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Childhood adversity is widely understood to increase a person’s risk of poor…
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Alcohol’s effects on the brain, especially among the elderly, have long been…
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Spencer Platt / Getty Images A crack pipe vending machine for addicts…
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What Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Sponsor Could Have Done for Him
A haunting writeup in The New York Times Thursday detailed how actor…
