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Love & Drugs (hour)

From With Good Reason | Part of the With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes series | 53:56

How pop culture portrays romance and addiction -- when bad breakups bring out addictive personalities -- using e-cigarettes for illegal drugs -- how menthol makes smoking more addictive

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Jessica Salvatore examines the relationship between romance and addiction, and how popular culture portrays this relationship in the media. Plus: Psychiatrist Kenneth Kendler discusses what to look for when a genetic predisposition to alcohol abuse is kick-started with a divorce.
The use of e-cigarettes and vaping is growing at a rapid rate. Now drug users are using e-cigarettes to vape illicit drugs. Michelle Peace is part of a team investigating the use of e-cigarettes and illegal drugs. And: Nadine Kabbani has new research showing that menthol can actually make cigarettes more addictive. This might be having an outsized impact on teen smokers–nearly 50% of them choose menthols over regular cigarettes.