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2. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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   Chemistry, not moral failing, accounts for the brain’s unwinding. In the laboratories that study drug addiction, researchers have found that the brain becomes conditioned by the repeated dopamine rush caused by heroin. “The brain is not designed to handle it,” said Dr. Ruben Baler, a scientist with the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

3. Drug rehabilitation - Wikipedia

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   Disease Model of addiction frames substance abuse as 'a chronic relapsing disease that changes the structure and function of the brain'. [74] Research conducted on the neurobiological factors of addiction has proven to have mixed results, and the only treatment idea it offers is abstinence. [75]

4. Addiction - Wikipedia

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   [98] [31] The brain disease model of addiction posits that an individual's exposure to an addictive drug is the most significant environmental risk factor for addiction. [99] Many researchers, including neuroscientists, indicate that the brain disease model presents a misleading, incomplete, and potentially detrimental explanation of addiction ...

5. The Lizard Brain: How I Came To Learn that Addiction is a Disease

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   In a bright, white auditorium on the rolling campus of a rehab center on the East Coast, I learned that addiction is a disease. The giant room was filled with addicts and alcoholics, including my ...

6. Drug addiction recovery groups - Wikipedia

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   Drug addiction recovery groups are voluntary associations of people who share a common desire to overcome their drug addiction. Different groups use different methods, ranging from completely secular to explicitly spiritual. Some programs may advocate a reduction in the use of drugs rather than outright abstention.

7. How internet addiction may affect your teen’s brain ... - AOL

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   If internet addiction is what caused the disruption in participants’ brain signaling, the reason why may have to do with neural pathways related to addiction, said Dr. Smita Das, an addiction ...

8. Substance dependence - Wikipedia

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   Substance dependence, also known as drug dependence, is a biopsychological situation whereby an individual's functionality is dependent on the necessitated re-consumption of a psychoactive substance because of an adaptive state that has developed within the individual from psychoactive substance consumption that results in the experience of withdrawal and that necessitates the re-consumption ...

9. Addiction-related structural neuroplasticity - Wikipedia

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   Neuroscientists believe that drug addicts’ behavior is a direct correlation to some physiological change in their brain, caused by using drugs. This view believes there is a bodily function in the brain causing the addiction. This is brought on by a change in the brain caused by brain damage or adaptation from chronic drug use. [1] [2]