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by Dr. Elaina George , Your Black World Medical Correspondent According to a recent CNN report 7% of college students admit to using Adderall without a prescription. It is an amphetamine-like stimulant used to treat attention deficit disorders (ADD) and attention deficit with hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). This drug, come to known as vitamin A, is taken by students to improve their grades. It is believed to help them study more efficiently by increasing the ability to stay awake and conce
Dr. Elaina George: Prescription Meds are Becoming a Danger to Society
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Juliette Lewis: Natural born oddball
October 3, 2009 By Leave a Comment
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The Natural Born Killers star Juliette Lewis, 36, is sitting by the window of a London caf and a stranger is taking her photograph through the pane of glass. “Oh my God! Life in the fish bowl,” she says in a low LA drawl, with an intense look in her eyes, and then she laughs out loud. Lewis took a four-year break from making movies to focus on her rock’n'roll career, butHollywood has called her back. She has just made four films in six months, including the sperm donor comedy Th
Librarians are Awesome.
October 2, 2009 By Leave a Comment
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Love this story: Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Connie Schultz writes about a courageous school librarian in Norman, Oklahoma who made sure that local teenagers smitten with young adult novelist Ellen Hopkins got to hear her speak. After realizing that she used the f-word and wrote honestly about meth addiction–which Hopkins own daughter had suffered from–in her wildly popular novel Crank , parents and local radio loud mouths called for Hopkins’ book to be banned. Not only that–the