Yayoi Kusama. Manhattan Suicide Addict

The Addict in the Street

to our knowledge of the drug-taking teenagers, is disappointing for the British scene. The introduction by Jeremy Larner is excellent. However, the edited versions of tape-recordings by drug addicts is repetitive and lacks both direction and emphasis, although it was interesting to peruse the stories of two addicted brothers and an interview with an addict's mother. One imagines that this formu...

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The Addict in Us all

In this paper, we contend that the psychology of addiction is similar to the psychology of ordinary, non-addictive temptation in important respects, and explore the ways in which these parallels can illuminate both addiction and ordinary action. The incentive salience account of addiction proposed by Robinson and Berridge (1-3) entails that addictive desires are not in their nature different fr...

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Fasting Blood Glucose and Insulin Level in Opium Addict versus Non-Addict Individuals

BACKGROUND Many of lay person believe that opium lowers blood glucose. However some studies show the opposite results. In this study, we tried to evaluate the effect of opium on blood glucose and insulin resistance. METHODS This comparative study including 53 addicts in case groups who used opium just in the form of smoking and 55 non-addicts in a control group, took part in the study, after ...