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Understanding Addiction
No Pill Can Cure Addiction
- By Stanton Peele
- Published 05/8/2008
- Understanding Addiction
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At first blush, the NIDA seems focused on the chemical rewards produced
in the brain by specific drugs, notably cocaine. But, as I announced in
Psychology Today 35 years ago, this model is illusory. Addiction is not
the result of a drug molecule binding with specific receptors.
The Neurobiology of Free Will and Drug Addiction
- By Misc Author
- Published 04/18/2008
- Understanding Addiction
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The sometimes controversial work of Dr. Nora Volkow and others during the
past 15 years has provided a better understanding of how
neurobiological changes in the brain can lead a person to lose control
over his or her behavior and become addicted to drugs.
What is the "disease model" approach to behavioral addiction?
- By Marc F. Kern
- Published 04/18/2008
- Understanding Addiction , Controversial Addiction Topics , Non 12-Step Addiction Treatment , Addiction Theories , Philosophy of addiction , Marc F. Kern videos
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What is the "disease model" approach to behavioral addiction?
Won't a shopper stop when they've bought everything they need?
- By Marc F. Kern
- Published 04/18/2008
- Preventing Addictions , What Options Do You Have To Help , Understanding Addiction , Controversial Addiction Topics , Managing Behavior , Spending Behaviors , Managing Emotions , Managing Thinking , Marc F. Kern videos
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Won't a shopper stop when they've bought everything they need?
What causes shopping addiction?
- By Marc F. Kern
- Published 04/18/2008
- Preventing Addictions , Understanding Addiction , Control and Impulse Control , What Are Your Recovery Options , Philosophy of addiction , Marc F. Kern videos
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What causes shopping addiction?
What is "shopping addiction"?
- By Marc F. Kern
- Published 04/18/2008
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What is "shopping addiction"?
What is "behavioral addiction"?
- By Marc F. Kern
- Published 04/18/2008
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What is "behavioral addiction"?
Do you have to enjoy your work to become a work addict?
- By Marc F. Kern
- Published 04/18/2008
- Marc F. Kern videos , Life Management Skills , Managing Behavior , Understanding Addiction , Preventing Addictions
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Do you have to enjoy your work to become a work addict?
What is work addiction?
- By Marc F. Kern
- Published 04/18/2008
- Marc F. Kern videos , Philosophy of addiction , Understanding Addiction
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What is work addiction?
Are You Unhappy? Is It Because of Consumer Addiction?
- By Misc Author
- Published 04/14/2008
- Understanding Addiction
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The pattern of out-of-control consumption in the United States, which
per capita consumes 70 times more than India, with three times the U.S.
population, is not qualitatively different from the well-known patterns
of behavior of substance abusers.
