Showing posts with label addiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label addiction. Show all posts
Monday, January 22, 2018

New Study Casts Doubt on Current "Despair" Models of Addiction

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The recent Hari/Hart/Lewis hypothesis that addiction is not primarily metabolic or genetic, but rather the result of "despair"...
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Thursday, February 16, 2017

The Manifesto for Children of Alcoholics

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Parental heavy drinking affects everyone. The British House of Commons recently issued a manifesto timed to coincide with Internationa...
Sunday, November 13, 2016

Take It Easy

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One day at a time.
Wednesday, June 8, 2016

From Failure to Enthusiasm

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Guest Post By Andy "Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." —Winston Churchill One of the...
Sunday, November 22, 2015

The Great Gateway Theory

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Smoke pot, shoot smack? The Great Gateway Hypothesis has had a long, controversial run as a central tenet of American anti-drug cam...
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Saturday, October 31, 2015

Freud and his Drug Demons

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Cocaine addiction and psychoanalysis. That Sigmund Freud was a cocaine abuser for some portion of his professional life is by now well kn...
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Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Why Will Power Fails

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How to strengthen your self-control. (First published August 12, 2013) Reason in man obscured, or not obeyed, Immediately inordinate ...
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Thursday, January 16, 2014

What is This Thing Called Neuroplasticity?

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And how does it impact addiction and recovery? Bielefeld, Germany— The first in an irregular series of posts about a recent confere...
Monday, December 2, 2013

Addiction in the Spotlight at Neuroscience 2013

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Testing treatments for nicotine, heroin, and gambling addiction. Several addiction studies were among the highlights at last month’s an...
Monday, August 12, 2013

Will Power and Its Limits

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How to strengthen your self-control. Reason in man obscured, or not obeyed, Immediately inordinate desires, And upstart passions, cat...
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Thursday, April 25, 2013

Nature, Nurture, and Me

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Which came first, the addiction or the trauma? About a year ago, Jonathan Taylor, a professor at California State University in Fullert...
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Sunday, March 24, 2013

More Hard Facts About Addiction Treatment

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“Yes, we take your insurance.” Recent reportage, such as Anne Fletcher’s book, Inside Rehab , has documented the mediocre application o...
Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Addiction Rehab: Everything is Broken

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Down the rabbit hole in search of effective treatment. When I first began researching drugs and addiction years ago, a Seattle doctor t...
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Sunday, February 24, 2013

How to Kick Everything

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Christopher Kennedy Lawford on r ecovery. Christopher Kennedy Lawford’s ambitious, one-size-fits-all undertaking is titled Recover to L...
Wednesday, October 24, 2012

The Encultured Brain: A Book Review

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How biology and culture jointly define us. Anyone who follows academia knows that the broad category of courses known as the Liberal Ar...