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How Addiction Counselling Services Can Help to Overcome Addiction? - 0 views

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    Addictions can create from what might be viewed as fairly innocent, or at least common social propensities. Drinking alcohol, gambling, eating, engaging in sexual relations and utilizing the web can all turn from what is viewed as a common activity, to a darker, increasingly destructive compulsion. Addiction treatment, for example, addiction counselling services, is critical for helping individuals perceive the issue and make the steps to recuperation.
Nathan Goodyear

2013: Student-faculty research suggests Oreos can be compared to drugs of abuse in lab ... - 0 views

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    Rat study suggests that sugar is just as addictive as cocaine.  So, is the food industry knowingly pushing addiction on the public?
Nathan Goodyear

Arch Gen Psychiatry -- Abstract: Neural Correlates of Food Addiction, April 4, 2011, Ge... - 0 views

  • Similar patterns of neural activation are implicated in addictive-like eating behavior and substance dependence: elevated activation in reward circuitry in response to food cues and reduced activation of inhibitory regions in response to food intake.
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    Similar neurochemical changes with food as seen in other addictions
Nathan Goodyear

Food addiction and Neuroimaging - 0 views

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    Good discussion and review of the current literature on food addiction and the associated neuroimaging changes.
Nathan Goodyear

Excessive Sugar Consumption May Be a Difficult Habit to Break: A View From the Brain an... - 0 views

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    Only abstract available here, but sugar in the form of sucrose found to lower cortisol.  Increased activity in the hippocampus was evident in the sucrose arm of this study.  Both of these activities will lead to stress induced food addictions--particularly of sugar.  Sugar is highly addictive and should be especially avoided in children.  Of note, this study followed the cortisol levels through saliva.
Nathan Goodyear

Addiction Therapy for Drugs, Alcohol, Caffeine, and Sugar - 1 views

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    Vitamin C for Optiate addiction?
Nathan Goodyear

The effects of sex, estrous cycle, and social contact on cocaine and heroin self-admini... - 0 views

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    hormones, estrogen and/or progesterone, may provide a solution to addiction in women says animal study.
Nathan Goodyear

Intense sweetness surpasses cocaine reward. [PLoS One. 2007] - PubMed - NCBI - 0 views

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    Rats that were sensitized to cocaine, preferred artificial sweeteners over that of cocaine. Think about that for a moment.  Does that redefine addiction?
Nathan Goodyear

The Effect of Oral Feeding of Tribulus t... [Int J Fertil Steril. 2013] - PubMed - NCBI - 0 views

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    Tribulus found to increase sex hormone production in opiate addicted male rats.  Opiates are known causes of low T in men.
Nathan Goodyear

Testosterone replacement therapy outcomes among opioid users: The Testim Registry in th... - 0 views

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    opiates are a common cause of low testosterone.  So, by physicians increasing the addiction rate, what are we really doing here?  We are lowering their testosterone levels and increasing their mortality rates per numerous other studies.
Nathan Goodyear

Access : The neurobiology of appetite: hunger as addiction : International Journal of O... - 0 views

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    complex interplay between behavior, genetics, and CNS play role in over-eating.  Add in environment as well.
Nathan Goodyear

Neonatal abstinence syndrome and associated health care... [JAMA. 2012] - PubMed - NCBI - 0 views

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    Very disturbing trend.  Study finds that opioid addicted infants are on a dramatic risk in the US.  This study looked at Neionatal abstinence syndrome from 2000 to 2009.  This follows the significant increase in maternal opioid prescription use.  We physicians must do better.  Patients must demand better.  This study just focused on hospital costs directly associated with the Neonatal period.  No cost estimates are evaluated for long-term care.
Nathan Goodyear

Oxytrex Minimizes Physical Dependence While Providing Effective Analgesia: A Randomized... - 0 views

  • Active treatment groups attained comparable analgesia despite significantly lower drug use
  • preclinical data also show a suppression of opioid tolerance and dependence
  • Previous clinical data have shown ultralow-dose naltrexone enhances and prolongs oxycodone analgesia,
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  • A cellular mechanism of action has been demonstrated to be the prevention of aberrant G protein signaling by mu opioid receptors caused by chronic opioid administration
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    low dose naltrexone improves pain control and reduced opioid addiction
Nathan Goodyear

Dopamine-based reward circuitry responsivity, genetics, and overeating. - PubMed - NCBI - 0 views

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    low dopamine Rc associated appears to increase addiction to sugar and its positive effect on these same receptors (and another that positively interacts with dopamine Rc's) and results in overeating and weight problems.
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Exactly How Bad Are Trans Fats | Your Health Our Priority - 0 views

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    Are you worried you are getting heavier day by day? Well, it might be because of those fries you are addicted to. Deep fried foods are rich in trans fats which are directly related to obesity and heart failure. Trans fats build up the blood vessels, hindering the smooth flow of blood through them.
Nathan Goodyear

Methadone induces testosterone suppression in patients with opioid addiction : Scientif... - 0 views

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    Methadone suppresses Testosterone in men.
Sonny Cher

Getting High Legally! - 1 views

After getting out of rehab, I still cannot shake off my need to get high. However, I vowed not to resort to illegal drugs again. After consulting a friend about it, he introduced legal drugs and ma...

Kronic

started by Sonny Cher on 27 May 11 no follow-up yet
Sonny Cher

Who Says Smoking Pot is Illegal? - 1 views

I have always been addicted to marijuana. It started out with my friends at high school, since then I cannot turn myself away from experiencing high times puffing marajuana. It feels so nice. Howev...

marajuana

started by Sonny Cher on 01 Jun 11 no follow-up yet
Sonny Cher

Who Says Smoking Pot is Illegal? - 1 views

I have always been addicted to marijuana. It started out with my friends at high school, since then I cannot turn myself away from experiencing high times puffing marajuana. It feels so nice. Howev...

marajuana

started by Sonny Cher on 18 May 11 no follow-up yet
High Syn

Safe and Legal Pot - 4 views

You can say that I love to party and get high occasionally. But, then again getting addicted to the real thing is a big NO NO. Gladly a friend of mine introduced me to Kronic. It is a brand of herb...

herbal highs

started by High Syn on 13 Jun 11 no follow-up yet
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