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Smoking and ‘the science of motivating young people’

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By natalie@addiction-ssa.org|2026-05-14T20:33:19+01:0020 February 2025|Book excerpt|Comments Off

‘Harm reductionists have taken matters into their own hands’
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‘Harm reductionists have taken matters into their own hands’

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‘Harm reductionists have taken matters into their own hands’

Dr Sheila Vakharia presents her thesis of The Harm Reduction Gap...

By natalie@addiction-ssa.org|2024-03-15T10:40:58+00:0018 January 2024|Book excerpt|Comments Off

‘Addiction is a hypothesis that a group of things we can observe have an underlying connection’
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‘Addiction is a hypothesis that a group of things we can observe have an underlying connection’

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‘Addiction is a hypothesis that a group of things we can observe have an underlying connection’

What is addiction, why does it develop, and how can it be treated?

By natalie@addiction-ssa.org|2024-02-27T14:08:35+00:009 August 2023|Book excerpt|Comments Off

Oddities and commodities: The sometimes confusing and contradictory functions of alcohol in society
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Oddities and commodities: The sometimes confusing and contradictory functions of alcohol in society

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Oddities and commodities: The sometimes confusing and contradictory functions of alcohol in society

In the third edition of "Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity”...

By natalie@addiction-ssa.org|2024-02-27T14:08:36+00:0012 July 2023|Book excerpt|Comments Off

Dopamine and the pleasure–pain balance
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Dopamine and the pleasure–pain balance

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Dopamine and the pleasure–pain balance

In Dopamine Nation, psychiatrist and author Dr Anna Lembke writes...

By natalie@addiction-ssa.org|2024-08-13T19:45:51+01:008 February 2023|Book excerpt|Comments Off

Heroin in 1940s America: ‘the work of this era only served to heighten the division between good and bad drugs’
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Heroin in 1940s America: ‘the work of this era only served to heighten the division between good and bad drugs’

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Heroin in 1940s America: ‘the work of this era only served to heighten the division between good and bad drugs’

In The Urge, Carl Erik Fisher narrates the social history of addiction...

By natalie@addiction-ssa.org|2024-02-27T14:08:55+00:008 July 2022|Book excerpt|Comments Off