Dares to Addiction

Dares to addiction: youth definitions and perspectives on gambling.

BACKGROUND Over the past decade, there has been a rapid growth of gambling in Canada and internationally. Although youth are a potentially vulnerable group, little is known about what they understand and if they are being affected by the recent increase in gambling. METHODS This study examined how youth view gambling using an inductive qualitative research design and analysis based on grounde...

Who dares, wins?

Despite the tremendous achievements of tissue engineering, its clinical counterpart, regenerative medicine, has rather been slow in delivering on its promise of producing natural organs from synthetic materials. It appeared that Dr. Paolo Macchiarini had broken through the stalemate in regenerative medicine when he performed an operation in which a synthetic trachea seeded with stem cells was t...

The drug-addicted doctor--who dares to care?

Fatal addiction to trichloroethylene.

Trichloroethylene inhalation is a common industrial hazard that involves a risk of addiction. In the present case there was evidence of indulgence of addiction at work but not at home. The medical history suggested permanent paresis of the olfactory nerves in addition to intermittent gastric disturbance. Sudden death, not preceded by severe physical exertion, occurred some 17 hours after the la...

Genetic contributions to addiction.

Even the most extreme environmentalists along the nature-nurture continuum in psychology now acknowledge that genes often contribute to individual differences in behavior. Behavioral traits are complex, reflecting the aggregate effects of many genes. These genetic effects are interactive, inter se and with the environments in which they are expressed. Human studies of addictive behaviors have c...