When you come back and buy more, pornography makes a lot more money from you.  It won't care, and it will continue to show you more.  Billions has been spent in trying to ensnare you.  What could have been a healthy idea of your sexuality has been polluted.  The critical part of who you are becomes twisted with porn addiction.  Your energy is focused n your satisfaction as you begin to think you can have sex anytime and anywhere with anyone.

Excessive use...

The Problem of Prescription Oxycodone Abuse

As you may know, prescription drug abuse has developed into a huge problem in the United States. For example, a 2005 Monitoring the Future survey of high school students showed that OxyContin abuse went up among 12th graders by 40 percent in 3 years. OxyContin is one of the many generic names for drugs that include the narcotic oxycodone.

When used as prescribed, drugs like OxyContin and Percocet (which also contains...

So you’ve decided to cut down on your drinking. Congratulations! That’s generally a good idea. However, in spite of all your good intentions, I know how tough that can be. More likely, your school or workplace has a strong drink culture. Well meaning friends will invite you out and ply you with alcohol. They’ll badger you when they notice you’re not drinking, taking it as a personal challenge to convince you to have a drink. You’re going to need some...

Elizabeth was just 13 years old when she had her first drink - this is a story of her descent into drug addiction.  After that first drink, she found she liked the way it made her feel, so she had a couple of more.  Before long, she experienced her first time being drunk, and the door had opened.

This story of drug addiction usually paints a very similar picture from addict to addict.  They share many aspects of their stories and they often share tragic...

Staying clean after rehab is over – staying stopped just for today
Admission to an alcohol and drug rehab is a difficult and painful process, and often a very confusing one, as it stirs both negative and positive emotions. The experience is usually accompanied by shame, guilt and fear, but also relief. The relief is felt because the client no longer has to lie to loved ones, friends, colleagues and others, or worry constantly where their next hit will come from. However, what...

When you embark on your search to learn how to stop smoking pot one of the things that you must be keen to understand is how marijuana affects the brain and how this in turn affects your addiction and your choices surrounding smoking and quitting.

Marijuana has a chemical component called THC which most pot smokers know of. It is this chemical that causes the feelings of a high that can mellow you out and can also cause paranoia and panic in some users also. It is the chemical...

Gambling addiction is a difficult thing to cure. It is not easy because of so much hype and popularity that gambling has. Once the person has entered and completed treatment one of the best gambling addiction treatment centers , they still have to go back into the real world and try to exist amidst all the distractions such as casinos, horse race track, dog race track, sports betting and online poker. The treatment program has to equip the addict with all that is necessary to fight...

Pornographic addiction is not accurately described by an occasional urge to look at one or two saucy pictures now and again. It is a more serious approach; the desire to view pornographic images and an inability to stop doing so. Baby boomers in middle and old age might have taken little interest in such images in early life, yet display an obsession late in life that they cannot overcome.

How do you know if you are addicted to pornography?  It is a simple analysis of...

The Non-existent codependent

There are three "flavors" or types of codependency identified by professionals in the field of addiction. The first two were identified and described in two earlier posts. These are, in brief, what I called "the codependent in charge," and the "super-denier."

The third type of codependent is the most pitiful. This person needs somebody else in the scapegoat-blustering- abusive role in order to be complete....

If you find yourself going back again and again to your computer to consistently surf for porn in ever more increasing variety and you cannot seem to stop yourself you probably have an internet porn addiction. Some may continue to think there is no issue with this as you are not hurting anyone but the truth of the matter is you could be hurting your relationships with your family, partner or future partners because of this behavior that is slowly warping your mind with unrealistic...