Not Your Typical “Shooting Gallery”
When people talk about shooting galleries in the United States, we think of the booth at the carnival where people can pay to shoot rim fire guns (nowadays they...
Category: Health
The Opiate Epidemic: What It Is and What You Can Do
Fentanyl. Heroin. Overdose. Opiates. Death. These words have increasingly littered headlines in the Fargo-Moorhead area in the past year, with fentanyl-laced he...
How Science Can Lead to Safer, Less Addictive Narcotics
When initially discovered, purified opioids were an exciting and powerful new tool for managing pain. Yet, despite their undeniable effects at alleviating debil...
Addiction: An Illness or a Crime?
According to a recent Human Rights Watch study published in 2013, federal drug offenders in the United States are given an offer they can’t refuse: fight ...
Addiction as a Brain Disease
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, addiction can be defined as a chronic, relapsing brain disease that is characterized by compulsive drug seeki...
Brain Structures and Addiction
Addiction. Most people have run into it, whether it be knowing someone personally, or knowing a friend of a friend who has an addiction problem. If you have nev...
Addiction: A Disease or a Choice?
Like many of the issues we have been looking at recently that involve the brain, this is going to be a complicate issue but I will try to tackle it the best tha...
Addiction: A Dopamine Story
Addiction is a neurological disorder that affects the reward system in the brain. In a healthy person, the reward system reinforces important behaviors that are...
The Differences Between Anxiety and Stress
As a college student, I hear the words “anxiety” and “stress” tossed around all the time. Phrases like, “This test is making me so...
The Resilient Brain
We live in a world where tragic headlines cover the front page of every newspaper and early morning news segments are filled with stories of violence and hate. ...