I started writing a book called You Watch My Back and I will watch yours. The book is about characters the are recruited in pairs of two by a company that houses and pays for them to complete dangerous missions around the world and the characters tend to meet while trying to rescue the other from some event called the mission. My characters are human maybe with an extra skill or skills gained by "The Mission." I love reading series so I knew my book would be a part of a series so I have characters for the book that will move forward as their own book or a comic book. Luiiloviie is a Beautiful African American Vampiress and is based on this author and my military service and a part of the mission and Conchita is a Hispanic Amazonian warrior woman character also a part of the mission but they have never met or heard of each other both have supernatural powers. Luiiloviie is a beautiful African American vampire and Conchita is Hispanic and descendent of an Amazon woman tribe o...
Understanding Addiction Understanding Addiction: What Is Addiction? Addiction is a chronic, but treatable, brain disorder. People who are addicted cannot control their need for alcohol or other drugs, even in the face of negative health, social or legal consequences. This lack of control is the result of alcohol- or drug-induced changes in the brain. Those changes, in turn, cause behavior changes. The brains of addicted people "have been modified by the drug in such a way that absence of the drug makes a signal to their brain that is equivalent to the signal of when you are starving," says National Institute on Drug Abuse Director Dr. Nora Volkow. It is "as if the individual was in a state of deprivation, where taking the drug is indispensable for survival. It's as powerful as that." Addiction grows more serious over time. Substance use disorders travel along a continuum. This progression can be measured by the amount, frequency and context of a person...