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How Many Years Will Your Addiction Cost You?
Addicaid - Addiction Recovery Support It’s hard to find something that destroys life (social & physical) faster than addiction. While some substances provide quick highs, they also rapidly waste...
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The Connection Between Boredom + Addiction
Addicaid - Addiction Recovery Support Even a short time in a stimulating learning environment can rewire the brain’s reward system and buffer it against drug dependence, a new study with mice suggests....
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For Some Addictions, Gender Makes a Big Difference
Addicaid - Addiction Recovery Support You probably know that abusing stimulants like cocaine, amphetamines, and methamphetamine doesn’t go hand in hand with long-term brain health. But what if the side...
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Robin Williams’ Stand-Up Bit on Alcoholics
Addicaid - Addiction Recovery Support Robin Williams had 20 years sober before relapsing in 2006. During this time he returned to the stand-up stage where he openly joked about his struggles with...
View ArticleThis Video Explains the Effects of Crack Cocaine on the Brain
Addicaid - Addiction Recovery Support Watch this short whiteboard-animated video illustrate the difference between crack and powdered cocaine and also explain the effect that both drugs have on the...
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Hype, Heroin & Jean-Michel Basquiat
Addicaid - Addiction Recovery Support Jean-Michel Basquiat’s bristling, ugly-elegant, stream-of-consciousness art still looks damn good. The body of work, produced during a truncated but astoundingly...
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The Addicaid Guide to Cocaine
Addicaid - Addiction Recovery Support Addicaid Drug Guide to Cocaine. Additional guides in this series are Heroin, Marijuana, LSD, Meth, MDMA (Ecstasy), Nitrous, Psilocybin Mushrooms, Opium, PCP &...
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It’s Hard Loving an Addict
Addicaid - Addiction Recovery Support The landmark rat park study showed that being engaged in social environments made it less likely for rats to foster addictive behaviors. So could these results...
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What Is Addiction?
Addicaid - Addiction Recovery Support What is addiction? Why are some people predisposed to it and what happens in the brain when addiction takes hold? In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, hosts...
View ArticleThe Brain Chemistry of an Addict
Addicaid - Addiction Recovery Support Humans have always struggled with addictions. Yet, only in the past few decades have neuroscientists begun to understand precisely how addictions affect the brain...
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Addiction Diction: The Origin of the Word Addiction
Addicaid - Addiction Recovery Support The now familiar medical diagnosis of addiction did not really exist until the late 19th century. The earliest use of the word was as an edict of Roman law. In...
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Your Brain’s Reward Center
Addicaid - Addiction Recovery Support Addiction to drugs, alcohol, or any other destructive habit doesn’t come as the result of some personal failing. It’s actually the result of some pretty serious...
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The Function of Dysfunction
Addicaid - Addiction Recovery Support Your waitress. Your colleagues at work. Your doctor. Maybe even your parents. They’re all high. All the time. That’s what it feels like anyway. This podcast from...
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Self-Trust Is Essential To Recovery
Addicaid - Addiction Recovery Support For decades the National Institute on Drug Abuse has largely treated addiction as “a chronic brain disease because drugs change the brain; they change its...
View ArticleOh, So *This* Is Your Brain on Drugs
Addicaid - Addiction Recovery Support There was no shortage of anti-drug PSAs in the 80s and 90s. But were any of them effective? Is it possible that some may have actually been counterproductive to...
View ArticleMoving Forward After Addiction
Addicaid - Addiction Recovery Support Battles with addiction can rattle or wreck a family. This podcast explores what getting past drug and alcohol addiction means for one girl’s family. If you or a...
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How You Can Help Someone Who Is Addicted
Addicaid - Addiction Recovery Support What’s the worst nightmare for family+friends of people with drug addictions? It’s watching the downward spiral, the medical crisis and maybe even the death of an...
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The Addicaid Guide to PCP & Ketamine
Addicaid - Addiction Recovery Support Addicaid Drug Guide Series: PCP & Ketamine. Also read our other guides to Cocaine, Marijuana, Heroin, LSD, Meth, Nitrous, Shrooms, Opium, and Ecsatsy. Word on...
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A Trillion-Dollar Failure
Addicaid - Addiction Recovery Support The war on drugs may be a trillion-dollar failure. But putting an end to the war is an extraordinarily complex issue because there still isn’t a single definitive...
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Can Psychedelic Drugs Help Treat Addiction?
Addicaid - Addiction Recovery Support Recently, psychedelic drugs have been experimented with as tools to illuminate the workings of the brain and treat depression. Substances such as psilocybin, LSD,...
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