Author: James Anderson

But if you are a heavy drinker—which means consuming alcohol more than a few times per week or binge drinking—you will likely experience health issues as a result. It is hard to predict whether you will develop effects that harm your liver, heart, nerves, or eyes, and you can experience a combination of these. If […]

Both the adult and the adolescent groups had higher functional connectivity between the left and right precuneus (Hung et al., 2020a). Lin et al. used resting state fMRI to compare a group of chronic ketamine users, many of which also used other drugs like cannabis or cocaine, to healthy controls (Liu et al., 2016). They […]

You may have slight tenderness or a bruise at the site of the blood draw, but this usually resolves quickly. You still feel in control, but in reality, your judgment and vision aren’t as good as when you’re sober, and it’s harder to do two things at the same time. You may also get one […]

There are treatments for cocaine use disorder (cocaine addiction), but people often relapse and use it again. Using it increases your risk of serious and sometimes life-threatening medical conditions like heart attack, stroke and drug overdose. Cocaine use disorder (addiction) can affect your personal relationships. Cognitive behavioral therapy may help people recover from cocaine use […]

This means unpleasant withdrawal symptoms will occur when someone stops using the drug. This is because the body has grown accustomed to heroin and requires it to function. Once evaluation is complete, stabilization is the next step. Detoxing from heroin can take anywhere from a few days to more than a week. The duration of […]

Groups can accentuate this process and extend it to include changes in how group members relate to bosses, parents, spouses, siblings, children, and people in general. Also outside the scope of this TIP is the use of peer-led self-help groups such as Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) or group activities like social events, religious services, sports, and […]

Unfortunately, there are no standard medical treatments for these disorders. However, drug treatment with anti-seizure medications—specifically lamotrigine and clonazepam—may provide lasting relief. When tolerance happens, you need more of the drug to achieve the same effect. LSD can produce a range of short-term psychedelic and physical effects, but guessing which ones you’ll experience is a […]

Beyond genetics, factors, including the way light scatters in the iris and the iris’s topography, also play a role in the perception of eye color. Melanin serves not only as a determinant of eye color but also as a protector against ultraviolet light, underscoring its significance in aesthetics and ocular health. The call for a […]

You can write about how you knew you hit rock bottom and needed help. You can also write about the secondary problems that came about because of your substance abuse issues and why you want to change them. And the more honest you are towards yourself, the more of a useful tool you will find […]

Understanding the role genes play in addiction leads to better, more specific treatments. Sometimes a potential addiction-related gene is discovered in people, like in the example above. Other genes are discovered first in an animal model and confirmed later in people. The detection of locus-to-locus or locus-to-phenotype genetic linkage. Twin studies can to some extent […]