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Can you blame your Neanderthal ancestor for being an addict? Ancient virus STILL lingering in our DNA blamed for addictions All humans are ‘littered’ with remnants of ancient viruses that date back to our primate ancestors But until now they were not thought to be factors that determine a person’s tendencies or character Oxford and […]
Researchers at the University of York has shown that a drug commonly used to help smokers overcome addiction to cigarettes does not have the same effect in shisha smokers. Smoking tobacco through a waterpipe, often referred to as shisha or hookah smoking, is becoming popular, particularly among young people, across the globe. It is often […]
Texting is a great way to keep in touch with friends and family, but since it is a less intimate form of communication, there can be drawbacks. You may feel pressure to respond as soon as you get a text message to show your friends that you care, but the important point to remember is […]
Most teens are aware that people who have smoked for a while can get lung cancer and emphysema and eventually die, but many don’t know about all of the bad things that smoking can do to them right now. If you smoke, you owe it to yourself to find out about the effects of smoking […]
It’s been a difficult year for Mel B. In March 2017, she lost her father after a five-yearslong battle with cancer. In April 2017, Mel B (whose real last name is Brown) filed a restraining order against estranged husband Stephen Belafonte, citing years of physical and emotional abuse, and earlier this month, Brown and Belafonte […]
If your cell phone is taken away from you today, would you become more productive? Most likely. According to recent statistics, the average American spends around 2.8 hours on cell phones every day. If we take this number as average and multiply it by the number of years the average American lives, the total time […]
Two discoveries—one in the brains of people with heroin addiction and the other in the brains of sleepy mice—shed light on chemical messengers in the brain that regulate sleep and addiction, UCLA researchers say. In 2000, UCLA researchers discovered that human narcolepsy is caused by a loss of roughly 90 percent of the 80,000 brain […]
Researchers in Sweden and the United States suggest that this might be the case after studying alcohol addiction in rats. They found that the rats that became addicted had an impaired brain mechanism similar to that seen in postmortem brain tissue from humans who were addicted to alcohol. The faulty mechanism is a failure to […]