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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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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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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Saturday, June 6th, 2009
Here's a new set of articles about addiction that are worth taking the time to read. As usual, don't forget that if you click the title of this post, you'll get a list of posts on our site that are related to this week's links (below the post).
Breaking The Cycles: ...
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Friday, May 29th, 2009
By the time I was done with my addiction to crystal meth, I had racked up 4 arrests, 9 felonies, a $750,000 bail, a year in jail, and an eight year suspended sentence to go along with my 5 year probation period.
The kid my parents knew was going nowhere, and ...
Posted in Alcohol, Cocaine, Drugs, Drugs, Education, Marijuana, Meth, Sex, Sex, Stories | 5 Comments »
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
How many of you think that giving a meth user condoms will increase their drug use? Probably not many. What if instead the question had to do with giving that same user clean needles rather than having them share a dirty one? Or having him reduce his ...
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Monday, March 9th, 2009
This is another one of the basic questions I get regarding addiction.
It seems that people think about physical addiction and psychological addiction as somehow separate processes.
I think this distinction makes no sense. Even if people really meant what they were saying, the brain is undoubtedly part of the body, and ...
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