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Do You Know What 6 Movies About Drugs Won Oscars?

by | Thursday, March 11, 2010 |

Can you name them off the top of your head? Talking only about movies that won the Best Picture Oscar. Here are your clues... 1. This is a story about a Texan travelling to New York. Rather than "don't mess with Texas," the moral appears to be "don't mess with New York City." [midnight cowboy] 2. Baguettes, foreign legions, kisses...and this. [french connection] 3. Both of these Oscar winners involve narcotics...they have a lot more in common too. [godfather I & II] 4. Woody Allen has some...

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Adderall and Drug Tests: What Drug Adderall Really Comes Up As In A Test

by | Tuesday, March 9, 2010 |

When stars fail drug tests, they attract a lot of attention and in most cases, their reputation seems to go down. The same is true of the average person too - nobody looks forward to failing a drug test. Well, with the rise of prescription drug use and abuse, more and more people are facing a drug test failure. Someone taking prescription Adderall can take a standard urine test and find out they're positive! When taking Adderall, you will come up positive for amphetamines in a test. Informally...

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Cholesterol Testing - For Young People Too

by | Monday, March 8, 2010 |

Even though 75% of the cholesterol that is present in our body is produced by the liver and other cells in our body, the lifestyle that we lead also contributes to the amount of cholesterol (chol.) that we have. Needless to say, the remaining 25% of the cholesterol in the body is mainly due to the diet that is consumed. A home cholesterol test can tell you the level of total cholesterol that you have at any given point in time. The prevalence of high cholesterol is as high as 37.13% in the...

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Fight Relapse - Use A Hair Drug Test

by | Monday, March 8, 2010 |

There are various kinds of tests that you can do these days to ascertain whether someone has been on drugs or not. While some drug tests use a saliva sample, or a blood sample to test for drug addiction, there are others that use a urine sample for drug abuse testing. While gathering a sample for drug testing may seem invasive or perhaps tedious, a drug test is a necessary thing to do when you are recruiting people for a specific industry or trying to check if someone has been on drugs before...

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