Sentences with phrase «destructive drug addiction»

Breaking up with a toxic person can be like the withdrawal and rehab that comes with a destructive drug addiction.

Not exact matches

Dr. Brian Johnson, director of addiction psychiatry at Upstate, said marijuana is a destructive drug.

And as with addictions to alcohol, drugs or gambling, workaholics» denial and destructive behavior will persist despite feedback from loved ones or danger signs such as deteriorating relationships.

That, in turn, can lead to self - destructive behavior — including illness, drug addiction, and suicide, according to a few studies.

Drug abuse and addiction rank among the world's more costly, destructive and seemingly insurmountable problems.

By comparison, Jennifer Dworkin's Love and Diane — an intimate, unruly portrait of a mother / daughter relationship and of three generations of a black Brooklyn family struggling with drug addiction; HIV; poverty; a byzantine, contradictory, often inane welfare system; and the self - destructive impulses that result from anger, shame, and abandonment — seems even more admirable and involving than it did in its New York Film Festival screening last year.

For many drug users, marijuana is the beginning of a destructive cycle of drug addiction.

«When I was Dean of Student Services at a school for teens at risk for drug addiction, unwanted pregnancy, and other self - destructive behaviors, I recognized that many of these teens were depressed, anxious, or suffering from traumatic experiences.