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8 unusual facts about Substance dependence


Affective neuroscience

Individuals with addictions experience increased activity in this area when they encounter the object of their addiction.

Charles Whitfield

Whitfield has taught at Rutgers University and is a best-selling author known for his books on the topics of general childhood trauma, childhood sexual abuse, and addiction recovery, including Healing The Child Within and Memory and Abuse: Remembering and Healing the Effects of Trauma.

Edwin Kagin

Kagin was also a founder and board member of Recover Resources Center, which provides an alternative addiction recovery program to the religiously-oriented Alcoholics Anonymous.

Living Clean

Living Clean is a Canadian television program, and Canada's only live interactive weekly talk show designed to assist individuals suffering with addiction and/or mental illnesses.

Models of abnormality

However they can also have consequences, whether biology is responsible or not, as drugs always have a chance of causing allergic reactions or addiction.

Reni Santoni

His first significant film role was an uncredited appearance in the 1964 film The Pawnbroker (starring Rod Steiger), in which he played a junkie trying to sell a radio to the title character (using anti-Semitic slurs to no effect).

United States v. Moore

The defendant Moore was charged with the possession of heroin, and in his defense sought to introduce psychiatric testimony that because of his heroin addiction he lacked substantial capacity to conform his behavior to the standards of the criminal law.

We R Friends

We R Friends is a Bollywood film about friends who run away to help their friend Tina, a drug addict, when she is kidnapped.


1 More Hit

It follows the life of hip hop producer J-Swift, formerly of The Pharcyde, from homelessness and crack addiction to his mission to win back his life and music career.

Albert Gjedde

Albert Gjedde’s collaborations focus on experiments with volunteer subjects and patients that explore the lesions and degeneration of brain tissue in disorders such as epilepsy, ludomania, Parkinson's disease, stroke, depression, and somatizing disorders, as well as disorders related to addiction.

Anissa Abi-Dargham

Abi-Dargham uses molecular imaging techniques, such as SPECT and PET, to study the pathophysiology of schizophrenia, schizophrenia related spectrum disorders, and addiction.

Luca Prodan

In 1981, after a heroin crisis in the late 1970s London, he moved to an old Anglo-Argentine (Timmy McKern) friend's farm in the central hills of Córdoba Province Argentina seeking peace to try kicking his heroin addiction.

Marjorie Senechal

The family soon moved to Lexington, Kentucky, and Senechal grew up as a "narco brat" on the grounds of the Lexington Narcotic Hospital, a prison farm for drug addicts, where her father was associate director.

Roy Simmons

In his autobiography, Out of Bounds (written with Damon DiMarco), he speaks of drug addiction, prostitution, and promiscuity.


see also

Drug treatment

Drug rehabilitation, the treatment of substance dependence/drug addiction