ADDICTION

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UNDERSTANDING ADDICTION:

PATHOLOGICAL PURSUIT OF RELIEF AND REWARD

Forty years ago when Mel Schulstad shared his stories of addiction and recovery, one question haunted me night and day: What happened? 

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EVERY 15 MINUTES A PARENT GOES THROUGH THIS AGONY?

I knew the doorbell was going to ring.  I knew the police officers were coming to our house, all solemn-faced and serious, as if it were the real thing.

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WHAT A PIECE OF WORK WE ARE!

I love genes. I can’t get enough of them.

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EPIGENES: CHANGING THE FUTURE

Our children and grandchildren are what we eat.

Illustration by Kinsey Brock, UC Merced

Illustration by Kinsey Brock, UC Merced

FRUIT FLIES GET DRUNK, TOO

I quoted Shakespeare’s Hamlet in my last column who, after waxing on about “what a piece of work is man,” asks his friend Rosencrantz:  “What is this quintessence of dust?”