Pony Play Station
Most of us have favourite television shows that we don’t like to miss ("The Sopranos," "Prison Break"). However, "My Little Pony" appears to be (for many people) an “unlikely object of fanboy love”. This blog takes a look at Bronies–people that appear to be totally obsessed by "My Little Pony."read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - July 14, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Mark D. Griffiths, Ph.D. Tags: Addiction Happiness fanboy My Little Pony My Little Pony Fanboy Star Trek addiction Television addiction Source Type: news
Preventing a Drug Overdose
Although the best form of overdose prevention is abstinence, not everyone is ready. So what are the tools necessary to prevent an accidental overdose among those who are not ready to completely quit?read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - July 14, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Rubin Khoddam, M.A. Tags: Addiction Health Neuroscience Self-Help Therapy 12step abstinence alcohol Alcoholics Anonymous cocaine depressant downer drugs harm reduction Heaven heroin intervention methamphetamine mixing opiate opioid overdos Source Type: news
Woe Is Me
Prior to 1997, the FDA did not allow for explicit commercials of pharmaceutical drugs on your television set. Just a year after, the budget for drug advertising tripled to $1.2 billion in 1998. It quadrupled during the following decade topping off at over $5 billion and has since leveled off around $4 billion annually. read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - July 11, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Sam Louie, MA, LMHC Tags: Addiction Behavioral Economics Depression Education Ethics and Morality Health Integrative Medicine Source Type: news
Addictive Personalities
One of the recurring questions I am often asked to comment on by the media is whether celebrities are more prone to addiction than other groups of people. One of the problems in trying to answer what looks like an easy question is that the definition of "celebrity" and "addiction" are different to different people. So are celebrities more prone than you or I to addiction?read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - July 11, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Mark D. Griffiths, Ph.D. Tags: Addiction Self-Help Addiction and accessibility alcoholism Celebrity addiction Celebrity excess cocaine addiction drug addiction fame Fame addiction Fame junkies gambling addiction Workaholism. Source Type: news
12 Steps to Abstinence? Not for Everyone
There are a number of effective treatment strategies for alcohol use disorders. Is there a way to find out which treatment is the best one for a particular patient? Not yet, but maybe soon. read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - July 10, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Sean X. Luo, M.D., Ph.D. Tags: Addiction Neuroscience Psychiatry Therapy Alcoholics Anonymous alcoholism clinical trials statistics Source Type: news
