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Obesity and cancer

Obesity Is the Second Major Risk Factor to Cancer after Tobacco

ObesityIt is a known fact that being overweight is an avenue through which very many diseases can attack the body.  Being overweight or other obese has caused many health complications among people of all ages and so needs to be fought at all costs. Obesity is often caused by poor eating habits. Eating foods that are not healthy is a major cause of obesity which is a host of many diseases that have threatened the human population. This condition can be curbed by eating whole foods that are rich in nutritional content. Eating foods that are refined and over processed seem to be the major cause of obesity. These foods lack fiber which is a vital component of every diet. Foods that rich in fiber help in keeping the body safe as they help in binding toxins and excreting them out of the body. Foods that are high in calories are known to cause massive weight gains and so should be limited to curb their harmful health effects.

There are diets that one can adopt to help stay lean and fit. It is also advisable to engage in physical exercise to help in shedding the extra weight that is known to cause serious health complications. Physical exercise is known to prevent many diseases especially heart related diseases but current research findings has also stated that doing exercise can help you keep away from bowel, breast and other types of cancer. By curbing obesity physical exercise curbs cancer in a great way.

Recent research findings have proved that women who engage in physical activity have less chances of getting breast cancer as compared to those who are inactive. The study results pointed out that women who involve in vigorous exercise in premenopausal as well as in postmenopausal stage greatly reduce their risk of cancer by up to 80 percent. It is therefore advisable for women as well as men to do exercise to curb obesity which causes cancer.

Exercise is not  only good in weight loss but is also a sure way of keeping bodily organs active as it strengthens the body muscles, improves flexibility, improves body posture as well as strengthening the heart. It is also a good way to excrete through sweating clearing the blood vessels of clogs and improving air as well as nutrient supply in the body. Improved oxygen supply is not good for cancer cells as they do better in anaerobic conditions.

Engaging in vigorous exercise helps in breaking down excess fats and cholesterols to release energy therefore is a good way to get rid of excess fats and maintain an ideal weight that is free from many diseases associated with obesity inclusive of cancer.

According to the American Cancer Society, obesity is the second major risk factor for cancer after tobacco. Several studies have also found that obesity increases the risk of death in cancer patients especially those with breast cancer. It has also been linked to recurrence of cancer in many patients with women in the post-menopausal stage being the major victims. This therefore calls a weight loss program in those cancer treatment centers. Some cancer treatments centers have not availed realized this need. However modern and top of class cancer centers like AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource
Center have seen the benefits of weight loss program and has given it emphasis in its cancer treatment programs. Dr. Dalal Akoury who heads AWAREmed knows the role obesity plays in cancer etiology and therefore has put in place weight loss program to save the situation making AWAREmed the best cancer treatment and resource center that is preferred by many patients.

Obesity causes hormonal imbalance

It is not the first time obesity is linked to health complications. In the past, obesity had been linked to many diseases such as high blood pressure among other dreaded diseases. Researchers have shown that obesity causes cancer mainly by influencing the actions of hormones as well as their levels. When the, levels of hormones are affected, the situation beckons hormonal imbalance which is the mother of all cancers in both men and women. In women breast cancer is one type of cancer that has hit headlines for the many lives it claims every year. It is also the most type of cancer caused by hormonal imbalance.

Obesity influences the levels of vital hormones such as the estrogen as well as insulin. Normally the hormone estrogen is produced in the ovaries of a woman. When women hit menopause the production of estrogen at the ovary stops. This therefore allows for alternative sources of hormone estrogen from the excess body fats. The more the fats the higher the levels of hormone in the body there ought to be a balance between the estrogen hormone and the testosterone hormone. In case of obesity the estrogen hormone becomes dominant leading high cancer risks. Excess body fats also lower the sex hormone binding globule which gets rid of excess hormone estrogen.

ObesityObesity also increases the levels of the insulin hormone. Insulin is the hormone that transports glucose in the bloodstream. The cancer cells are more receptive to glucose than the healthy body cells, with high levels of insulin they get reliable source of glucose which provides them with energy to survive longer. So when obesity is curbed cancer risk is also reduced greatly.

Dr. Dalal Akoury (MD) is an experienced integrative cancer doctor that has helped many cancer patients in their fight against the disease. She has worked hard not only in treating the disease but also in availing informational support to cancer patients at Awaremed which has become a place called home for many cancer patients. Call on her now and get help on cancer.

Obesity Is the Second Major Risk Factor to Cancer after Tobacco

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Fasting and Cancer

Fasting and Ketogenic Diet Are Effective In Cancer Treatment

FastingTo treat cancer more effectively, it is good to know more about the activities of the cancerous cells. How and where they get their nutrients that enable them to grow and metastasize. When the metabolic adaptation of the cancer cells is known it becomes easier to kill them without hurting the healthy body cells. In the past it was never easy to starve the cancer cell since both the cancer cells and the healthy body cells rely on certain supplies of nutrients to survive. Many nutritionists have suggested that the best way to safely kill the cancerous cells is to starve them. Both the healthy body cells and the cancerous cells rely on glucose for nutrients that they use to generate ATP energy.  Through researchers work it was discovered that cancerous cells rely solely on sugar for survival. However the healthy body cells rely on sugar but are flexible enough to adapt to other sources of energy when sugar source of energy are restricted. With this loophole other alternative cancer treatments have been made. Fortunately these alternatives are safer as they do not leave the patients with life threatening side effects that most conventional cancer treatments are known for. Some of the approaches that have been made to kill the cancer cells more effectively without any side effects are the ketogenic diet and fasting.

Fasting and ketogenic diet are just a few of the many dietary manipulations that are used in integrative cancer treatment. Some of these dietary manipulations have been found to be very effective in fighting cancer while some are not as effective as they are purported to be while some are still being researched on up to date.

Fasting and cancer

Fasting generally means eating no food and drinking only water for a period of days. There are different approaches to fasting. In some cases a person may neither eat nor drink water throughout the period of fasting. This is normally called the dry fasting. Dry fasting should not go on for a long time as the body may get dehydrated hence causing other complications. A person may be taking only water during the entire fasting period. This is known as juice fast. He will only be taking water but no other foods even tea and other beverages. Compared to dry fast juice fasting can go on for quite a long time as the body gets water that keeps the cells hydrated. Among other benefits, fasting is known to be an effective way of detoxifying the body. Detoxification is known to play a major role in cancer treatment as it gets rid of all the toxins that cause the disease. Fasting can also be used alongside other alternative cancer treatments especially in the detoxification phase of these alternative cancer therapies.

Cancer is majorly caused by toxins from our environments. These toxins need to be gotten rid off by detoxifying the body. Fasting is a sure way of detoxifying the body and cleansing it off these toxins. When fasting the food that the body cells need must come from within therefore it encourages breaking of fats to release energy therefore clearing the fatty lining of the blood vessels, improving blood circulation and white blood cell mobility to other areas of the body. Researchers have also discovered that fasting helps in improving the flow of oxygen in the body which makes it hard for cancer cells to thrive since they thrive in anaerobic conditions. Fasting also allows the body to focus its energy in healing and cleansing itself.

Some supporters of fasting as an alternative to cancer treatment have also proposed that fasting denies the cancerous cells their nutrients supplies and so they die. This may be true because they only rely on glucose that when cut they can’t live unlike healthy cells that will survive on other energy source like fats.

Fasting also helps in self discovery, improving mental clarity, self esteem and spiritual awareness which are key in whole person healing. Fasting should be done under observation of qualified integrative oncologists.

Ketogenic Diet and cancer

A ketogenic diet advocates for high quality proteins and healthy fats while it eliminates all but non-starchy vegetable carbohydrates. The argument behind the ketogenic diet is that: since cancer cells need glucose to survive and the carbohydrates turn to glucose in the body reducing the amount of glucose in your body starves the cancer cells. The healthy cells also rely on glucose for survival, fortunately our healthy cells are flexible enough to turn to ketone bodies for energy unlike the cancer cells that suffer defects that deny them this flexibility to turn to ketone sources of energy. This gives a loophole to starve the cancer cells by reducing the amount of glucose in the body.

The healthy cells will survive in absence of glucose as they can depend on keton bodies for energy and live on however the cancer cells solely depend on glucose hence will be starved to death.

FastingThe ketogenic diet also minimizes the mTOR pathway that enhances cell proliferation. This diet that restricts all starchy vegetable carbohydrates but advocates for healthy fats and high quality is a better way to kill the cancer cells and should be adopted by anybody not only to treat cancer but as a daily feeding lifestyle as it is an ideal fat burning diet.

Dr. Dalal Akoury (MD) is an experienced integrative cancer doctor that has helped many cancer patients in their fight against the disease. She has worked hard not only in treating the disease but also in availing informational support to cancer patients at Awaremed which has become a place called home for many cancer patients. Call on her now and get help on cancer.

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All you need to know About Alcohol

All you need to know About Alcohol – Drug Addiction

Alcohol

All you need to know about alcohol is based on how it affects you negatively. This knowledge will help you feel safe from all alcohol related complications.

Alcohol being the most abused substance the world over sends likeminded people thinking on the possible remedies to correct this uncalled for habit. We are living in a world where alcohol consumption is the order of the day despite the known risks involved. Have you ever thought of a society free from alcohol! If you haven’t then you need to start visualizing that in your mind. To help you get the clearer picture of how that society will be I want to propose for you something, an assignment you can do on your own at your convenient time. Take some time and visit a bar where revelers drink all kinds of alcoholic drinks, smoke all kinds of smoke-able substances kindly don’t drink or smoke while there, just observe sit and observe and record all that you see for a day or two. Then do the same thing in a restaurant where there is no sale of any alcoholic drinks or smoking. Go to that hotel where smoking and alcohol consumption is strictly prohibited and make the same observation recording what you see happening there.

After the observations analyze the findings and you will get the sharp contrast of the two, there will be peace and harmony where there is no smoking or drinking compared to that bar. Your findings may not miss fighting, recklessness, prostitution, sound pollution, theft, other substance abuse and many inhuman activities. That is the society we live in when alcohol consumption is the order of the day a complete contrast of the other side where there is harmony and i deal communication when alcohol consumption is not in the picture. With that brief understanding of alcohol we want to further on this discussion by finding out more about this substance. What is this substance called alcohol?

There are several ways of defining alcohol but for the purpose of this article we will say that “alcohol is a drug that slows down parts of your brain, consumption of alcohol can make you feel more relaxed at times and It can also make it harder for you to think clearly, make good decisions and do various tasks.” Alcohol is made by fermenting (and sometimes distilling) fruits, vegetables or grains. Alcohol itself is a clear liquid. The colour in beer, spritzers, wine and other alcoholic drinks comes from other ingredients and from the process of fermentation.

Who uses alcohol?

Most adults drink alcohol, and do so responsibly. But because alcohol is a drug, there may be risks if you drink any amount of alcohol. According to studies conducted in 2005 in Canada, about two-thirds (62%) of all Ontario students (grade 7—12) reported drinking at least once in the past year translating to about 603,400 students. One in 10 students (10%) drank alcohol once a week.

  • One in four male students (25%) and one in five females (20%) reported binge drinking (five or more drinks at one time) in the past month.
  • More than half of the alcohol consumed in Canada is beer, the most popular alcoholic drink followed by other liquor rum and vodka at 26 per cent and wine at 21 per cent.
  • Canadians spend about $12.4 billion a year on alcohol.
  • About 10 per cent of Canadians are dependent on alcohol at some time in their lives.

True or false

  • If a female and a male both have an average body type and weigh the same, drinking the same amount of alcohol will have the same effect on each of them. This is not truemales have more water in their bodies than females. This means the alcohol gets more diluted in males, and so a male will notice less effect than a female of the same body weight and body type who drank the same amount of alcohol.”
  • Coolers and regular strength beer contain the same amount of alcohol. This is not true either because “most 12 oz/341 mL coolers are 6.9 per cent alcohol, while a regular 12 oz/341 mL bottle of beer is five per cent alcohol meaning that there is nearly one-and-a-half times as much alcohol in a cooler as in a regular strength bottle of beer.”
  • Some people can drink a lot without seeming to get drunk. This is actually true in the sense that “a person who often drinks a lot may not look drunk because his or her body is used to the alcohol. But even if a person doesn’t look drunk after drinking, the alcohol still has an effect. The person still has too much alcohol in his or her blood to deal safely with risky situations, such as braking quickly while driving. You should never be a passenger in a car when the driver has been drinking. When possible, you should also try to stop the person from driving or getting into dangerous situations.”
  • Drinking coffee, working up a sweat, or having a cold shower will sober you up. Many people would want to believe this but it is not truebecause it is only time which will make you sober. Your liver eliminates alcohol at a certain rate and nothing will change that rate. Your liver needs about 1.5 hours to eliminate one standard drink from your body.”

Alcohol and its effects

Is alcohol addictive? Yes, alcohol can be addictive. About one person in 20 who drinks is dependent on alcohol. People with an addiction may have difficulty stopping by themselves, even if they want to, and even if other negative effects (such as financial or other personal problems) begin to outweigh the positive effects. Alcohol dependence can also cause major problems with friends, family, school, work, emotional and mental health, the law and money!
What is a standard drink? Each of these drinks contains the same amount of alcohol (a “standard drink” or 13.6 grams of alcohol):
  • A 1.5 oz/43 mL shot of liquor (sometimes known as spirits; e.g., rye, rum, whisky, vodka).
  • A 3-oz/85 mL glass of fortified wine (e.g., sherry, port, vermouth)
  • A 12-oz/341 mL can or bottle of regular strength beer
  • A 5 oz/142 mL glass of table wine

Alcohol is found in different amounts in different kinds of drinks. For example:

  • Regular strength beer contains five per cent alcohol (some beers contain higher or lower percentages)
  • Table wine contains about 12 per cent alcohol
  • Fortified wine contains 16 to 18 per cent alcohol
  • Most liquor contains 40 per cent alcohol.

An average adult can discharge alcohol from the body mostly by passing urine about two-thirds of one standard drink per hour which is 10 grams of alcohol. If such a person consumes two standard drinks, it will take about three hours for his or her body to be free of alcohol again indicating that if you were to get drunk then it is only passage of time can make you sober again. We will continue discussing this topic in our subsequent articles but for now I want to draw your attention to the services of Dr. Dalal Akoury who is an addiction professional of several decades and the who founded AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center where she is offering her exclusive NER Recovery Treatment to other physicians and health care professionals through training, clinical apprenticeships, webinars and seminars. Your alcohol problems will be very safe in her care and you and any of your friends can now be a part of this truly successful and fast addiction recovery treatment.

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Enzyme Therapy and Cancer

Enzyme Therapy As Used In Cancer Treatment

EnzymeCancer treatments are known for quite severe side effects on the patients. Known treatment like chemotherapy and radiation therapy not only kill the cancerous cells I the cancer patient but also kill the healthy cells. This will lead to the patient’s getting more deteriorated as time goes by and may eventually lead to loss of weight, skin becoming darker and even hair loss. Pain associated with these methods of treatments cannot be underestimated.  Researchers and doctors have been involved in lots of research work in a bid to get the best cancer treatment that is devoid of the disadvantages the conventional cancer treatment methods are known for.

Today, there are various ways through which cancer patients can be treated but your doctor may be helpful in identifying the best treatment you can get depending on whether the cancer is prostate, breast, mouth or even lung cancer. The doctor may also monitor your reaction to a specific treatment and decide whether to continue with it or adopt a better treatment for the disease. These discoveries are a breakthrough not only to cancer doctors but also to cancer patients have been seeking alternative treatment to the disease and the enzymatic therapy is one of the alternatives that the patients are trying their hands on.

Enzyme therapy as an alternative cancer treatment involves the patient taking supplements of enzymes. Enzymes are natural proteins which are very important as they stimulate and accelerate most biological reactions in the body. Digestive enzymes, which are mostly produced by the pancreas help in digestion as they break down food and help with the absorption of nutrients into the blood. Metabolic enzymes build new cells and repair damaged ones in the blood, tissues, and organs. The metabolic enzymes so are important for optimum cellular functions.

The history behind the enzyme therapy

Enzyme therapy is synonymous to John Beard. John Beard, who was a Scottish scientist, was the first person to use the pancreatic enzymes in cancer treatment in 1902. After this discovery the enzyme therapy was used by doctors in treatment of other diseases. Doctors in Germany are said to have used the enzyme therapy in treatment of such diseases as multiple sclerosis, cancer, and viral infections. The use of enzyme therapy has not stopped as some enzyme mixtures are still being used in other European countries.

The enzyme therapy was introduced in the United States in the 1920s by Dr. Edward Howell. Dr. Howell opined that by eating raw meat, people created an enzyme surplus in the body, which resulted in better health and increased resistance to disease. The doctor reasoned that the more the enzymes a person has in his body the efficient the normal bodily functions as well as the stronger immunity. Since the enzyme therapy was introduced in the United States, very many doctors have advocated its use especially as a part of the broader metabolic therapy regimen. Today there is an enzyme preparation that is being studied in the United States for possibility of being used alongside chemotherapy drugs in treating cancer patients.

Despite the fact that the enzyme therapy is widely used in treatment of cancer and other diseases, any well-designed studies showing that enzyme supplements are effective in treating cancer is not yet available. The major question that everybody asks and has kept enzyme therapy as an alternative cancer treatment quite controversial is that; enzymes when taken by mouth are broken down to amino acids before they are absorbed into the bloodstream, so how do they reach the tumors when taken by mouth?

The studies that have been done to verify the effects of the enzyme therapy on the cancer patients have borne different results. A study that was done in India found that taking enzymes helped to mitigate the side effects of the radiation therapy. Researchers however argue that the patients were not blinded, they knew they were taking enzyme supplements and so the results could have been achieved as a result of the patients’ expectations. Another study was done in Germany, in this study the patients were blinded as they did not know that they were taking enzyme supplements. This study did not show any positive effect of the enzyme therapy on the cancer patients.

There are other researchers in Eastern Europe who have tried to find out if this therapy is effective in cancer treatment. The general finding of these research works have showed that enzyme supplements may improve the quality of life and may generally have other benefits. Most of these studies sought to find out if enzyme therapy could be used in mainstream cancer treatments. These findings however were disputed on the basis that the patients were not blinded.

EnzymeDr. Nicholas Gonzalez did another study that involved pancreatic cancer patients. The findings of this research were published in Nutrition and Cancer in 1999. The study found that patients who were treated with pancreatic enzymes survived longer than patients with pancreatic cancer who were not under enzyme therapy. However an expert oncologist recently disapproved of the findings.”The study was small and obviously prone to several biases. Not only is the comparison with national averages unadjusted for confounders, but the principal results are based on patient selection; twelve patients who did not comply with treatment were excluded from analysis.”  The expert oncologist’s review stated.

Dr. Dalal Akoury (MD) is an experienced integrative cancer doctor that has helped many cancer patients in their fight against the disease. She has worked hard not only in treating the disease but also in availing informational support to cancer patients at Awaremed which has become a place called home for many cancer patients. Call on her now and get help on cancer.

Enzyme Therapy As Used In Cancer Treatment

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Drug Addiction and Mental Illness

Drug Addiction and Mental Illness – Dual Diagnosis

Addiction

Drug Addiction and Mental Illness put together will bring your life to a halt. Seek for help and get your life back, it is possible all is not lost for you.

Dual means two and so when we talk of dual diagnosis we refer to a term used to denote people with mental illness and at the same time suffers from drug addiction and alcohol. The combination of the two is very complex and administering treatment to persons suffering from both mental illness and drug addiction is difficult and more complicated compared to when both were to be treated separately. It is very worrying that people suffering from mental illness are also struggling with drug addiction concurrently. The environmental factors greatly influence how people get infected with these two health conditions. For instance people with low socioeconomic status, military veterans and those with multiple general medical illness tends to bear more risk of abusing drugs, alcohol and other stimulants. Dual diagnosis is so common this day’s that statistics indicate that one-third of all alcohol abusers and more than one-half of all drug abusers are also battling mental illness.

Drug Addiction and Mental Illness – Relationship between substance use and mental illness

The relationship between mental illness and substance abuse or dependency is complex and is often considered in the following ways:

  • Drugs and alcohol may be used for self-medication. In such cases, people with mental illness may have untreated or inadequately treated conditions (such as anxiety or depression) that may “feel less painful” when the person is high on drugs or alcohol. Unfortunately, while drugs and alcohol may feel good in the moment, abuse of these substances doesn’t treat the underlying condition and almost without exception makes it worse.
  • Drugs and alcohol can deteriorate the underlying mental illnesses. This can happen both during acute intoxication (e.g., a person with depression becomes suicidal in the context of drinking alcohol) and during withdrawal from a substance (e.g. a person with panic attacks experiences worsening symptoms during heroin withdrawal).
  • Drugs and alcohol can cause a person without mental illness to experience the onset of symptoms for the first time. For example, a twenty-year old college student who begins to hear threatening voices inside of his head and becomes paranoid that his chemistry professor is poisoning his food after smoking marijuana could represent a reaction to the drug (potentially called a “substance-induced psychosis”) or the first episode of psychosis for this individual.

Drug addiction and alcohol always results in a worse prognosis for a person with mental illness. People who are actively using drugs are less likely to follow through with the treatment plans they created with their healthcare providers they are not likely to follow their medication regimens and may not be consistent in keeping their appointments. If this continues over time it may lead to more psychiatric hospitalizations and other adverse outcomes. Active users are also less likely to receive adequate medical care for similar reasons and are more likely to experience severe medical complications and premature death. Drug addicts with mental illness are also at increased risk of impulsive and potentially violent acts. Perhaps most concerning is that people who abuse drugs and alcohol are more likely to both attempt suicide and to die from their suicide attempts. Individuals with mental illness and active substance or alcohol abuse are less likely to achieve lasting sobriety. The consequences of their addiction may be lead to severe complications like having legal problems with the authorities.

Drug Addiction and Mental Illness – Treatments for individuals with dual diagnosis

As indicated above treatment for dual diagnosis is very complicated and it will be very important to first address any life threatening complications due to intoxication. For instance the following conditions may require immediate medical care in the confinement of a health facility:

  • Extreme cases of alcohol intoxication may necessitate prompt medical treatment and can result in death if not arrested in good time.
  • Use of amphetamines, crack, cocaine and other drugs can result in heart complications like arrhythmias, heart attacks, stroke and even death.
  • Use of benzodiazepines (e.g. diazepam, clonazepam), opiates (e.g., oxycodone, oxycontin) and other downers can result in extreme sedation and potentially death in overdose.

Drug and alcohol withdrawal can lead to medical emergencies requiring immediate treatment. This can occur when a person who has been regularly using a particular substance has become addicted to that substance (the body has become physically dependent on the substance) and abruptly stops using. The following may necessitate immediate medical care in the hospital setting:

  • Alcohol withdrawal can result in heart problems (e.g., arrhythmias), seizures or delirium tremens (an acute delirious state), all which can be potentially fatal.
  • Benzodiazepine withdrawal can result in tremors (shakes), seizures and potentially death.
  • Under normal circumstances opiate withdrawal is not considered to be life-threatening but it can be a very traumatic and painful experience.

It is important that those struggling with drug addiction and alcohol seek help through processes like inpatient detoxification either by admission to a hospital or a detoxification facility where appropriate medications can be done to avoid serious complications of acute drug and alcohol withdrawal. Scientific studies has established that psychiatric treatments very effective in individuals who are not actively abusing drugs and alcohol and therefore total healing from substance abuse must be achieved and once this is done the underlying mental illness may be more successful. It is important to note that mental illness treatment is more effective when the patient is sober though it can still be done along detoxification process. There are many working options for recovering addicts to help them keep on the course and to avoid relapse on drugs and alcohol like rehabilitation centers or supportive housing besides these you may choose to return home to your friends and family who can be helpful in supporting you to continue the efforts. This can be critically important as a significant majority of people will relapse into drug and alcohol abuse at some point in their lives, even if they are eventually able to achieve long-lasting sobriety. I will further recommend seeing an addiction expert from time to time for evaluation. Doctor Dalal Akoury who founded AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center is an expert of more than two decades and has been helping people globally get well from their addiction problems in the most natural way. This is one experience am sure you do not want to miss and so when you visit this facility doctor Akoury together with her team of experts will focus on Neuroendocrine Restoration (NER) to reinstate normality through realization of the oneness of Spirit, Mind, and Body, Unifying the threesome into ONE.

Drug Addiction and Mental Illness – Dual Diagnosis

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