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 ...
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Thursday, September 17th, 2009
I've been asked by several people about the impact of sugar addiction and the possible ways for overcoming it.
The dilema of food addiction
Food addiction is especially difficult to fight because unlike drug addiction, you can't simply stop eating, regardless of your willpower. This means that a person addicted to highly ...
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Thursday, August 27th, 2009
In the first part of this little series on addiction cause and self-regulation I talked about some of the genetic influence on impulsivity that have been shown to also be related to drug use.
In this next part, I want to drive home some recent ideas regarding learning related to self-regulation.
It's ...
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Thursday, August 13th, 2009
It will probably come as no surprise to at least most of you that addiction is closely linked to problems of self-regulation (like ADD and ADHD). This is one of the main reasons that professionals view addiction as a disease, and not a choice.
This post is pretty advanced, but it ...
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Sunday, August 2nd, 2009
Here we are again. I've been slacking on this, but check out the new crop of great articles about addiction. As usual, if you press the title of this post, you'll be rewarded with our relevant posts!!!
MSNBC: Exercise may help prevent substance abuse - Here's an article that reports on ...
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Monday, July 13th, 2009
In looking up some numbers for a recent post I put up on TakePart, I uncovered some amazing addiction and drug abuse statistics (most from 2007, so they're probably higher by now).
Addiction statistics highlights:
Slightly more than half of Americans surveyed indicated that they are current drinkers (I thought it'd be ...
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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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