Family History of Alcoholism May Affect Adolescents' Brains
PsychCentral.com
By Janice Wood Associate News Editor A new study has found that the brains of adolescents with a family history of alcoholism respond differently while making risky decisions than the brains of other teens. Researchers at the Oregon Health & Science...
PsychCentral.com
PsychCentral.com
By Janice Wood Associate News Editor A new study has found that the brains of adolescents with a family history of alcoholism respond differently while making risky decisions than the brains of other teens. Researchers at the Oregon Health & Science...
PsychCentral.com
Former Gambling Addict Speaks to Rocky Hill Coalition
Patch.com
Her addiction would lead to jail time, money problems and issues in her relationships with family and friends. Her life has been forever changed because of gambling. Last week, she told her story at the monthly meeting for the Rocky Hill Coalition, ...
Ontario to help addiction patients quit smoking
CBC.ca
Addiction expert Dr. Peter Selby says tobacco is often the first substance that people become addicted to, and the last one they quit. Raymond Corless, 67, says he was a smoker for 49 years before health problems prompted him to get help. ...
Study shows how neurons interact, could lead to new treatment for addiction
PhysOrg.com
Harvard scientists have developed the fullest picture yet of how neurons in the brain interact to reinforce behaviors ranging from learning to drug use, a finding that might open the door to possible breakthroughs in the treatment of addiction. ...
Why teens are prone to addiction
Deccan Herald
Washington, Jan 18, 2012, PTI Ever wondered why teenagers take more risks and are more prone to addiction? It's because their brains respond differently to a situation than adults, says a new study. In experiments on mice, researchers at the University...
Deccan Herald
New program to help pregnant women with addiction
West Virginia Public Broadcasting
Last week Marshall Medical school officials were presented with a $50000 grant to help pregnant women and their children with opiate addiction. The money was presented to officials of University Physicians and Surgeons Inc and the Department of ...
Patch.com
Her addiction would lead to jail time, money problems and issues in her relationships with family and friends. Her life has been forever changed because of gambling. Last week, she told her story at the monthly meeting for the Rocky Hill Coalition, ...
Ontario to help addiction patients quit smoking
CBC.ca
Addiction expert Dr. Peter Selby says tobacco is often the first substance that people become addicted to, and the last one they quit. Raymond Corless, 67, says he was a smoker for 49 years before health problems prompted him to get help. ...
Study shows how neurons interact, could lead to new treatment for addiction
PhysOrg.com
Harvard scientists have developed the fullest picture yet of how neurons in the brain interact to reinforce behaviors ranging from learning to drug use, a finding that might open the door to possible breakthroughs in the treatment of addiction. ...
Why teens are prone to addiction
Deccan Herald
Washington, Jan 18, 2012, PTI Ever wondered why teenagers take more risks and are more prone to addiction? It's because their brains respond differently to a situation than adults, says a new study. In experiments on mice, researchers at the University...
Deccan Herald
New program to help pregnant women with addiction
West Virginia Public Broadcasting
Last week Marshall Medical school officials were presented with a $50000 grant to help pregnant women and their children with opiate addiction. The money was presented to officials of University Physicians and Surgeons Inc and the Department of ...
Alcoholic turns life around, starts nonprofit Kelly House
StarNewsOnline.com
Knowing the importance of service work, Kelly is often reminded of where alcoholism took her life and what it was like to break free from her addiction. “On Friday, Jan. 13th, I'll have been sober 43 years,” Kelly said recently. ...
Addict die from smoking pain-relief patches
The Local.se
After several deaths in southern Sweden have been linked to the use the drug fentanyl, a pain-relief patch meant for cancer patients, local police are now calling it the “most serious drug problem” in the area. ”This is not acceptable. ...
The Local.se
New Study for Internet Addiction Disorder
Ivanhoe
(Ivanhoe Newswire) – When one typically thinks of addictions, Internet Addiction Disorder may not be the first addiction that comes to mind. Internet Addiction Disorder or IAD, is characterized by an individual's inability to control his/her Internet ...
Addiction center to open Thursday
Daily O'Collegian
The center is a non-profit organization that provides counseling service for a variety of needs including substance abuse, sexual addiction, compulsive gambling disorder and family dynamics. The center determines the amount charged for its services ...
Working too much can become an addiction
Windsor Beacon
The term workaholism first appeared in an article by Oates in 1968 when he paralled alcoholism. The term was intended to represent working to a detrimental extreme. Workaholism is sometimes is synonymous with addiction. Addictions cover a large ...
Alcohol in Pregnancy: It's Never Safe, Especially Not in the First Trimester
TIME
The end of the first trimester appears to be the period when alcohol can wreak the most havoc on fetal development, causing physical deformities as well as behavioral and cognitive symptoms, according to research in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical ...
TIME
Jenelle Evans on Her Pot Addiction: I Have a ''Chemical Imbalance in My Head ...
Wetpaint
Jenelle Evans went through some major withdrawal symptoms this week on Teen Mom 2 when she tried to quit pot. Was it that hard to stop smoking? "Maybe the reason why I'm smoking and self-medicating myself is because there's something like a chemical ...
Steve McQueen: Sex addiction destroys lives
BBC News
The British artist and film-maker Steve McQueen - whose new film Shame is about sex addiction - says the condition is very real and is destroying people's lives. He tells HARDtalk's Zeinab Badawi that both men and women can have an unhealthy ...
BBC News
Woman Finds Alcoholic Husband Dead In Flat
Bernama
KULIM, Jan 18 (Bernama) -- An unemployed who lived separately from his wife and four children due to his alcoholic addiction was found dead in a room of a flat in Taman Jati here yesterday. G. Manivannan's wife found him dead when she went to visit him ...
President: Turkmenistan combats drug addiction to preserve gene pool
Trend.az
Carrying out major work to ensure the safety of the nation's gene pool, you wage an uncompromising struggle against drug addiction which is evil and dangerous for all humanity, in the name of firmness of our independent state, said the address of ...
Trend.az
Portrait of an Addict
Salon (blog)
I have just finished reading Bill Clegg's memoir, Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man. Clegg is a successful Literary Agent in Manhattan who struggled with an addiction to crack. The very drug, crack, is symbolic of his state of being at the time. ...
Accused attorney has options for help
Visalia Times-Delta
I highly recommend Ms. Winspur complete an alcoholism diagnostic with a summary and recommendation by a professional California alcohol/drug counselor. If alcoholism is determined, the recommended to a viable addiction-treatment center would be ...
Clues to addiction | Harvard Gazette
Harvard scientists have developed the fullest picture yet of how neurons in the brain interact to reinforce behaviors that range from learning to drug use, a finding that could open the door to new treatments for addiction.
Harvard Gazette
StarNewsOnline.com
Knowing the importance of service work, Kelly is often reminded of where alcoholism took her life and what it was like to break free from her addiction. “On Friday, Jan. 13th, I'll have been sober 43 years,” Kelly said recently. ...
Addict die from smoking pain-relief patches
The Local.se
After several deaths in southern Sweden have been linked to the use the drug fentanyl, a pain-relief patch meant for cancer patients, local police are now calling it the “most serious drug problem” in the area. ”This is not acceptable. ...
The Local.se
New Study for Internet Addiction Disorder
Ivanhoe
(Ivanhoe Newswire) – When one typically thinks of addictions, Internet Addiction Disorder may not be the first addiction that comes to mind. Internet Addiction Disorder or IAD, is characterized by an individual's inability to control his/her Internet ...
Addiction center to open Thursday
Daily O'Collegian
The center is a non-profit organization that provides counseling service for a variety of needs including substance abuse, sexual addiction, compulsive gambling disorder and family dynamics. The center determines the amount charged for its services ...
Working too much can become an addiction
Windsor Beacon
The term workaholism first appeared in an article by Oates in 1968 when he paralled alcoholism. The term was intended to represent working to a detrimental extreme. Workaholism is sometimes is synonymous with addiction. Addictions cover a large ...
Alcohol in Pregnancy: It's Never Safe, Especially Not in the First Trimester
TIME
The end of the first trimester appears to be the period when alcohol can wreak the most havoc on fetal development, causing physical deformities as well as behavioral and cognitive symptoms, according to research in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical ...
TIME
Jenelle Evans on Her Pot Addiction: I Have a ''Chemical Imbalance in My Head ...
Wetpaint
Jenelle Evans went through some major withdrawal symptoms this week on Teen Mom 2 when she tried to quit pot. Was it that hard to stop smoking? "Maybe the reason why I'm smoking and self-medicating myself is because there's something like a chemical ...
Steve McQueen: Sex addiction destroys lives
BBC News
The British artist and film-maker Steve McQueen - whose new film Shame is about sex addiction - says the condition is very real and is destroying people's lives. He tells HARDtalk's Zeinab Badawi that both men and women can have an unhealthy ...
BBC News
Woman Finds Alcoholic Husband Dead In Flat
Bernama
KULIM, Jan 18 (Bernama) -- An unemployed who lived separately from his wife and four children due to his alcoholic addiction was found dead in a room of a flat in Taman Jati here yesterday. G. Manivannan's wife found him dead when she went to visit him ...
President: Turkmenistan combats drug addiction to preserve gene pool
Trend.az
Carrying out major work to ensure the safety of the nation's gene pool, you wage an uncompromising struggle against drug addiction which is evil and dangerous for all humanity, in the name of firmness of our independent state, said the address of ...
Trend.az
Portrait of an Addict
Salon (blog)
I have just finished reading Bill Clegg's memoir, Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man. Clegg is a successful Literary Agent in Manhattan who struggled with an addiction to crack. The very drug, crack, is symbolic of his state of being at the time. ...
Accused attorney has options for help
Visalia Times-Delta
I highly recommend Ms. Winspur complete an alcoholism diagnostic with a summary and recommendation by a professional California alcohol/drug counselor. If alcoholism is determined, the recommended to a viable addiction-treatment center would be ...
Clues to addiction | Harvard Gazette
Harvard scientists have developed the fullest picture yet of how neurons in the brain interact to reinforce behaviors that range from learning to drug use, a finding that could open the door to new treatments for addiction.
Harvard Gazette
Futurity.org – Teen brain may be primed for addiction
By Anita Srikameswaran-Pittsburgh
Teen brain may be primed for addiction. "Adolescence is a time when the symptoms of most mental illnesses—such as schizophrenia and bipolar and eating disorders—are first manifested, so we believe that this is a critical period for ...
Futurity.org
Bob Ryan, Sheboygan Mayor, Escapes First Round Of Recall In ...
By The Huffington Post News Editors
(Reuters) - The first-term mayor of a Wisconsin town, a self-described alcoholic who has come under pressure to step down, survived the first round of a recall election on Tuesday by getting more votes than any other candidate.Sheboygan Mayor Bob Ryan, 48, took about 33 percent of ... While alcoholism is an extreme and louder addiction than others, nonalcoholics and others engage in the biggest addiction there is: People addiction. People are addicted to other people, for praise, ...
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Alcoholism and Its Effects | Improve Your Memory, Living and ...
By admin
What is alcoholism? Alcoholism is the consumption of alcohol in excess and a dependency occurs. Alcohol consumption in excess can lead to physical issues as.
Improve Your Memory, Living and...
By admin
What is alcoholism? Alcoholism is the consumption of alcohol in excess and a dependency occurs. Alcohol consumption in excess can lead to physical issues as.
Improve Your Memory, Living and...
A family history of alcoholism may make adolescent brains respond ...
By Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research
Researchers know that adolescents with a family history of alcoholism (FHP) are at risk for developing alcohol use disorders. Some studies have shown that, compared to their peers, FHP adolescents have deficits in behavioral inhibition.
PsyPost
By Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research
Researchers know that adolescents with a family history of alcoholism (FHP) are at risk for developing alcohol use disorders. Some studies have shown that, compared to their peers, FHP adolescents have deficits in behavioral inhibition.
PsyPost
The shrapnel of addiction - SoberRecovery : Alcoholism Drug ...
By Kindeyes
Addiction is a family disease. It's like a bomb that you never expect to go off in your family. The shrapnel from the addict hits everyone who is near. ... But the saddest victims of the shrapnel ofaddiction are children. ... It pains me when I read and hear of sober parents who resolve to stay with the alcoholic/drug addict for various reasons thinking they can shield their children from that shrapnel, thinking they will REMAIN the healthy parent they are at the moment, thinking that because ...
SoberFeed...Live!
By Kindeyes
Addiction is a family disease. It's like a bomb that you never expect to go off in your family. The shrapnel from the addict hits everyone who is near. ... But the saddest victims of the shrapnel ofaddiction are children. ... It pains me when I read and hear of sober parents who resolve to stay with the alcoholic/drug addict for various reasons thinking they can shield their children from that shrapnel, thinking they will REMAIN the healthy parent they are at the moment, thinking that because ...
SoberFeed...Live!
Internet addiction changes brain similar to cocaine: Study ...
Internet addiction disorder changes brain's white matter areas related to emotions, self control, study shows Read more by Ryan Jaslow on CBS News' ...
www.cbsnews.com/.../internet-addiction-changes-brain-similar...
Internet addiction disorder changes brain's white matter areas related to emotions, self control, study shows Read more by Ryan Jaslow on CBS News' ...
www.cbsnews.com/.../internet-addiction-changes-brain-similar...
Three Theories of Depression, Love Addiction, and Obesity ...
The same thing that causes depression causes childhood obesity -- our lives By Stanton Peele...
www.psychologytoday.com/.../three-theories-depression-love-...
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