Q371 – Drug Addiction – the Consequences

Q371 – Drug Addiction – The Consequences –

Drug use survey 2014: tell us what you take

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Drug use survey 2014: tell us what you take. For the third year running, the Guardian is teaming up with addiction specialists, media organisations and academics to help conduct the world's biggest drug survey. Here's how you can take part and what we …
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The Most Famous Drug–Addiction Cliche is Also a Lie

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However, in many ways the addict is the modern-day “nigger”, a term used to dehumanise, alienate, torture and abuse a group of other human beings. Today, people who use drugs—“junkies”—are expected to suffer, then blamed when they do, and if they die …
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Mount Sinai finds brain abnormalities linked to impaired self-awareness in …

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The findings call into question the long-held clinical assumption that addicted individuals continue their compulsive drug use because of oppositional denial or lying, or because of careless minimization of their problems. The findings are published …
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