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.

71. Nitazenes
70. Intravenous drug use and viral infections.
69. Vaping revisited. This time, it’s cannabinoids.
68. “Dry January?” Whuzzat?
67. Betel Nut, Areca Nut, and Betel Quid: Psychoactive effects and carcinogenesis
66. Choose your poison wisely. IV. Both tobacco AND cannabis produce compounds which have therapeutic applications.
65. Choose your poison wisely. III. We know that tobacco smoke is carcinogenic. So is cannabis.
64. Choose your poison wisely. II. BOTH weed and alcohol can lead to dementia
63. Choose your poison wisely. I. What’s worse: Weed or alcohol?
62. There is a strong link between gambling and drinking.

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