Tag: Addictions

Addictions don’t mean you’re a junkie selling twenty minutes of butthole action for half a gram of crack. It means you’re doing something you know isn’t good for you but can’t stop. Cigarettes. Junk food. TikTok videos. Running back to your toxic ex. Society has normali...

Hi. My name is Caroline and I’m addicted to concerts. I’ll never forget my first concert. It was a Destiny’s Child concert at the Air Canada Centre and I attended with my best friend at the time. It was beyond anything I could imagine and more. The connection with their music felt ...

Addictions have always been associated with the drug or behavior itself, however, rats may have just shown us that this isn’t true. In traditional studies on addiction, rats were placed in isolated cages with two water bottles- one containing plain water and the other laced with a drug like...

They’re often behaviors and habits that erode your potential. While some addictions are overt and easy to spot, others are subtle and deep-rooted. These can be even more dangerous, as they often camouflage as normal behaviors. Journaling every day for over five years unearthed ...

In a 2019 report released by the Drug Enforcement Agency, it was found that more than 2 billion pharmaceutical opioids were prescribed in Alabama between 2006 and 2014. The Alabama county with the highest opioid prescription rate was Walker County, with more than 66 million pills being distribu...