Sports agent Leigh Steinberg admits alcoholism led to bankruptcy
Chicago Sun-Times
I surrendered to the reality that I was an alcoholic and my behavior was impacting family and associates in March 2010. I surrendered to the concept that until I tackled alcoholism, other priorities needed to be put aside. ...
Our Shame: sex addiction is not a dirty secret
The Guardian
Alcoholism and drug addiction are now recognised worldwide as illnesses that can be treated. Sex addiction is different in only one respect; we can live as functioning healthy human beings without drugs and alcohol, but most of us need to engage in sex ...
The Guardian
Internet addiction changes brain similar to cocaine: Study
CBS News
A new brain scan study shows not only can that be the case, but also that internetaddiction might cause the same brain changes that are seen in alcoholics and drug addicts. For the study, published in the Jan. 11 issue of PLoS One, researchers studied...
Tragedy of the children condemned with drug addict parents
Daily Mail
By Anna Smith We don't know how long the toddler lay in the filthy squalor where he was abandoned by his heroin addict mother. We can only assume he died a lonely, hungry, agonisingly slow death amid the stinking piles of debris and drug paraphanelia, ...
Daily Mail
Barbara Kay: Free booze for alcoholics makes perfect logic, but no sense
National Post (blog)
“If it was possible to get every addict to quit,” says Dr Tim Stockwell, Director of the Centre for Addiction research of British Columbia, “then of course it would be cheaper, but that's simply not feasible.” He adds that the peer-drinking lounge idea ...
National Post (blog)
Having an alcoholic as a mother made me tough, says MP Flint
Evening Standard
"The problems in terms of my mum's alcoholism developed when I was 12 or 13," said Ms Flint. "It was tough for her and not always easy in my childhood. My grandparents retired to Fleetwood in Lancashire, so my mother and my brother and sister went back ...
Evening Standard
Will the Coalition get to grips with the state sponsored addiction it ...
Daily Mail
It is the pharmacy, not the doctor's surgery, that is the addict mother's first port of call in the morning, her baby and children in tow. Pharmacies might have sanitised addiction for doctors; but not for themselves. Unsurprisingly some chose to dole ...
Daily Mail
Cousins extends stay for drug addiction
sportsnewsfirst
By Kim Hagdorn FALLEN AFL star Ben Cousins looks set for a longer hospital stay than expected as he recovers from his latest drug addiction setback. Cousins, 33, is being treated for addiction to heroin and is understood to have needed to be revived ...
Study: Smartphone addiction a problem
UPI.com
CHESTER, England, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- Some people are so addicted to their smartphones they hear "phantom vibrations" because they are desperate to receive new messages, a British study has found. Smartphone addicts become obsessive about checking their ...
Endorphin study could aid alcoholism treatment
The Drinks Business
While helping to explain why alcohol can become so addictive, the findings also present an opportunity to aid researchers in developing more focused drug treatments for fighting alcoholism. Lead author Jennifer Mitchell, clinical project director at ...
The Drinks Business
Proof That Treating Addictions With Drugs Doesn't Work
Huffington Post
For some time, nicotine replacement therapy (nicotine patches and gum) has been the sine qua non of pharmacological treatment for addiction. NRT's pedigree is unassailable -- if smoking addiction is due entirely to maintaining cellular nicotine levels, ...
A Twitter addict, I had to detox from modern technology
The Guardian
I came back remembering what it was like to fully engage in one's own life, or fully disappear into a fictional one, rather than to be constantly interrupting mine or eavesdropping on everyone else's. Like so many of us, I'm still an addict, ...
The Guardian
Research and Markets: The Addiction Control Therapeutics Market is Forecast to ...
Bradenton Herald
GlobalData, the industry analysis specialist, has released its new report, AddictionControl Therapeutics - Pipeline Assessment and Market Forecasts to 2018. The report is an essential source of information and analysis on the global Addiction Control ...
A.G. Schneiderman urges state database to fight prescription drug fraud, addiction
The Journal News | LoHud.com
I'm not an addict.' That makes it much harder to help them.” Dr. Robert Marcus, director of the emergency department at Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco, said the state database could help his staff counter the growing problem they're ...
Gambling Addict Stole from Charity
MyFox Phoenix
PHOENIX - He's accused of stealing more than a million dollars meant to help families of Arizona soldiers serving overseas. Now, we are learning how he was able to do it. According to the Attorney General's Office, retired Colonel James Burnes was ...
Confessions Of a Sex Addict: The Breeches Of Leach's
TV Pixie
Talking on the topic of his sex addiction, Leach is breaking new ground that was only broken a few years before by Russell Brand - and he's also mining the subject for comedy with a smattering of success. Just as Russell Brand did before he hit the big ...
Chatroom addict had sex with girl, 13, court hears
gethampshire.co.uk
By Richard Pain A MAN who confessed to being addicted to internet chatrooms has been jailed for five years after admitting a series of sex offences against two young girls he met over the web. Liam Wood, from Farnborough, travelled 170 miles to meet a ...
Jarrod Bacon testifies to drug addiction during time of undercover operation
Aldergrove Star
Bacon testified that he was a drug addict and unstable at the time of the CFSEU operation. Bacon, who was out on bail and living at his parents' house in Abbotsford, admitted he would regularly breach his bail conditions out of indifference and in an ...
A heroin addict at the age of 65
Burton Mail
The solicitor told the court Storer had been able to finance his addictionusing his own money, and the substance abuse was linked to underlying 'emotional problems and depression'. The recovering addict was back before magistrates for sentencing after ...
Burton Mail
Internet Addiction Can Change Your Brain Like A Cocaine Addiction
By Adam Taylor
Chinese experts who have scanned the brains of 17 young internet addicts and found that their addiction is changing the way their brains function, the BBC reports. The teams'... Even if you think you are an addict, chances are you are not. ...
SAI
7 Things You Don't Realize About Addiction (Until You Quit ...
That my alcoholism is "over." As if I had completed all of the requirements to graduate from alcoholic to normalcy. And that's when I realized that it wasn't just my clinically insane boss who thought this. It was most people. No, I'm as much of an alcoholic right now as I was 10 years ago -- I just don't drink now. I don't blame people for ..... every single addict has the "why I'm not an addict" story just like every supervillian has a "Why I became a supervillian" story. I'm not saying you are an ...
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The Lancet: Addiction Series « Full Text Reports…
By fulltextreports
A three-part Series assesses the global public-health toll and policy implications of drugaddiction. The first paper summarises data for the prevalence and consequences of problem use of amphetamines, cannabis, cocaine, and opioids. ...
Full Text Reports...
Internet addiction disorder characterized by abnormal white matter ...
Internet addiction disorder may be associated with abnormal white matter structure in the brain, as reported in the Jan. 11 issue of the online journal PLoS ONE. These structural features may be linked to behavioral impairments, and may also ...
Medical Xpress - latest medical...
Jerry Maguire Leigh Steinberg: I'm a Recovering Alcoholic and I'm ...
By Jason McIntyre
I am responsible for my own addiction — no one forced me to drink — and in revealing my struggle with alcoholism, I am in no way justifying or excusing my circumstance. But I discuss it to provide context as well as understanding and ...
The Big Lead
Philosophy and Addiction - NYTimes.com
Can Plato's allegory of the cave shed light on the condition of addiction? ... Addiction,alcoholism, Philosophy, Plato, Socrates ... I am a philosopher, yes, but I am also analcoholic who has been sober for more than 24 .... Each time the addict makes a promise to cut down or stop but does not, the chains get more constricting. ...
opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/.../out-of-the-cave-philosophy-...
Series - TheLancet.com
A three-part Series assesses the global public-health toll and policy implications of drugaddiction. The first paper summarises data for the prevalence and ...
www.thelancet.com/series/addiction
Gambling addiction | BMJ
This man struggled with a gambling addiction for some years before ... As a child I spent a lot of time at a working man's club where my alcoholic father took my ...
www.bmj.com/content/343/bmj.d7789
Coping with sex addiction - Telegraph
Sex addiction is not just for the stars: it's a real problem for real people. Michael Fassbender plays a sex addict in 'Shame', alongside Carey Mulligan who plays ...
www.telegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/.../Coping-with-sex-addiction.ht...
Alcoholic Matt Maden, 26, who needs a new liver sits by the phone ...
Alcoholism is a dreadful disease. I do not drink, yet my younger sister is an alcoholic. She gets through about 5 or 6 bottles of vodka a week. - Millie6, West ...
www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Alcoholic-Matt-Maden-26-needs-new...
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Chicago Sun-Times
I surrendered to the reality that I was an alcoholic and my behavior was impacting family and associates in March 2010. I surrendered to the concept that until I tackled alcoholism, other priorities needed to be put aside. ...
Our Shame: sex addiction is not a dirty secret
The Guardian
Alcoholism and drug addiction are now recognised worldwide as illnesses that can be treated. Sex addiction is different in only one respect; we can live as functioning healthy human beings without drugs and alcohol, but most of us need to engage in sex ...
The Guardian
Internet addiction changes brain similar to cocaine: Study
CBS News
A new brain scan study shows not only can that be the case, but also that internetaddiction might cause the same brain changes that are seen in alcoholics and drug addicts. For the study, published in the Jan. 11 issue of PLoS One, researchers studied...
Tragedy of the children condemned with drug addict parents
Daily Mail
By Anna Smith We don't know how long the toddler lay in the filthy squalor where he was abandoned by his heroin addict mother. We can only assume he died a lonely, hungry, agonisingly slow death amid the stinking piles of debris and drug paraphanelia, ...
Daily Mail
Barbara Kay: Free booze for alcoholics makes perfect logic, but no sense
National Post (blog)
“If it was possible to get every addict to quit,” says Dr Tim Stockwell, Director of the Centre for Addiction research of British Columbia, “then of course it would be cheaper, but that's simply not feasible.” He adds that the peer-drinking lounge idea ...
National Post (blog)
Having an alcoholic as a mother made me tough, says MP Flint
Evening Standard
"The problems in terms of my mum's alcoholism developed when I was 12 or 13," said Ms Flint. "It was tough for her and not always easy in my childhood. My grandparents retired to Fleetwood in Lancashire, so my mother and my brother and sister went back ...
Evening Standard
Will the Coalition get to grips with the state sponsored addiction it ...
Daily Mail
It is the pharmacy, not the doctor's surgery, that is the addict mother's first port of call in the morning, her baby and children in tow. Pharmacies might have sanitised addiction for doctors; but not for themselves. Unsurprisingly some chose to dole ...
Daily Mail
Cousins extends stay for drug addiction
sportsnewsfirst
By Kim Hagdorn FALLEN AFL star Ben Cousins looks set for a longer hospital stay than expected as he recovers from his latest drug addiction setback. Cousins, 33, is being treated for addiction to heroin and is understood to have needed to be revived ...
Study: Smartphone addiction a problem
UPI.com
CHESTER, England, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- Some people are so addicted to their smartphones they hear "phantom vibrations" because they are desperate to receive new messages, a British study has found. Smartphone addicts become obsessive about checking their ...
Endorphin study could aid alcoholism treatment
The Drinks Business
While helping to explain why alcohol can become so addictive, the findings also present an opportunity to aid researchers in developing more focused drug treatments for fighting alcoholism. Lead author Jennifer Mitchell, clinical project director at ...
The Drinks Business
Proof That Treating Addictions With Drugs Doesn't Work
Huffington Post
For some time, nicotine replacement therapy (nicotine patches and gum) has been the sine qua non of pharmacological treatment for addiction. NRT's pedigree is unassailable -- if smoking addiction is due entirely to maintaining cellular nicotine levels, ...
A Twitter addict, I had to detox from modern technology
The Guardian
I came back remembering what it was like to fully engage in one's own life, or fully disappear into a fictional one, rather than to be constantly interrupting mine or eavesdropping on everyone else's. Like so many of us, I'm still an addict, ...
The Guardian
Research and Markets: The Addiction Control Therapeutics Market is Forecast to ...
Bradenton Herald
GlobalData, the industry analysis specialist, has released its new report, AddictionControl Therapeutics - Pipeline Assessment and Market Forecasts to 2018. The report is an essential source of information and analysis on the global Addiction Control ...
A.G. Schneiderman urges state database to fight prescription drug fraud, addiction
The Journal News | LoHud.com
I'm not an addict.' That makes it much harder to help them.” Dr. Robert Marcus, director of the emergency department at Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco, said the state database could help his staff counter the growing problem they're ...
Gambling Addict Stole from Charity
MyFox Phoenix
PHOENIX - He's accused of stealing more than a million dollars meant to help families of Arizona soldiers serving overseas. Now, we are learning how he was able to do it. According to the Attorney General's Office, retired Colonel James Burnes was ...
Confessions Of a Sex Addict: The Breeches Of Leach's
TV Pixie
Talking on the topic of his sex addiction, Leach is breaking new ground that was only broken a few years before by Russell Brand - and he's also mining the subject for comedy with a smattering of success. Just as Russell Brand did before he hit the big ...
Chatroom addict had sex with girl, 13, court hears
gethampshire.co.uk
By Richard Pain A MAN who confessed to being addicted to internet chatrooms has been jailed for five years after admitting a series of sex offences against two young girls he met over the web. Liam Wood, from Farnborough, travelled 170 miles to meet a ...
Jarrod Bacon testifies to drug addiction during time of undercover operation
Aldergrove Star
Bacon testified that he was a drug addict and unstable at the time of the CFSEU operation. Bacon, who was out on bail and living at his parents' house in Abbotsford, admitted he would regularly breach his bail conditions out of indifference and in an ...
A heroin addict at the age of 65
Burton Mail
The solicitor told the court Storer had been able to finance his addictionusing his own money, and the substance abuse was linked to underlying 'emotional problems and depression'. The recovering addict was back before magistrates for sentencing after ...
Burton Mail
Internet Addiction Can Change Your Brain Like A Cocaine Addiction
By Adam Taylor
Chinese experts who have scanned the brains of 17 young internet addicts and found that their addiction is changing the way their brains function, the BBC reports. The teams'... Even if you think you are an addict, chances are you are not. ...
SAI
7 Things You Don't Realize About Addiction (Until You Quit ...
That my alcoholism is "over." As if I had completed all of the requirements to graduate from alcoholic to normalcy. And that's when I realized that it wasn't just my clinically insane boss who thought this. It was most people. No, I'm as much of an alcoholic right now as I was 10 years ago -- I just don't drink now. I don't blame people for ..... every single addict has the "why I'm not an addict" story just like every supervillian has a "Why I became a supervillian" story. I'm not saying you are an ...
Cracked: All Posts
The Lancet: Addiction Series « Full Text Reports…
By fulltextreports
A three-part Series assesses the global public-health toll and policy implications of drugaddiction. The first paper summarises data for the prevalence and consequences of problem use of amphetamines, cannabis, cocaine, and opioids. ...
Full Text Reports...
Internet addiction disorder characterized by abnormal white matter ...
Internet addiction disorder may be associated with abnormal white matter structure in the brain, as reported in the Jan. 11 issue of the online journal PLoS ONE. These structural features may be linked to behavioral impairments, and may also ...
Medical Xpress - latest medical...
Jerry Maguire Leigh Steinberg: I'm a Recovering Alcoholic and I'm ...
By Jason McIntyre
I am responsible for my own addiction — no one forced me to drink — and in revealing my struggle with alcoholism, I am in no way justifying or excusing my circumstance. But I discuss it to provide context as well as understanding and ...
The Big Lead
Philosophy and Addiction - NYTimes.com
Can Plato's allegory of the cave shed light on the condition of addiction? ... Addiction,alcoholism, Philosophy, Plato, Socrates ... I am a philosopher, yes, but I am also analcoholic who has been sober for more than 24 .... Each time the addict makes a promise to cut down or stop but does not, the chains get more constricting. ...
opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/.../out-of-the-cave-philosophy-...
Series - TheLancet.com
A three-part Series assesses the global public-health toll and policy implications of drugaddiction. The first paper summarises data for the prevalence and ...
www.thelancet.com/series/addiction
Gambling addiction | BMJ
This man struggled with a gambling addiction for some years before ... As a child I spent a lot of time at a working man's club where my alcoholic father took my ...
www.bmj.com/content/343/bmj.d7789
Coping with sex addiction - Telegraph
Sex addiction is not just for the stars: it's a real problem for real people. Michael Fassbender plays a sex addict in 'Shame', alongside Carey Mulligan who plays ...
www.telegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/.../Coping-with-sex-addiction.ht...
Alcoholic Matt Maden, 26, who needs a new liver sits by the phone ...
Alcoholism is a dreadful disease. I do not drink, yet my younger sister is an alcoholic. She gets through about 5 or 6 bottles of vodka a week. - Millie6, West ...
www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Alcoholic-Matt-Maden-26-needs-new...
The Way Out
