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Hello Mark:
I am a "graduate" of the Moreland Centre 4 years ago. I credit the staff of that facility with saving my life.
Needless to say, I'm saddened that this program will not be able to do the same for other people in addictions. More...

The fascination of fat
CHRISTOPHER HUTSUL
The Toronto Star

TORONTO -The doctor peers into a monitor, watching a video X-ray of a human heart.

Blood flows through the knotted vessels, then hits a throbbing snag — a clogged artery.

Dr. Michael Bentley-Taylor has stared into thousands of plugged hearts in the cardio cathlab at Toronto East General Hospital. But this one is particularly bad. More...

Keith Beaty/Toronto Star

Dangerous Dan's owner James McKinnon created the Coronary Burger after his dad's heart attack. It was meant as a joke but now he sells 50 a week.

Poll: 6 in 10 Would Like to Lose Weight

(AP) - People who feel a little guilty digging into those holiday meals can take comfort in the knowledge that they're not alone.

Almost six in 10 Americans say they would like to lose weight, according to a Gallup poll released on the eve of Thanksgiving, a day that makes significant contributions to Americans' weight. Two-thirds of women felt that way, while half of men did. More...

Pot farms cost you $34 a year Hydro-sucking marijuana operations have stolen at least $5.5 million this year

HAMILTON - Hydro theft by criminal pot growers will add about $34 to your electricity bill this year.

That's what it will take to cover the roughly $5.5 million in power the city utility estimates it will lose this year to grow operations.

It will recover some of that money -- maybe as much as $1 million this year -- which would knock the per customer cost down to $28 or so. But it won't stay at that level for long.

Despite the best efforts of police and hydro investigators, the number of indoor marijuana operations looks like it's going to keep growing. More...

Last Time
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FAT

Christopher Hutsel of the Toronto Star talks about our fascination with fat. Why do we love to hate it?

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Jimi Hendrix

He would have turned 60 on Wednesday.
His biographer talks about the controversies that still swirl around his death

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Lots of Love And a Lot Less Drug Addiction

WASHINGTON - For months, friends of Carmelita Witherspoon have been looking for a way to thank her for the years she has spent helping people escape the bondage of alcohol and drug abuse. But Witherspoon, 62, just can't understand what the fuss is all about. More...

Drugged Driving Hopes

Federal officials announced a new effort to target motorists driving under the influence of illegal drugs. This may sound like a good idea to some, but it's half-baked with a bizarre twist -- the feds have paid researchers to test "drugged drivers" in real traffic. More...

Dr Steven R. Miller Ph.D

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A Subdued "Happy Birthday" To Methadone

By Mark Elliot

November 4, 2002 - What would happen if we won the war on drugs?

What if we could deal successfully with the problems of addiction with treatment and see the tangible evidence of success in lower crime rates?

We only need to look at Washington D.C. in 1972 to have a sense of might have been. You wouldn’t necessarily connect Richard Nixon and drug-legalization, but the biggest advance in drug treatment, the legalization of the opiate drug, methadone, for use as a "maintenance medicine" in treating heroin addiction, began during his term of office. More...