Study’s Message to Recovering Alcoholics: Quit Smoking to Stay Sober / ScienceDaily January 17, 2017 Chris Aguirre Andrew Pons for Unsplash.com Smokers with a history of alcohol problems who continue smoking are at greater risk of relapsing Source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015...
Women Are Drinking Themselves to Death / The Washington Post January 16, 2017 Chris Aguirre via The Washington Post For women, heavy drinking has been normalized. That’s dangerous. Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/fo...
What’s Worse for Your Brain—Drinking or Playing Football? / The Daily Beast January 15, 2017 Chris Aguirre via The Daily Beast “The overall effect (on your brain) of a concussion after 30 days is lower than the effects of intoxication.” Source: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015...
Bottoms Down! Silicon Valley Sobers Up / OZY January 13, 2017 Chris Aguirre via OZY In the Valley, the new burgeoning normality is to teetotal—at least for as long as humanly possible. Source: http://www.ozy.com/fast-forward/bottoms-do...
Why Addiction Recovery Community Should Accept Medical Pot January 12, 2017 Chris Aguirre via Rolling Stone Though programs discourage "mood-altering substances" for recovering addicts, cannabis extracts might be far safer than the opioid alternatives. Source: http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/featur...
The Elusive Science of Addiction January 10, 2017 Chris Aguirre Dmitry Ermakov for Unsplash.com Research is beginning to find that social exclusion drives the same brain circuits that drive drug-seeking. Source: https://www.project-syndicate.org/commenta...
Does All Mental Illness Derive from a Common Source? January 10, 2017 Chris Aguirre via Big Think "Yes," Says Former FDA Commissioner Source: http://bigthink.com/philip-perry/former-fd...
The Assault on Antidepressants January 10, 2017 Chris Aguirre via The Atlantic Twenty-three years after Listening to Prozac, Peter Kramer comes to the drug’s defense. Source: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archiv...
We Know How to Treat Opioid Addiction January 9, 2017 Chris Aguirre via Slate But our antiquated conceptions of addicts prevent us from doing so. Source: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_s...
The Life-Saving Reason Women Are Ordering ‘Angel Shots’ January 7, 2017 Chris Aguirre via GOOD.is You might be wondering what kind of concoction a bartender could dream up to discreetly whisk you out of real danger, but it isn’t alcohol at all. In fact, it’s a code that comes with a few different options. Source: https://food.good.is/articles/angel-shot-s...