Sentences with phrase «as an addiction in»

But Trevor Robbins, a behavioral neuroscientist at the University of Cambridge in England, says that while severe binge eating might be considered an addiction - like behavior, «you can't consider food as an addiction in general.

Not exact matches

Each time the BCRA has been modified to meet moderates» demands — say, by adding far more money to tackle the opioid addiction crisis, as the latest draft does — some other provision upsets the right - wing (such as the investment income taxes which affect the wealthy that are now being kept in the bill).

That's already a major barrier to people seeking treatment in the first place (as is a dearth of affordable treatment options); but it can be magnified by a conviction and incarceration, which exacerbate a vicious cycle of lackluster employment opportunities, social exclusion, and continued crime and addiction.

As one of the backers of Fed Up, a documentary about our growing addiction to sweet, processed foods, she's taken a stand on sugar (in her stores, she's banned treats from the checkout aisle).

Since opioid painkillers slow breathing and act on the same brain systems as heroin, they carry serious risks of overdose and, in rarer cases, addiction.

However, the issue of phone addiction among young people has become a growing concern in the United States as parents report their children can not give up their phones.

Will governments, investors and green - minded consumers, who put their faith in the sun's power to help wean us off our fossil - fuel addiction, back away from another technology that promised too much — in jobs and profits as much as in renewable energy — and failed to deliver?

Quick meets a young man who attributes his recovery from an opioid addiction in part to Buffett's principles of ethics and integrity, and profiles NFL superstar Ndamukong Suh, who has been mentored by Buffett as he pursues business interests he hopes will carry him beyond his pro football career.

Social media has been classified as addictive by experts, and there are even customized programs in addiction facilities to treat it.

Choonsung Shin, a Korean technology researcher who has examined problematic smartphone usage in both Korea and the U.S., says cultural differences could affect smartphone addiction rates, but he notes that factors such as a person's age, gender and occupation are also likely to play a role.

This addiction also got me involved with website design as I was interested in the Internet and how it worked.

Combining her barre addiction with 15 + years of experience in corporation communications / public relations, management experience at lululemon athletica, her role as an accomplished runner on Dave's Running Shop's Racing Team and her love for the Toledo community (founding member of LoveLettersToToledo.com), Mo is thrilled to share her Pure Barre love with Northwest Ohio at two studios — Pure Barre Toledo and Pure Barre Perrysburg.

These seemingly harmless customer services are being used as currency in an unlikely and dangerous economy that is supporting the drug habits of people who suffer from opioid addiction.

When I asked about the controversies that Facebook is currently embroiled in (Russia meddling, out - of - control ad platform, data abuse by third - party developers, tech addiction), Cook called out advertising - based business as problematic.

Horgan tasked Robinson, the MLA for Coquitlam - Maillardville, with responsibility for mental health and addictions, in addition to her current role as spokesperson for seniors and local government.

Lawmakers in more than a dozen states have proposed taxing prescription painkillers as a way to hold drugmakers accountable for the nation's opioid addiction and overdose crisis.

It works in the same way as a porn addiction to create erectile dysfunction and loss of arousal.

«Our culture's sexual freedom is more accurately described as sexual addiction,» says West, who was working this out in practice during his formative university years.

The most common addiction among spiritual leaders is pornography, although substance abuse is just as gripping in its occurrences.

Pastor Mike Wilkerson of Mars Hill Church in Seattle says it best: «Shame is often both the consequence of giving in to an addiction the last time, as well as the precondition for giving in to it next time, resulting in more shame.»

There is a confidence — from those who have been delivered from drug addiction to those who grew up in the county with our proverbial silver spoons — that the present reality and its attendant despair will not always define our neighborhood, and that as we trust in Christ individually, that transformation radiates outwards in service and love to others.

They use Christian teaching and other therapeutic programmes as well as taking part in work around the house they stay in to help residents break free from their addictions.

In addiction, as in more mainstream endeavors, the lords of hedonism are the slaves of moneIn addiction, as in more mainstream endeavors, the lords of hedonism are the slaves of monein more mainstream endeavors, the lords of hedonism are the slaves of money.

If there is a sense in which addiction can be called a disease, it might be as the «disease of modernity,» a symptom of humanity's escalating disenchantment with authority, especially divine authority.

Besides, if you want to reduce religion to social work, there's a religious group in Afghanistan that provides counseling and mediation services for people in rural areas, as well as free treatment for people struggling with drug addiction.

For nearly twenty years, she's been in private practice as a marriage and family therapist in Newport Beach, California, and is a Certified Clinical Partner Specialist (CCPS) and Certified Sex Addiction Therapist (CSAT).

Although country legend Johnny Cash's most famous album was recorded for a captive crowd at Folsom Prison in 1968, simultaneously signaling his pop culture comeback after years lost in addiction and the rise of the live album as a serious piece of art, Live from San Quentin is a stronger album.

In my experience, I didn't have sickness or addiction as society perceives them to be but I was infected with the virus of perfectionism and addicted to achievement.

She first excavates the roots of our corporate heartlessness» in our culture's disordered desires — what she describes as our culture's «addiction to consumerism,» its «idolatry of money» and its «massive failure of compassion» for other creatures and the earth.

But its validity was suggested as early as 1969, when a Gallup Poll revealed that 58 percent of all Americans had never finished reading a book other than a textbook or the Bible, and only 26 percent had read a book in the previous month.24 One reason for this near - illiteracy is America's addiction to television.

I believe this becomes a different matter and can, in certain circumstances, not be a problem if it is used as an occasional release of sexual tension without mastering us as an addiction.

In 1988, however, the U.S. Surgeon General confirmed that nicotine causes a physical addiction similar to and as powerful as those caused by cocaine or heroin.

This industrialization has backfired, resulting in air and water pollution, almost total destruction of the island's agriculture and a host of social ills — such as crime and drug addiction — typical of industrial societies.

Having come from a background of heroin addiction with little schooling and no qualifications, I had significant concerns as to whether or not I would be able to complete a degree in theology.

This is an exercise we often use in addiction counseling to help addicts see that the «god» they were taught about as a kid was not the true God.

«We admitted that we were powerless over our addiction, that our lives had become unmanageable,» as he paraphrases the 12 - steps in the book.

But as his high school experience slammed to a close in a series of disrupted celebrations, we began to face the inevitable: drug addiction.

Then, in an extremely useful review of «sin, sickness, alcoholism, and drug addictions,» Clinebell mentions several of a «confusing variety of usages,» applied, as he says, now and again to alcoholism and other substance addictions — several of which are not mutually exclusive: 1.

In particular, relapse is viewed as a transitional process from abstinence to active addiction.

«If unquestionable addictions can be present without any physical addiction — as with binge drinkers or compulsive gamblers — and if physical addictions can be present without any true addiction — as in the medically ill patients I just mentioned — then it must be that physical addiction is neither necessary to nor sufficient for an addiction.

But there are several points that deserve special emphasis here: (1) «The radical new view of alcoholism, not as a disease but as a «central activity in heavy drinkers» way of life,» as described by Herbert Fingarette... clearly has transforming implications for conceptualizing and dealing with the ethical issues in alcohol addiction....

What has been the experience of a government addiction program in its use of clergy as members of the professional team?

In many ways, the Church as a whole has come a long way in its acceptance of mental health and addiction issues as no - fault struggles facing Christians and non-Christians alikIn many ways, the Church as a whole has come a long way in its acceptance of mental health and addiction issues as no - fault struggles facing Christians and non-Christians alikin its acceptance of mental health and addiction issues as no - fault struggles facing Christians and non-Christians alike.

But addictions are never healthy for the relationship of the people in the addiction, and this is true of Bible addicts as well.

As a result, prisoners simply continue their addiction in prison, where drugs are plentiful thanks to corrupt guards and wily visitors.

In some measure, yes, but the sermons they have been hearing have been such as to break even the strongest addiction.

Substituting «sin» in place of the primary addiction such as drugs, sex, love of money / gambling etc..

Charles C. Hewitt summarizes his findings, in «A Personality Study of Alcohol Addiction,» as follows: «Alcohol addiction, in the group studied in this survey, seems to be associated, with but few exceptions, with deep personality dAddiction,» as follows: «Alcohol addiction, in the group studied in this survey, seems to be associated, with but few exceptions, with deep personality daddiction, in the group studied in this survey, seems to be associated, with but few exceptions, with deep personality disorders.

On the third level these forms of anxiety contribute to the perpetuation of the addiction in the sense that they become more and more pronounced as the alcoholic continues to try to satisfy his religious needs by means of alcohol.

Drug addiction is singled out as evil, yet we are a society of addicts living in an addictive society.