Dr Stanton Peele on Addiction: What Is Addiction?

Dr Stanton Peele on Addiction: What is Addiction? – Dr. Stanton Peele provides a definition of addiction, and discusses the notion that addictive behaviors are diseases.

Answer to heroin problem can come from hope

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But then, as time went on, the stories have been more about cocaine, methamphetamines and abuse of prescription drugs. Now … But they may not know why they feel the way they do and that's where the second part of the definition comes in. A lack of …
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Peter Hitchens: The Turning of a Trotskyist

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“But the nature of what you're claiming is that when people take this drug they become its slave. This is the problem with addiction – it's a shape-shifter. At one point it means one thing, and then when you point out it means that, he says no it doesn …
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Sex Addict Warning Signs, Coping With Overscheduled Kids

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A. Dear Corey: Sexual addiction or hypersexuality is defined as a dysfunctional preoccupation with sexual fantasy, often in combination with the obsessive pursuit of casual or non-intimate sex, pornography, compulsive masturbation, romantic intensity …
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