See on Scoop.it – Addictions and Mental Health “Young adult smokers may experience changes in the structures of their brains due to cigarette smoking, even with a relatively short smoking […]
“Psychotherapy is a biological treatment, a brain therapy. It produces lasting, detectable physical changes in our brain, much as learning does.” –Dr. Eric Kandel (Professor Columbia University and recipient, 2000 […]
Practical Recovery Blog notes: “There’s no denying America is trending toward leniency of marijuana laws. An important question raised is how this trend might affect teenagers and adolescents. While we […]
See on Scoop.it – Addictions and Mental Health “It’s not just a willpower issue. The drug affects the part of the brain that responds to pleasurable things.” http://goo.gl/R51UZ4 This […]
See on Scoop.it – Addictions and Mental Health NIDA: “This image compares relapse rates for drug-addicted patients with those suffering from diabetes, hypertension, and asthma. Relapse is common and similar […]
See on Scoop.it – Addictions and Mental Health Adding a benzodiazepine to an opioid painkiller can increase the effect of the opioid, or in the language of addiction, benzos can […]
See on Scoop.it – Addictions and Mental Health The age at which many children in the U.S. take their first sip of alcohol is surprisingly young, finds a new study in the Journal of Adolescent Health. Barbara Wood, Ph.D. http://www.alcoholismandthefamily.com / Author of Children of Alcoholism and Raising Healthy Children […]
See on Scoop.it – Addictions and Mental Health “Now that (Philip Seymour) Hoffman is gone the one purpose his passing can offer is to bring into sharp focus the fact […]
See on Scoop.it – Addictions and Mental Health KJ Dell’Antonia: “Drugs as cookies mean I have to talk to my older children about drugs without the natural barriers created by […]
“Trauma is to mental health as smoking is to cancer.”-Dr. Steven Sharfstein, Past President, American Psychiatric Association Last week, I posted the first in a series of articles about children […]
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