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Taste of Beer, Without Effect From Alcohol, Affects Brain’s Pleasure Sensors

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Researchers have found that simply tasting beer, absent of its alcoholic effects, can affect the brain’s pleasure sensors. A recent test involving 50 participants who were given small samples of a sports drink and beer proved that a neurotransmitter triggered by alcohol and other drugs was triggered simply by the taste of beer. Recipients of …

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Addiction Treatment to Gain Big Boost Under Obamacare

/ By / Addiction, Addiction Recovery, Adolescent Issues, Alcoholism, Recovery, Substance Abuse

Health care is a controversial and complex issue, especially now as political wrangling is hitting full tilt in states that are reluctant to accept Medicaid expansion on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Today, only one penny of every dollar that is spent on health care will go to assist a person facing debilitating …

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Righteous Obsession: Can You Go Too Far in Recovery?

/ By / Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug Addiction, Mental Health, Recovery

Coming out of rehab and filled with ideas about how to embark on a life that is clean and sober is an ideal situation. For many newcomers to sobriety, however, the reality is something a bit less clear-cut. For one thing, there is bound to be a lot of doubt and confusion, uncertainty over what …

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Gastric Bypass Surgery Linked to Alcohol Abuse

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Gastric bypass surgery changed your life or the life of someone you love – but were all those changes actually good ones? While this surgery for obesity can significantly reduce the risk of chronic, life-threatening conditions, like diabetes and heart disease, it may raise the risk for another chronic, potentially life-threatening condition: alcoholism. The Gastric …

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Alcohol Inhalation via Vaportini Fast Track to Addiction

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Every day it seems we hear something about a dangerous new designer drug that young people have been experimenting with at raves, on college campuses, parties, or at various places where adolescents gather. But one of the newest drug fads sweeping the nation involves the oldest and most familiar of all intoxicating substances. Not satisfied …

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The Staggering Costs of Alcohol and Drug Addiction

/ By / Addiction, Alcoholism, Substance Abuse

“Drug addiction is a chronic relapsing brain disorder characterized by a compulsion to take a drug with loss of control over drug intake.” – Scripps Research Institute Both alcoholics and drug addicts struggle with the mental, emotional, spiritual and physical consequences of their substance abuse. But what, exactly, is the difference between an alcoholic and …

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Are You Raising An Alcoholic? How Your Behavior Influences Your Child

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Part One in a two-part series. Ask any parents if they are concerned about keeping their kids safe from the ravages of alcoholism and they’ll surely say yes. But many parents, perhaps unwittingly, are laying the groundwork for alcohol misuse and abuse among their children. As a parent, you play a more important role in …

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