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Tackling our love affair with booze — from deep brain stimulation to ‘Dry January’

The worst part was the noise and vibration of the drill burrowing into his skull. But Frank Plummer’s main worry, after undergoing deep brain stimulation for alcohol use disorder, “was whether or not my hair would grow back.” It did. So did his joy for life. The former scientific director of Canada’s national microbiology laboratory… Read More »

What does xanax do to the brain

But I take very little, and not on a regular basis. Don’t let the winter chill send your smile into deep hibernation. Alcohol is a depressant, but it’s also an indirect stimulant, and plays a few other roles that might surprise you. I was given the smallest they make, 0. But Park Royal must do something… Read More »