Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
When most people think about addiction, they imagine a person completely unable to control their cravings, always wanting the thing they're addicted to. That was certainly my experience throughout most of my addiction.
So what happens when you just can't have it? What happens when drug use is just not allowed? ...
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Sunday, August 16th, 2009
In a previous post we talked about the ineffectiveness of the school-based substance abuse prevention program called D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education). We reported data from a meta-analysis of 11 studies which showed no significant effect of D.A.R.E. in reducing drug use. A recently published study examined the effectiveness of ...
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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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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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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
Today, I'll give a short summary of a few interesting talks I saw at the conference:
Teenage smoking - Children of mothers who used drugs during pregnancy had abnormal stress hormone levels. When assessed over time, their abnormal stress response was associated with an earlier onset (age of first use) of ...
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