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	National Institute on Drug Abuse - Comprehensive web-site with research and treatment reports and news. Includes a site for teachers and students with educational materials. Fact sheets on drug abuse, including the most recent economic costs report. Rate this
	AddictionScience.org - Research Forum and Resources for the Neurobiology of Addiction hosted by The Wheeler Center at the University of California, San Francisco. Online discussions and learning tools that help in understanding the neuroscience behind addiction and the brain mediation of reward. Rate this
	Society for Neuroscience Brain Briefings - For the layperson interested in the science behind addiction: and in the brain in general. Current topics include: Nicotine and the brain, Addictions path, the brains stash, and the opiate receptor. Rate this
	"Drugs, Brain & Behavior" online textbook. - This is the entire content (text and figures) of a textbook that was entitled 'Principles of Behavioral Pharmacology'. The authors are professors at Rutgers and Drew Universities in New Jersey. Rate this
	The Drug Discrimination Bibliography - Drug Discrimination is widely recognised as one of the major methods for studying the behavioral and neuropharmacological effects of drugs and plays an important role in drug discovery and investigations of drug abuse. This page provides access to Dr. Ian Stolerman's ongoing Comprehensive Bibliography of Drug Discrimination Research. Search bibliography for combinations of training drug, pretreatment drug, methodology. Rate this
	Marijuana Special Report from The New Scientist - Visual guide to brain regions involved in the mediation of cannabis actions - geared to the lay person. Links to a variety of articles on cannabis/Marijuana. Rate this
	Mind Over Matter: The Brain's Response to Methamphetamine - An online magazine series exploring the brain's response to drugs. In this issue, it investigates many facts about the stimulant drug methamphetamine. Rate this
	Addiction and Alcoholism Treatment - Free online books, journals. The best collection on intervention techniques, substance abuse, recovery, relapse prevention, sobriety. Rate this
	Pharmacology Research Unit - The PRG of the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinics in San Francisco conducts clinical trials of medications and therapeutic interventions for the treatment of addiction. Rate this
	Alcohol and Adolescent Brain Development - Explores recent scientific evidence that alcohol affects adolescents and adults differently. Also discusses recent findings regarding adolescent brain development. Rate this

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• AN ALL-TOO-COMMON ADDICTION - It was a beautiful spring morning in LaJolla, California . I had flown to San Diego the evening before. After a pleasant breakfast, the cab driver had taken me five miles to LaJolla. In an hour and a half he was to pick me up for the trip to the San Diego...
• Addiction to Thinking - Randall sought my help because he was stuck being miserable and had no idea how to get out of his misery. In his life he had experienced moments of great joy and sense of oneness with all of life, bu...
• Addiction to Blame - Allen consulted with me because his wife of 18 years had threatened to leave him if he didn’t stop blaming her all the time. He admitted to frequently blaming her in a variety of situations. He blame...
• Meth Addiction Help - ...
• Pornography Addiction - ...
• Addiction to Complaining - The following article is offered for free use in your ezine, print publication or on your web site, so long as the author resource box at the end is included, with hyperlinks. Notification of publication would be appreciated.
  
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• Addiction to Self-Judgment - The following article is offered for free use in your ezine,
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• 5 Ways to Tell if You Have an Addiction - ...
• Quit your addiction here and now. - how to permanently quit addictions
  
  I am a reformed alcoholic. I am a reformed chain smoker.
  I am an ex fat person. I am also not selling anything.
  My only wish now is to help people by passing on my
  knowledge, I guess this sounds too good ...
• Overcoming Addiction - ...