Reborn: From From Addiction to Recovery, Giving Back to Others

Published March 9, 2014

Reborn: From From addiction to recovery, giving back to others

Filed under: how addictive is cocaine

It went to cocaine. I started out snorting and went to smoking. I got addicted to crack cocaine.” Branch said he suffered a knee injury, and a teammate brought him some cocaine. He recalls doing coke at halftime, and his subsequent addiction, he said, … Read more on Journal Times

Structural and functional changes that cocaine cause in the brain favour addiction

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Cocaine use produces structural changes in the brain reducing the volume of certain regions, and also functional changes affecting motivational and cognitive processes. These changes favour addiction. The objective of a project headed by Alfonso Barrós … Read more on Medical Xpress

Sugar's the New Gateway Drug

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Several medical studies say sugar triggers the brain's pleasure centers much the same way cocaine or heroin does. A study last year found Oreo cookies are as addictive as cocaine. Nobody wants to criminalize sugar, but many think more stringent labels … Read more on Lynchburg News and Advance