By Beau Black In mid-February 2021, winter storm Uri wreaked havoc on Texas, trapping much of the huge state in a week-long deep freeze. The ice storm knocked out electricity for millions of homes on some of the coldest days and nights in the last hundred years for that region. It was truly the storm […]
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By Melissa Chalos There’s a wealth of misinformation about the impact of scheduled drugs on mental health. Compound that with the assumptions that recreational drug users often use to support their choices, and the result is typically one big falsehood: the belief that drug use doesn’t do any real damage in the short-term or have […]
Addiction, Mental Health
Do Negative Childhood Experiences Increase the Chances of Addiction in Adulthood?
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Is drug addiction the result of childhood experiences? One researcher thinks it could be. Dr. Daniel Sumrok from the Center for Addiction Sciences at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s College of Medicine has examined the link between childhood experiences and substance abuse — and the results are surprising. What Are Adverse Childhood Experiences? Someone with […]