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Addiction recovery help by replacement
It’s difficult, if not impossible, for addicts to eliminate the tendencies that drive them towards addiction. While at times destructive, is it possible to rechannel those urges to more constructive, healthy, and helpful behaviors and activities? We think so. Read on to find out how
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Obesity, drug addiction, and dopamine
Eating junk-food can be addictive, and apparently, it causes brain changes that look eerily similar to drug addiction. That’s the message not only from the rapidly fattening waistlines of Americans everywhere, but also from the Johnson and Kenny labs at the Scripps Institute. Food and drug addiction The idea that obesity is caused by a…
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Facebook, E-mail, Games, and Porn – A glimpse at Computer addiction
Contributing co-author: Andrew Chen The idea of the internet being addictive may draw a chuckle until you realize that compulsive video gaming has been responsible for some horrifying deaths across the world, including examples from China and South Korea of addicts playing for 50+ straight hours before going into extreme cardiac arrest. With 1.5 billion…
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Addiction, exercise, recovery: Yoga practice and mindfulness in addiction recovery
contributing author: Katie McGrath Continuing with our posts on the relationship between addiction, exercise, and recovery, let’s discuss the benefits of yoga and The origins of American Yoga practice America first turned to yoga in the 60s as a way to get high without using drugs. Over the years, yoga has grown in popularity as…