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How does it all start? My thoughts on addiction causes and substance abuse

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

I was talking with a friend the other night, and he asked me my opinion about the line between addiction and normal behavior. He was wondering whether I think that everyone who looks at porn is a sex addict. I don't. (see some of our posts on sex addiction here) Still, the ...

Ancestry, Addiction, and trauma – Addiction research into genetic differences based on race

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

We all know that drug use and drug related crimes are a big problem within African American communities. It's not a secret, but it can be interpreted very differently by different people. Do the differences between African Americans and Americans from European descent mean that Black people are simply meant ...

Am I an addict? A simple new test may help us get the answer!

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 ...

Nicotine addiction and genetics – It’s the little things that matter in smoking addiction

Thursday, December 24th, 2009

We've known for a while that genes play a role in addiction in general and that nicotine is addictive at least in part because it activates receptors for a chemical called Acetylcholine (ACh) that are found all over the brain and body. Nevertheless, finding the specific mechanism for the genetic ...

It’s in your genes: The connection between addiction and other disorders

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

I think it's common knowledge that children are more likely to develop a psychiatric disorder when one of their parents is diagnosed with one. Just in case it isn't, as much as 80% of the likelihood that a person will develop a mental health disorder is genetically determined. The genetics ...

Addiction is a disorder of control, not choice – A response to Heyman’s book

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 ...

Crystal meth and cocaine, Agassi and Gasquet- The reality of drug use in our society.

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

After Andre Agassi's recent confessions in a tell-tale book about his use of crystal meth during his playing days, Richard Gasquet, who recently made it to the Wimbledon semifinals has just tested positive for cocaine. He says he was contaminated with the drug when he kissed a woman who was using ...

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