Monday, December 28th, 2009
We all know that drinking alcohol changes the way people think and makes them act strangely right? We also know that alcohol is involved in more than 50% of violent crimes and about 75% of partner violence. The question is, why the connection?
A recent paper I published suggests that drugs ...
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Saturday, November 21st, 2009
Breaking news: When alcoholics who have gone through treatment have a drink after a certain length of sobriety, most don't go off the deep end.
Slip scares and abstinence
The old AA adage: "One drink is too many, and a thousand not enough," refers to the fact that alcoholics who are sober ...
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Saturday, September 19th, 2009
The stigma of addiction is alive and well. Whether you believe in the disease model or not, it seems that people's judgments regarding what it means to be an addict are well entrenched.
I'd like to work on that a bit.
Why is addiction a disease?
In numerous posts on this site I've ...
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Saturday, August 8th, 2009
A recent addiction research article combined findings from 31 different studies to assess the impact of large terrorism events on rates of alcohol, cigarettes, and drug use. The researchers noted that most of the studies occurred after the World Trade bombing of September 11th, 2001.
After controlling for the level of ...
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Thursday, April 30th, 2009
Here is this week's crop.
Once again, I tried to find posts about addiction from all different angles, check out the post by clicking the title and you'll get some extra related posts from our site!
PhysOrg - Acetaldehyde in alcohol - Cancer in a bottle
GentlePath - Recovery for atheists
From the White ...
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Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
Guest author - Lisa Fredriksen from breakingthecycles.com:
I was 49 years old when one of my loved ones entered a residential alcohol treatment program and I found myself plunged into a whole other world - a world that included terms and concepts like codependency, adult children of alcoholics, 12-step programs, co-addictions, ...
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Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
These are some useful articles about addiction I've found online. While they cover some topics we've discussed on here, I think it's always better to be more educated!
From Addiction Recovery Basics - Personality Vs. Genetics
From Beating Addictions - A little Q & A about sugar addiction
From Breaking the Cycles - ...
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