http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/04/07/the-science-of-addiction-the-myth-of-choice/ Sun, 19 May 2013 21:30:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/04/07/the-science-of-addiction-the-myth-of-choice/#comment-14249 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:17:29 +0000 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/04/07/the-science-of-addiction-the-myth-of-choice/#comment-14249 Stanton Peele is full of shit, and the New Scientist is a propagenda arm of the CIA, NSA. Notice I said,propagenda, not propaganda. Addiction sells, and these dinks have no interest in helping the public to discovery nor, recovery.

]]> http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/04/07/the-science-of-addiction-the-myth-of-choice/#comment-12282 Sat, 15 Mar 2008 20:32:44 +0000 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/04/07/the-science-of-addiction-the-myth-of-choice/#comment-12282 [...] BERDIK: Addiction researchers are conducting clinical trials on drugs to help treat problem gamblers, but no matter what scientists discover those who work with compulsive gamblers say that breaking the habit will always take more than a pill. It often takes major lifestyle changes. * * * Below we’ve the initial portions of a news article from an Atlantic City news channel, “Compulsive Gambler Files $20M Suit Against Casinos.” * * * She was an ambitious lawyer and TV commentator who starting going to Atlantic City casinos to relax, and soon was getting high-roller treatment that included limousines whisking her to the resort. Arelia Margarita Taveras says she was even allowed to bring her dog, Sasha, to the blackjack tables, sitting in her purse. But her gambling spun out of control: She said she would go days at a time at the tables, not eating or sleeping, brushing her teeth with disposable wipes so she didn’t have to leave.She says her losses totaled nearly $1 million.Now she’s chasing the longest of long shots: a $20 million racketeering lawsuit in federal court against six Atlantic City casinos and one in Las Vegas, claiming they had a duty to notice her compulsive gambling problem and cut her off.”They knew I was going for days without eating or sleeping,” Taveras said. “I would pass out at the tables. They had a duty of care to me. Nobody in their right mind would gamble for four or five straight days without sleeping.”Experts say her case will be difficult to prove, but it provides an unusually detailed window into the life of a problem gambler. * * * To read the rest of the article, click here. To watch an ABC video reporting on a compulsive gambler who is suing a casino, click here. To read some related Situationist posts, go to “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” and “The Science of Addiction, The Myth of Choice.” [...]

]]> http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/04/07/the-science-of-addiction-the-myth-of-choice/#comment-4961 Sat, 04 Aug 2007 14:06:03 +0000 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/04/07/the-science-of-addiction-the-myth-of-choice/#comment-4961 [...] debate concerning actions such as gambling, obesity, and video gaming. The Situationist Blog has a post from April that explores the some of the new research into addiction. Biology is [...]

]]> http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/04/07/the-science-of-addiction-the-myth-of-choice/#comment-1020 Fri, 04 May 2007 17:23:59 +0000 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/04/07/the-science-of-addiction-the-myth-of-choice/#comment-1020 [...] there has been a flurry of articles on addiction, the reasons why we become addicted and why do we continue to abuse these [...]

]]> http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/04/07/the-science-of-addiction-the-myth-of-choice/#comment-644 Tue, 10 Apr 2007 18:36:57 +0000 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/04/07/the-science-of-addiction-the-myth-of-choice/#comment-644 This is an interesting speculation.

]]> http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/04/07/the-science-of-addiction-the-myth-of-choice/#comment-635 Mon, 09 Apr 2007 22:11:55 +0000 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/04/07/the-science-of-addiction-the-myth-of-choice/#comment-635 If, as this article suggests, “All pleasurable stimuli, natural and unnatural, act on the same ‘reward’ circuitry in the brain,” I’d want to know why some brains become addicted to those pleasures and others do not. If we risk addiction whenever we receive desirable stimulus, we have little hope of beating addiction without understanding deviants who don’t become hooked. An evolutionary biologist might ask what adaptive advantage may arise from addiction that has made the problem so widespread–I’d be curious to hear an answer to that myself–but children of parents with addictive personalities and, for that matter, the parents of any child can’t afford to be so abstract.

]]> http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/04/07/the-science-of-addiction-the-myth-of-choice/#comment-618 Sun, 08 Apr 2007 22:26:10 +0000 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/04/07/the-science-of-addiction-the-myth-of-choice/#comment-618 I don’t trust New Scientist ever since they published an article about a propulsion system that contradicts conservation of momentum.

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