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Online Counseling: Drug Counseling & Alcohol Counseling
by Jan Edward Williams.The answer to the question in the title of this article is: "Yes, but with the need to understand the limits of online help."DefinitionsThe words "alcohol dependence" or "addiction" are often used without definition. So, let's first define some terms...
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Overcoming Addictions - Have the Desire to Overcome Them
by Sacha Tarkovsky.Overcoming addictions can be a hard task to accomplish for anyone battling various personal demons. Addictions are common and ruin lives particularly to substances and recreational drugs from drinking to drug abuse. They ruin lives Addictions are a s...
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Internet Addiction Recovery
by Skye.Traditional 12 step recovery programs or meetings are limited to geographical boundaries yet today, internet chat rooms focusing on addiction recovery are becoming more commonplace. Perhaps more importantly these's a whole new realm of recovery grow...
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Current Addictions and Mental Health Resources
by Dr. Dawn-elise Snipes.Anyone can have a mental illness, regardless of age, gender, race, or income. Mental illnesses are more common than cancer, diabetes, heart disease, or AIDS. It is believed that one in five adults and children has a diagnosable mental disorder, one i...
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Basic Definitions: Addiction and Dependence
by Jan Edward Williams.Basic Definitions: Addiction and Dependence[References available on request]Addiction/dependenceThe terms "addiction" and "dependence" are often used interchangeably. The American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental ...
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Addiction Damage Repair & Repairing Addiction Damage
by Christine OKelly.The drug or alcohol addict storms through the world, convinced that everyone has wronged them, convinced that everyone owes them, and convinced that they are somehow entitled to have intruded on the lives of others. In their wake, they manage to lea...
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Short Cuts to Addiction
by Tibor A. Palatinus.In a perfect world no one would have to suffer depression, physical illness, harassment or stress. Why do people justify escalating personal drug and alcohol use. Are we just stressed out or do we lack the skills to live in an rapidly evolving enviro...
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Detailed Information on Drug Addiction
by Juliet Cohen.Drug addiction is regarded as a pathological condition. Drug addiction is an obsessive legal or illegal drugs. Medications may include prescription drugs, illegal drugs and alcohol. Some drugs are more likely to cause physical dependence than others....
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Find Professional Help From Substance Addiction
by Berlin Flores.The idea of "addiction intervention" is becoming a substantial way discussing the problems of drug addiction. In short, this service is used to conduct drug abuse treatments on the addicted patients and to reduce the harm of the drugs to the body of ...
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Pain Killer Addiction And Abuse
by Greg Morrison.Pain Killers, also known as the opioids, are normally prescribed due to the pain relieving assets. Many researches have also exposed that correctly managed medical use of the pain killer composite is safe as well as rarely a root to addiction. Taken ...
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How To Overcome A Percocet Addiction
by Greg Morrison.A mixture of oxycodone and acetaminophen, the Percocet is a very ordinary pill that is often used as a prescription for pain. It is an analgesic narcotic which means that it is a prescription pill prescribed by doctors, you cannot get it over the cou...
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The Pain Of Opiate Addiction And Withdrawal
by Greg Morrison.In the United States, opiate addiction has increased dramatically over the last decade mainly due to the rising level of pain killer addiction. Many people are ignorant to the fact that these pain killers are just like heroin. They contain opioid com...
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When Alcohol Abuse Turns to Addiction
by Art Gib.There are ongoing misconceptions about what level of drinking is considered abuse. Alcohol, being one of the most intoxicating and available legal drugs, has diluted general conceptions about where the line is drawn and how much is too much.Since alc...
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Are Food Addictions Affecting Your Health?
by Chris Marshall.What are food addictions? Is your health affected by them? If you have an unhealthy relationship with food, you may have a food addiction.Instead of having a healthy relationship with food, the food-addicted person is obsessed with food. The food-add...
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Many Theories for Causes of Drug Addiction
by Ned Wicker.It has always fascinated me that people of good will, people of letters, qualified people who study and earnestly try to understand the nature of addiction, can so often completely disagree with each other. Is drug addiction caused by a human being's...
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The Similarities of Heroin and Pain Killer Addiction
by Greg Morrison.In 2006, a National Survey revealed that almost half of the American public knows a friend or family member who has a pain killer addiction. What is worse about this news is that most citizens are not aware that pain killer abuse is just as bad as he...
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The Rise of Pain Killer Addiction
by Greg Morrison.Addiction has always been considered to be a disease of both the mind and the body. Nowadays, the term addiction is most commonly associated with drug abuse. In the United States, there is a growing number of individuals who are suffering from this d...
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The Dangers Of Food Addiction
by Kevin Sinclair.Food addiction is a serious complication that many individuals in the world suffer from. Consuming food is both a biological necessity and an experience that is deemed to be pleasurable. Eating is acceptable, as well as required. However, there are m...
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A Google Adsense Addiction
by Steve Szasz.54% of all Google Adsense publishers admit addiction to click income. A recent online study conducted by a small group of Google Publishers found that 54% of all Adsense publishers where addicted to the income potential of Googles Pay Per Click syste...
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Mobile Phone Addiction
by Ian Ball.If they do not have their mobile phone in their hand or at least if they are unable to locate their mobile phone within their range, they just get diverted and become unable to focus their mind to almost anything. Even if they put their mobile in vib...
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Enabling Addiction to Loved Ones & Role of Enabling
by Billyou1232.Unfortunately, many times, a loved one actually is enabling addiction through their well intentioned desire to help the addict or alcoholic. How does this occur? Consider the role of the addict; their intention is to continue the using behavior at al...
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Addiction to Complaining
by Margaret Paul, Ph.d..Over the years of counseling others, I’ve noticed that some people start every session with a complaint. They can’t seem to help it. Like my mother, they are addicted to complaining.Why do people complain? What is it they want or hope for when th...
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Addiction and Personality
by Sam Vaknin.A voluminous literature notwithstanding, there is little convincing empirical research about the correlation between personality traits and addictive behaviors. Substance abuse and dependence (alcoholism, drug addiction) is only one form of recurrent...
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Concept Of Addiction
by Kate Gardens.Most often the notion is associated with physiological effects of drug addiction only while it may also refer to psychological effects as well. According to the above definition the closest idea to addiction is that of dependence. Dependence can be ...
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Narcissism and Addiction
by Sam Vaknin.In our attempt to decipher the human psyche (in itself a mere construct, not an ontological entity), we have come up with two answers:I. That behaviors, moods, emotions, and cognitions are wholly reducible to biochemical reactions and neural pathways...
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