Gaming Disorder Recognized as Official Disease
Put down that Call of Duty for a second, will ya? Video game addiction is on the move, and it is now recognized by the World Health Organization as an official disorder.
Conor Bezane is a music-meister who has written for MTV News, AOL, and VICE. He is a recovering bipolar addict who can be found digging through the crates at a local record store when he’s not attacking his keyboard, writing nonfiction. His first book, The Bipolar Addict, is available now on Amazon.
The War on Opioids vs. The War on Guns: Where’s the Outcry?
Deaths by drug overdose soared to more than 64,000 in 2016. Gun deaths totaled 33,000. This is not to discount mass shootings like ones in Parkland, Las Vegas, and Newtown, among many others, but comparatively little attention is paid to the opioid crisis, which is taking more lives many times over.
Quitting Smoking Step 2: Gettin’ Kinda Hectic
I caved. Last Wednesday, I smoked a cigarette. I had been 14 days nicotine-free. It tasted terrible and it made me feel awful. Quitting smoking continues to be harder than I thought.
Party’s Over for Kratom: FDA Declares Herbal Drug an Opioid
Kratom, which comes from a tree in Southeast Asia, is billed as a safe painkiller that can be ordered legally online and bought in your neighborhood CBD/kratom/hemp store. And while kratom addiction isn’t brand new, the FDA has only now declared the drug an opioid.
Quitting Smoking Is Harder Than I Thought
It’s been exactly 133 hours and 32 minutes since I smoked my last cigarette. And I must say, this is exponentially harder than quitting drinking.
Six Years Sober & Stronger & Stronger
Aloha! Today I celebrate six years of sobriety. Six years ago, minus one day, I was drinking two bottles of wine or two six packs of beer and smoking crack with homeless people every night. I nearly got addicted to crack.
Demi Lovato Offers Free Therapy On Tell Me You Love Me Tour
Bipolar pop star Demi Lovato recently announced that she will offer group counseling to her fans on show-day, before she sings her first note.
Addiction in America: Tom Petty’s Autopsy and the Opioid Crisis
This opioid crisis is of unbelievable magnitude. Twenty-thousand people died of opioid overdose in 2016 — mostly from fentanyl. First it took Prince. Now it’s taken Tom Petty. Petty’s autopsy revealed.
Psychedelic Mushrooms May Curb Depression – Right On!
Magic mushrooms just may not be only for followers of jam bands like Phish and Widespread Panic anymore. Turns out there might be more to mushrooms than swirling kaleidoscope auras and Willy Wonka-like hallucinations.
Bipolar Disorder and Weight Gain – Is It the Drugs?
Potato chips. Ice cream. Cupcakes. Pie. Cookies. Chocolates. Fried anything. Food can be the enemy when we cave to cravings. We who are bipolar are prone to eating our problems. And taking some medications, like Seroquel, can result in weight gain. A 2008 study by nurses Susan Simmons-Alling and Sandra Talley published in The Journal…
