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Is Marijuana Addictive? (DEBATE)

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Doctors Robert DuPont and Andrea Barthwell are members of the American Society of Addiction Medicine, and say that marijuana is addictive. Laurel Dewey — who says marijuana is not addictive — is the author of "Betty's (Little Basement) Garden," the …
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Marijuana: Friend or foe? How can we evaluate medical potential without …

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With National Recovery month beginning in September, Jon Weeldreyer, an addictions counselor at Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services, looks at the ways attitudes toward marijuana have evolved since the 1980s. Although medical marijuana has …
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Phone therapy helps some with marijuana dependence

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Gates and his colleagues wrote in the journal Addiction that there's already evidence to support in-person talk therapy for marijuana dependence. To see if that success would extend to over-the-phone treatment, they randomly assigned 160 users who'd …
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