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ADDICTION

Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
May 30, 2015
Is nicotine addiction bad for your health?
Since he ditched Marlboro Lights five years ago, Daniel's fix is fruit-flavored nicotine gum that comes in neat, pop-out strips. He gets through 12 to 15 pieces a day and says he has "packets of the stuff" stashed all over. But he doesn't see himself as a nicotine addict.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Nov 26, 2014
Casino debate casts spotlight on Japan's gambling addicts, therapists who try to help
Although lawmakers have ditched plans for now to repeal a ban on casinos, the issue has cast renewed attention on the problem of pathological gamblers, such as those who go into debt to satisfy a pachinko addiction.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Nov 22, 2014
Is happiness worth the risk of addiction?
You'll have heard this story before, in one form or another. "Mr. B," 66, is a pachinko addict. Hard core.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Nov 11, 2014
Rise of quasi-legal drugs has hospitals turning to 'workbook' treatment
A "workbook" approach is drawing attention as an effective way to address a growing number of drug addicts in Japan, where there are only around 10 specialized medical institutions nationwide to treat abuse cases.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society / ANALYSIS
Oct 24, 2014
Give addicts priority over casinos, activist tells politicians
Gambling has always been a part of 50-year-old Noriko Tanaka's life.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 12, 2014
Pop star Aska gets off with suspended sentence for drug use
The Tokyo District Court hands disgraced pop star Aska a suspended prison term for possession and use of illegal stimulants.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Aug 30, 2014
Dealing with addiction: Japan's drinking problem
We admit we are powerless over alcohol and we need help to break the habit.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Aug 30, 2014
'I blacked out from drinking. ... I wasn't a good parent'
Yumiko Miyata started drinking when she was 15. She was an inherently shy girl and found that alcohol helped her make friends. When people discovered she could hold her liquor, she then became the center of attention. At first she thought it was harmless fun. Eventually, however, her life started spinning out of control.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 28, 2014
Pop star Aska pleads guilty to drug charges
Prosecutors demand a three-year term for singer Shigeaki Miyazaki, the disgraced pop star better known as Aska, as his trial over illegal drug use opens in Tokyo.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Aug 23, 2014
Dealing with addiction: Japan's drug problem
Some kid shot up a dose again tonight
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Aug 23, 2014
Former drug addict relieved to be alive
You won't find an air conditioner in any inmate wings at Fuchu Prison, no matter how hot it is outside. And on this sweltering, cloudless day in August, it is certainly hot. Two members from Drug Addiction Rehabilitation Center (DARC) are preparing to hold a session with a group of repeat drug offenders in a room that is kept cool with only a fan. Vibrant sunlight streams through the lace curtains, giving the scene a somewhat surreal backdrop. Every once and a while, a gust of wind wafts through the room, making the temperature just bearable despite the suffocating heat.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Aug 20, 2014
More than 5 million people in Japan have a gambling problem, researchers say
More than 5 million people in Japan, or nearly 5 percent of the adult population, are thought to be addicted to gambling, a research team with the health ministry said Wednesday.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
May 24, 2014
Ball and chain: gambling's darker side
With lawmakers debating whether to legalize gambling in time for the 2020 Olympics, we look at the other side of the coin — addiction
EDITORIALS
Sep 2, 2013
Net addiction a growing problem
Steps must be taken to combat the problem of Internet addiction, which is affecting a growing number of children and adults.
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Aug 17, 2013
Cyber-kids get a break during Bon holidays
You didn't need prophetic powers, back in the 1980s when the personal computer was starting to show its potential, to foresee something like Internet addiction. It should have been obvious. It was, to science-fiction writer William Gibson. Reminiscing to Time magazine in 1995, he recalled his shock, as he walked by a video-game arcade sometime in the late '80s, at how absorbed the players were in their glowing screens. "I could see in the physical intensity of their postures how rapt the kids were," he said. "These kids clearly believed in the space the games projected. They develop a belief that there's some kind of actual space behind the screen."
JAPAN / Society
Aug 1, 2013
Study: 8.1% of Japan secondary school students may be 'Internet addicts'
A government panel says that 8.1 percent of around 100,000 junior high and high school students polled nationwide are suspected of being “Internet addicts.”
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jul 31, 2013
Can low-nicotine smokes end addiction?
Beverly Anusionwu, a smoker for three decades who favors Maverick menthols, was enticed to the small lab inside the University of Pittsburgh's psychology department by an ad promising free cigarettes and a few bucks for her time.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jul 24, 2013
U.S. regulator cites menthol cigarette risks
The Food and Drug Administration said for the first time Tuesday that menthol-flavored cigarettes appear to pose a greater risk to public health than standard smokes, largely reaffirming the findings of an agency advisory committee two years ago and potentially laying the groundwork for tighter regulations in the future.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society / FOCUS
Jul 7, 2013
'Winning' noises from slot machines spur gamblers
Whether you're in Las Vegas or the small-town casino down the street, slot machines sound more or less the same: jangly music, the whir of spinning reels, accompanied by loud beeps and chimes.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 1, 2013
Afghanistan's legacy of child opium addiction
A report just released by the United Nations Mission in Afghanistan states that there were 2,754 civilian deaths and 4,805 civilian injuries in that country during 2012. Unmentioned is a serious side effect of the conflict: the high number of opium-addicted children in Afghanistan.
Japan says Biden's description of nation as xenophobic is 'unfortunate'
The National Diet building in Tokyo
With eye on China, defense chiefs agree to bolster interoperability
From left: U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Australian defense chief Richard Marles, Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara and Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro hold a joint news conference in Honolulu on Thursday.
The 'outsiders' creating some of Japan's greenest spaces
Rows of irises resemble a rice field at the Peter Walker-designed Toyota Municipal Museum of Art.
Japan drops to 70th in press freedom rankings
A businessman reads a newspaper outside a train station in Tokyo.
Traders spooked by intervention risk trim record yen shorts
Traders edged back from record bets on yen weakness this past week, in a period that included a likely bout of intervention by Japan to prop up the currency.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.

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