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LATEST ARTICLES ( 312 )

• Books

  

  Apology to the Young Addict by James BrownIf you think you've had it with addiction memoirs, James Brown will change your mind completely. Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2020 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Severe Addiction Linked to Vivid Dreams in Withdrawal

  

  Relapse dreams during recovery: What do they mean? Science News features a fascinating look at the topic:Click Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2019 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• A Night of Serious Drinking: The Results

  

  "A systematic review of the next‐day effects of heavy alcohol consumption on cognitive performance"The latest scientific rundown on the ramifications of... Read more

  Posted on 06 September 2018 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• There Is No "Safe" Amount of Alcohol

  

  Moderate daily drinking will not improve your health.As a growing number of addiction and alcohol consumption researchers have been pointing out, the notion of ... Read more

  Posted on 24 August 2018 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Drug Epidemic Nobody Talks About

  

  U.S. death rate from alcohol-related liver disease is soaring."Deaths from liver disease have increased sharply in recent years in the United States, according... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2018 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The NIAAA and Big Alcohol

  

  Officials halt government study on moderate drinking funded by alcohol industryThe New York Times reports: “The extensive government trial was intended to settl... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2018 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Myth of Healthy Drinking

  

  Another meta-study demolishes decades of wishful thinking.Vox notes that "an impressive new meta-study involving 600,000 participants, published recently in... Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2018 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Do Alcoholic Women Want Women-Only Treatment?

  

  It's complicated. In an article appearing in the June 29 edition of the journal Addiction, researchers ask women what they think about it: "Women‐only... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2018 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Study Says Shared Genetic Architecture Links Alcoholism to Major Mental Disorders

  

  Depression, alcoholism, and other psychiatricillnesses share disease-related “signatures”involving a disruption in how brain cells communicate with each other. Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2018 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• New Study Casts Doubt on Current "Despair" Models of Addiction

  

  The recent Hari/Hart/Lewis hypothesis that addiction is not primarily metabolic or genetic, but rather the result of "despair" or "sociological conditions" or... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2018 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Alcohol and Cancer, Explained

  

  "Alcohol and endogenous aldehydes damage chromosomes and mutate stem cells"Juan I. Garaycoechea, Gerry P. Crossan, Frédéric Langevin, Lee Mulderrig, Sandra... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2018 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Alcohol Should Be More Expensive

  

  Without a doubt, the alcohol you're drinking this Holiday Season is too damn cheap.By all means check out the new piece by German Lopez at Vox: "The case for... Read more

  Posted on 26 December 2017 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Corey Booker's Statement on Marijuana Legalization

  

  Sen. Booker's petition would remove marijuana from the list of controlled substances. "For decades, the failed War on Drugs has locked up millions of... Read more

  Posted on 04 August 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Marijuana, Sleep, and Dreams

  

  The indica vs. sativa debate, continued. [First published July 13, 2015.]Anyone who has smoked marijuana more than a couple of times knows that cannabis can... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2017 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Heroin in Vietnam: The True Story of the Robins Study

  

  Editor's note: The famous Robins study on heroin use among Vietnam veterans has been so often—and so recently—misinterpreted that I felt motivated to reprint... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2017 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Manifesto for Children of Alcoholics

  

  Parental heavy drinking affects everyone. The British House of Commons recently issued a manifesto timed to coincide with International Children of Alcoholics... Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2017 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Who Smokes Marijuana Where?

  

  The full article is available here: http://www.bendsource.com/ Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2017 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Don't Be a Holiday Fool

  

  Sobering Up––Myths and FactsMyth: You can drive as long as you are not slurring your words or acting erratically.Fact: The coordination needed for driving is... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2016 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• It's That Time of Year Again

  

  Our annual look at Christmas Decoration Addiction. By John M. Grohol, Psy.D."Five years ago, I covered something called Christmas lighting addiction in our... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2016 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Cancer: Alcohol’s Dirty Little Secret?

  

  What Doctors Don’t Tell YouIt is, in fact, no secret at all that alcohol causes cancer. Rather than conferring any demonstrable metabolic benefit, alcohol is... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2016 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE