Women who Suffer from Addiction more Prone to Depression
Researchers have reported women in their mid 30’s and 40’s who are prone to addiction, may become more prone to depression as time goes by....
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Alcohol
Overview Alcohol seems to exist everywhere we turn – restaurants, tv commercials, sporting events and more. And while it is generously advertised...
Minnesota Limits Prescribing Psychiatric Meds
The state of Minnesota has recently noticed that there has been a tremendous rise in prescribing psychiatric drugs for adolescents. The reason why...
DSM Proposes Acceptance of Gambling Addiction
This May, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) proposed that the disorder of gambling be considered an...
Wernicke Korsakoff's Syndrome
Studies show that heavy drinking can lead to brain damage. The damage occurs after heavy drinking, and increases with each following day of heavy...
Tradition One: What Marks Alcoholics Anonymous
Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon AA unity. This is the first tradition in the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous...
The Self-righteous Smoker
Is there anything worse than a self-righteous smoker? The one who lights up with a calculated cool, seen-it-all eye in slo-mo surveillance: just...
Nitrogen, Nitrogen-DimethyltryPtamine
My last comprehensible moment is when I exhale my second hit from the pipe. I can vaguely remember a friend grabbing the pipe from my...
New Neural Networks
A recent study determined that some teens have dissimilar brain network activity that makes them more likely to try drugs and alcohol. IMAGEN...
1 IN 5 WHITE WOMEN SMOKE WHEN PREGNANT
New research has shown significant differences in the attitudes of white, Hispanic, and black women in the United States when it comes to smoking...