Fifty years of outstanding neuroscience research studies have revealed many secrets of how drugs of abuse affect and change ...

External locus of control is a sense that one’s destiny ... anger, and emotional abuse. My work has more than tripled in the last six years. When my clients express anger about politicians ...

In simple terms, if you cannot change the circumstances, then change your attitude toward them; in psychological terms, this is referred to as shifting the locus of control from external to internal.

Drug addiction is a chronically relapsing disorder that has been characterized by (1) compulsion to seek and take the drug, (2) loss of control in limiting intake, and (3) emergence of a negative ...

To directly test this association and to evaluate additional behavioral characteristics, including perceived locus ... an external LOC—ie, the belief that events are outside their control ...

Essentially, where you believe the locus (Latin for "place") of control lies in your life says a lot about how much agency you think you have. If you have a very external locus of control ...

To quote Yoda: “Control ... who don’t have any drug problems themselves. They could act as a marker for people who are vulnerable to addiction. “Our findings provide further evidence ...

As such he was responsible to ministers and parliament for the funding and delivery of treatment for drug addiction in England ... is deemed to “spiral out of control”, destroying an ...

according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). During the same period, the rate of fatal overdoses rose from 21.7 to 28.3 per 100,000 people. Despite these increases, the share of ...

For decades, medical science has classified addiction ... of control and becomes derailed. It’s a matter of when you can pull the emergency cord and get off,” he said, noting that some drug ...

There was no control group. Dr. Nolan Williams ... The National Institute on Drug Abuse, part of the National Institutes of Health, has already begun funding studies (that are not trials involving ...