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Continue reading →: Are addictions pretty much the same?
In the first of many blog on the commonalities in different additive behaviours we briefly consider whether there are brain mechanism similarities in different addictive of obsessive compulsive behaviours. People affected by binge eating, substance abuse and obsessive compulsive disorder all share a common pattern of decision making and similarities…
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Continue reading →: Is Sex Addiction really an addiction?
Pornography triggers brain activity in people with compulsive sexual behaviour – known commonly as sex addiction – similar to that triggered by drugs in the brains of drug addicts, according to a University of Cambridge study published in the journal PLOS ONE. Although precise estimates are unknown, previous studies…
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Continue reading →: Living with an alcoholic is like living in a war zone!
Al-Anon Family Groups About one in ten children in the United States lives with a parent with an alcohol misuse problem. In a word, “devastating.” That’s how Dr. George Koob describes the impact of a loved one’s alcoholism on family members and friends. Dr. Koob is the Director of the…
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Continue reading →: Feeding Distress-based action.
Even as I a child I had difficulties controlling my impulses and my behaviours, “I was into everything”. I did not use much forethought in decisions making and would generally react and always be after something that I wanted desperately that very moment. Now in fact! I believe I had…
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Continue reading →: Explaining the negative consequences of Negative Urgency.
Explaining how negative Negative Urgency can be. from Inside the Alcoholic Brain by alcoholicsguide In various blogs we have suggested that one of the main aspects of addictive behaviours is to act as the result of distress-based impulsivity or negative urgency. Here we explore in more details what we mean by…
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Continue reading →: It Works if you Work It!
Alcoholism takes away your life and then kills you. We look at a study from 8 years ago to show the extent of premature deaths caused by alcoholism and how membership of Alcoholics Anonymous helps in reducing the risk of premature death from alcoholism. This study (1) of women and men,…
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Continue reading →: Why we need to be more accurate in diagnosing co-morbidity.
In this blog we have repeatedly queried whether the co-occurrence of so-called co-morbidities with substance use disorders (SUDs) is as high as reported in many studies (1). In a blog from yesterday Are most co-morbidities really substance-induced disorders? that diagnosis is often flawed in many studies and that the so-called diagnosis…
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Continue reading →: Are most co-morbidities really substance-induced disorders?
Are most co-morbidities really substance-induced disorders? a Guest Blog from Inside the Alcoholic Brain In this blog we re-emphasize the need for accurate diagnosis of co-morbidity with a substance use disorder. It appears form the article cited here (1) that diagnosis is often flawed in many studies and that the…
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Continue reading →: Is the Impulsive Behaviour that Precedes Addiction Hardwired into the Brain?
In various blogs we have forwarded the idea that emotional and stress dysregulation are that the heart of addiction and alcoholism and are also possible present in those at risk to these disorders. Essentially we suggest that the behavioural endpoint of addictive behaviours, the distress based impulsivity (negative urgency) seen in…
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