If checking your Facebook feed or posting photos to Instagram is as essential to your day as breathing, then help may be on the way.
It turns out suffers from alcohol dependency might be able to kick the habit by doing what comes natural… texting. Yup, a new study has found actual evidence that there may be a health benefit to text messaging.
Research with young problem drinkers found those who sent and received weekly text messages tracking their alcohol consumption drank less at the end of the 12-week program than they did at the beginning.
Scientists in San Diego are developing new vaccines that will potentially cure addictions, allowing cigarette and drug abusers to kick their habits with a simple injection.
Dr. Kim D. Janda, a Scripps Research Institute professor, is one of the leading experts, having made addiction vaccines his main priority for the past 25 years. “We view this as an alternative or better way for some people,” he tells The New York Times in reference to rehab programs.
She may have died, but Amy Winehouse’s legacy will continue to live on in the hearts of family, friends and fans.
In the wake of her death, Britain’s Daily Mail reports that Winehouse’s father, Mitch Winehouse, announced at her funeral earlier this week that a charitable foundation will be created in her memory.