By Christina Lavers Contributing writer for Wake Up World “Some of the largest companies are now using brain scans to study how we react neurologically to certain foods, especially to...
Category - Addiction
Addictive Behavior Related to Low Levels of Oxytocin, the “Love/Bonding Hormone”
By Christina Lavers Contributing Writer for Wake Up World The more we understand how nature works, the more we realize just how complex, intricately balanced and ingenious its systems are. One...
How Sugar Destroys Your Liver and Brain… Plus Tips to Help You Break Free from Sugar Addiction
By Dr. Joseph Mercola Guest Writer for Wake Up World At one point in time, sugar was a delicacy, a condiment that was difficult to come by. If you were lucky, you may have added it to your...
Prescription Painkillers: A Gateway Drug to Heroin Addiction
By Carolanne Wright Contributing Writer for Wake Up World Betty Tully has firsthand experience with the devastating effects of prescription opiate addiction. In January of 2001, she was thrilled to...
Addiction is Not Necessarily an Addiction for Life
By Dawn Walton Guest Writer for Wake Up World There is an accepted idea out there that once addicted to something, you will always be prone to returning to your addiction. This idea is reinforced by...
The Energetic Sources of Depression, Addiction, PTSD and Other Life-Draining Dynamics in the Invisible Light Spectrum
By Lia Love Guest Writer for Wake Up World “Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the...
The Craving Behind the Craving: Addiction as a Spiritual Disease
By Irwin Ozborne Contributing writer for Wake Up World “It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.” As a child, I...
The Lotus Eaters: Remembrance and Coherence in a World of Addiction and Distraction
By Philip Shepherd Guest Writer for Wake Up World In chapter nine of Homer’s epic The Odyssey, a strange event is described: Odysseus arrived with his crew in the country of the Lotus...
The Likely Cause of Addiction Has Been Discovered – It’s Not What You Think
By Johann Hari Guest Writer for Wake Up World It is now one hundred years since drugs were first banned, and all through this long century of waging war on drugs, we have been told a story about...
Addiction and The New Activism
By Wes Annac & Loral Emery-Lamere Guest Writer for Wake Up World A new form of activism is emerging, and it isn’t coming from the younger generations who are fed up with the the system...
Understanding and Overcoming Food Addiction
By Dawn Walton Guest writer for Wake Up World It’s getting late. You’ve had a long stressful day at work and you are sitting flicking through the TV channels. You are bored. You go to...
Using Meditation to Help You Overcome Addiction
By Robert L. Rupp Guest Writer for Wake Up World Mindfulness and Addiction Addictions generally are the side-effect of a grasping mind. When we try to cling to things beyond our reach or...