Addictions and Recovery
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This blog is an outgrowth of a course that I taught at Christian Brothers University in Memphis, TN, entitled “The Biology of Addiction”. This course, was, in essence, a study of human biology through the lens of addictions. My developing this course was, in turn, a consequence of an incident that occurred while I was still drinking, in which I passed out on a busy street while riding my bicycle. Fortunately, I had fallen to the right, onto the sidewalk out of harm’s way, rather than to the left, onto a traffic lane where I could have been run over. Sometime after starting my recovery, I thought about that incident and concluded that I had been given an opportunity to move forward with a new mission. The answer, to me as an academic, was to offer a course on the biology of addiction for non-majors.
That sense of mission sustained me through the rest of my teaching career.
Now that I am retired, I still receive interesting information from agencies (such as the National Institutes of Health) and journals (Journal of the American Medical Association), so I would like to share this information with those who read this blog.
59. Our gut microbiome is our friend. DON’T MESS IT UP WITH ALCOHOL OR DRUGS.
58. Alcohol, Drugs and Violence
57. Pharmacological alternatives for the treatment of alcohol and other substance abuse
56. How devastating is prenatal exposure to drugs to the newborn?
55a. I have a schedule of upcoming blogposts in which I upload a post every two weeks, but after reading this article, I felt it was WAY too important to wait.
55. Alcohol and cancer
54a. An Addendum to my previous post, “Symptoms common to drug addiction are also present in those who excessively use social media.”
54. Symptoms common to drug addiction are also present in those who excessively use social media.
53a. An addendum to my lengthier blog about coffee and caffeine.
53. There’s a reason why the genus name for the cacao plant, from which we get chocolate, is Theobroma, Greek for “food of the gods.”
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