How best to beat addiction might be easier said than done. But not when it comes to wordslingers such as Russell Brand and Jordan Peterson. Brand’s both beaten and written about beating addiction. He’s also extensively spoken on the subject. Peterson, well, he speaks about everything under the moon, the stars and the sun, including addiction. Here Brand speaks with… Read More
Dylan Dailor is on the autism spectrum. Always has been. Always will be. Yet he refused to let it defeat him. Then Dylan had his wisdom teeth removed and he became an addict too. But his TEDx Talk Autism and Addiction proves he still refuses to be defeated. From Autism to Addiction Dylan Dailor says the last time he didn’t… Read More
Who can become addicted to drugs? The short answer is anyone. But there are things you can do to reduce the risk. There are things you can do to beat addiction too. Anyone Can Become Addicted to Drugs As we’ve said before, we at Healing Properties love America’s National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). And as we said before, how… Read More
The Rat Park Addiction Experiment proved there’s both an existential and environmental component to addiction. Or didn’t it? Four decades later scientists are still disagreeing about the study’s findings. So we’re here to ask, once and for all: Could Rat Park really be a thing? The Rat Park Addiction Experiment Back in the late ’70s, Canadian psychologist Bruce Alexander and… Read More
Addiction is a complex brain disease. The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) says so. So does The Lancet. So does Harvard Health Publishing. And so does all the prevailing scientific evidence. We need not emphasize the tremendous toll this disease takes on an addict’s mental health. We probably need not emphasize the physical toll addiction takes either. Now though… Read More
