This was written near the end of ‘Sober October’. What’s your tipple? The two-headed beast known as alcohol has the friendly face – the one that we associate with relaxing, celebrating, socialising and sophistication – and the hooded yet fearsome face that represents varying degrees of poor health, unhappiness, fear and despair. This month has …
We’ve looked at the legal drugs caffeine, nicotine and alcohol; today we’ll look at highly processed ready-meals and snacks or ’junk food’. While junk foods are not classified as drugs, any food high in sugar or a sugar-fat combo exaggerates responses to stimuli to such an extent it can be very difficult to turn away …
We’ve looked at the legal drugs caffeine and nicotine; today we’ll look at alcohol. There are many aspects to this, so today we’ll consider why alcohol makes us ‘drunk’ and why some seem to need greater amounts of alcohol just to feel normal. For any addict, certain environmental cues become very strongly associated with the …
If you were handed a pesticide to inhale, would you take it? Are you sure? Last time we looked at one of the three legal, widely available, psychoactive drugs that billions of people worldwide use daily; that was caffeine. Another one of those is nicotine, which we’ll look at today. Nicotine, the oldest pesticide in …
Billions of people worldwide use three legal, widely available, psychoactive drugs daily; do you? The drugs in question are caffeine, nicotine and alcohol. Today, we’ll look at caffeine. We consume caffeine mainly through coffee, energy drinks and tea, with tolerance building up over time. Are you a ‘maximum of two drinks before I get jittery’ …
ADDICTIONS: My column in today’s Jersey Evening Post (part 1 of 2) is what lies behind addictions, no matter what they are (sugar, shopping, sport, gaming, drugs, etc). I love helping people overcome their addictions 😊 Addictions are brain disorders characterised by compulsively engaging in a behaviour even if the consequences of the behaviour are …
Addiction is a very powerful force. It is extremely harmful not just for the addict but everyone around them. Every year millions are spent battling addictions, often with long therapy sessions and rehab centers. But what if there was a way to resolve addictions in just one and a half hours? It is possible! Watch …
