Beating Addictions: How to Treat and Overcome an Addiction

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Addiction to Shopping

Many of us have heard the term ‘Retail Therapy’ and will have thought that this is the term given to someone who is spending money on frivolous items as...

Addictions Through History

The human tendency towards addiction is nothing new. Indeed, it is likely that addictions have been around for as long as we have. The first literary mention...

Dealing With An Addiction To Self-Harm

Many people might find it difficult to believe but there are a great number of individuals who are addicted to the practice of self-harm. What is Self Harm?...

Beating an Addiction to Drugs

Overcoming an addiction to drugs can be an extremely difficult task but one which may ultimately save a life. Along with the destruction drugs can cause to r...

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Memory Training to Treat Addiction

Treating addiction can involve pharmaceutical interventions or psychological approaches. For some people who struggle with addiction, it may even involve a c...

Step-By-Step Brain Path to Addiction

Understanding what happens in the brain is important to learning how to prevent and treat addiction. While addiction still holds the stigma that it is fully...

Youngest Victims Of Addiction

Addictions are an enormous problem in adults. Children and teenagers, however, are sometimes the forgotten victims of addiction. They suffer the effects in n...

Overcome an Addiction to Plastic Surgery

Plastic surgery is common in Britain and elsewhere in the world. Many women and men use plastic surgery to help them feel good about themselves. For most peo...

Uncommon Drug Addictions and How to Stop

Drug addictions as a whole are a common class of addictions. They garner an enormous amount of media attention, research funding and treatment centres and th...

Rebuilding Your Life After Addiction

Addiction impacts people in different ways. But for many people who overcome addiction, they find that their lives have changed drastically. Addiction may ha...

What is Work Addiction?

Work addiction may seem like an impossible kind of addiction, mostly because it’s often respected in our society when people are heavily involved in their...

Addiction Treatment Centers: What to Expect

While there are many different treatment options for people who struggle with addictions, sometimes an in-patient treatment center becomes the best choice fo...

Addiction and Teen Aggression

Teen aggression isn’t just an enormous problem in Britain but it plagues countries around the world. One issue is that it is linked to addictions such as I...

Addiction and Genes

There has traditionally been a great deal of debate around addiction and genes. One approach seems to imply that linking addiction to genes means addicts won...

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