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Out of the many resources on the internet today there is a lack of help for those of us who are in a relationship where both people are recovering from an addiction. Addiction is a devastating, insidious and incurable disease that affects people from all walks of life. From the…
It has been debated whether or not pornography can be categorized as an addiction. In my experience, I could tell you that it is. There are many people in this world, including myself, who's life has been negatively influenced by porn. There are many who desire to be clean of…
Smoking is the cause of the most deaths in the USA than any other disease. Millions of people, young as well as old are affected by this dangerous scourge. But, what is smoking? It can be defined as the habit of burning, inhaling, and exhaling the smoke of tobacco or…
We all know that the first step in any recovery program is to rid our bodies of all drugs including alcohol. In other words it means to become clean and sober. It is often a huge decision for a drug addict/alcoholic. First and foremost you must have reached a place…
No one treatment option is suitable for all cocaine users. Often it takes a combination of several options for some, and yet some can kick the habit with only one way. Any chemical dependence is a complex problem unique to each user. The reasons why anyone starts, is as many…
I just read an article that talks about all the conflicts of interest that are involved when it comes to the facts of alcoholism. The number of people and organizations that benefit from this disease is astounding. The amount of money that these people make is even more astounding. So…
The key element to sobriety is happiness. What makes you happy. People say that getting clean and sober is the easy part, but staying sober is the hard part. Find positive support that understands the importance of staying clean. Choose activities that make you feel good and boost your self-esteem…
I have experience it firsthand. Returning home from a thirty day treatment program I was thankfully greeted by loving and supportive family members. Feeling like a totally new person I faced my friends who are not addicts with the same excitement only to find them either lost for words or…
Figuring out the best ways to quit smoking is going to be different for everyone trying to kick the cigarette habit. When I attempted it I tried several methods, and it took me many attempts to figure out which one would work for me. Below are the 5 best methods…
Let me count the ways to quit smoking. Sounds like a line from Shakespeare, yet here you are researching it on the internet. No doubt you have tried to quit on your own. Yeah! The cold turkey method! I’ll just smoke one less each day until I’m not smoking any…
As the title of this article suggests, there are things to help you stop smoking. But since the term "things" is a little ambiguous, let me be a little more specific.
Everyone is different. We all have different likes and dislikes. We were all raised different. Some of us have…
A 3 am start to my day found an article from my favourite Author “My Truth About Drinking” it said, kick, direct to the groin. The thought that she had a drinking problem nearly had me switch off the computer. I lost 2000 words of technical writing yesterday from a…
When you try to break a bad habit such as an addiction to nicotine, to alcohol or to other drugs you will face relapses. Learn how to deal with them differently in order to really overcome your addiction.
Do you remember how you learned things in the past?
Whenever you…
The idea of virtual reality therapy is to make addicts crave of their own addiction and then have them decide not to use the addictive substance.
Virtual reality therapy is a kind of treatment that utilizes virtual reality technology to simulate real life experiences. It is used to cure phobias…
Many people need help for prescription drug addiction. This can be from various opiate drugs one that I am well aware of is that many folks are abusing the prescription medication percocet which is highly addictive so with this being said, if you think you may have a percocet addiction…
by Jonathan M. King.
Regarding the crash of 2008, Goldman Sachs was there again. They put together packages called Collateral Debt Obligations- these were merely bundles of dodgy subprime loans, loans constructed in much the same way as the Greek scenario but with housing mortgages in the States. These CDO’s…
Life is hard.
You’ve probably heard this phrase, and thought it yourself, countless times throughout life.
For example…
When you were a child, crying over something seemingly unfair that transpired between you and a friend...
When you spent hours, upon hours, diligently studying (every day) during a semester, only to…
Addiction is defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary as a "quality or state of being addicted" and also as the "compulsive need for and use of a habit-forming substance" that is also characterized by "tolerance and well-defined physiological symptoms upon withdrawal." It is a constant and persistent use of substances or…
by Jonathan M. King. PART 3
Fresco: "Meaningful tasks create the incentive, we need to move away from monetary orientated incentive to problem solving incentive. Survey what we have, what we need and how to create it. An example: Money power and borders often cause us to mine resources on…
If you are a smoker, you know very well that your lungs are awfully gummed up. You wake up in the morning and can hardly breath. You try to take a deep breath and you can feel the pain and it tightens you up.
You get as much air into…
So you've got to quit smoking, but it's easier said than done right? What if you could still smoke and not be exposed to the harmful chemicals contained in tobacco cigarettes and not just you but the people around you--Sounds impossible right? There is now an alternative that looks and…
Mostly, people are getting ashamed of being a substance dependent. Friends and other family members sometimes tend to hide their issues with their abusive using of illegal substances from the outside world. This is a common response because of the fear that what might happen to them if the people…
Escapism and I met about a month ago, or so I thought. It turned out that we met long before, years before, and we’ve been dating ever since. I also found out that he’s been cheating on me…with you. Escapism is the avoidance of reality by absorption of the mind…
Hey ya’ll, my name is Zack and I was in your very position once upon a time. I continuously looked at my pack of cigarettes and thought, “I want to quit, no I need to quit, but at this rate when will I quit”. Well check it out. I found…
by Jonathan M. King. PART 3
Why fight, when we can direct our energy in a more productive fashion? The more positive initiatives grow and our dependency on the outdated structure diminishes the less power and hold destructive elements have. The destructive elements in our civilization are already a minority,…
I was once a prolific smoker. I’m not proud of the fact, but I was I gave up several times and then I started again. I did this over a period of about twenty years and at the worst I smoked nearly 100 a day. I haven’t smoked for more…
As the name implies, this is basically just an artificial cigarette that runs on electricity. At the time of this writing there is a lot of controversy surrounding these handy little devices and I will address this in a little more detail later. To answer the question, "What is an…
"My name is Chris, and I'm an alcoholic." How many "speaker meetings" of Alcoholics Anonymous I opened with that introductory line to proceed and share my "experience, strength and hope" with fellow alcoholics and their significant others who worked the "other side of fence," or Al-Anon.
My first "leads" at…
When a loved one is an addict and needs drug treatment there are many things that you can do in order to be loving and supportive while they undergo treatment and even afterwards. It is important that those suffering from alcohol or substance abuse have support networks that are positive,…
There are different kinds of emotions that go with any painful experience in life. Part of recovering from any kind of addiction is accepting that going through these emotions will happen. Once in recovery, most addicts are having difficulties in handling their emotions. If you are a loved one, you…
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