Society and Addicts

June 10, 2011

Society looks down upon addicts, believing that they’ve brought the problem on themselves and that it’s up to them to solve it. Indeed, many addicts are convicted of crimes and sentenced to long prison terms. Instead of being rehabilitated, they’re thrown in the prison system that notoriously has access to continued drug use. Research has [...]

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Methadone Addiction

June 9, 2011

Methadone is a common medication given to people who are trying to break their addiction to heroin, typically, but also to other kinds of addiction. Methadone can either be taken by mouth or it can be injected with a needle. Many professionals are against the use of methadone as a cure for addiction because often [...]

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Dopamine and Addiction

June 8, 2011

Scientists are understanding more and more about addiction. They used to think that being addicted to a substance or a behavior was purely a psychological issue. They believed that the addiction needed to be treated with behavioral therapy, counselors and psychiatrists. New research is changing the way scientists view addiction. Rather than a mental dependence [...]

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Nicotine Addiction

June 7, 2011

Nicotine is probably the most common form of addiction in the world, and the hardest one to break. For decades the tobacco industry had the power to advertise and convince people that smoking cigarettes was a pleasurable thing to do and that it caused no physical harm to your body. Now, people have become educated [...]

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Four Stages of Addiction

June 6, 2011

Addiction is a very taxing and painful experience. It is something that you cannot get over quickly and the individual facing it must fight daily to combat it. No matter what the addiction is all addictions are multi-dimensional and there is no one size fits all cure. It cannot be solved by one simple action [...]

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Addiction to Methamphetamine

June 5, 2011

Methamphetamine is one of the most dangerous drugs that someone can take, and once ingested, you can become almost instantly addicted. Meth, as it is commonly called as well as other names such as crank, crystal and glass, comes in powder form or chunks that look like crystal rocks, white or yellowish in color. The [...]

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Tobacco and addiction

June 4, 2011

Addiction is everywhere around us but sometimes we fail to recognize and we don’t want to see it. One of the deadliest forms of addiction is regularly featured on TV, magazines and billboards and it is deemed by most people in society as undesirable but at the same time is tolerated. This substance also happens [...]

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Alcohol Addiction

June 3, 2011

Addiction to alcohol is probably the most common type of addiction in our society. Alcohol abuse is a worldwide problem because alcohol consumption is so accepted. It’s one of the few drugs, along with nicotine, that is legal and allowed to be consumed almost anywhere, almost anytime. Society and authorities mostly turn their heads at [...]

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Addiction Is No Joke

June 2, 2011

Addiction is a strange phenomenon. Everyone knows all about wanting something, of course, whether it’s a new television or a slice of pizza or even a particular person. That kind of desire may be all-consuming, to the point where people find it hard to think of anything else, but still it is a finite desire [...]

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How Families Can Cope With Addiction

June 1, 2011

It seems that the people who are affected the most by an addiction is not the person who suffers from the illness, but those around him. Family, friends and other loved ones are sometimes the helpless victims who have to watch the one they care about be overtaken in an overwhelming addiction. They may feel [...]

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