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	<title>Addiction Issues in the News</title>
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		<title>Response to Recent Study on Reasons for Painkiller Misuse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you ask people why they think they are using they will all tell you some reason &#8212; depression, anxiety, stress, my parents hated me, etc, etc., but I believe that most of the time they don&#8217;t really understand why they are using &#8212; the dysfunction of their brain&#8217;s reward system caused by the interaction [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.belaircenterforaddictions.com/?p=9</link>
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		<title>New Brain Study Focuses on Alcohol Dependency</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brain chemistry continues to teach us a lot regarding addiction and the treatment of addiction through the use of medicine. At the Bel Air Center for Addictions, we&#8217;re already using an FDA approved medication for alcohol dependency that works by blocking the opioid receptor.  It will be interesting to see the results from this Johns [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.belaircenterforaddictions.com/?p=8</link>
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		<title>Overdose death of Hopkins doctor demonstrates severity of addictive disease</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week in Baltimore a post-doctoral student who studied neuroscience and the effect of drugs on the brain at Johns Hopkins University died from an overdose of an injected narcotic drug. The person who died was apparently experimenting with multiple drugs that she and her boyfriend,  also a post-doctoral student at Johns Hopkins, had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.belaircenterforaddictions.com/?p=7</link>
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		<title>Addiction isn&#8217;t only a celebrity problem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Addiction isn&#8217;t only a celebrity problem
Between the DEA investigating doctors who allegedly prescribed painkillers to Michael Jackson and the recent Maryland news of a pharmacist who was arrested on federal charges for allegedly selling more than 23,000 prescription pills, the abuse of prescription painkillers is high profile.
Many don’t understand just how big of an issue [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.belaircenterforaddictions.com/?p=6</link>
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		<title>The Addiction Conspiracy: You Don&#8217;t Have to Struggle</title>
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The Addiction Conspiracy:
You Don&#8217;t Have to Struggle
New book by Baltimore addiction medicine specialist explains brain chemistry and addiction so everyone can understand
Click Here to Purchase Your Copy of The Addiction Conspiracy
Key Points:

Recent study of brain chemistry proves addiction is a disease, which can be treated with medicine like many other diseases.
The general medical community does [...]]]></description>
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