addiction

Addiction is recognized as a disease by most major health authorities. The primary symptom is loss of control over the use of one or more addictive drugs, including alcohol. Treatment consists of counseling and new prescription medications designed to bring about abstinence. Older methods like Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) are still successful for many.

There are hundreds of blogs devoted to treatment and recovery. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), more than 23 million Americans seek treatment each year for illicit drug or alcohol use.

Common drugs of abuse — in addition to alcohol — include heroin, cocaine, marijuana, methamphetamine, and nicotine. Detoxification and withdrawal can last for weeks or months, and relapse is common.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “addiction”

 

• Radcliffe, peoples confidant in pubs

  
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  London, May 21: Actor Daniel Radcliffe, who battled alcohol addiction once, says he often comes across drunk people who are comfortable sharing their problems with him.
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• Addiction gypsies steal your brain.

  
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  The addiction gypsies sneak up behind the focused, recovering addict.   The Victoria & Albert Museum You know that "follow the cup" game where you mentally track a concealed ball being shuffled around by a Fagin-ey hustler? And as you stand there tracking the ball, his two gypsy kids sneak up, saw the ...
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• The Florida House is an Exceptional Gender-Specific Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facility

  
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  The Florida House is licensed by the State of Florida’s Department of Children and Families (DCF) to treat people that are either addicted to drugs or alcohol. They accept patients that are covered by most make insurances companies and over the years they have successfully help 1,000′s of people to kick their ...
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• Recovery without God

  
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   A recent study performed by Harvard University’s McLean Hospital concludes that “faith in God positively influences treatment for individuals with psychiatric illness.”The McLean Hospital study “followed patients receiving care from a hospital-based behavioral health program to investigate the relationship ...
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• The Florida House is an Exceptional Gender-Specific Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facility

  
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  The Florida House is licensed by the State of Florida’s Department of Children and Families (DCF) to treat people that are either addicted to drugs or alcohol. They accept patients that are covered by most make insurances companies and over the years they have successfully help 1,000′s of people to kick their ...
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• The Florida House is an Exceptional Gender-Specific Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facility

  
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  The Florida House is licensed by the State of Florida’s Department of Children and Families (DCF) to treat people that are either addicted to drugs or alcohol. They accept patients that are covered by most make insurances companies and over the years they have successfully help 1,000′s of people to kick their ...
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• Toddler Clothing: Recommendations from an Experienced Shop-a-holic!

  
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  Do you have a shopping addiction?  I sure do!  Before I had my first child, Alivia, it was a handbag and shoe addiction.  Now that I have Alivia, its an addiction to little girls clothing!  The beautiful colors, enticing trims, fun prints, and soft fabrics always seem to call my name when I walk by.  And because ...
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• Help Shatter the Shame of Addiction | Share the Facts

  
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  It’s time. We must band together to Shatter the Shame of Addiction, and here’s why… It is estimated that over 23 million Americans struggle with addiction, yet fewer than 10 percent are getting treatment. By comparison, cancer prevalence for all types of cancers [which is the term used by the American Cancer ...
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• I feel like my Alcohol partner is destroying our family

  
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  Hi everyone, this is my first post and I so need some advice by people who are not involved in my everyday life. I will try keep this as simple as possible...... Im 29 and my partner is 30, we have been together nearly 12 years and have two children aged 5 and 6. My OH has always been a drinker, and a smoker. ...
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• Heavy Drinking and Smoking Linked to Early Brain Aging

  
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  New research suggests chronic smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, and increasing age are all associated with increased oxidative damage to brain tissue. Experts say the study is the first to look at the effects of smoking and age on neurocognition in people seeking treatment for alcohol dependency. Researchers ...
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• Addiction Take 2

  
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  A fantabulous morning all and welcome to Monday. Friday I spoke about addiction and it is so true in my case. It seems to be so in some of you as well. Thank you for chiming in via comments and emails. So tell me this, given this choice in front of you….which would you choose? This time last year I ...
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• Internet Addiction – Pros and Cons

  
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  We all spend a lot of time surfing the web. It can simplify finding things, getting information from trusted sources, and where your kids are concerned it helps with education, completing their school work, performing research, accessing tutoring and study clubs and connecting with school study partners online. There ...
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• Retro Report: Revisiting the ‘Crack Babies’ Epidemic That Was Not

  
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  This Retro Report video lays out how limited scientific studies in the 1980s led to predictions that a generation of children would be damaged for life. Those predictions turned out to be wrong.        
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• Childhood ADHD Linked to Obesity in Adulthood

  
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  Identification and treatment issues surrounding attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are challenging enough. Now research is shedding light on long-term outcomes for people with ADHD. A recent study in Pediatrics reports that men who had ADHD in childhood are twice as likely to be obese in middle age, ...
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• #this: No matter where you go, tweet yourself right

  
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    All good things must come to an end. Apparently, all mediocre things must as well. Yes friends, family and five other assorted readers, this is the last #this that shall grace the oversized pages of the Daily Titan. As I write this, with Facebook and Twitter open in adjacent tabs and Pandora blasting the very ...
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• ALBUM REVIEW: The Unified Field

  
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  Courtesy of MCT With an “X” tattooed across his chest, long goth-like hair and theatrical face makeup, you might think Chris Corner is a hybrid of Marilyn Manson and David Bowie. However, with the release of five successful albums the Brit-pop artist has created a sound all his own. Upbeat electro-dance beats ...
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• Injustice: Gods Among Us Review | Analog Addiction

  
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  Analog Addiction writes, "Injustice: Gods Among Us allows gamers to finally get the answers to a question we are always asking; What would happen if you took a bunch of DC heroes and villains, and put them in a fighting game with a story?"
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• Grieve loss of person he was before alcohol

  
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  Ive been with my husband for 19 years, we met at 17. He told me how angry he was at his dad for abandoning his family due to drinking. We had such a friendship, talking all the time, we watched lifetime movies together, he made me laugh, just were there for each other. My mom had a mental illness and I could relate to ...
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• Grrr... frustrated with hubby again

  
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  Just venting here.... Wed night... hubby goes to his sis-in-laws to spend some time with her, since her husband is in other state, and he promised to keep an eye on things. (They have grown daughter & grandson living with them recently again.. along with daughters boyfriend. -He can be an emotional time-bomb ...
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• From the Archives: Have Americans Become Afraid of Their Doctors?

  
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  Noncompliance and the paranoid style. [Originally published June 27, 2007] Note: In the everlasting battle between consumers and Big Pharma, amid a string of recent exposes concerning whose doctor took what payment under which table, I am republishing an essay I wrote several years ago, in which I ...
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