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Cure Your Work Addiction. Here’s How
Unless you start delegating tasks you would normally trust only to yourself, you're doomed to keep running in place, headed for burnout.
Viewpoint: We Need to Rethink Rehab
Our current treatment system for addiction is unnavigable, unregulated, and unsuccessful. It needs an overhaul
Are You Happy? You Might Have Hypocretin to Thank
Move over dopamine, there’s a new “pleasure” molecule that could broaden our understanding of the chemistry of joy, laughter, addiction and even anger. As...
U.N. Report Suggests Some Autism & Addiction Treatments Are Akin to Torture
So-called treatments for drug users and the disabled in some places of the world—including the U.S.— are far from helpful, says a new United Nations (U.N.)...
More Sex Partners Linked to Higher Risk of Drug Addiction, Alcoholism
And the risk is especially great for women, according to new research. Researchers explored the relationship between addictions and risky sexual behavior in a...
Photo Essays
LIFE in the Middle East: Power and Petroleum in the Gulf in 1945
Oil. A simple word that for much of the 20th century, and well into the 21st, has meant unimaginable wealth for a very few; plentiful and (for a time, at least)...
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Gollum’s Getup: How The Hobbit‘s Groundbreaking Technology Works
At a pivotal point in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit, our hero encounters Gollum, the haggard creature moviegoers will recognize from the director’s The Lord of the...
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NIH researchers identify pathway that may protect against cocaine addiction
against cocaine addiction.... pleasure, and addiction -- can reduce cocaine-seeking behavior in mice. ...
Research Hints at New Approach to Addiction
Stimulating a specific part of the brain reduced compulsive cocaine seeking in rats. The finding suggests a potential approach to change addictive behavior. ...
NIH study sheds light on how to reset the addicted brain
Could drug addiction treatment of the future be as simple as an on/off switch in the brain? A study in rats has found that stimulating a key part of the brain reduces...
An addict goes under the knife
Joe Putignano battled addiction to become a Cirque du Soleil star. Now a much-needed surgery threatens his sobriety. ...
