Posts Tagged ‘drugs’
Insanity Exposed
Meet Carl Hart, psychology professor at Columbia University. By now you’ve probably seen this guy. He’s a tenured Ivy League professor, but he’s also something else. He’s an active drug abuser. Professor Hart has been getting some traction in social media and on cable news shows recently touting his recreational heroin use. He likens it to “.…
Read MoreJustifying a Drug Addiction – What’s in Your Body?
A man once told me that the strongest drug he ever puts into his body is Advil. It was quite a boast considering that he also handily justified regularly smoking cigars. Since he’d successfully given up both problematic drinking and recreational drug abuse, he was quite upset by the notion that his nicotine habit could…
Read MoreNeed Anxiety Relief? These Substances Work
Unless they recover, alcoholics simply cannot stop taking the first drink. Why? Because alcohol works. It dulls the pain of corrective conscience every anger-ridden individual experiences. If it didn’t work, neither the problem drinker nor the alcoholic would ever have developed the obsessive need to wash, rinse and repeat his problems away ad infinitum. Food…
Read More#007 Antidepressants – You’ve Been Duped
You’ve probably heard that antidepressants can help rebalance the chemicals in your brain. But in truth, just about everything the professionals say on the subject of depression is speculative. In…
Read MoreCannabis Isn’t Evil
When you hear people talk about cannabis, arguing either for or against it, you’ll hear the usual talking points falling into two areas. First, there’s health and medicine. Media is filled with documented as well as undocumented examples illustrating some of the benefits to medically used cannabis––how people previously incapacitated by pain have gotten their lives…
Read More#005 How it Happened
How does someone become an alcoholic or an addict? We talk about Dan Sr’s drinking, Dan Jr’s not drinking, drug addiction, President Trump’s opioid initiative. George sees only darkness when…
Read More#001 The Real Cause of Anxiety
No one likes to feel anxious, but the discomfort serves a good purpose. It’s a symptom of something gone wrong – that something is broken. Drinking, eating, sex, antidepressants, smoking – these…
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