Does Calling Heroin Addiction A Brain Disease Help Avoid Tragedies Like Philip …

Does Calling Heroin Addiction A Brain Disease Help Avoid Tragedies Like Philip …
An addict who believes complete abstinence from heroin is the only acceptable option because he is physiologically incapable of exercising control over his drug consumption may be ill-prepared for a relapse. Having adopted an all-or-nothing view, he …
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How Heroin Kills: What Might Have Happened to Philip Seymour Hoffman
A heroin overdose happens because use of the drug alters the neurons within every addict's brain—but the alterations occur in different parts of the brain at varying rates of speed. The pleasure center, increasingly hard to satisfy, is screaming "More!
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Philip Seymour Hoffman and the truth about curing addiction
Modern neuroscience research, which involves imaging the brains of people with addiction, tells us that there are brain changes that predispose to drug use and addiction. Once someone is addicted, the brain changes in a way that creates an enduring …
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