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How Porn Use Becomes an Addiction (Simplified!)

Internet porn—used regularly and often—chemically and structurally changes the brain. These brain changes are consistent with the brain changes tha ...

Addiction is a response to emotional pain - BBC Ideas

Addiction specialist and author Gabor Mate says dealing with past trauma may be the key to breaking addiction in this BBC Ideas video.

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Mom's Boundaries Saved My Life

Vechi Mutum, National Outreach Coordinator for Tree House Recovery, describes how addiction took his life down to a very dark place, leaving him ho ...

Video Game Addiction - The Case for Mobile Gaming

Mobile gaming addiction is a serious issue. The craving and reward feelings that occur from gaming are no different than drug and gambling addictio ...

Pediatricians warn against pot use: Not your dad's marijuana

An influential doctors group is beefing up warnings about marijuana's potential harms for teens amid increasingly lax laws and attitudes on pot use ...

Marijuana worse for teen brains than alcohol, study finds

Cannabis causes lasting cognitive impairment in adolescents, according to Canadian researchers.

By: Shamard Charles, MD

With the rise of legal weed, drug education moves from ‘don’t’ to ‘delay’

Drug prevention education in schools has evolved significantly since the “Just Say No” days of the ’80s — and now typically takes an approach that’ ...

Out of the Shadows: Understanding Sexual Addiction

With the revised information and up-to-date research, Out of the Shadows is the premier work on sex addiction, written by a pioneer in its treatmen ...

What Trauma Taught Me About Resilience | Charles Hunt | TEDxCharlotte

That resilience is one of the most important traits to have, is critical to their happiness and success, & can be learned. Adept at leveraging ...

Anxious Jaxon - A Brand New World: A coping tale for Covid-19

Anxious Jaxon wakes up excited to start his day but soon finds out that the world has changed from Covid19. Anxious Jaxon - A Brand New World, add ...

I Talk to God About How I Feel: Learning to Pray, Knowing He Cares

Stormie Omartian, bestselling author of What Happens When I Talk to God? (more than 55,000 copies sold), shares her passion for prayer with childre ...

What You Need to Know About Magnesium and Your Sleep

A sleep-promoting, stress-reducing, disease-protecting, essential mineral