addiction

Can anyone explain to me why opiod addiction is more important than chronic pain? As a chronic pain sufferer, I am very frustrated by the opposition to cannibis and opiod pain medications. People like me are not even usually mentioned in the news articles. Why?

I subscribe to a blog by Dr. Marty Klein called "Sexual Intelligence". I tend to agree with a lot of what he talks about. (A big reason why I subscribe to his blog. :D ). Though I don't always agree with him, I think he hits the nail squarely on the head about what most people who claim to...

http://www.dorway.com/tldaddic.html While surfing through the web, I came across this article about aspartame addiciton. What are your opinions about this article? Thanks in advance for any replies and comments.

Disease or not, we can all agree that alcoholism is a serious problem. The idea that alcoholism is a disease was largely popularized by Alcoholics Anonymous, to my understanding. Many doctors and alcohol/drug addiction specialists agree that alcoholism is a disease. However, not everyone agrees...

Recently, I posted a forum topic titled "Is sexual addiction real?" http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=99308 I got wonderful responses but in the end, I still say it's a subjective issue. Taking that one step further, and drawing on the information provided by that...

This is kind of personal to me because of my divorce. During our marriage, I wanted sex far more than my ex-wife did. So that when we divorced, she claimed that I am a "Sex Addict". In the end, it didn't affect the divorce agreement, but it is in the court document. I have to agree that I am...

So SCIENCE is saying that addiction is a disease, thanks to phychologists. Frankly this is absolute rubbish. First of all, I have been an "addict" and although I have overcome alcoholism and drug abuse, I still demonstrate an "addictive personality." I even used to buy in to the whole...

Does anyone know how "woo" this treatment is? The red flag shoots up for me when I read this: Shades of CAM there, I feel.

90 percent of Mexico's exports go to one country - the US. Despite there being over 150 countries in the world, the Mexican government has never sought relationships with any of them. Part of the reason for border security initiatives is the goal of breaking the obsessive and addictive...

On 8 May 1998, the State of Minnesota reached a historic settlement with the tobacco industry. One of the many terms of the settlement which were favourable to public health was the agreement extracted from the tobacco industry to place nearly all the tobacco industry documents produced during...

One of my fan's PM'ed me to start a thread about the psychology of addiction. Addiction is one of the oldest and most vexing problems facing modern medicine. Everyone knows what it is and most have experienced it first hand, yet its remains for the most part an untreatable condition. Modern...