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Category Archives: Addiction
My Lady Nicotine, by J. M. Barrie.
Perhaps, like me you thought Alan Carr had written the book on smoking. But before there was The Easy Way to Stop Smoking, there was My Lady Nicotine by JM Barrie. Written 14 years before Peter Pan, it was a novel of … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Books, Tobacco
Tagged Lady Nicotine, Peter Pan, Smoking, tobacco
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Westminster Skeptics – Thinking critically about addiction
For any of our London followers, you might like to join us at the Westminster Skeptics this Monday evening. Author Tania Glyde will discussing her own post-drinking memoir ‘Cleaning Up‘. Thinking critically about addiction Monday, January 9 at 7:30PM Where? The Monk … Continue reading
Caffeine – a gentle reminder
We often forget that caffeine is a psychoactive drug. The most widely used of the lot and probably one of the few for which usage is actually increasing. It might not seem like a drug of abuse but For all … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Alcohol, Experience
Tagged Abstinence, Alcohol, caffeine, coffee, Psychoactive Drug
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Addiction IS an illness.
The American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) released a new definition of addiction. The Fix has an excellent write up: [They define] addiction as a chronic neurological disorder involving many brain functions, most notably a devastating imbalance in the so-called … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Alcohol, Psychopharmacology, Science, Treatment
Tagged Addiction Medicine
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A Goodbye Letter to Booze | The Fix
Why do AA members spend so much of their post-drinking time obsessing over drinks they won’t be drinking? Is it because abstinence makes the heart grow fonder? From one of their websites (via Vaughan at MindHacks) comes this love letter … Continue reading
tonx.org drinks more coffee than you or I.
Each month this year I take turns to give up a different vice. January was alcohol, February was drugs and March was meat. This month I will be giving up caffeine. The first three were surprisingly easy but I’ve been … Continue reading
Baltimore junkies are wearing wires.
Can it be possible, a positive drugs story coming out of Baltimore? Some Baltimore junkies have been given PDA’s (Palm pilots rather than Crackberries). They were asked to keep track of the activities and daily habits associated with their habits … Continue reading
Game Quote #001 – David Sudnow, Break Out the wailing synapses
Pilgrim in the Microworld, written in 1983, was the first ever book length account of video game ‘addiction’. It is rather interesting. It is an account of an obsession, addiction and ulitmate mastery of the game of Breakout. The classic … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Books, Culture, Games
Tagged BreakOut, David Sudnow, Perfect Score, Quotation, Video Game Addiction
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Big Issue – Patsy Staddon on recovery from alcoholism
Dr. Patsy Staddon is a medical sociologist at Plymouth University who researches women’s alcohol use and abuse. In this week’s Big Issue she gives a personal and professional perspective on alcoholism and the many possible approaches to recovery. Her route … Continue reading
Faces of Addiction – Chris Arnade
Faces of Addiction. Vanessa: Hunts Point, Bronx Vanessa, thirty-five, had three children with an abusive husband. She “lost her mind, started doing heroin,” after losing the children, who were taken away and given to her mother. The drugs led to … Continue reading →