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.
35. When a behavioral compulsion can be called an addiction. I. An introduction to Internet-related addictions.
34. The use of psychoactive drugs during combat
33. The global opioid epidemic is being worsened by xylazine, AKA “tranq”, a contaminant often deliberately added to heroin and fentanyl
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.
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