Addiction
Addiction in its broadest sense can be defined as the habituation to a practice considered harmful. A more narrow definition of the term refers to chronic use of a chemical substance in spit...
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Addiction
(formerly the British Journal of Addictions) is the oldest specialist journal in its field, originating in 1884 as the Proceedings for the Society for the Study and Cure of Inebriety. The bo...
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Addiction: Concepts and Definitions
This article deals with a number of concepts related to the basic nature of addiction, that are widely used but often misused, and that have undergone significant c...
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American Society of Addiction Medicine (Asam)
The American Society of Addiction Medicine (4601 North Park Avenue, Arcade Suite 101, Chevy Chase, MD 20815; 301-656-3920; http://www.asam.org) is a not-f...
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Addiction: Concepts and Definitions
Understanding the nature of addiction depends on understanding several related concepts. The following discussion explains and clarifies those concepts.
Abuse and M...
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Alcohol: Psychological Consequences of Chronic Abuse
Chronic alcohol abuse—heavy drinking over a long period—can seriously damage a person's well-being, not only physically but me...
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Addiction
Definition
Addiction is a dependence on a substance, such as the drug heroin, or a type of behavior, such as gambling. The dependence is so strong that it may seem as if the person is unable...
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Addiction
Addiction is a dependence, on a behavior or substance, that a person is powerless to stop. The term has been partially replaced by the word dependence for substance abuse. Addiction has been...
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Drugs seem to occupy the American conscience. Hardly a day passes without some notice of drugs in newspapers and on TV. Addictions are uncontrollable actions. There are good addictions and bad addi...
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Dane Simonsen
Addiction
Addiction is a word used to describe those in our modern society who we as a whole shun from our front doors. It used to mean a person that couldn't stop using drugs, or ...
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As a psychiatrist, I've seen a lot of people with addictions. But food addiction is the most common and often involves what I call the 'Food Trance.' Maybe you know the feeling. My patients have t...
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An addiction center is opening Europe's first detox clinic for game addicts, offering in-house treatment for people who can't leave their joysticks alone.
Video games may look innocent, bu...
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KABUL, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Afghanistan, the world's biggest
heroin producer, is struggling to cope with a drug problem as
thousands of Afghans -- trying to cope with the traumas of war,
displacemen...
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Central Asia's poorest county is also one of the world's leading transit routes for heroin, opium and other drugs from Afghanistan. Sergei Makhkamov has been caught in the flood."I tried it, I like...
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The government appealed Wednesday for Dublin's pharmacists to resume distribution of methadone in a dispute that has threatened the outpatient treatment of more than 3,000 heroin addicts.Health Min...
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The telltale signs are ominous: teens holing up in their rooms, ignoring friends, family, even food and a shower, while grades plummet and belligerence soars. The culprit isn't alcohol or drugs. It...
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Daniel Baldwin opened up about his cocaine addiction in a series of confessional video diaries, taped at various stages of his treatment, that were to be shown Tuesday night on ABC News' "Primetime...
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Diego Maradona was transferred Saturday to a private psychiatric clinic where he is to undergo treatment for alcohol addiction after being hospitalized twice in less than a month.Alfredo Cahe, pers...
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If you've ever wondered what it would be like to command your very own robot army (and who hasn't?) "Supreme Commander" provides a very addicting, complex answer.Like a chess game _ but with robots...
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