Heroin vs. Häagen-Dazs: What Food Addiction Looks Like in the Brain
These areas included the amygdala, anterior cingulate cortex and medial orbitofrontal cortex — the same regions that light up in drug addicts who are shown images of drug paraphernalia or drugs. Similar to people suffering from substance abuse, the …
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Eminem says addiction to painkillers and other prescription drugs nearly …
Eminem says addiction to painkillers and other prescription drugs nearly killed him. eminem.jpg. Eminem performs at … The drug abuse landed Eminem in the hospital, with a recovery that entailed relearning motor and speech skills, according to Rolling …
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GTA 5 Drug Abuse and Addiction
Unless Rockstar Games thinks they have to create artificial controversy in order to sell GTA 5, we think they will keep drugs low-key and not be an obvious part of the protagonist's or Michael's family's lifestyle or game element. Rockstar has subtly …
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Drug Addicts Beaten To Reduce Their Cravings In Siberia
A gang in Yekaterinburg, Russian allegedly handcuffed drug addicts to beds to wean them off drugs, according to the paper. Other psychiatric treatments can seem counterintuitive as well. Just last November, The New York Times reported that research …
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Breakthrough: Research delves into link between drug use, decision-making
Description: An area of the brain known as the orbitofrontal cortex, already thought to be key in decision-making, is now considered responsible for spur-of-the-moment choices but not for those based on habits, according to recently published research.
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Breakthrough: Research delves into link between drug use, decision-making
Description: An area of the brain known as the orbitofrontal cortex, already thought to be key in decision-making, is now considered responsible for spur-of-the-moment choices but not for those based on habits, according to recently published research.
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Legalization and the UN Drug Treaties — A Minor Obstacle at Worst
My understanding of the treaties is that they discourage but do permit legal drug possession (given a public health system in place for addressing drug abuse), but not legal production and sales excepting medicine and research. How easy would this to …
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Penn Study shows resistance to cocaine addiction may be passed down from …
PHILADELPHIA – Research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) reveals that sons of male rats exposed to cocaine are resistant to the rewarding effects of the drug, suggesting …
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