Several medications can help people with alcohol use disorders maintain abstinence or reduce drinking, according to research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Date Posted: July 21, 2014
Categories: Addictions
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Pornography triggers brain activity in people with compulsive sexual behaviour – known commonly as sex addiction – similar to that triggered by drugs in the brains of drug addicts, according to a University of Cambridge study.
Jul 15
Categories: Addictions, Drug Addiction, Sexual Problems / Sex Therapy
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Brigham Young University professor Scott Steffensen and his collaborators have published three new scientific papers that detail the brain mechanisms involved with addictive substances. "Addiction is a brain disease that could be treated like any ...
Jul 4
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We've all been told that men think about you-know-what far too often - every seven seconds, by some accounts. Most of us have entertained this idea for long enough to be skeptical. However, rather than merely wonder about whether this is true, stop ...
Jun 25
Categories: Addictions, Sexual Problems / Sex Therapy
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Certain bacteria found in the dirt near coca plants are powered by an enzyme that eats cocaine. Unfortunately, the enzyme breaks down quickly at body temperature, meaning it can't be used to treat human overdoses or addiction. Now, though, ...
Jun 25
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Joint research between the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and the University of Nottingham opens up pathways for generating new pharmaceutical drugs and therapies that enhance the life of alcoholic persons .
Jun 17
Categories: Addictions
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Being the leading
preventable cause of premature death and disabling diseases, a team of researchers from the Mexican Institute of Respiratory Diseases (INER) developed a virtual platform that measures the level of addiction of smokers, while ...
Jun 3
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"Early life experiences can alter the brain in the long term, with profound implications for behavior in adulthood," said Abigail Schindler, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Washington who conducted the research. "This study points ...
Apr 30
Categories: Addictions, Adult psychological development, Child Development
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A new study from the University of Edinburgh uses an unique longitudinal dataset - the Lothian Birth Cohort - and an ingenious analysis technique called Mendelian Randomisation to disentangle the causal influence of drinking alcohol on cognitive ...
Apr 28
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If you are trying to quit smoking one method to incorporate is to do new, exciting "self-expanding" activities that can help with nicotine craving.
This is the take-home message from a new study published online in PLOS ONE by a team of researchers ...
Apr 25
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Just three minutes of playing Tetris can reduce cravings for food, cigarettes and alcohol, according to a new study published in the journal Appetite.
The psychologists conclude that Tetris, a retro tile-matching puzzle game (above), may provide a ...
Mar 4
Categories: Addictions
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Victorian kids as young as eight are becoming hooked on computer games and the internet, with some refusing to go to school, suffering anxiety and depression, getting violent and withdrawing socially.
Mental health professionals say the condition, ...
Feb 25
Categories: Addictions
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First it was Doodle Jump. Then Dots. And now - will it never end? - Flappy Bird.
So many of the games that we download on our smartphones are a waste of time, but we can't seem to stop playing them. My current high score on the late, lamented ...
Feb 19
Categories: Addictions
GOModerate or heavy smokers who quit tobacco get a boost in mental wellbeing that, for people who are anxious or stressed, is equivalent to taking anti-depressants, a study said Thursday.
British researchers examined 26 published investigations into ...
Feb 15
Categories: Addictions
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The death of Phillip Seymour Hoffman has sparked some strong and seemingly contradictory responses. What these reactions show is that many people find it hard to think of addiction as being anything except either a choice or a loss of free ...
Feb 12
Categories: Addictions
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A new study has found that men drinking heavily in mid-life experience faster declines in their cognitive abilities.
The study, published in the journal Neurology, found that men who drank the equivalent of 2.5 drinks per day showed faster declines ...
Jan 23
Categories: Addictions
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