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Why have the demographics of heroin use changed so much? For that, we can look to dramatic increase in prescriptions for opioid painkillers, such as Oxycontin or Vicodin.
The basic characteristics of pokies, combined with constantly refined game features, provide a stimulus to the brain that, in many cases, leads to a form of addiction.
Stigma toward heroin use might prevent a lot of people from using the drug, but these attitudes don’t help people who are dependent.
The way you take a drug affects how much of it gets to your brain, and how rapidly drug levels rise and fall.
Are addicts sick and helpless victims with little control over their own behaviour, or brazen criminals who deserve to be punished accordingly?
Fewer teenagers are taking up smoking, but one study has found a link between e-cigarettes and a potentially more dangerous addiction.
Are you a “carb craver” or “chocaholic”? We often use language associated with addiction to describe our relationships with food. But is it really possible to be addicted to certain types of food?
There’s a worrying lack of evidence for what works when it comes to drug treatment. And our addiction services are suffering as a result.
Australia’s drug regulator is looking into reclassifying codeine-based drugs as prescription-only. This is a good idea because the easy availability of these pinkillers is causing substantial harm.
The evidence is growing over the psychological effects of our screen time - when will the tipping point come?
People with bipolar use more cannabis than others with mental health problems, but what do they think about its effects?
Not only can they improve public health and decrease treatment costs, but they can also address one of the root causes of addiction: loneliness.
Anyone who knows me also knows that I have a huge sweet tooth. I always have. My friend and fellow graduate student Andrew is equally afflicted, and living in Hershey, Pennsylvania – the “Chocolate Capital…
Cocaine is a popular recreational drug that makes users energetic, confident and talkative. It’s also highly addictive and dependence-producing. Australians rank fourth in the world in cocaine abuse rates…
You would be forgiven for thinking that Russell Brand, that radical left-winger and advocate of revolution, and Iain Duncan Smith, Conservative secretary of state for work and pensions, didn’t have anything…
In the 1930s, Harry J. Anslinger, the first head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, embarked on a fierce anti-marijuana campaign. Highlighted by the 1936 anti-marijuana film Reefer Madness – where marijuana…
Drug use is common, drug addiction is rare. About one adult in three will use an illegal drug in their lifetime and just under 3m people will do so this year in England and Wales alone. Most will suffer…
This week a rare thing happened – some members of the public felt sorry for a politician. Nigel Mills, a Conservative MP, was caught playing Candy Crush Saga (an idiotic but addictive computer game) during…
Bassist and lead singer of The Church, Steve Kilbey is one of Australia’s most prolific musicians. The band released their 25th album, Further Deeper, in October and will play The Queenscliff Music Festival…
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Honorary Fellow, Department of Health Sciences, University of York
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Adjunct Professor at the National Drug Research Institute (Melbourne based), Curtin University
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Director of the International Gaming Research Unit and Professor of Behavioural Addiction, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor in Substance Use, Liverpool John Moores University
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Professor in Criminology, Loughborough University
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Clinical Psychologist, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor of Sociology, Bentley University
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Executive Clinical Director, Turning Point & Director of Monash Addiction Research Centre, Monash University
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Researcher: Digital Literacy and Digital Wellbeing, Western Sydney University
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Associate Professor, School of Business and Tourism, Southern Cross University
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Research Fellow, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer (Adjunct), Nutritional neuroscientist, University of Adelaide
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Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Bayes Business School, City, University of London
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Senior Research Fellow, Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford
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Senior Lecturer of Addiction, Edith Cowan University
