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The anti-smoking drug varenicline has a major side-effect: more moderate boozing. MORE
Ever wonder why alcoholism seems to run in families? A sibling-brain study just discovered why. MORE
By Dirk Hanson
Major new study puts future of popular anti-craving drug in doubt. MORE
By Dirk Hanson
Experts slam treatment centers for withholding anti-craving pills from patients. MORE
By Dirk Hanson
In 2006, Massachusetts began paying for stop-smoking treatments--and admissions for heart attacks fell by a staggering 46%. Now Ontario wants to do the same thing. MORE
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South Asian cartels muscle into the meth market, missing actor Nick Stahl turns up in rehab, and public punishment for author's daughter for Facebook vodka photo.
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Some of these dancing addicts used to beg outside the theaters they now perform in, their director tells The Fix.
5/18/12 5:01pm
The tobacco giant won't self-congratulate too loudly for the profitable popularity of its "Crush" cigarettes among kids.
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Horse-racing's drunken spokesbeast is played by an actor who hasn't had a drink in 20 years.
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Actor Shah Rukh Khan, the "King of Bollywood," is banned from a stadium in Mumbai.
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