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| The website Addiction and Music Therapy: Freudian Slip examines the power of using popular music, something people already listen to, as a way for people to express their feelings. Includes examples of therapeutic messages in popular music as well as original music by Freudian Slip, therapeutic rock band. |
| March 24, 2005 In Massachusetts, "[a]t this year's prom, Westwood High School students will have to embrace a new rite of passage before stepping into the dance hall: Proving that they haven't been drinking. "Going further than most school systems around the state and the nation, Westwood High informed parents this week that it will require all students to take a breathalyzer test before entering next month's Spring Fling Kick-Off Party and the May prom for juniors and seniors." --from an article by Maria Sacchetti and Tracy Jan in the Boston Globe. |
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| October 10, 2005 A new book written by author Hank Bordowitz reveals the lows singer Billy Joel sunk to over the years in a fight with depression and alcoholism, says an article at allheadlinenews.com. |
| The botton is where things worsen quicker than you can lower your standards.--ANONYMOUS Quoted at beginning of a chapter in Symptoms of Withdrawal: A Memoir of Snapshots and Redemption by Christopher Kennedy Lawford. |
| December 13, 2005 "A number of sociocultural studies indicate that stress may increase the risk of alcoholism," says an article at news-medical.net. |
| May 17, 2006 A new "study documents how women, pound-for-pound, not only get more drunk or higher faster then men, but also become addicted more easily." The research results are presented in a new book from the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (CASA) called Women Under the Influence (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006). LiveScience.com |