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LauraMcnallyPhD
Beware influencers who throw around concepts like TRAUMA and ADDICTION to get your attention. Beware people who portray complex concepts like trauma and addiction, in an oversimplified way. Trauma &
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Jesse Mechanic
JMechanic
When the crack epidemic swept through Black communities, addiction was viewed as a moral failure. Those who were addicted were vilified and locked up. When white people got addicted, suddenly
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The Known Stoic
theKnownStoic
What is addiction?// A Thread//Any behavior you use to cope with your emotion,and temporarily relief from feeling that you can't acknowledge to self and others becomes your addiction. You become
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Khylah💕💕💕
Disabled_khylah
Addiction isn’t treated like a criminal issue anymore. It can now be treated like the health issue it is and people will get the correct help they need. Locking someone
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Alex R Dell
AlexRDell
We need to start treating brainwashing like an addiction. People don't just get propogandized, they're addicted to bluepills. I remember when I kicked bluepills by accepting that the official 9/11
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emily
see_em_play_
good for mulaney, but the way we treat people with addiction in the anglo world is fucking ghastly. it will be basically impossible to care for people dealing with addiction
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Dan Diamond
ddiamond
SCOOP: HHS to get rid of the “X” waiver that limited which doctors could prescribe buprenorphine for opioid addiction.Physicians have clamored for this as opioid epidemic worsened. https://subscriber.politicopro.com/health-care/whiteboa
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Chris Owen
wonky_donky
today, 11 years ago I wombled into the Priory and managed to get sober (and stay sober since). So happy birthday me. 11 years and one day ago, it would
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Alex "Boreal" Forrest 🚉🌲
380kmh
my mental template for describing addiction goes like this:level 1 = addicted, out of controllevel 2 = addicted, under controllevel 3 = not addicted, but will use againlevel 4 =
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Serge Ahmed
SergeAhmed
I have spent a significant part of the day trying to understand this Nature Reviews Neuroscience article on the transition to compulsion in drug addiction.Here is a very short, politically
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Ed Stoner
edstoneroffical
Interesting! Agreed that society’s view of ‘addicts’ needs to change to a more positive one! I think some recovery folklore is an obstacle to this, e.g. ‘once an addict always
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Kellie Williford
WillifordKellie
It's late, but it took a bit to write this out. Today for #BlackInNeuroWeek we're focusing on #NeuroRacism and ways our work has been #NeuroComplicit in perpetuating racism. And I've
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maya morena
themayamorena
Anyone else really troubled by the fact that in 2018, the ICD-11 included the diagnosis “compulsive sexual behavior”?Moral entrepreneurs have been trying to make sex addiction a real thing for
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Jack Livingstone
JackedUpStill
A thread about harmful stigmas surrounding addiction, written by someone affected by them: First and foremost: no one (and i mean NO ONE) “chooses” to be addicted to any drug
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Sanctuary Toronto
SanctuaryTO
If current trends continue, more than 2,200 people will die of opioid overdoses in Ontario by the end of 2020 (thread). 2,200 people. 2,200 people. 2,2000 people. These are our
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jada
highandhealing
i smoked weed to ease my anxiety and then it became the reason i was anxious; i couldnt do anything without it. weed is not a bad thing and addiction
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