Lady Gaga Says She's Addicted to Marijuana: Is Pot Addictive?

Lady Gaga says she's addicted to marijuana: Is pot addictive?
Key characteristics of an addiction include the inability to abstain from using the substance, behavioral impairment, cravings and diminished recognition of chronic, increasing problems because of abusing the substance, Levenson pointed out. … each …
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Money laundering, addiction and the social cancer of High Street betting shops
The newspaper's Randeep Ramesh had spoken to a number of drug dealers, who revealed how this gold mine for the leading bookmaking firms was also criminals' preferred means of getting 'hot' money into their bank accounts via a third party — minus, of …
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Nurture Impacts Nature: Experiences Leave Genetic Mark On Brain, Behavior
Drug addiction can remodel mouse DNA and chromosomal material in predictable ways, leaving “signatures,” or signs of the remodeling, over time. A better understanding of these signatures could be used to diagnose drug addiction in humans (Eric Nestler, …
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