Tag: addiction
Vermont’s heroin addiction epidemic has been well documented, calling for major changes in the small state. Governor Peter Shumlin made it clear in his January State of the State speech that he was serious about tackling these problems and would be willing to use unorthodox means to do it. “We must address it as a public […]
China’s authorities considers heavy internet use a clinical condition. To combat what they think is a critical epidemic and the downfall of its youth, the government sets up special treatment facilities to cure teenagers, to take them out of their online life into the presumably healthier “real” life with some very “unorthodox psychological sessions.” The […]
As the great scholar Rick James once said, cocaine is a hell of a drug. Alas, it’s also very expensive, is responsible for more annual U.S. emergency room visits than any other drug, and turns users into selfish, paranoid, sexually impotent jerks. Er, so we hear. And yet, according to the National Survey on Drug Use […]
For many of us, that densely salty, artificial “chicken” flavor of instant ramen noodles summons the darkest of memories — memories of being broke, sick, malnourished, neglected, too busy to prepare a substantial meal or… did I mention broke? But for Georgi Readman, an eighteen year old girl from England’s Isle of Wight, ramen is […]
AsapSCIENCE has created a video illustrating the process of what constant viewings of pornography can do to you, and surprise, it can have lasting effects on your brain, like literally everything else that exists that a person repeatedly does. The video explains how watching porn, like eating or other activities, triggers dopamine in the brain […]
