However, a study of Swedish men found that childless men who were cohabiting with a partner had higher risk of death from suicide, external violence and addiction, compared to men who were custodial fathers and cohabiting with a partner (Ringbäck Weitoft, Burström, & Rosén, 2004).
These findings suggest that endorsement of the concept of food addiction may encourage people to self-diagnose as food addicts and thus explain their eating behaviour in terms of addiction (an external attribution).
The activity of the inactive mutant E449G was restored by the addiction of external nucleophile, such as sodium formate, using an approach similar to the one followed by Moracci et al. (1998) who studied the effect of external nucleophiles on the mechanism of action of a hyperthermophilic β-Glycosidase from Sulfolobus solfataricus.
And that's the strange thing about addiction: Though external chemicals like alcohol can play a part, it's our own brain chemistry that lies at the root of every compulsion.
It's the inability to deal with our feelings of inadequacy, admit our vulnerabilities and overcome our addiction to external validation that created, and continues to fuel, the behaviors that this writer is up in arms about.
Although behavioral addictions involve no external drugs, preliminary research has suggested that they cause changes in brain chemicals, like the release of endorphins, that help to perpetuate the behavior.
We talk about people being at risk of poverty, or social exclusion: it's as if these things - obesity, alcohol abuse, drug addiction - are purely external events like a plague or bad weather.
For starters, Gore says, there's brass-tacks economics — especially now that the hidden, "external" costs of our carbon addiction are starting to hit home in the form of devastating storms, droughts, wildfires, and other unmistakable consequences.
Silence refreshes and rejuvenates the mind, whose habitual appetite for noise, news and diversion has created an addiction to everything external.
Practical support may provide individuals with greater perceived control over their problems as it allows both parties to define the problem as at least partially, external to the person with addiction.
