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Nick Nolte’s New Role Covers Familiar Ground
How Addiction Happens: Nick Nolte’s new role covers familiar ground
Recovering alcoholic boxer Paddy Conlon in Warrior is the latest in a long line of tormented men the actor has specialized in playing
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How Addiction Happens: Energy innovation: From a garage to the Pentagon
Spurred by a desire to save money and lives by reducing the number of vulnerable fuel convoys they depend on, the Marines last month invited 13 companies to their desert base to pitch them the latest in battlefield solar and fuel efficiency technology.
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Genes Play Role in How Alcohol Affects Men and Women
Causes of Addiction: Genes Play Role in How Alcohol Affects Men and Women
Title: Genes Play Role in How Alcohol Affects Men and Women Category: Health News Created: 8/16/2011 11:01:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 8/16/2011
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Causes of Addiction: Mouse Study IDs Role of Stress in Depression – PsychCentral.com
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Mouse Study IDs Role of Stress in Depression
PsychCentral.com In the study, scientists discovered that when mice are exposed to stress, a protein called p38? mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) influences the animal's behavior, contributing to depression-like symptoms and risk for addiction. … |
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Causes of Addiction: What Is Drug Addiction and Alcohol Addiction, and What Role Does Your Higher Power Play
Drug addiction is a chronic and intense compulsion to gratify cravings inside brain by the recurring use of a substance despite the cost or consequences. It is a condition that involves compulsive drug use, craving and seeking, withdrawal, along with dysfunctional behavior. It has the ability to steal someone’s joyfulness, obliterate their purpose and testimony, as well as kill them given a long enough time table. And in contrast to many other diseases, it will never be entirely cured… but it can be arrested.
But Isn’t Taking Drugs a Choice…
Addiction is quite involved. Many cannot understand how and why other people end up addicted, and could have certain misconceptions about this disease. When an individual initially decides to take drugs, it is at that time undeniably a choice. Some test it out of curiosity while others are pushed into it as a result of social and economic conditions, but modern brain scanning technology (PET and SPECT scans) has revealed how the choice to take drugs soon dissipates and becomes a physical and psychological dependence wherein an individual incrementally loses his ability to “choose” to stop using due to a kind of brain damage that affects choice making.
The Role of Denial in the Power of Addictive Disease
Persons with addictive disease continue to use their substances in the face of a long history of adverse consequences in significant areas of their lives, including medical problems, legal problems, relational problems, and employment problems. The drive to use is stronger than one’s love for a significant other or a child; stronger than loyalty to an employer or a friend; and stronger than one’s values or even spiritual tenets. Persons with addictive disease continue to use long after any rational individual would choose to do so. This article provides a brief explanation of the role of denial in the power of addiction.
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