Articles tagged "addiction"

Don't consider yourself a junkie? Think again.

A new study suggests that recovering alcoholics who feel ashamed are more likely to relapse. But there are reasons why that's hopeful.

As if you didn't know it already, there's now yet another psych study detailing the addictive qualities of Facebook. Researchers from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business recently enlisted 205 Germans and monitored them for an entire we…

In this cultural moment, it can seem like each week brings a new type of addiction to the forefront of media attention, usually in the form of a celebrity “endorsement.” It wasn’t so long ago that David Duchovny and Tiger Woods claimed to be sex addi…

OK, I get the general sense/argument of why attempting to possess heroin is illegal and bad for society etc, but still, just say that charge out loud. When I think of "drug problems" in a criminal sense, I tend to think of dealers and vast, violent n…

Throwback to Y2K, anyone!?

Memories aren’t immutable, recalled moments from your past just sitting on the dusty shelves of your brain. They are fluid impressions, and each time you retrieve a memory you alter it. Current research into how memory retrieval works is allowing sci…

A "disturbing report out today from the AP":http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-57409827-10391704/analysis-high-prevalence-of-painkiler-sales-turning-america-into-painkiller-nation/ details the rise in prescription painkiller abuse in the US. The

I'm just going to say this right now: This video of a Dutch man who simply can't stop laughing and his annoyed-but-sympathetic wife is the most adorable non-corgi video I've seen on the Internet. Apparently Huug Bosse (what an incredible name!!) unde…

Paul Carr has been sober for 884 days and counting. This, despite being an alcoholic author who, by his own admission, "forged a career - and a respectable income - from drinking too much, doing idiotic things and writing about them." The story of ho…

How's this for hilariously depressing: male fruit flies who have their sexual advances rejected drink alcohol far more heavily than males who are regularly having sex. Yes, you read that right. New research from a team at UC San Francisco have di…

You know the feeling. A sort of internal itch, it starts with a faint idea. _Wouldn’t it be nice to see what my friends are up to?_ But, no, you’re working. You need to finish your article or file a report or get to your appointment on time. But you…

Take note, recovering alcoholics and Malcolm Gladwell.

Upon discovering earlier this week that McCarren Park became the first park in Brooklyn to offer free wi-fi, I was determined to take full advantage of the service. After finishing the workday, I'd make the short jaunt from Motherboard headquarters,