Monday, March 1st, 2010
Co-authored by Jamie Felzer
If I were a betting person (I'm not really), I'd bet that most of you have been to YouTube before. For some of us the video site provides good information and for others it's an endless source of comedy. Either way, YouTube has also become a hallmark of the ...
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Thursday, February 18th, 2010
A number of questions from readers, as well as some of the searches that have landed users on this site (yes, we get to see that) have made me realize that many of you are wondering about the effects of drugs and alcohol on pregnancies. Especially given the fact that ...
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Monday, January 18th, 2010
I'm trying to get a sense of what my reader's drug use history is like. That way, I can tailor the content a little more towards your specific interests :-)
So... please respond below. You can pick multiple drugs, obviously, since most drug users are what is known as poly-drug users ...
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Saturday, December 5th, 2009
I was working on the first chapter of my book today and the issue of choice plays a prominent part in it. I'm a little pissed at Dr. Heyman, whose name sounds like something a stoner might say, about his book, "Addiction - A disorder of choice".
The thing is that ...
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
One of the main features of addiction is, unfortunately, how insidious it is.
Given everything I've been learning in the past 12 years about drugs, their abuse, and the people involved, I feel right in saying that most people don't realize how far gone they are until it's too late.
I consider ...
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Sunday, August 23rd, 2009
I used to always say, back in my using days, that speed (methamphetamine) was The American drug. Why? Meth makes its users sharper, more alert, and more focused, and it allowed me to spend entire nights up studying like I'd never been able to study before.
Unfortunately, like many other aspects ...
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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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