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Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction

Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.

  • Article

Self-obsessing in the age of selfies

The tiny, joyful spark of a social media ‘like’ can lead to a damaging obsession. Find out how far people will go when their phone addiction gets the upper hand.

  • Article

Virtual reality and the fix of the future

Virtual reality, with its complex sensory tricks, takes us beyond the real world. Find out how these potentially addictive experiences can harm us – or might even have therapeutic uses.

  • In pictures

From cacao to chocolate

Discover how chocolate morphed from a prized, spiritually significant commodity to a quasi-medicine, and finally to the sweet treat we eat almost daily.

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  • Addiction and reward pathways in the brain, artwork
  • The Italian Society for Drug Addiction (SITD) announces the Second European Symposium on Drug Addiction & AIDS : October 4-6, 1993, Siena, Italy.
  • The Italian Society for Drug Addiction (SITD) announces the Second European Symposium on Drug Addiction & AIDS : October 4-6, 1993, Siena, Italy.
  • 'Cocaine dosage and cocaine addiction'.
  • 'Cocaine dosage and cocaine addiction'.
  • 'Cocaine dosage and cocaine addiction'.
  • Second European Symposium on Drug Addiction & AIDS : October 4-6, 1993, Siena, Italy : preregistration form.
  • Second European Symposium on Drug Addiction & AIDS : October 4-6, 1993, Siena, Italy : preregistration form.
  • A deformed victim of drug addiction and AIDS. Colour lithograph after R. Vlachová, 1994.
  • Annie Söderberg, a social worker in Stockholm and a pioneer in addiction treatment; with the message in Swedish 'You must take the love game seriously'. Lithograph by Ted Bates, ca. 1995.
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