Sentences with phrase «years of addiction»

Years of addiction, abuse, self - deprivation, or living in a toxic relationship led to your current condition.

With 20 years in the mental health field, my broad experience encompasses many years of addiction treatments of all kinds (substance...

For a recent example, The News Tribune, a newspaper from Tacoma, Washington, detailed the story of a firefighter who, after years of addiction and erratic behavior,...

By Michael Harvey After 20 years of addiction, including adrenalin addiction, living the life of a modern day pirate, with

By his mid-20s, heroin had stuck its claws in him and had dragged him down into dark years of addiction.

After battling years of addiction and finding himself homeless, William completed our 14 - week Culinary Job Training program.

I was frisked numerous times, especially during the last several years of my addiction when airport security had become so exacting.

In 1999 27 - year - old Stephen Carter died of a heroin overdose after years of addiction.

Not exact matches

U.S. life expectancy has actually fallen for two years in a row — and while the opioid addiction and overdose epidemic has a part to play in that, overall, the diseases that kill Americans have been killing a larger share of them.

Part of the reason is that it can take years to access prison rehabilitation programs if you have a longer sentence because people with shorter sentences get priority; despite recent national efforts to make opioid antidotes and addiction treatments more widely accessible, many prisons still don't have these programs in place, leaving addicts who make it out of prison far more susceptible to relapse.

An observed one - year period of addiction would be required for someone's case to be classified as gaming addiction under the ICD - 11 draft.

This year, Tencent limited the time children could play its popular Honour of Kings game after coming under fire over gaming addiction.

Last year, he and his wife, Miriam, a physician and expert in drug addiction, provided the vast majority of funding for the campaign to defeat a ballot question that would have legalized medical marijuana in Florida.

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.

Indeed, Bitcoin's 1,500 percent surge last year has stoked huge demand for cryptocurency in South Korea, drawing in traders from college students to housewives and sparking worries of a gambling addiction.

«After years of ignoring addictions, it's unfortunate that it's taken a crisis like this, thousands of deaths in order for Christy Clark to pay attention.»

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.

VICTORIA — Fentanyl overdoses are projected to claim a record number of lives in British Columbia this year, but the BC Liberal government has failed to provide adequate, accessible pathways to treatment for people and families desperately seeking mental health and addiction services, said New Democrat leader John Horgan.

«When handing Canada the Colossal Fossil last year we pointed to the unfair advantage in this competition that the carbon doping of the tar sands is providing for Canada since the Harper government's tar sands addiction determines its abysmal approach to climate policy.

«After that, the Liberals had 15 years — but instead of investing in mental health and addictions services, they're leaving office with 12,000 children languishing on mental health care wait lists.»

Like a dog with a bone, Liberal Leader Dr. David Swann (Calgary - Mountain View) has grabbed onto the issue of opioid addiction and, for more than a year, has been hounding the gov» t to declare a stat...

Like a dog with a bone, Liberal Leader Dr. David Swann (Calgary - Mountain View) has grabbed onto the issue of opioid addiction and, for more than a year, has been hounding the govâ $ ™ t to declare a stat...

Five years ago, after years of struggling with drug addiction, my dad met Jesus.

«I went through 11 years of heroin addiction,» she says.

It takes more than a few seconds to recover from such strong addictions that have not only been bred into our DNA but reinforced over many years of belief and practice.

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.

Jesus has come to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor on the teenagers who are homeless, on the Syrian refugees, on the Mexican migrants, and the people who find themselves prisoners of addiction and their families, on the poorest of the poor in Haiti — Jesus has come for them.»

I was crippled by addiction for most of my adult years.

They trust in me to walk with them for the five years or so it takes to be totally free of addiction.

He told of seven men, out of a group of ninety - three treated for alcohol addiction, who subsequently had been able to drink normally for periods of seven to eleven years.

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.

Hornbacker has now written a book about being bipolar (Madness: A Bipolar Life), a book about having anorexia (Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia (P.S.)-RRB-, a book that... I don't know... this one was last year, and you REALLY would've thought that this one should have summed the whole thing up (Sane: Mental Illness, Addiction, and the 12 Steps), and now this.

A few years ago I conducted a survey of 350 people with sex and porn addiction as part of my research for my first book, Understanding and Treating Sex Addiction (Roaddiction as part of my research for my first book, Understanding and Treating Sex Addiction (RoAddiction (Routledge).

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!

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.

Seven years into his addiction to online porn, John wrote to tell me of his struggles.

In the last 15 years, psychologist Mark Laaser, author of Healing the Wounds of Sexual Addiction, has seen «an escalating crisis in the church» so that «rarely a day goes by that I don't get a call about a «fallen» pastor.»

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.

I remember excited preachers, possibly sensing their congregations were beginning to drift or consider drifting back into the addictions and lifestyle that had robbed them of their earlier years and thus they felt a lively performance was warranted.

For years, Jacques Ellul has warned repeatedly that our modern addiction to images is a kind of terrorist time bomb ominously ticking away in the comfortable hotel of free democratic society.

I was part of a different group a while back, and I recently learned that one of the men in the group is facing the possibility of divorce because of an addiction to pornography which he hid all those years.

After listening to a friend in their late 20s share about their sexual addiction, it hit me that they have been struggling with this for over 10 years, a decade of their life.

I have a friend who is gonna die before he sees 30 years - old because of an addiction to meth.

When we lived in Santa Monica for a year, our apartment was on top of a Starbucks, which fueled my 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!

Partly deeply - rooted nostalgia from years spent munching away in front of Saturday morning cartoons, partly unbreakable addiction to the irresistible combination of ice cold milk and sugary crunch,...

The sugar addiction was strong during my younger years, and it set me up for a host of health problems and with this mindset that all cookies were a «no - no» food.

In North Carolina last year — when I was also feeding my berry addiction with weekly flats of fresh - picked strawberries at the farm stand down the road — strawberry season was already coming to an end by June.

As I'm usually trying to cram food into my face as fast as possible in the mornings (firstly, I am hungrayyy, secondly I've only got about 10 minutes to make and eat my breakfast and coffee during the week), I go for yogurt and muesli (an addiction I've stuck to for pretty much 75 % of my mornings for a year, so far).