with obsessive-compulsive disorder and other serious anxieties face uniquely difficult mental health battles, including trying to distinguish concerns brought on by their conditions from general fears shared by the public about COVID-19.
Drinking During Rough Times
If you are drinking more to cope with the stress, anxiety or boredom of the coronavirus pandemic, it's important to know how alcohol can affect your health.
AA Still Best to Beat Problem Drinking, Review Finds
Researchers found that Alcoholics Anonymous was more effective than behavioral therapies when it came to helping people remain abstinent.
Vaping is Bad for Everyone, and It's Especially Unhealthy for Children
Vaping and e-cigarettes have become an epidemic. This is a serious public health and women’s health problem because many adolescents and young people have started vaping recently, and vaping is now associated with deaths and of severe lung injuries.
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Parent Alert! Your Kid May Be Vaping More Than Tobacco
Parents need to be concerned about what kids are using in vaping devices (also known as e-cigarettes) since they can contain marijuana and not just nicotine and flavorings.
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Pediatricians Put It Bluntly: Motherhood and Marijuana Don't Mix
Women who are pregnant of breastfeeding their infants should avoid marijuana since THC (one of the active compounds in marijuana) can easily cross the placenta and accumulate in the brain and fat of the fetus, and this can harm the fetus or their baby.
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