Not just junkies: the stigmatising of drug addicts | Diane Taylor
Treatment can help problematic drug users but unless we stop judging them and offer kindness and empathy instead it will fail Drug addicts have a lot in common with other marginalised groups, such as sex workers, people with disabilities and asylum seekers in that many people have never met them and know very little about the realities of their lives. Where there is a void of factual information …
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Alcohol dependence damages both episodic memory and awareness of memory
Alcohol dependence (AD) has negative effects on cognitive processes such as memory. Metamemory refers to the subjective knowledge that people have of their own cognitive processing abilities, such as their monitoring and control of memory. A new study has found that AD has a negative impact on both episodic memory as well as metamemory.
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