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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.
18. Nicotine. IV. Vaping as a harm-reduction or smoking cessation strategy.
16. Nicotine. II. It can lead to an addiction that is difficult to break.
17. Nicotine. III. The dreadful company that nicotine keeps: Chemical components of cigarette smoke and their hazards
15. Nicotine. I. Cigarettes are a highly engineered nicotine delivery system.
14. Childhood trauma and the increased likelihood of developing alcoholism and drug abuse
13. Therapeutic applications of psilocybin
12. Fetal alcohol syndrome disorder: Physical signs, chemical and molecular biomarkers, and long-term consequences
11. Liver cirrhosis and Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome as alcoholic endpoints
10. The adolescent brain and alcohol
9. The designation of 0.08% blood alcohol concentration (BAC) as the legal limit is fairly arbitrary. Impairment can occur before then.
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