Posted on 17 February 2022. Tags: Alexa, Alexa dependent, addiction, entertainment, music, timer
At first, I wasn’t sure what to think of this strange cylindrical object sitting on our kitchen counter, courtesy of my husband Randy. “Have a nice day,” it would say in a cool, female voice or give the local weather forecast or play whatever song we asked.
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Posted on 28 February 2019. Tags: Alcohol, addiction, study, treatment, women
Although women are more likely than men to seek treatment for most medical or psychiatric disorders, men are more likely to seek alcohol treatment.
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Posted in Health studies
Posted on 12 December 2018. Tags: Chocolate, addiction, coping, women
You think you know how you’ll react in a crisis. You think you’ll be calm and collected. But then it happens and you’re not.
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Posted on 31 July 2018. Tags: Counseling, addiction, adults, aging, opioids
Nearly a third of older adults have received a prescription for an opioid pain medicine in the past two years, but many of them didn’t get enough counseling about the risks.
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Posted in Health, Health studies
Posted on 08 May 2018. Tags: addiction, cell phone
The other morning my husband Randy did something so unexpected, so out of the blue, so sudden, so surprising, I gasped in sputtering disbelief.
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Posted on 17 May 2017. Tags: Health, Pain, addiction, alternatives, opioids
Vicodin, OxyContin and similar drugs are widely used for bad backs, severe arthritis, damaged nerves and other woes.
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Posted in Health