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...says Speckhard, tend to be recruited because they are in search of "psychological first aid." Working most often over the Internet, the recruiters play the role of a father to women left vulnerable by abuse or other trauma. "To an extent it does help them. It's like a drug. It's short-lived. It gives you relief, but it's not a solution. And just like a drug addiction, it often ends tragically," says Speckhard, who has interviewed more than 300 perpetrators of terrorism, their victims and their loved ones for her book Talking to Terrorists...
Hammond spoke to the elementary school students about the many potential applications of her research on directed assembly of polymers, including fabricating remotely-controlled drug chips to treat diseases...
...morphine, preferring activity with friends and family to getting high. Under some conditions, Rat Park rats took 20 times less morphine than caged rats. And some rats that had been forcibly made physically dependent on morphine chose to suffer withdrawal symptoms while in Rat Park rather than seeking the drug. (See the top 10 bad beverage ideas...
...showed that an enriched environment made drug use less likely. I think from human research we can say clearly that enriched environments reduce all kinds of addictions, not just to drugs or alcohol," says Alexander, author of The Globalization of Addiction and designer of Rat Park...
...these factors - environmental exposure, environmental stress - can have an impact on the vulnerability to obesity or drug addiction," says Shertleff. Whether or not cheesecake is as addictive as crack, "what this research is really showing us is that we can learn something about compulsive eating from the addiction world," he says...