Start "Em Young, Hooked Forever:
The use of powerful antipsychotics with privately insured children, aged 2 through 5 in the US, doubled between 1999 and 2007, according to a study of data on more than one million children with private health insurance in the January, 2010, "Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry,"
The lead researcher on the study above, Columbia University psychiatry professor Mark Olfson, told Reuters that about 1.5% of all privately insured children between the ages of 2 and 5, or one in 70, received some type of psychiatric drug in 2007, be it an antipsychotic, a mood stabilizer, a stimulant or an antidepressant.
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If There Is Ever A Reason:
Hamas officials in Gaza burned nearly 2 million painkiller tablets in a hospital incinerator today in a crackdown on a drug that has become an increasingly popular escape from the hardships of daily life.
"We're all living in a hard psychological situation and we used Tramadol to forget our daily worries and problems," Khalil, a 25-year-old student in Gaza City told the Associated Press. "I go to Tramadol so I can forget all that."
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Help Is On The Way:
Augmented reality (AR) is a term for a live direct or indirect view of a physical real-world environment whose elements are augmented by virtual computer-generated imagery. It is related to a more general concept called mediated reality in which a view of reality is modified (possibly even diminished rather than augmented) by a computer.
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