Heart Medications for Anxiety?
Figure 1: The chemical structure of propranolol. The use of propranolol The most commonly prescribed medications typically tend to be those that target immediat...
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What is Anxiety: Causes, Symptoms, Treatments
What is Anxiety? Anxiety is a normal, occasional experience in every human life course. There is even good stress/ anxiety that can help us, versus the bad stre...
Schizophrenia vs. Multiple Personalities: How the film industry feeds our confusion
Whether we like it or not, the film industry has always had a significant influence on the representation, as well as our understanding of mental illness. With ...
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...
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...