Sentences with phrase «of other addictions»

This can be true of other addictions too, such as a gambling problem.

Therapy for sex addiction differs from the treatment of other addictions in that complete sobriety is not the goal, as it often is with, for example, drug and alcohol addictions.

For the most part the underwriting mirrors that of other addictions.

As time progresses, it becomes an addiction and to get out of this is like getting out of any other addiction, can cause anxiety issues and even depression.

All in all, the signs of addictive relationships often come across as signs of any other addiction.

Not exact matches

The dangers of addiction are numerous, no matter what the focal point of the addiction is — though of course, some substances are more dangerous than others.

Other pain points included drug pricing and how approving more generics may affect costs (Gottlieb parried that question by noting the FDA doesn't have the authority to negotiate prices or consider pricing when approving a drug) and his alleged softness on opioid drug makers due the aforementioned financial ties and pro-industry ideology (the nominee noted that he considers opioid addiction and overdoses a public health crisis «on the order of Ebola and Zika»).

Other parts of the plan include «Help Those Struggling with Addiction» and «Cut off the Supply of Illicit Drugs,» which is the section that includes seeking the death penalty against certain drug traffickers.

A crisis of tech addiction, in other words, looks more like the ongoing obesity epidemic.

And just as major food corporations sell processed foods that are loaded with added sugar and chemicals meant to keep people eating, Turkle and other addiction experts say big tech companies have been repeatedly accused of designing their apps to maximize the time people spend on them.

Our aggregate household debt figures loudly proclaim a society of debt addiction, but they don't tell us other crucial facts.

(Other naloxone sellers like Kaleo, Mylan, and Adapt Pharma have pursued similar strategies, inspiring the wrath of U.S. Senators who say the firms were taking advantage of America's widespread opioid addiction epidemic and putting profits over patients.)

On the second page, Oppenheimer catalogues the family's many misfortunes and humiliations: «Drug addictions, alcoholism, overdoses, adultery, homosexuality, child abuse in the form of molestation, suspected kidnapping, a murder plot, a shooting, tragic accidents, suicide, attempted suicides, and other mayhem.»

African Americans are killing each other, going to prison, and succumbing to an assortment of addictions in record numbers.

A growing concern about addiction and the effect of gambling on families has led the Navajos and other tribes to reject gambling.

Unfortunately, in combating this false understanding of addiction, Hitchens errs to the other extreme by implying that the will remains untouched by addiction and asserting that if addicts are held merely accountable for their actions and blamed for the outcome of those actions, then «huge numbers of people will give up a bad habit even if it is difficult.»

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.

It is clear that caution is indicated in the use of any mood - changing drug by alcoholics and other addiction - prone persons.

The National Center for Addiction and Substance Abuse released a report several years ago concluding, among other things, that fully ninety percent of American addicts began using before the age of 18.

For our purposes, the medical and psychiatric therapies may be divided into three categories according to their purpose: (1) those therapies that aid in the physical rehabilitation of the person suffering from the effects of an acute binge and / or prolonged excessive drinking over many years; (2) those that help to keep the addictive cycle broken and thus maintain sobriety for sufficient time to allow other therapies to take effect; (3) those that aim at lessening the alcoholic's personality problems — both those that contributed to the causation of his addiction and those resulting from the interpersonal chaos of progressive alcoholism.

One of the things repeated in articles chronicling Lovato's battle against addiction is her desire to help others by opening the dialogue about recovery.

Knowing that it can lead on to an addiction, in other words to a loss of self - control, why do many people take up drinking?

Lolli writes: «A realistic understanding of the pleasurable connotations of addiction to alcohol will help the therapist to alleviate his own emotional problems relating to «pleasurable» experiences in other human beings and thus make his work with the alcoholic more effective.»

A lot of people in the street do not automatically have problems with alcohol or other addictions and are smart enough to spend their money wisely.

Our group, though small, is amazingly diverse, including homeless men and women, university and seminary students, people whose addictions are still active and others who are in recovery, young professionals and social workers, a mix of ethnicities and even a handful of «normal» folks.

If your sin involved other human beings, or if you believe you need their help in keeping free of this sin, or you need their counsel, advice, or accountability, you should also confess this sin to another person you trust, or to a group of such people, who will love you no matter what and will help you through the temptations and addictions of this particular sin.

In fact, the epiphany that came to me on the day over six years ago when I chose to quit drinking was that all my crying to God to help me quit wasn't going to work — because in that moment I was confronted by the awareness that I had to choose whether to quit or not, that there was no heavenly big daddy waiting in the wings to help me do so, that my choice to not drink would not change the fact that I have come from a family of alcoholics and other addictions that may have a genetic component.

Humans, because of their addiction to drama, suffering and conflict must realize they are all swimming in a limitless soup of energy and all are worthy of this, all humans must work to get rid of their addiction to drama, suffering and conflict and love and respect each other and help each other achieve happiness and live in peace.»

It declares itself a liberator of humanity — exactly as if enslavement to sensualism, materialism, convenience, and other modern addictions weren't commonplaces.

Education for chastity, on the other hand, can teach boys to grow to be «real men», offer them a noble understanding of their own masculine sexual identity, and give them a chance to avoid falling into the cycle of sexual addiction offered by pornography on their camera phones and computers.

We differ in energy, ambition, intelligence, emotional intensity, relational sensitivity, imagination, creativity, addiction to evil and other forms of destructiveness, and the capacity to love.

There are many other writers who have taken a crack at definitions — often with an apparent attempt to attack religion, Christianity, Alcoholics Anonymous, the «recovery industry,» addiction medicine, treatment programs, certain scholars, certain historians, and many other kinds of targets.

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.

«Alcoholism and other addictions involve original sin» [«There often seems to be a certain recalcitrance at the very center of human beings that tends to inhibit doing what we know to be good for ourselves and others.

can be an effective and representative part of the family of God in combating alcoholism if it retains the generous attitude it first manifested toward other «anonymous» groups, «self - help» groups, and «addiction» groups.

«Alcoholism and other substance addictions are sicknesses caused by the convergence of a variety of factors involving both sin and sickness, responsibility and compulsivity» [«approximates the view of AA....

Chemical dependency and other forms of addiction frequently result from maladaptive attempts to find the solace that comes only from a spiritual relationship with the God who is there.

Just as well - meaning individuals who «cover» for an alcoholic's absences from work unintentionally enable the alcoholic's addiction and often delay the seeking of help by the alcoholic, individuals who «cover» for an abuser often delay the abuser's seeking help and unintentionally allow either the abuse to continue or others to be victimized.

The answers will touch on slavery, colonialism, modern day corruption, crime and drug addiction, the lack of equity in international development, human ignorance, greed, and many other things.

But Americans are curiously unwilling to learn from Europe, even though almost all member - states of the European Union have better policies and lower rates of addiction than the U.S.. On other points, Massing is in agreement with the harm - reduction approach: he favors free needles, methadone treatment, decriminalization of marijuana and repeal of mandatory sentencing.

On the other hand, because of the status of physicians in our society, an accurate explanation of the nature of alcohol addiction and a recommendation that the help of AA be sought can carry special weight with some alcoholics.

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Hundreds of Christian leaders signed a letter sent Wednesday to Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and other congressional leaders voicing support for a bill that would expand rehabilitation programs for prisoners suffering from drug or sexual addiction, grant job training and anger management classes to inmates, and expand risk assessment programs to match prisoners with programs that could help them.

However, it is well to remember the opinion expressed by Giorgio Lolli, former medical director of the Yale Plan Clinic for Alcoholics, who states: «There is practically no case of alcohol addiction isolated from other neurotic disorders and bodily illnesses.»

Por - nography can be an addiction every bit as harmful and devatating as any other type of addiction.

First of all I'm happy you got over your addictions, but why should you attribute that to someone other than yourself?

And usually what is discovered in these groups is that even IF a person is able to modify one behavior or overcome one addiction, they often fall into some other sort of destructive behavior or addiction, which often makes their overall condition worse than it was before.

Ingest regularly Ephesians 1: 18 - 2:10 which speaks of «His incomparably great power for us who believe» and how His grace makes us «alive in Christ even when we were dead in transgressions, seating us in heavenly places with Christ, far above all other rule and authority, power and dominion...» Receive God's resurrection power to give you the strength to fight this creeping addiction.

Most of the others were based more on favorite theologies than any practical or relevant strategies for successfully dealing with addiction.