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Cassava℠ Free Addiction Recovery App Now Available for Android Devices

The CassavaSM addiction recovery app, launched in April for iPhone, is now available for Android devices. The app features daily affirmations and recovery tips, a personal journal, and a comprehensive database with more than 140,000 12-step and non-12-step listings to help app users locate support group meetings, whether at home or on the road.

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Watch Out for Binge-Watching TV

A marathon session of watching your favorite TV show sounds harmless enough. Thanks to on-demand viewing and online streaming, it’s easy to catch up on several episodes or even a whole season at a time. But binge-consuming anything — whether it’s TV, booze or food — may be a sign that something is missing in

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Game-Changing Marijuana Bill Would Loosen Federal Law

A bipartisan trio of senators that includes a presidential candidate has introduced landmark marijuana legislation that would change decades-old federal law. The senate bill would make cannabis more available for medical use in states where some form of marijuana use is already legal, and allow veterans and researchers access to marijuana.

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Addiction Specialist Dr. Ash Bhatt Speaks at NAMI–Broward Event

Every month the Broward County, Florida chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Health (NAMI), the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization, features a different speaker at an event that is free and open to the public. This month’s speaker was Promises Behavioral Health’s Dr. Ash Bhatt, who as chief medical officer of the company’s

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Pregnancy Stress May Be Passed Down to Multiple Generations

A new study published in BMC Medicine suggests that the effects of a stressful environment during pregnancy can be passed down to later generations. The research team, led by Gerlinde Metz, Ph.D., of the University of Lethbridge, examined the effects of stress over four generations of rats. They found that stress in previous generations did

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Groundbreaking Blood Test May Help Prevent Suicide

Could a simple blood test determine who is at a higher risk for suicide? Researchers from Johns Hopkins University say they have discovered a genetic marker linked to the human stress response that could predict a person’s risk of attempting suicide. The study was published in the July 30 edition of the American Journal of

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Binge Drinking Increases Risk For Dangerously Irregular Heartbeat

Binge drinking is a form of excessive, short-term alcohol intake known for its ability to significantly damage health and well-being in a number of ways. In a study published in July 2014 in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, a team of Swedish researchers sought to determine if participation in this form of

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Drugged Drivers Using Multiple Substances

Drugged driving is the equivalent of drunk driving; instead of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol, a person who participates in this activity operates a motor vehicle while under the influence of a mind-altering drug or medication. In a study published in July/August 2014 in the journal Public Health Reports, researchers

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