Sentences with phrase «result of addiction»

Clinicians Ariel Stern, LPC and Nicole LePera, Ph.D. has extensive experience working with addiction issues and can provide support treatment to clients recovering from addiction, families dealing with the stress of a loved one's addiction, grief and loss as a result of addiction issues, and the impact of addiction on relationships.

It does, however, seek to offer another explanation for those who feel powerless as a result of their addiction.

This may be the result of addiction, lack of connection, negative self - image, or areas outside of our control.

In this sense, the Policy did not discriminate against Stewart as a result of his addiction because it applied to all employees equally.

The court found that direct discrimination since his termination was not the result of his addiction but the breach of the policy.

However, the judge concluded that the husband's post — separation spending was a result of his addiction and a continuum of his behaviour which had manifested itself during the marriage.

«I have seen first - hand, the tragic result of addiction in our neighborhoods,» she said.

Not exact matches

The B.C. Liberal government has missed deadlines for the past three years, and as a result over 60 per cent of the promised addiction treatment spaces remain unopened.

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.»

Yes it can become an addiction, but it is a result of choice.

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.

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.

Any of these ascetic practices might at some time be highly effective and valuable for locating and treating the habituation and addiction that result finally in a dullness of body and mind.

Not because of the elapsed time but rather due to finding the root causes and conditions of my alcohol addiction and getting help and treatment for the resulting diagnosed mental illness after 40 years of sobriety / abstinence!

«Addictions are the result of personal sin.

The rise in narcotics addiction in recent years, particularly among young people, is in large measure a result of the prevalent decay of purpose, the loss of stable values, and the feelings of personal estrangement, loneliness, hopelessness, and meaninglessness which characterize the present age.

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.

After spending an evening with friends, I began to realize the degree to which my soap box addiction is the result of a self - imposed sense of responsibility.

Writing in The Times, Kate Lampard, chairwoman of GambleAware said: «As a society, we should be concerned about the rising risk of harm from wider access and more regular participation in gambling on future generations, resulting in a possible public health crisis in gambling addiction.»

I worried for a brief hour or so about my new found addiction to Biscoff, and the scale certainly shows the result of such love, but it's the holiday season, so I'll worry about the weight when making New Year's resolutions!

But that weight of expectation, combined with long - term injuries and addictions to drinking and gambling, resulted in mental health difficulties, trips to the Priory Clinic and ultimately the termination of his contract and tragically premature retirement at the age of just 24.

This pattern can also result when the mother has a mental illness, substance addiction, or multiple risk factors like poverty, substance abuse and a history of being mistreated.

Tough presents striking research from neuroendocrinology and other fields revealing that childhood psychological traumas — from physical and sexual abuse to physical and emotional neglect, divorce, parental incarceration, and addiction, things found more often (though by no means exclusively) in impoverished families — overwhelm developing bodies» and minds» ability to manage the stress of events, resulting in «all kinds of serious and long - lasting negative effects, physical, psychological, and neurological.»

Maude began and ended quite touchy - feely, but the meat of the piece fairly accurately represented what you might expect a Tory platform on the third sector to look like: we need a «rehabilitation revolution'to tackle unprecedented levels of reoffending, fuelled by addiction, illiteracy and family breakdown; the state consistently fails to get those who have never worked, lone parents, and those on incapacity benefit back to work; charities should be paid by results; and the third sector is means of saving taxpayer money and delivering services more efficiently and effectively.

Fatal overdose, the contraction of Hepatitis C and / or HIV and addiction and dependence are among a plethora of negative side effects that can result from heroin use.

The Governor, who also noted that the services rendered to beneficiaries of the CADAM initiative were free of charge, said with the quality of facilities at the new rehabilitation centre, he was optimistic that many lives that had been compromised as a result of drug addiction would be redeemed, stabilised and given a new hope for a better and meaningful future.

Open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, the center, at 230 North Road in the city of Poughkeepsie, is the result of a partnership between the county, MidHudson Regional Hospital of Westchester Medical Center, Astor Services for Children & Families, Mid-Hudson Addiction Recovery Centers, and PEOPLe Inc..

Avi Israel says an insurance company's denial of coverage for his son's treatment of an addiction to the opioids he was taking while battling Crohn's Disease resulted about a month later in his son's suicide.

«We are seeing an enormous rise in fatalities over the last few years as a result of opioid addiction,» she said, adding that there is currently no estimate for how much the county would be seeking in compensation.

Weiner told host Brian Lehrer that the lewd behavior that led to his 2011 downfall wasn't the result of «addiction» or having been abused as a child, but a «blind spot» that he and his family have worked hard to address.

The results point to the importance of biochemistry in addiction.

Among other initiatives needed are more rigorous analysis of the potency of illicit drugs being sold on the streets, information campaigns to inform the public of the analyses results and likely dangers, more treatment therapies to ease withdrawal symptoms, programs to get primary care doctors to treat and screen for addictions and wider distribution of Naltrexone, which can reverse an opioid overdose, said Ciccarone.

«The results were quite impressive, particularly in some of those categories that are very resistant to treatment, such as heroin addiction,» recalls Grof, who is now 76.

With the results of the current study in hand, Snyder has brokered a deal between that company and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) for NIDA to test CGP3466B as a treatment for cocaine addiction.

In fact, the authors report in Science this week that damage to that region is 136 times more likely to result in a «disruption of smoking addiction» — defined as the ability to quit easily without relapse — than injury to other parts of the brain.

Based on their results and evidence from other studies on addiction and the hippocampus, the authors suggest an intriguing explanation for addiction: newborn neurons in the hippocampus inhibit the release of dopamine, one of the major chemical messengers that act as a reward signal.

The scientists are now expanding their research to larger numbers of animals and they are also planning a study to look at addiction - like behaviours in obese people to see how well their results translate to humans.

«Furthermore, high rates of dual use may result in greater total public health burden and possibly increased individual risk if a smoker maintains an even low - level tobacco cigarette addiction for many years instead of quitting.»

Studies demonstrated that the changes in the brain's dopamine production area, or VTA — though crucial to the development of addiction — also triggered a cascade of biological processes that resulted in permanent changes in the nucleus accumbens (NAc), the area downstream that is closely linked to motivation and goal - directed behavior.

They write, «The results generally support the efficacy of providing psychosocial interventions in combination with medications to treat opioid addiction.»

Encouraged by advances in the neuroscience of addiction, positive results from clinical trials and stirrings of interest from big pharma, Heilig and his colleagues are pushing for medication to become a mainstream treatment.

«The substantial variation in prescribing patterns of such extremely addictive medications for minor injuries results in many thousands of pills entering the community, and places patients at an increased risk of continued use and potentially addiction,» said lead author M. Kit Delgado, MD, MS, an assistant professor of Emergency Medicine and Epidemiology at Penn. «It's vital that we identify and understand the root causes of this growing issue.»

The results agree with an earlier review led by Guydish of smoking addiction treatment programs in the U.S..

The results have just been published in the International journal Addiction Research and Theory, and are one of several studies from Aarhus University focusing on medical doctors» consumption of substances and substance use disorders.

These results remained largely unchanged after further sensitivity analyses, prompting the researchers to suggest that giving moderate to higher opioid doses for shorter durations may be a more effective way to manage pain after surgery, while minimising the risk of misuse and addiction.

The technique used to assess addiction - like behavior in rats can also be used in humans, so if similar results are found in addicted people, the researchers hope the technique may help identify people most susceptible to addiction and be useful for predicting the efficacy of oxytocin treatment.

Unfortunately, relief from cigarette addiction is far from the only result of this type of stroke.

Clinicians must balance the goals of relieving pain and suffering while not harming the patient resulting in addiction and overdose.

Results from this study support previous findings that beliefs can alter a drug's effects on craving, providing insight into possible avenues for novel methods of addiction treatments.

Prolonged use of these opioids can result in respiratory depression, tolerance, addiction, and overdose,» says senior study author Nathaniel Jeske of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.