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About 40 percent of U.S. war veterans are coping with pain. The traditional strategy for pain management has been to give painkillers which can be highly addictive and result in prescription drug abuse. Hopefully, the incorporation of complementary and alternative medical practices will help the situation.

Long-term cannabis use is hazardous particularly to white matter in the developing brain of adolescents and young adults

The addictive nature of many junk foods is literally the same as the addictive nature of drugs.

Many veterans are being prescribed risky painkillers that can have profoundly negative effects, especially for those with pre-existing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and other physical ailments.

Prescription drugs are now leading the way as the most common "gateway" to illegal drug use.

Conventional medicine has failed in discovering an effective way to stop smoking without drugs. There are alternative methods that do work and here is one of them.

Two research studies show that eating fast food is linked to a greater risk of suffering from depression.

Most current treatments of PTSD and Substance Use Disorders are outdated and incomplete because they only address the apparent behaviors and symptoms and fail to address the underlying causes.

In a recent report, ninety percent of cannabis users also smoke tobacco, said Arpana Agrawal, an assistant professor of psychiatry at Washington University in St. Louis.

See videos of former smokers who had tracheotomies and the difficulties they now encounter in life.