As a result Congress may be missing market signals and failing to see the costs of its spending addiction in time to undertake real reforms.
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Unfortunately, history suggests that whenever the nation contemplates serious actions to reduce its addiction to petroleum, OPEC steps in to manipulate the market and keep us hooked.
We have the same sort of addiction to oil in this country that some people have to tobacco.
Hours after the hearing, Millicent Tidwell, acting deputy director of licensing and certification for the California Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs said Morningside is not licensed to perform residential in-patient rehab or addiction treatment and lacked the appropriate license to provide residential treatment or recovery programs.
But if the propensity to addiction is also genetically controlled in humans, it could provide a mechanism to address the problem at the cellular level, by regulating tyramine or its vertebrate equivalent.
Chantix, launched in May 2006, is the only drug designed specifically to combat nicotine addiction ever sold in the U.S. Previous stop-smoking aids either contain nicotine, like gums and patches, or are re-purposed antidepressants.
Uruapan is among the metropolitan areas in Mexico tapped for the president's new program, which aims to prevent violence, school dropouts, addiction and domestic violence, and also to better detect problems in Mexico's education system.
The most dramatic phrase in the speech was his promise to free America from its addiction to oil, but there was little real change in energy policy (see article).
In the case of scientists, actually empiricists, it is an addiction to modelling where the outcome is already fixed in their minds and all efforts are directed towards affirming that conclusion even when common sense should intervene and dictate otherwise.
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The U.S. saw a wave of crack addiction in the 1980s that has to some degree faded.
The U.S. saw a wave of crack addiction in the 1980s that has to some degree faded now.
Experts say gambling addicts make up a small percentage of gamblers, but there have been signs of higher rates of addiction in places with easier access to casinos and other forms of gambling.
To do so, he must clearly go beyond the lip service that he paid to our "addiction to oil" in last year's State of the Union speech by taking steps that will make a difference.
Scientists believe it could used in combination with behavioural therapy to overcome addiction.
The temptation is to self-diagnose, says Dr Guy Ratcliffe, head of the Medical Council on Alcohol - a group set up in the 1960s to tackle medics with addiction problems.
The newspaper reported the family claims in the lawsuit that the NHL is responsible for the brain damage that Boogaard sustained during six seasons as an enforcer in the league, and for his addiction to prescription painkillers.
The new trial, which began in Miami on July 6th and is known as the Engle case after the first of its six representative plaintiffs, is on behalf of all smokers in Florida who were injured by their addiction to cigarettes.
But background checks and assault rifle bans will not free us from our most debilitating shackle, and that is our numbness, if not addiction, to violence, particularly in film.
Judge Hittner initially found him incompetent to stand trial because of his addiction to prescribed painkillers, but in December 2011 found him competent after a forensic and psychiatric report said that Mr. Stanford had exaggerated his impairment.
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Shortly after her discharge in 2004, Peacock said, she developed an addiction to pain pills.
"We desperately needed new medications, " says Neal Benowitz, a leading researcher in nicotine addiction at UCSF who was paid by Pfizer to help advise it on its clinical trials.
But no analyst in the world believes that banks can end their addiction to state-supported loans without there being a negative effect on credit provision for households and businesses.
New director awards went to Canada's Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais for his dark comedy, Whitewash about a man trying to survive a harsh Canadian winter, and American Sean Dunne for Oxyana, set in a rural coal mining town riddled with an addiction to pain relief medication.
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In addition to its other mistakes, Detroit's addiction to fleet sales, particularly of rental cars, has been a killer.
There are millions out there in the dark days of their addiction, alone, trying to figure out how to stay alive.
Dreyzehner, a medical doctor who practiced both occupational and addiction medicine, ordered all medical centers in the state to report every case of drug-dependent newborns.
"Eva would have wanted the memory of her life to be used to benefit others facing similar addiction challenges in their lives, " his tribute said.
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Sure, environmentalists will insist that more drilling in the U.S. will just continue our addiction to fossil fuels and will dirty up the air and water.
When someone brings up the subject of smoking, overeating, alcoholism or other addiction, the final word in the conversation always seems to be how much it costs us in insurance and hospital bills.
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The event, taking place at the city's Woodside Halls, is part of the wider Recovery Weekend, which invites people dealing with the effects of addiction, their families and friends to gather in Glasgow to meet and share ideas.
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