Addiction

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How Habits Can Make Or Break Us

Russell Poldrack | Posted 11.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Addiction, Brain Research, Habits, Addiction & Recovery, Neuroscience, The Balanced Life, Brain, Living News

The persistence of habits can be a blessing or a curse. By knowing more about where habits come from and how they develop, we can learn to manage their impact in our daily lives.

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The Great American Smokeout 2009: Tell Us Why You Quit Smoking Or Reasons People Should

Posted 11.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Addiction, Smokeout 2009, Great American Smokeout 2009, Slidepoll, Quit Smoking, Living News

Today marks The Great American Smokeout of 2009. The annual campaign led by the American Cancer Society asks U.S. citizens to stop smoking. Smoking--...

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Smoking Is Down, But Not By Much

nytimes.com | Roni Caryn Rabin | Posted 11.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Addiction, Living News

One in five Americans smoked last year, down from almost one in four a decade earlier. But the declines in smoking have recently stalled, with virtual...

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Internet Addiction: Dealing With Withdrawal

nytimes.com | Wyatt Mason | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Addiction, Internet, Recovery, Addiction & Recover, Internet Addiction, Email, E-Mail, Travel, Technology, World Wide Web, Wi-Fi, Withdrawal, Unplug and Recharge, Living News

Shortly after my girlfriend and I decided to rent a New Hampshire summer house together in 2007, we made a vexing discovery: Internet access wasn't go...

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Women Should Not Examine Their Breasts For Lumps

Stanton Peele | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Breast Self-Examination, American Cancer Society, Women's Health, Childhood Vaccinations, Addiction, Legalizing Drugs, Breast Cancer, Disease of Addiction, United-States-Preventive-Services-Task, Living News

All of this reverses years of well-intended advice and public health information, proving once again that health information and advice is a matter of competing social and political forces.

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Holiday Cheer: Not Always So Cheerful

David Finkle | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Bhutan King Jigme Singye Wangchuck, New Year's Eve, Halloween, Easter, National Holidays, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Addiction, Valentine's Day, Facebook Gross National Happiness Index, 12-Step Recovery Groups, Fourth of July, Living News

Denying wide-spread downbeat feelings as the year's festivities loom can be problematic, as sufferers will only feel more removed from the general jubilation.

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AA: The Magic Of Bill Wilson

Jeff Witzeman | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Religion, Recovery, Depression, 12 Steps, Twelve Steps, Ego, Addiction, Bill Wilson, Psychology, Aa, Withdrawal, Addiction & Recovery, Carl Jung, Alcoholics Anonymous, Faith, Spirituality, Living News

Many know Bill Wilson as the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, but few realize his brilliance as it relates to healing the human condition, alcoholic or not.

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Addiction: Holidays Are A Time To Secure Boundaries

Carole Bennett | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Addiction & Recovery, Alcoholic, Addiction, Drug Addiction, Drugs, Alcoholism, Drug Addict, Living News

No matter how you view the holidays, there is added pressure and anxiety if you want your loved one to be part of the picture but they are struggling with a substance abuse issue.

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Food Addiction: Similar To Drug Dependency?

Psych Central News | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Addiction, Living News

Researchers have discovered irregular eating of foods rich in fat and sugar can cause changes in the brain comparable to those observed in drug depend...

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Dianne Schuler: When Denial Costs Lives

Dr. Tian Dayton | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Addiction, Psychology, Addiction & Recovery, Mental Health, Codependency, Dianne Schuler, Addiction & Recovery, Parenting, Living News

Denial is a dangerous thing, it can leave families shattered and broken, make perfectly good lives sail off track and in the case of Dianne Schuler, it can be the direct cause of eight deaths.

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Andre Agassi's "Open": Meth, Bitterness, And Bad Hair (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 11.09.2009 | Books

Andre Agassi's new memoir, Open, out today, has been causing a stir because of major revelations in the book -- that Agassi used crystal meth regular...

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Cocaethylene Studied: Cocaine, Alcohol Mix To Create Toxic 3rd Chemical

The Observer | Jamie Doward | Posted 11.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Uk, Social Drinking, Beer, Addiction, Liver, Drugs, Coke, Heart Problems, Liquor, Social Drug Use, Cocaethylene, Health, Alcohol, Wine, Us, Medicine, Heart Failure, Cocaine, Living News

Drug addiction clinics say they are becoming increasingly concerned by the health risks associated with the chemical -- the only known example of the ...

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Really Special Education: State Investigation Confirms "Lap Dance Therapy" Allegations

Maia Szalavitz | Posted 11.04.2009 | Living

Read More: Supreme Court, Taxes, Expensive Lap Dances, Education, Add, Disabilities, Teens, Addiction, Treatment, Mount Bachelor Academy, Drugs, Troubled Teens, Living News

A series of investigations could spell the beginning of the end for the billion dollar, taxpayer funded troubled teen industry.

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The Addict's Recovery Process - Steps In Rebuilding TRUST

Carole Bennett | Posted 11.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Addiction, Drug Addiction, Addiction & Recovery, Alcoholics Anonymous, Alcoholism, Living News

An enormous part of your loved one's recovery process and progress is built around them starting to pull themselves up by their own boot straps.

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Is Junk Food As Addictive As Heroin?

Grist | Posted 10.31.2009 | Green

Read More: Addiction, Heroin, Obesity, Junk Food, Food Politics, Green News

With the rumors swirling that Michelle Obama is a big fan of former FDA Commissioner David Kessler's new book The End of Overeating, it seems reasonab...

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Cigarette-Crushing Computer Game Helps Smokers Quit, Study Shows

technologyreview.com | Posted 10.30.2009 | Technology

Read More: Games, Stop Smoking, Virtual Reality, Smokers, Smoking, Computer Game Smoking, Addiction, Cigarette, Quit Smoking, Virtual Reality Smoking, Video Games, Quit Cigarettes, Technology News

Smokers who regularly play a computer game that involves crushing virtual cigarettes could have a better chance of kicking the habit. At least, that's...

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Why Millions Of Brains Love (And Hate) Twitter

Psychology Today | Posted 10.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Addiction, Living News

Current conditions are making Twitter grow all by itself, from nothing to something like six million users in a very short time. Here are my thoughts ...

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Hooked on Fame: Balloon Boy's Dad Isn't the Only Publicity Junkie

BJ Gallagher | Posted 10.24.2009 | Media

Read More: Addiction, Balloon Boy, Richard Heene, Jesse Jackson, Recovery, Fame Addict, Glen Beck, Jon Gosselin, Sarah Palin, Media News

Fame is like alcohol. Some people can handle it and others can't.

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Battling Addiction With Those Who Know It Best

nytimes.com | ERIK ECKHOLM | Posted 10.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Addiction, Living News

The new emphasis in treatment on wide-ranging, long-term support tailored to individual needs appears to be a promising advance in a field of limited ...

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Stiletto Stoners: Is Their Habit Really Harmless?

Deni Carise | Posted 10.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Stress, Deni Carise, Multitasking, Recovery, Matt Lauer, Marijuana, Addiction and Recovery, Addiction, Marie Claire, Anxiety, Relaxation, Weed, Living News

In today's society, so many of us work like dogs. When it comes to winding down, we want instant gratification. So, I wasn't surprised that more and more career women end the day with a few hits of pot.

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The Facebook Other Woman and the Social Networking Casanova: An Old Story, a New Addiction

Ester Amy Fischer | Posted 10.22.2009 | Style

Read More: Infidelity, Extramarital Affair, Virtual Reality, Cheater, Facebook, Relationships, Social Networking, Internet Addiction, Married Men, Addiction, Facebook Affair, Online Relationships, Style News

What happened to me is that I both fell in love and had my heart broken on Facebook. On Facebook. With someone I'd never met.

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Paul Mason: World's Fattest Man Weighs 980 Pounds

Daily Mail | Posted 10.20.2009 | Living

Read More: World's Heaviest Man, Addiction, Paul Mason, 980 Pound Man, Compulsive Overeating, Living News

The world's heaviest man has been warned that he has just months to live unless he loses weight, it was revealed today. Paul Mason, 48, who weighs 70 ...

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The Growing Problem of Adolescent Addiction: NYC Wants to Create a "Recovery High School"

Dr. Tian Dayton | Posted 10.16.2009 | New York

Read More: Teens-and-Drugs, Addiction, Preteens-and-Teens-Eating-Disorder-Prevention, Recovery High Schools, Psychiatry, New York City, New York News

97% of seniors who are enrolled in "recovery high schools" graduate. And they graduate sober.

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Drugs: Losing the Longest War

Michael Kaplan | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Durgs, Marijuana, Los Zetas, War, Addiction, Failure, Policy, Methamphetamine, Cocaine, Politics News

On October 14, 1982, President Ronald Reagan declared war on drugs ... again. There have been one or two conflicts in human history that lasted longer -- though we'd better win this before 2012, or we'll find ourselves alone in a league with the Hundred Years' War.

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Is Relapse Part Of Recovery?

Carole Bennett | Posted 10.15.2009 | Living

Read More: Addiction, Alcoholic, Drugs, Recovery, Substance Abuse, Addiction & Recovery, Drug Addict, Alcoholism, Living News

Relapse is common when the alcoholic/addict has not had enough recovery under their belt through 12-step meetings, sponsorship, counseling or their own personal determination to rely on an arsenal of "tools" to ward off the relapse demon.

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