It also deserves a bit more perspective on the exact kind of drug-fueled escapism that is killing so many people. We’re not primarily dealing with hedonistic young people dying at parties, binge-drinking, and acting dumb, we’re talking mostly about opiate use. Anyone who knows anything abo...
there are plenty of my behaviors that mirror those of addicts, but I don’t have any addictions to drugs) who is working in the space between kids and drugs. One thing I haven’t read here in your blog or the resulting comments is a sort of social prism. Thinking...
These findings, which will appear Dec. 20 in the journalNeuron, map the neural basis for inhibiting movement. They help explain what's going wrong in the brain when people fall more as they age and when addicts can't stop binge behavior. Scientists had believed only one brain region was a...
Addicts take drugs to escape their problems. But drugs don’t solve any of those problems, and instead become a new problem. But punishing people for their unhealthy coping mechanisms doesn’t change anything about the underlying causes, either. So some argue we need to take a completely diffe...
Chocolate is not just a universal favorite, but also a universal craving. Chocolate has the ability to give non-addicts a ‘kick’ similar to a drug. Chocolate might be the reason behind the saying that desserts don’t go to the stomach, but to the heart. Let’s find out why. ...
However much favor it might curry with Moreno – who, remember, was one of the most vociferous owners opposing Manfred's candidacy for commission – it would fall prey to the same ineffective thinking that turned the War on Drugs into such a rousing failure. Don't punish...
Gass lighting can (and often is) used to achieve projection, but it isn’t the only tactic to do so, and gass lighting is used as a tactic for other equally sociopathic but non-projecton means too. In short, there is much overlap on the relevant Venn diagram, but they are actually...
Binge viewing lulls us into a space where time has stopped, for better and for worse, and few shows do it as effectively as this one. From the impossibly quaint, problem-free community of Stars Hollow to the java-fueled speed talking of its favorite inhabitants, this series transports you ...
The mobility of some more privileged individuals may be frequent and long-distance, substantiating Cohen et al.’s (2011) notion of ‘binge flying’. This also needs to be seen in the light of the fact that most people’s aeromobility is extremely limited. Peeters et al. (2007a) ...