Addiction

It took Greece nine years to restore its creditworthiness and issue a new 10-year bond. This is happening now, not just because the country's economic indexes have improved - they had already improved significantly even before the relapse that occurred in 2015.

Ivan Laskin passed away at the age of 48 years . The actor had health problems, several times he enrolled in various hospitals and on December 28, 2018, he was admitted to the Military Medical Academy. 

In 2012, the actor revealed publicly about his alcohol problem in "Direct Karbovsky". Laskin said he made this public because it was "the first step and the treatment started."

New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis spent Christmas night with people who are following or have completed a drug rehabilitation program.

Mitsotakis took part in an open-ended discussion at a cafe in Vathis Square, where drug dealing and use are prominent.

The Greek ministry of health is preparing an amendment that will open the way for the creation of supervised drug consumption facilities in Athens.

These spaces will provide addicts with sterile materials to use illicit drugs under the strict supervision of trained staff, in a hygienic environment.

The almost daily theatrics of the Rouvikonas (Rubicon) anarchist group must be turning into an addiction for its members.

Two large shareholders urged Apple to study whether iPhones are proving addictive for children and that intensive use of the smartphones may be bad for their mental health.

"We are so much at the mercy of Chance that Chance herself… takes the place of God," Pliny the Elder wrote 2,000 years ago. In difficult times, people's need for stability and consolation grows, as does the need to inform them of the dangers of addiction to games of chance and to substances - legal or not.

Nowhere else in Europe are police officers and unsuspecting passers-by subject to such a high frequency of random attacks.

Nowhere else in Europe is such tolerance displayed to small bands of vandals and delinquents, who are allowed to smash public and private property, to run riot wherever and whenever they want, for whatever reason.

I first noticed just how widespread the use of drugs in schools has become in Turkey when I did a news story on the subject two years ago.

That's when members of the "Let's Meet in a Sober Life" (AYBUDER) association, who all struggle with drug-addicted relatives, started a non-stop protest period to make their voice heard.

Smokers who successfully quit feel less anxious afterwards, according to new research from King’s College London in collaboration with the Universities of Southampton, Oxford and Cambridge.
The findings, published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, contradict a widely held belief that smoking relieves stress and giving up makes people feel more on edge.