Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
On the way to New York city to visit my father this morning (he's not doing so well), I saw an amazing journalistic piece on the prescription drug problem, especially as it relates to loose prescription-record keeping laws in Florida, which is apparently the reason for the five times higher ...
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Sunday, January 24th, 2010
Originally posted on Psychology Today:
One of the biggest problems with addiction is that we never know who is truly an addict. Yes, we have tests and notions, interviews and criteria, but all of those are simply tools we've used to get around the problem of not knowing. Well, a recent ...
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Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
**DISCLAIMER: This post has been changed since its original content. Since I Believe the submitted story was fake, I've now made this a post about the possibility of developing LSD dependence**
Many of my readers claim that LSD addiction does not exist. Well, They're simply wrong. LSD dependence (the clinical term ...
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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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Friday, July 17th, 2009
A recent open label study found some support for the effectiveness of a Risperidone injection, given once every 2 weeks, in reducing crystal meth use.
The 22 patients who participated reduced their weekly meth use from an average of 4 times per week to only 1 time per week. The difference ...
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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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