Medicating Addiction
What is Addiction Addiction is a chronic dependence on a substance. The condition involves compulsive seeking and persistent use despite the negative contributi...
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From Treatment to Tolerance: Understanding Marijuana’s Long-Term Effects
Cannabis Cannabis is a generic term used for the variety of products derived from the cannabis sativa plant. Cannabis goes by many names including marijuana whi...
How Tracking Your Menstrual Cycle Can Help Combat Drug Addiction
How is Drug Addiction Defined? Drug addiction can be defined as the inability for an individual to control or regulate compulsive seeking out and use of drugs. ...
Hard Drugs: They’re Doing What Now?
At what point is someone addicted to drugs no longer capable of making the decision to continue using drugs? At what point does the long-term effect of using dr...
Brains Chained by Addiction
The Pandemic of Addiction The statistics surrounding addiction don’t lie, the U.S. has a pandemic on its hands. So what’s the situation? In 2017, we...
My Kind of High: Medical Marijuana and the Endocannabinoid System
Marijuana Marijuana: illegal, euphoria, high, decreased motivation and IQ, munchies, pain and anxiety relief, and potential future medication. These are only so...
No One Is Immune to Addiction
How many of us remember sitting through the D.A.R.E program in school? Officers would come in and talk about the dangers of drug use and show photos of meth add...
Scare Tactics or Science Talk: Different Approaches to Drug Education
My Drug Education Experience I have always operated under the motto of “Drugs are bad”. But it wasn’t until a recent paper discussion in neuro...
Addicted and Trapped
Just This Once Think back to those college days of little responsibility and too much fun. Some of us were so caught up with our desire to “fit in” and be “cool...
What Happens in Addiction??
It can probably said that everybody struggles with addiction. Not only the classic examples that often first come to mind of drugs and alcohol, but coffee, Netf...