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Although opioids have a reputation for being instantly addictive, studies find that the average patient does not enjoy the feeling of being on the drug; even among recreational users, most who try it don't get hooked. Patients who are prone to addiction are typically those who have histories of emotional trauma, mental illness or prior substance misuse. (See how to prevent illness...
...Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, takes a more sober view of the findings, pointing out that 18 of the 26 studies in Noble's review failed to mention addiction. The review authors say they assumed the omissions meant that those studies did not find any cases of addiction, but Volkow says it could mean that they simply didn't look for it. (See pictures from an X-ray studio...
...syncopated passages of the first movement of the “Eroica” or loudly exhaling a sensual, satisfied “Syaaah!” at the climax of the second movement of the Fourth. While a certain sort of listener might find those noises distracting, it is energizing to realize that the even best conductors love the music they do because it fills them with the same sort of impulse to sing along and dance that anyone catches from music they love...
...whole experience is one that Batali's peers have to find enviable. He can afford to take mega-risks, with mega-rewards; that's what being a superchef does for you. There's always a Mr. Moneybags lined up to finance or partner with for the next project. But a chef has to follow through, and it's to Batali's credit that he is moving forward, instead of just whining about how much he misses the kitchen...
...Pakistan in the fight against its domestic insurgency. Inside the forbidding mountain ranges along Pakistan's Afghan border, "the drones can hit where the Pakistani military cannot," says Talaat Masood, a retired general and independent military analyst in Islamabad. On Feb. 19, U.S. aerial surveillance helped the Pakistanis find and kill more than 30 militants in a bombing run in a forested valley in South Waziristan, which, until a major Pakistani offensive last October, had been crawling with Pakistani and Afghan Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters...