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About Addiction: Smoking, drinking and Heroin
Some great, informative articles about addiction, alcohol and smoking, as well as some about Heroin. We also have some new sites with links listed here so give us your feedback on what you like! Alcohol Caron Chit Chat: According to a world renowned addiction treatment center, the female problem drinker in Dallas is most likely…
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More to cigarettes than nicotine
A recent talk I gave (click here), highlighted the fact that other aspects of smoking are very important for addiction to cigarettes. For some people, this isn’t news, especially if you’ve been reading our coverage about the importance of cues for smoking addiction. But that’s not all that makes cigarettes so hard to quit. Cigarettes,…
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About Addiction: Your brain, smoking, alcohol and drugs
Some new, different areas of addiction and some old favorites. Read on to learn more! Check out this USA Today story about President Obama’s public health fight and goals of reducing drug usage. He said prevention and education are really what we need. Your Brain and Addiction Science Daily: A genetic variant of a receptor…
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About Addiction: Smoking, Drugs, Drinking and Cancer
New links for interesting articles about addiction. Check them out! Tobacco, nicotine, and Smoking Medical News Today: According to a recent study in China there is a new effective strategy for treating tobacco addiction. Researchers have developed a novel tea filter that seems to help with cigarette addiction. (Note: this link doesn’t give direct access…
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The context of my addiction – Environmental effect on drug use???
When most people think about addiction, they imagine a person completely unable to control their cravings, always wanting the thing they’re addicted to. That was certainly my experience throughout most of my addiction. So what happens when you just can’t have it? What happens when drug use is just not allowed? What happens if your…
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Take Charge of your Life: Another adolescent substance abuse prevention program that doesn’t work.
In a previous post we talked about the ineffectiveness of the school-based substance abuse prevention program called D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education). We reported data from a meta-analysis of 11 studies which showed no significant effect of D.A.R.E. in reducing drug use. A recently published study examined the effectiveness of another school-based program called Take…
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Drug use and abuse following terrrorism: Lessons from addiction research
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 exposure, type of event,…
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More CPDD Addiction research: Addiction, exercise, recovery!
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, it was a big…
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More drug addiction research from CPDD: Teenage smoking, childhood trauma, and marijuana withdrawal
Today, I’ll give a short summary of a few interesting talks I saw at the conference: Teenage smoking – Children of mothers who used drugs during pregnancy had abnormal stress hormone levels. When assessed over time, their abnormal stress response was associated with an earlier onset (age of first use) of cigarettes smoking and an…