My Journey From Homeless Drug Addict To Magna Cum Laude
My parents had divorced, and I was living with my grandmother. We had a difficult relationship. I wasn't fitting in at school, and I was … At a 12-step meeting at the center one night, I heard a woman talk about an insatiable hunger she felt in the …
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Tori Spelling Breaks Silence on Dean McDermott's Affair: "He Was My Soul Mate …
The couple began filming just days after McDermott left rehab for sex addiction. "He was my soul mate, but … The actors—parents to sons Liam, 7, and Finn, 20 months, plus daughters Stella, 5, and Hattie, 2—met on the 2005 set of Lifetime movie Mind …
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Program on drug addiction is for parents and teens
Pascack Valley – The Hills/Valley Coalition is sponsoring a free program, Abuse in Our Backyard – The Face of Addiction: A Family Portrait" on Wednesday, April 23 at Pascack Valley High School, 200 Piermont Ave., Hillsdale. … take place on Thursday …
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Question by Nat: Do you think that “sex addiction” is an actual condition?
or do you think it’s just an excuse that habitual cheaters use to avoid blame ? (for example- Tiger Woods)

Best answer:

Answer by Awake Sage & Author Omid Mankoo
“habitual cheaters” is the term you used. habitual is very much related to addiction. the reverse of habitual is conscious and aware. Sex addiction is a problem. seldom do you find a person who is in control of their body and in control of their own mind and still continuously cheats.

There is a tremendous amount of hidden mind manipulation within many sexual presentations disguised as regular sexual attraction. the viewer is being mentally stimulated, all the while mistakenly thinking it is simply sexual attraction and only physical. Becoming familiar with the manipulations and the methods to free oneself from these unwanted intrusive elements are written in a recent book which I mention in the “Sources” section at the end of this answer

in addition I have a yahoo group on sexual addiction at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sagessolution

Question by addicted: i want to stop smoking crack cocaine. I dont no how. dont know how to even start try. please help.?

Best answer:

Answer by lance
Go to a rehab center, thats probably your best bet. Even though it might not sound too good right now, you won’t regret it later. Force yourself to go.

Answer by Annette S
Go to rehab. Just go to someone. Why’d you even smoke it in the first place? It’s so ghetto.

Study Casts Doubt on Porn Addiction, but Counselors Say It Exists
“Since a large, lucrative industry has promised treatments for pornography addiction despite this poor evidence, scientific psychologists are called to declare the emperor (treatment industry) has no clothes (supporting evidence),” Ley and his team …
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There's No Such Thing As Porn Addiction, Says New Research
“They constantly say, for instance, that 'porn is the crack cocaine of sex addiction.'" Ley said that while there are anecdotal claims of people “needing” porn, or experiencing “some very vague … In a 2013 issue of Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity …
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Will crack vending machines in Vancouver help curb crack addiction?
A local Vancouver, Canadian program has put into place crack vending machines in the hope that it will stem crack addiction as well as negate the dangers of HIV infection and other diseases. Installed at the city's downtown Eastside, the machines …
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States use Good Samaritan laws, Narcan, to fight drug overdoses
… Columbia have passed “Good Samaritan” laws that grant limited immunity to drug users who seek help for someone who has overdosed, according to the Trust for America's Health (TFAH), a nonpartisan research and advocacy group based in Washington, …
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Past struggles lead to present hopes for others seeking sobriety
George and Angela Kalaras offer an addiction support group through LifeiLead on Thursday from 7 to 8 p.m. and a co-dependency support group on Saturdays at 10:30 a.m. Both groups meet at Riverside Community Church, 239 Columbia Ave., in Horsham. To …
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Forsyth County Drug Summit Set for Feb. 25
The overwhelming turnout for last year's Forsyth County Drug Summit prompted the founding of a local Drug Awareness Council to help steer teens away from drugs. A second Drug Summit will be held at 7 p.m. on … The Drug Awareness Council's goal is to …
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What it's like to be a sex addict
No satisfaction. It can be difficult to talk about sex addiction because men often think it sounds like a wonderful situation. Trust me, it isn't. … Luckily I was with a group of mates, who saw him off. Friends of Joanne's … When the drugs ran out …
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Question by Cesaria Barbarossa – 40K: How do you feel about Tiger and Jesse making infidelity an addiction problem that needs treatment, not scorn?
Also forgot Eric Benet, Halle Berry’s ex-husband who said he had a sex addiction and went ot treatment after cheating.

What do you think about this new trend that infidelity should be looked at as signs of an addiction that needs treatment. Does this give infidelity less of a stigma if it’s treated as a psychological problem, moreso than a problem of selfishness and lack of self-control?

Do you think this would fly in “real life?”

Best answer:

Answer by Caroline
Even though I was a psych major in college, I’d like to think I’m also a realist. Sex addiction, like alcoholism or drug addiction, may very well be a “condition” but I personally think no-one held a gun to Tiger’s head, he knew what he was doing, he certainly knew the possible consequences, and he CHOSE to do it anyway. And to me, a sex addict doesn’t create relationships, such as they are, like Tiger and Jesse did with their “other women”. So I think it’s complete BS. I feel sorry for the wives in all of those cases. I was cheated on by a boyfriend and it was totally humiliating so I can only imagine how Sandra, etc. feel because their humiliation is splashed all over the front page. Yea, they need treatment. With a Louisville Slugger. Jerks.

Answer by ♫ Mad Luv ♫
I think they should seek help for themselves I don’t think the act of doing that fixes anything tho.

Drug Rehabilitation Center Is Now Servicing the Hammocks, Florida, with …
Drug Rehabilitation Center is a drug and alcohol treatment center that provides a variety of custom drug addiction treatment programs and services for men, women and teens struggling with extreme chemical dependency issues. At the core of their …
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Opiate addiction, treatment on the rise in the valley
Aspen police continue to investigate the heroin overdose death of a woman in November 2012. “We did pick up some evidence from the scene,” said Linda Consuegra, Aspen assistant … Since opening in February, the Aspen detoxification unit of Mind …
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Leading Online Addiction Treatment Provider, Lionrock Recovery, Announces Its …
Real Time Recovery creates a 24/7 therapeutic experience for outpatient addiction treatment clients, integrating Lionrock's proprietary mobile Internet application and online video conferencing with individualized treatment plans to bring therapeutic …
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Desert Star Addiction Recovery Center looks at eating disorders
The center offers outpatient treatment programs for people who are affected by alcohol, drugs, gambling or sex addictions. The programs focus on helping people with their substance addiction as well as their mental health issues such as trauma, loss …
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