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Continue reading →: Life in Recovery Survey for the UK
UNDERSTANDING RECOVERY GREATLY HELPS WITH REDUCING THE STIGMA ATTACHED WITH SUFFERING FROM AN ADDICTIVE DISORDER. PLEASE HELP? If you live in the UK, are in recovery and have 20 minutes to fill in this very worthwhile survey you can make a difference to how we, as a society, perceive recovery and help reduce the…
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Continue reading →: Life In Recovery Surveys – Australia, USA and the UK
“Recovery introduced me to myself. The hardest but most rewarding journey I have ever undertaken.” Recovery from alcohol and drug addiction is now widely recognised as a journey that takes place over time and in a multitude of ways that reflect personal circumstances, supports and resources.” The Australian Life in Recovery…
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Continue reading →: Addiction Through the Ages
From http://score.addicaid.com/ Substance abuse and addiction is not just a modern construct. For centuries, people have struggled with the effects of drugs, alcohol, and other mind-altering substances, including caffeine and tobacco. Although cultural acceptance and stigmas have changed throughout the years, drugs and alcohol have been a significant part of history…
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Continue reading →: Sure who’s Counting? How to Engineer Addiction?
Sure who’s Counting? Here’s a great longread from The Verge called Engineers of Addiction about the psychology of slot machines and the tech industry. “Bally Technologies, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of slot machines. Compared to the cacophony of a casino floor, Bally’s showroom was practically monastic, the lights low and the room silent…
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Continue reading →: Look Out!
Produced by Xie Chenglin, a student at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in China, the video shows people going about with their heads down, obsessed with what’s happening on their smartphone instead of what’s happening in the world around them. No one really behaves this extreme (but selfies taken with disasters…
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Continue reading →: Just One More…Game?
Getting beatin at the fight with addiction sucks! The American Psychiatric Association decided that enough evidence exists to include video game addiction as a diagnosis in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders as internet gaming addiction. APA suggests the effects (or symptoms) of video game addiction…
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