Addiction Complicates Treatment of PTSD
A huge number of those who abuse drugs have suffered, or currently suffer from post traumatic stress disorder — the abuse of substances is often a way of coping with the symptoms of PTSD, or becomes a further addiction because of the way that …
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Can Ritalin Cure Cocaine Addiction? ADHD Drug Helps Coke Addicts Quell …
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, cocaine works by causing dopamine, a feel-good chemical in our brains, to flood our brain circuits. Normally, neurons release dopamine in response to "potential rewards," like smelling good food. The …
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Marijuana Legalization Gains Support, Confounding Policymakers
"We're on this hundred-mile-an-hour freight train to legalizing a third addictive substance," says Kevin Sabet, a former drug policy adviser in the Obama administration, lumping marijuana with tobacco and alcohol. Legalization strategist Ethan …
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Broken Family Bonds and Addiction
Most addicts get into drugs and alcohol to suppress some type of trauma that they went through. I had the pleasure of talking to "Jillian", a woman in recovery who went through traumatic events that has caused her an amazing amount of pain and …
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