Archive for August, 2009
Posts of the Week
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More info…Here are some articles of note. 12 Step Program: Shopping Addiction? MLR (My Life ROI) offers an overview of a twelve-step program for overcoming an addition to shopping. What I really like about this post are the twelve ways to spot a shopping addict. People are notoriously inept when it comes to self-evaluation; perhaps [...]
Tags: Addiction
Addicted to War: Americas Brutal Pipe Dream in Afghanistan
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More info…Looks like the “Good War” in Afghanistan is morphing even more directly into the “Drug War” that the U.S. government has been waging all over the world and especially against its own people for almost 40 years now, with all the attendant aggrandizement of authoritarian powers and degradation of civil liberties and human rights. [...]
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Sin Bin for Worst Families Another Load of Old Balls?
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More info…Big brother Ed Balls is watching. Radical new plans laid out by the Childrens Secretary will put some of Englands worst families under 24-hour CCTV surveillance in their own homes. Mr Balls has allocated 400 million to monitor 20,000 problem families over the next two years, in a bid to reduce the number of [...]
Tags: Parents With Addicted Children
School Program Prevents Date Violence Among Teens
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More info…A ninth grade program that informs students on healthy relationships appears to reduce adolescent dating violence and increase condom use two and a half years later. The effects of the low-cost intervention appear stronger in boys. Approximately one in 10 to one in five high schoolaged teens are hit, slapped or beaten by an [...]
Tags: Parents With Addicted Children
HIV Treatment and HIV Medications
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More info…Immune therapies are treatments which influence or modify certain components of the immune system. besides drugs a number of therapies are being looked into for use by people with HIV by boosting the bodys immunity. How HIV drugs are combined and the order in which they are given are important factors to consider when [...]
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