The human brain is complex. This three-pound organ computes when to breathe, what to think, what emotion to display, how to react to pain, and a billion other mini-and-not-so-mini reactions. The brain executes 4 functions: Regulates your body’s basic systems...
Posted on – April 20, 2016 By Sabrina Tavernise WASHINGTON — Life expectancy declined slightly for white Americans in 2014, according to new federal data, a troubling sign that distress among younger and middle-age whites who are dying at ever-higher rates from...
Posted on Business Insider – March 7, 2016 by Harrison Jacobs It’s no secret that heroin use is hitting record numbers in the US. For journalist Erin Marie Daly, that fact became disturbingly real in 2009 when her 20-year-old brother, Pat, died of a heroin...
Posted on CBC-TV – January 21, 2016 Filmmaker Maureen Palmer set out to make a documentary following her partner Mike Pond — a psychotherapist and an alcoholic five years sober — as he searched for the best new evidence-based addiction treatments. The intent was...
Posted on CBC-TV – February 25 Girls’ Night Out tackles the prevalent and often dangerous culture of binge drinking and young women, with the eye of a reporter, the curiosity of an anthropologist, and the sometimes-wounded heart of a teenage girl. A deeply...
Posted on CBC News – March 2, 2016 by Jean Laroche At Nova Scotia’s largest hospital, treating people who are drunk or suffering from alcohol-related injuries is commonplace. But what really worries Dr. Warren Fieldus, an emergency room physician at the...
