Archive for the ‘Types of Addiction’ Category

The Dangers of Self-Medicating with Drugs and Alcohol

By Colin Gilbert From an early age, Michael struggled with anxiety and depression. As a child, he always felt awkward in social gatherings, and, as a result, he did his best to avoid social interaction during adolescence and into his early teenage years. Solitude made him feel more comfortable, yet he...
June 12th, 2009 | Types of Addiction | Read More

Club Drugs: Harmless ‘Fun’ or Dangerous Game?

There is a common perception that “club drugs” are harmless and meant for just having fun at parties. More and more young, and not so young, people today are leading increasingly frenetic social lives and looking to maximize the “fun” experience while they can. In the process...
May 18th, 2009 | Club Drugs | Read More

Young Britons See More Smoking in Movies than American Peers

Young Britons see significantly more on-screen smoking in movies than their US peers, finds research published ahead of print in the journal Tobacco Control. The UK film classification system, which rates more films as suitable for young people than its US counterpart, is to blame, say the authors.
March 16th, 2010 | Nicotine Addiction | Read More

Video Games May Hamper Academic Development in Some Children

Parents may want to encourage moderation when it comes to their kids’ video game habits. According to new findings in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, video games may hamper academic development in some children.
March 11th, 2010 | Internet & Video Game Addiction | Read More

Women and Methamphetamine Use

The ratios of men to women who use particular substances vary greatly and generally statistics show a significant trend toward more substance use by males for all classes of substances. For example, the ratio of men to women who use heroin is close to 3: 1 while the proportion of men to women users of...
March 8th, 2010 | Street Drug Addiction | Read More

Prescription Drug Abuse and Chronic Pain among NFL Players

While cases of performance-enhancing substance abuse by professional athletes are not unfamiliar to national headlines, what may go unnoticed is the flip-side to the story: drug dependency among pain-stricken athletes. Participating in the most grueling and physically demanding contact sport, American...
March 6th, 2010 | Prescription Drug Addiction | Read More

Long-Term Marijuana Use and Psychosis

Young adults who have used cannabis or marijuana for a longer period of time appear more likely to have hallucinations or delusions or to meet criteria for psychosis, according to a report posted online that will appear in the May print issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives...
March 2nd, 2010 | Marijuana Addiction | Read More

Lindsay Lohan Blames Father for Cocaine Addiction

Troubled actress Lindsay Lohan is blaming her father for her own interest in cocaine, as he is a former drug addict. Lindsay has been in rehab three times since 2007, and has been caught with cocaine by police.
February 24th, 2010 | Cocaine | Read More

More Army Soldiers Seeking Treatment for Alcoholism

After driving with a blood-alcohol content more than three times the legal limit and nearly decapitating a 19-year-old woman, Army Sgt. Edison Bayas is serving a 15-year prison sentence for intoxication manslaughter. The decorated career soldier is just one of thousands whose problems with alcohol spun...
February 22nd, 2010 | Alcohol Addiction | Read More

Compulsive Gambling: One Woman’s Struggle

 Mary Sojourner, M.A., the author of She Bets Her Life: A True Story of Gambling Addiction and a former counselor specializing in women’s healing, wrote the following article for Psychology Today:
February 19th, 2010 | Gambling Addiction | Read More