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Hooked on Addiction: From Food to Drugs to Internet Porn – TIME Healthland (Build 20110318052756) America is having an addiction moment. Media headlines scream daily about new neuroscience findings on porn addiction, Internet addiction, food addiction and plain, old-fashioned drug addiction. As TIME’s Michael Scherer wrote last week, 42 U.S. Senators called on Attorney General Eric Holder to increase obscenity prosecutions for pornography, due in part to fears over sex addiction. There’s even a new online magazine about addiction called The Fix (full disclosure: I write for it). But what do the recent neuroscience studies actually tell us about addiction? What is addiction really?

Cocaine, opioids, alcohol, and other drugs subvert, or hijack, [the brain's] pleasure systems, and cause the brain to think a drug high is necessary to survive. But this is actually a bizarre form of circular reasoning. So pleasure alone isn’t addiction — and not even craving plus pleasure are enough to define addiction. It’s a complex phenomenon that goes beyond mere activation of pleasure pathways. Psychology. Mood. Emotional Fitness. Online Video Lectures and Course Materials — Open Yale Courses. Psychologist Doylestown, Bucks County Therapist, PA-Chad Coren, Psy.D.-therapy, counseling, addiction, depression, anxiety, mental health, 18901.

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SciNet Science & Technology Search Engine. Addictions and reserah engines. A few weeks ago, I attended a panel discussion about climate change where former Vice President Al Gore referred to the United States as an oil "junkie. " At the time, it occurred to me that Americans have another addiction, albeit less pernicious: searching with Google. Surely as we use our cars to get around, we use Google to launch our Web queries. As of March, Mountain View owns 72% of the searches made online. We're Google junkies. Who cares, right? Google works well enough, and it's added a lot of cool stuff over the years--SearchWiki, for example, is one of the coolest additions to hit search since PageRank.

But like the lowly combustion engine, Google's search engine is meant for all-around people-pleasing, and it fails gloriously at more serious searches. Back to my reductive car metaphor: we know that sedans are good for most stuff, but when it's time to move to a new house, we borrow a big truck. But as of this month, there is finally another option. Here's an example. Addiction Search Engine - About The Addiction Search Engine. Alcoholism and Addiction research papers | Medicine | A. Addiction Science Network. Addiction Journal. Human Thought. Addiction. Addiction. Addiction. Addiction. Addiction. Addiction.