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Chinese surgeons are performing the procedure at a rate critics call "alarming". [Image Source: Xinhua]  Chinese Doctors Exp...

Smoking Kills Challiyil Eswaramangalath Vipin via Wikimedia With New Nicotine Vaccine, Cigarettes Give You No Ple...

Facebook And Twitter Are More Addictive Than Cigarettes Or Alcohol, Study Finds -- FOX News A new study suggests that social networking serv...

When the wider social effects were factored in, alcohol was deemed the most dangerous, followed by heroin and crack cocaine, according to a ...

Just 10 more minutes (Image: Bay Ismoyo/Getty) From New Scientist: WHEN does our predilection for internet technology cross over into harmfu...

From The Telegraph: Valium, the tranquilliser once known as "mother's little helper", works by boosting the same brain chemica...

A man prepares bundles of cocaine in his house to be sold in a neighborhood in Venezuela. Researchers are getting closer to understanding ho...

The discovery has been hailed as possible method of helping addicts get off Cocaine and could prevent deaths from overdose. Photo: PA From ...

Scientists are reporting new clues to understanding morphine addiction. (Credit: US Drug Enforcement Administration) From Science Daily: Sc...

From Yahoo News/Health Day: FRIDAY, Dec. 18 (HealthDay News) -- The genes that make people susceptible to alcoholism also make them prone to...

HIGH HOPES: Vaccines to decrease cocaine use have been in the works for years, but this new trial has had some encouraging results. ISTOCKPH...

Researchers have found a naturally occurring protein that gets rats addicted with no drugs at all. From left: BYU grad student David Allison...

Researchers have found that the alpha-7 receptor, a site known to bind with nicotine, interacts with 55 different proteins. Nicotine may aff...

From Live Science: A study of rats finds they show all the signs of addiction to sugar. The finding could help better understand eating diso...