New research suggests that marijuana may help autistics (although they’d have to be old enough to smoke it!) and the party drug Ecstasy may help veterans with PTSD. Many of these medicines (like LSD) were originally developed to ease psychiatric symptoms.
MDMA, better known as Ecstasy, can induce pulses of euphoria and a radiating affection. The drug was criminalized in 1985, but researchers are allowed access to it.
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But I don’t drink too much or take drugs, you say, so how could that be? But you may have a very common addiction–to bread.
CBS News quotes cardiologist William Davis as saying that modern wheat is a "perfect, chronic poison."
Like so many other foods, modern wheat is different from what was grown in the past. According to Davis, the wheat we eat today is "an 18-inch tall plant created by genetic research in the ’60s and ’70s."
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Internet addiction disorder (IAD) may be associated with abnormal white matter in the brain. The teen years are the time when many people become addicted to drugs–what about internet use? It turns out that teenagers who drink alcohol spend more time on their computers for recreational use, compared with their teens who don’t drink.
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We’ve all heard about people who are addicted to alcohol, drugs or even gambling–but the NEW kind of addict get his stash from his physician, in the form of prescription drugs. Sometimes these addicts O.D., as in the cases of Heath Ledger and Michael Jackson.
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