Is It a Bad Habit or an Addiction?

Is It a Bad Habit or an Addiction?

The recent issue of Scientific American has an article by Carl Erik Fisher, a psychiatrist and bioethics professor at Columbia University, in which he explores whether behavioral addictions are mental illnesses or just bad habits. His article, “Food, sex, gambling,...
Is It a Bad Habit or an Addiction?

Salvo Blog: Indiana’s HIV Crisis

Before Indiana was in the news for the religious freedom act, the governor announced a public health crisis because an inordinate number of people in Scott County have contracted HIV through the use of shared needles. I reported on it, here, in Salvo Magazine’s...