Category: Addiction

Substance use disorder (SUD) can show up in your habits, your reactions, and your roughest days, but your brain also carries a big part of your substance-use picture. If you’ve ever read our deep dive on the blacked-out brain and thought: yep, that sounds familiar, then you already know substances impact your brain’s ability to store memory. But neuroimages can show how substance use affects so much more of the brain than just memory. Neuroimages

The dangers of substance use disorder (SUD) can look different from person to person. For some families, it may mean their loved one’s health or relationships deteriorate. For other people, SUD may mean that holding down a job and or enjoying any kind of stability is impossible. The point is that substance use affects different parts of life for different folks. And while there’s no single world’s deadliest addiction yet, some substances show up in

We can divide the areas of our lives more or less into categories: medical, mental, spiritual or religious, financial, social, and societal. Unfortunately, addiction impacts all areas of life–not just for the individual struggling with a substance use disorder (SUD), but also for the people and family closely connected to the situation. However, there’s one more element that we often overlook when it comes to addiction: how it affects our identity. Identity is an aspect

One of the most common myths about addiction is that problems with drug and alcohol abuse only affect “unsuccessful” people. Addiction doesn’t care where you went to college, how much you earn, or what awards you’ve won for your volunteer work. It’s a chronic illness—not a character defect.   Success Can Be a Double-Edge Sword Researchers are still struggling to fully understand what factors trigger the development of a substance use disorder. Studies with identical