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How Porn Use Becomes an Addiction (Simplified!)
Internet porn—used regularly and often—chemically and structurally changes the brain. These brain changes are consistent with the brain changes tha ...
Addiction is a response to emotional pain - BBC Ideas
Addiction specialist and author Gabor Mate says dealing with past trauma may be the key to breaking addiction in this BBC Ideas video.
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Mom's Boundaries Saved My Life
Vechi Mutum, National Outreach Coordinator for Tree House Recovery, describes how addiction took his life down to a very dark place, leaving him ho ...
Video Game Addiction - The Case for Mobile Gaming
Mobile gaming addiction is a serious issue. The craving and reward feelings that occur from gaming are no different than drug and gambling addictio ...
Pediatricians warn against pot use: Not your dad's marijuana
An influential doctors group is beefing up warnings about marijuana's potential harms for teens amid increasingly lax laws and attitudes on pot use ...
Marijuana worse for teen brains than alcohol, study finds
Cannabis causes lasting cognitive impairment in adolescents, according to Canadian researchers.
By: Shamard Charles, MD
With the rise of legal weed, drug education moves from ‘don’t’ to ‘delay’
Drug prevention education in schools has evolved significantly since the “Just Say No” days of the ’80s — and now typically takes an approach that’ ...
Out of the Shadows: Understanding Sexual Addiction
With the revised information and up-to-date research, Out of the Shadows is the premier work on sex addiction, written by a pioneer in its treatmen ...
Tips on security and longer term engagement for short term mission trips
Two experts respond to these questions on security and longer term engagement we received from a ministry leader in Brazil: I’d like to hear about ...
6 Ways Reading Lowers Stress
Reading is my survival strategy. Stress is real and relentless. Reading opens the door to escape. It provides a change of scenery that is vital ...
Video Game Addiction - The Case for Mobile Gaming
Mobile gaming addiction is a serious issue. The craving and reward feelings that occur from gaming are no different than drug and gambling addictio ...