Addiction

recoveryforyou on August 30th, 2007

“Our society considers hard work, intense recreation, vigorous exercise, rushing through the day, excessive eating, frequent anger, occasional deep depression, and sex without love as “normal”, and we have become addicted to the brain chemicals that accompany these so-called normal behavior.
Paul Pearsall
Addiction is not difficult to understand. Accepting we or a loved one is an [...]

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newyou on November 9th, 2006

Addiction treatment by the medical model means that an addict is “sick” and that someone else knows how to get that addict “well”. In reality, each person has a part of themselves that is perfect and was given to them at birth.
The basic problem with the medical model of addiction recovery is that the medical [...]

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