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Four Tips For Staying Healthy On The Job

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It’s always important to be healthy, but when it comes to the recovering recession, it’s even more important to stay healthy and not miss work. Now that there is affordable healthcare for some, and more people having insurance, it makes sense that people should be getting healthier.

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However, your health isn’t just about visiting the doctor, it’s also about how you take care of yourself at home, and on the job. You need to be sure that your health is a priority. The better you take care of yourself the longer you will live. [Read more…]

4 Ways Addiction Affects You Financially

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Everyone is aware of the high cost of addiction. It can ruin families, relationships and careers; but do you realize how much addiction can break you financially? Addicts and their families pay a hefty financial penalty for continuing an addiction; this loss can be in the form of wages, job opportunities, and expenses relating to your addictive substance. There is also a large financial cost to society to care for addicts in the form of law-enforcement, rehab programs, health care costs and housing costs of prison. Included here are a few ways addiction will affect your personal finances.

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Financial Expenditures

The most obvious cost of addiction is in purchasing your substance of choice. Alcoholics who drink a cheap six-pack of beer each day are facing yearly costs of close to $2,000. If your addiction lies with hard alcohol or spirits, the costs could easily triple. For those with serious medication abuses or illegal drugs, you could be looking at costs nearing $20,000 per year. [Read more…]

Three Things To Help Your Sore Joints

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Whether you simply worked out too much, you have arthritis, or you are a chronic pain sufferer, there are many ways to help sore joints and other pains. Even pains from aging or overworking yourself (like repetitive motion injuries from your job) can be relieved, at least somewhat, through medical and alternative means.

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Pain management is an important thing for those of you that suffer from chronic pain. It can be difficult to get through each and every day with your pain, and it can even put you in a permanently bad mood. So, what can you do about it aside from visiting the doctor and getting some medication? [Read more…]

How Men And Women Deal With Addiction Differently

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Men and women are different, in many ways. While both deserve equality, since both are humans, you also need to understand some of the differences. One difference, in particular, that many people don’t always think about is the fact that men and women have different reactions to the same amount of drugs or alcohol, and that addiction happens for different reasons for both sexes and is also dealt with differently by both sexes.

According to the Centers For Disease Control (CDC) 44 people die every day in the United States from a drug overdose. Many more of them need help. While it was once thought that drug addiction and alcoholism were more of a man’s issue, the number of women addicts has been increasing. [Read more…]