Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
One of the core personality traits that many addicts, including myself, eventually identify in themselves in a strong streak of selfishness. The question is: What do I do with this insight once I’ve gained it?
I’m starting to come up with my own answer and hopefully my solution will help others ...
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Monday, December 21st, 2009
Hey everyone. I've said before that my goal is to help people, right? Well now I'm putting my money where my mouth is. Addiction treatment helped me with my crustal meth addiction, and now it's time to give back!
Free rehab and addiction treatment
I'm going to start a contest that will ...
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Friday, July 24th, 2009
Here are some drug use statistics:
Over 80% of adolescents engage in some form of deviant behavior (1).
Over 50% of high-school seniors admit to having used drugs (2).
Only 10%-15% of the population develop drug addiction problems related to their drug use (1).
The question is:
If the majority of teens experiment ...
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Monday, July 13th, 2009
In looking up some numbers for a recent post I put up on TakePart, I uncovered some amazing addiction and drug abuse statistics (most from 2007, so they're probably higher by now).
Addiction statistics highlights:
Slightly more than half of Americans surveyed indicated that they are current drinkers (I thought it'd be ...
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Thursday, July 9th, 2009
I've written about my own struggles with my addiction on here numerous times. I've used crystal meth, ecstasy, cocaine, marijuana, alcohol, LSD, mushrooms, and more, though the first few were the ones that really got me.
After an extended career as a dealer and addict, I turned a new leaf and ...
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Friday, July 3rd, 2009
Okay, we've talked about meth and cocaine and how they affect the brain. As I mentioned, both cocaine and meth interfere with the way the brain stores and cleans up important neurotransmitters, including, most importantly, Dopamine and Norepinephrine.
The class of drugs known as opiates, which includes morphine, heroin, codeine, and ...
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Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
Okay, this is probably the last addiction research update I will give focusing on the Reno conference. The rest of the stuff I learned will be incorporated into future posts.
I've written before about the relationship between exercise and recovery (see here) and I will surely write more since for me, ...
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