What Is Addiction?

Published February 13, 2014

What Is Addiction?
As the death of the actor Philip Seymour Hoffman and the rise of overdoses in New England indicate, heroin continues to be a plague of both desperate poverty and tortured privilege. The abuse of prescription drugs is an even more widespread problem. drug addiction – Bing News

Celebrity deaths prompt necessary discussion of drug addiction
It has come to point where collectively, we must re-address how we partake in discussions about drug addiction. For a very long time the general public – bereft of an addictive disposition – has viewed drug addiction as ill-informed, foolish, selfish … drug addiction – Bing News

Hunger and Drug Addiction Share Similar Neural Mechanism
The findings lend additional credence to a hypothesis arguing that food and drug addiction are not that different after all, at least as far as the chemistry of the brain is concerned. Details of the new study appear in the February 9 issue of the top … drug addiction – Bing News