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New Addiction/Recovery Web Site

Daily news blog is part of “The Fix.” I’m pleased to announce that I will now be writing and editing a new blog, “This Just In,” for the recently-launched addiction and recovery site,The Fix. Some top-notch writers are involved, like Susan Cheever and Walter Armstrong. Big take-down of Narconon in the current issue. I encourage ….

Using Food To Control Sexual Addiction

Readers: Please note this is not meant for children to read, only 18 years old or older, this article address excessive sexual urges and how to deal with them more effectively by comparing it to food cravings. Hi, today I am going to discuss how food and sex have always been connected. For instance, when ….

When Smokers Move

Is your new house a thirdhand smoke reservoir? In the first published examination of thirdhand smoke pollution and exposure, researchers at San Diego State University discovered that non-smokers who move into homes purchased from smokers encounter significantly elevated nicotine levels in the air and dust of their new homes two months or more after moving ….

Marijuana, Vomiting, And Hot Baths

A case history of cannabinoid hyperemesis. Cannabinoid hyperemesis, as it’s known, is an extremely rare but terrifying disorder marked by severe episodic vomiting that can only be relieved by hot baths. (see earlier post). Sufferers are heavy, regular cannabis users, most of them. And hot baths? Where did THAT come from? The syndrome was first ….

Drug Czar Kerlikowske Interviewed In Foreign Policy Magazine

Drug War goes international in a big way. Gil Kerlikowske, Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy–a.k.a. the Drug Czar–finds himself in a curious position. Kerlikowske can be forgiven for feeling a little like J. Edgar Hoover, when the FBI director found that domestic security at home seemed to require some rather active ….

Medical Cigarettes

Is it “Inhumane” to Take Cigarettes Away from Schizophrenics? In an article for Brain Blogger a couple of years ago, I looked into the astonishing fact that, as a typical study of impatient smoking among schizophrenics in Britain revealed, about 80-90% of the patients diagnosed with schizophrenia were cigarette smokers. Given that the running rate ….

Addicted To Thinking “Inside The Box”

In this session I will give you some ideas how to think outside the box in hopes you can try some of these things out for your own growth and if you want to write me and let me know how it is working out for you even better. In life, there are only a few guarantees, the ….

So, Like, We’re Watching The LSD Episode Of The Fringe…

Lysergic Acid Diethylamide So this guy I know? Like really, really well? He’s over at my place and we’re watching The Fringe on TV and smoking a bowl, excuse me, we’re vaping a bowl, he’s an older guy and all concerned with his health and shit. So we’re watching the Lysergic Acid Diethylamide episode of ….

Let’s Get Cellular: Meth Metabolism

Fruit flies on methamphetamine metabolize glucose differently. We know from the work of Nora Volkow and others that meth abusers have chronically low levels of dopamine D2 receptors in their brains. But what is going on in the rest of the body when methamphetamine addiction is running full force? A study of meth-crazed fruit flies, ….

Shopping Addiction

In this session I will discuss shopping addiction. When you go to the department store do you purchase on your credit cards everything you want to buy regardless that it is outside your means to pay it back? Do you find yourself buying many items like for example, many dresses because you don’t have that ….

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