Understanding Gateway Drugs
An Overview of Addiction Drug addiction, also known as substance use disorder, is the inability to control impulses regarding drug-seeking and drug-using behavi...
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Behavioral Addictions: An Unseen Danger
What does an addiction mean to you? Does it represent a drug addict hanging out on the street? How about a dangerous man robbing a pharmacy for more pain killer...
The Use of Naltrexone to Help Addiction Recovery
Pre-knowledge before using naltrexone Naltrexone is an opioid antagonist that is not addictive and does not cause withdrawal symptoms with the use of stopping ...
Addiction is a Difficult Road to Travel
Preconceptions of Addiction What comes to your mind when you hear the word “addiction?” Maybe you think coffee—how you have to have it every morning to be able ...
Drug Addiction
When you think of a person who is a drug addict or an alcoholic, some people would think of typical stereotypes of them such as having no control over themselve...
Gambling, what could go wrong?
Overview If you are anything like me, you don’t see the point in gambling. You see that you are risking a lot with minimal chance of winning big. Around 6-9% of...
How Does Marijuana Affect the Adolescent Brain?
Figure 1; provided by me Our current culture seems to be very adamant about legalizing the recreational use of marijuana. As someone who works in the healthcare...
The Use of Psychedelics as Treatment for Addiction
Neurophysiology of Addiction The reasons why one person will become an addict while another person will not are still widely unknown. Genetic factors have an in...
Addiction is a disease
What is addiction? Addiction is the compulsive seeking of an addictive substance or act despite horrible consequences. In addiction there is a loss of control, ...
A foreign perspective on Schizophrenia
I think it’s one thing to be health condition but, it’s another to be able to get the help that you need. I grew up in an area that used to see ment...