Sentences with phrase «working as an addiction»

Green now works as an addiction recovery coach and gives presentations on the dangers of opioids in Long Island and New York schools.

We spend our spring and summer in Alberta, Canada where she has a job for six months of the year working as an addictions counselor.

We spend our spring and summer in Alberta, Canada where she has a job for six months of the year working as an addictions counselor.

Jennifer had by that time completed a degree in social work and was working as an addiction counselor.

Having worked as an addiction counselor for over nine years now, I am highly experienced in providing timely, and well - placed treatment for drug addictions, and all the related issues that it brings.

SUMMARY 18 + years of experience of working as an addiction counselor.

Two of the team also work as Addiction Medicine Specialists within a mainstream urban hospital (Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney) with outreach to prison (Haber) and to an Aboriginal Medical Service (Conigrave).

Not exact matches

Michel noted many autonomous bankers worked excessively hard, suffering «debilitating physical and psychological breakdowns» as well as back pain, insomnia, addictions, and eating disorders.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I take to work as a snack, so fully understand your granola addiction!

I work as a chiropractor in drug addiction treatment centers.

He works to help children, adolescents and families explore issues such as social difficulties with siblings and classmates, attention and behavioral issues at home and at school, emotional issues such as defiance, aggression, addiction and self - esteem, as well as promoting a balanced and simple family life.

During a recent conference on addiction held in Tehran, Saeed Sefatian, a prominent Iranian official and head of the working group on drug demand reduction in the Council for the Discernment of the Expediency of the State (also known as the Expediency Council), illustrated what could become a potential alternative to Iran's current drug policy — including a move which that could include measures towards legalisation of cannabis and opium.

While working for Schneiderman, Berhaupt, who is also a former Assembly staffer and Senate counsel, was the strategist behind I - STOP — the real - time database of controlled substance prescriptions as a means to reduce addiction and diversion — and the Nonprofit Revitalization Act of 2013, which reformed and modernized the Not - for - Profit Corporation Law for the first time since the 1970's.

While sitting in on East End Regional Intervention Court — known as drug court — Tuesday afternoon, Justice Smith listened to participants, many of whom are working on overcoming addiction to heroin.

First Lady Chirlane McCray — who spearheads the ThriveNYC mental health initiative and the nationwide Cities Thrive Coalition that has 200 cities as members — said the initiative is «working hard» to change the manner in which individuals think about addiction and mental illness and establish prevention protocols.

As a defense lawyer, Clegg said he has fought for a rehabilitative approach in the treatment of nonviolent criminals and has worked to help clients with addictions to heroin and other street drugs get treatment instead of jail time.

As the opioid epidemic continues across the country, one graduate student is working on the collegiate level to provide a support system to treat opioid and other types of addiction on campus.

As a Co-chair of the Joint Senate Task Force on Heroin & Opioid Addiction, I recognize that communities across our state are in need of additional resources to fight this epidemic, and I look forward to working with my colleagues in Albany to help address those needs.

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.

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Working together with Cedric Notredame (CRG) and Elena Martín - García (UPF), the scientists found that as well as becoming obese, the mice started very early to show the signs of addiction - like behaviour and binge - eating in response to these enticing foods.

«At a time in history when an unprecedented number of people are getting hooked on narcotic opiates by way of prescribed medications — as is the case with migraine sufferers as well — we owe it to ourselves as physicians to try medications that could work without the risk of addiction,» says Klein.

«Workaholism is an addiction, an obsessive - compulsive disorder, and it's not the same as working hard.

CMS is working to enhance access to medication - assisted therapies through a more comprehensive benefit design, as well as a more robust application of the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act.

Looking at previous work on other addictions, such as alcoholism, we anticipated that pathological gamblers would have increased opiate receptors which we did not find, but we did find the expected blunted change in endogenous opioids from an amphetamine challenge.

«Even after accounting for age, race, sex and other early adversities such as parental addictions, childhood physical abuse was still associated with a six-fold increase in the odds of dyslexia» says co-author Esme Fuller - Thomson, professor and Sandra Rotman Endowed Chair at University of Toronto's Factor - Inwentash Faculty of Social Work.

More work is needed to determine whether the brain's overeating networks are the same as its drug addiction pathways and, if so, whether addiction treatments can reduce the obesity epidemic.

A study of rats published at the same time in the scientific journal Addiction Biology adds to the understanding of how OSU6162 works, as it shows that rats that voluntarily consumed alcohol for almost a year had lower levels of dopamine in their brain reward system than rats that had never drunk alcohol.

to one of the U.S. representatives — Dina Titus (D — NV)-- defending Suomi's work, stating that the research «has enhanced our understanding of and treatments for mental illnesses such as depression, addiction, and autism.»

By blending classical and cutting - edge genetic approaches, Vivek Kumar, Ph.D.Researches behavior and behavioral abnormalities, including addiction, ADHD and depression, using mouse genetics as a platform.Vivek Kumar is unveiling the genes at work within the brain to control complex behaviors, such as anxiety and addiction.

The work could open new avenues for treating disorders both in cases where people can not properly initiate an action, such as Parkinson's, and in ones where they can not stop performing certain actions, as in OCD or drug addiction.

The cortico - striatal associative loops are also important for working memory and cognitive control, and likely contribute to the mechanism of disorders such as schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, and addiction.

Her work is recognized as providing fundamental new insights not only into normal brain function, but also some of the abnormalities that underlie disorders such as Huntingdon's chorea, Parkinson's disease, obsessive - compulsive disorder, and drug addiction.

As I've been working hard at getting rid of my nasty addiction to sugar for the past few months now, cake is totally and completely out of the question for the time being.

:P Seriously though, as an ex-smoker who was THRILLED to find a bridge to quitting that actually worked, I find it infuriating that what started off as an ingenious invention by a son to finally end a persistent addiction in his dad, is being abused as yet another way for people to harm themselves, and others by association.

Since 2007, volunteer yoga teachers have been going into community facilities and detention centres in Southern Ontario to work with young men and women who are overcoming histories of abuse, neglect, incarceration, gang - involvement, addiction, marginalization and other factors that have led them to be identified as «at risk.»

She has worked extensively with clients such as Canadian Diabetes Association, the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Bellwood Heath Services and the Caregiver Awards Program.

Articles related to all forms of addiction, using the Inner Bonding process as the foundation for recovery from substance abuse and addiction and process addictions - such as gambling addiction, work addiction, spending addiction TV addiction, video games and Internet addiction.

As someone recently out of college, I have only been working for six months and have developed an addiction to all things business casual / classic / versatile in terms of clothing.

Internet addiction is defined in China as spending six or more hours online for anything other than work or studying.

Leaving Pepper with Shelly (Judy Greer), a sweet - natured dog - sitter, he re-connects with Pippi, who has conquered her crack addiction and is now working as a waitress.

As old habits and outmoded ways of thinking stop working, the two men begin a long descent into madness and addiction that's shocking and, for all Cronenberg's characteristic distance, strangely moving.

Topics to be covered include: • The # 1 reason hospitalized or homebound students often fail in traditional models • How a targeted online homebound education program can be less costly while improving educational outcomes • How K12 provides homebound students access to the same rigorous learning experience as their in - school classmates • How this model also works effectively in alternative learning environments, such as addiction centers or juvenile detention facilities

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