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.
32. Fentanyl
31. Acupuncture as a detox and treatment modality
30. Anabolic androgenic steroids: Therapeutic and inappropriate uses
29. The use of psychostimulants as a treatment modality for ADHD
28. The possible consequences of reclassifying marijuana as a Schedule III drug at the federal level.
27. How valid is the “Gateway Hypothesis?”
26. Evolutionary mismatch. III. Possible connections to alcoholism.
24. Evolutionary mismatch. I. Possible connection to gambling.
25. Evolutionary mismatch. II. Possible connection to problems with food, leading to obesity and subsequent chronic health conditions.
23. Leave it to the Brits to develop an equation to explain “The Beer Goggle Effect”
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