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Struggling with my addiction: Recovery, addiction, and the everyday stuff

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 ...

More CPDD Addiction research: Addiction, exercise, recovery!

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, ...

The brain-addiction connection : Crystal meth (speed), and our good friend dopamine

Saturday, June 27th, 2009

So, We've talked about the general way in which neurons in the brain communicate with one another and then reviewed the ways in which cocaine messes some of the basic processes that the brain depends on. It's time to move on to another drug, and since the brain-addiction connection is similar for ...

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