Phish’s Trey Anastasio Opens Addiction Recovery Center, Divided Sky: ‘This Can End’
The singer/guitarist who struggled with an opioid addiction co-founded the center in Ludlow, VT with his former caseworker in 2023.
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Addiction, bankruptcy, opioid, Opioid Crisis, overdose, oxycontin, Policy, Purdue Pharma, Science, SCOTUS, settlement, Supreme Court, Tech Industry, Tech NewsSCOTUS tears down Sacklers’ immunity, blowing up opioid settlement
Read more: SCOTUS tears down Sacklers’ immunity, blowing up opioid settlementMajority of justices ruled on meaning of legal code; dissenters called it “ruinous”
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CDC Warns of Overdose Risk After DOJ Disrupts Adderall Distribution Online
Read more: CDC Warns of Overdose Risk After DOJ Disrupts Adderall Distribution OnlineThe CDC released a statement warning of an increased risk of drug injuries and overdoses after the U.S. Department of Justice indicted two executives from the telehealth company Done on Thursday. The company allegedly provided medications like Adderall…
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Addiction, addiction related structural neuroplasticity, bowen tan, caleb browne, centre for addiction and mental health, cocaine, dopamine, epigenetics of cocaine addiction, health medical pharma, howard hughes medical institute, nucleus accumbens, reward system, rheb, substance dependence, substance related disorders, Tech Industry, Tech News, the rockefeller university
Here’s Exactly How Cocaine Makes You Ignore Your Basic Needs
Read more: Here’s Exactly How Cocaine Makes You Ignore Your Basic NeedsScientists may have figured out how addictive drugs like cocaine hijack the brain’s reward system to make us ignore basic needs like food or water. In mice, the researchers were able to extensively detail a neural pathway that allows the brain to respo…
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Addiction, cyberpsychology, digital media use and mental health, emotion, feeling, negative affectivity, problematic social media use, Social Media, social networking service, subjective experience, suffering, Tech Industry, Tech News, tiktok
Keep Scrolling: Social Media Detox May Not Improve Mental Health
Read more: Keep Scrolling: Social Media Detox May Not Improve Mental HealthSocial media might be addictive, but it turns out quitting is complicated. A study out Wednesday from the UK’s Durham University asked 51 moderate to heavy social media users to stay off the apps for one week. Participants had a decrease in negative em…
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More Than Half U.S. Teens Use Social Media For Almost Five Hours Per Day, Survey Finds
Read more: More Than Half U.S. Teens Use Social Media For Almost Five Hours Per Day, Survey FindsA new Gallup survey found more than half of teenagers in the U.S. spend an average of 4.8 hours on social media each day. The responses came from 1,591 people ages 13-19 years old, and the survey’s findings show that as teens got older, they stayed on …
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Addiction, alcohol, Alcohol Abuse, alcohol and health, alcoholism, disease theory of alcoholism, donita robinson, drinking culture, glial cell line derived neurotrophic factor, health medical pharma, kathleen grant, long term effects of alcohol, substance dependence, substance related disorders, substance use disorder, Tech Industry, Tech News
Gene Therapy Rewired Monkey’s Brains to Treat Alcohol Use Disorder, Study Finds
Read more: Gene Therapy Rewired Monkey’s Brains to Treat Alcohol Use Disorder, Study FindsAlcohol addiction could become a thing of the past with a new gene therapy that appears to significantly reduce alcohol cravings in monkeys, according to a new study published on Monday in the journal Nature Medicine. The gene therapy was tested on mac…
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How Addictive Tech Hacks Your Brain
Read more: How Addictive Tech Hacks Your BrainHere’s a situation most of us can relate to: We find ourselves facing a dull moment—maybe standing in a checkout line, sitting in a waiting room, or even stuck at a red light—and our hands suddenly feel empty. Like they have a mind of their own, they r…
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Sacklers gave $19M to National Academies amid influential pain, opioid reports
Read more: Sacklers gave $19M to National Academies amid influential pain, opioid reportsThe National Academies said it tried to give it back but couldn’t.
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TikTok questioned on ineffective teen time limits in Congressional hearing
Read more: TikTok questioned on ineffective teen time limits in Congressional hearingIn hopes of heading off concerns over the addictiveness of its app, TikTok earlier this month rolled out new screen time controls that limited minors under the age of 18 to 60-minute daily screen time limits. But in a Congressional hearing today before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, TikTik CEO Shou Zi Chew was…
