The 2009 United Nations World Drug report, released earlier this year, notes that 2009 marks “the end of the first century of drug control (it all started in Shanghai in 1909)”, and that the illicit drug market worldwide has now become a $320 billion-per-year industry. As drug-related violence in Mexico appears to continue unabated, and crackdowns in Afghanistan are being made against its massive opium crops, new efforts are also being made worldwide in methods of enforcement and treatment of recovering addicts.

We all are addicted to something. All addictions are life changing.Read these concise and extremely interesting pictorial articles on how the human CPU works.
Did I say they are NOT BORING at all 🙂

Damn!!! for every topic a song flashes in my head, here it goes:
Bob Marley – Smoke Two Joints

THE NEW SCIENCE OF ADDICTION: GENETICS AND THE BRAIN
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/addiction/

NATURAL REWARD PATHWAYS EXIST IN THE BRAIN
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/addiction/reward/

DRUGS ALTER THE BRAIN’S REWARD PATHWAY

http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/addiction/drugs/

GENETICS IS AN IMPORTANT FACTOR IN ADDICTION

http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/addiction/genetics/

TIMING AND CIRCUMSTANCES INFLUENCE ADDICTION

http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/addiction/factors/

CHALLENGES AND ISSUES IN ADDICTION

http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/addiction/issues/

Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
–Anonymous

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