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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.
87. I naively thought that people would continue to avoid smoking cigarettes because they know its hazards. But now we have @cigfluencers who are promoting it.
86. Social media addiction. II. Meta agrees to pay $18 billion to settle US lawsuits over children’s social media addiction. This is a BIG DEAL.
85. Social media addiction. I. It’s not considered a mental health disorder. Nonetheless…
84. “Sex addiction” is not recognized as a disorder. “Compulsive sexual behavior disorder” is.
83. Acupuncture, Yoga, and Guided Imagery in Recovery
82. Animals get high, too.
81. Well, this is indeed interesting: Drug overdose deaths have finally started to /decline/ in the United States.
80. The economics of illegal drug trade. II. A discussion of the merits to decriminalize or legalize drug possession (and/or use).
79. The economics of illegal drug trade. I. Comparison of the cocaine business with a normal business model, using the automobile industry as an example.
78. The varieties of smokeless tobacco: What they are, and their health risks
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