Why Just Having Goals Isn't Enough
This article helps provide a context to the day-to-day grind. read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - October 7, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Rubin Khoddam, M.A. Tags: Addiction Resilience Self-Help Therapy acceptance acceptance and commitment therapy. self-help achievements clinical psychology direction goals health life life lessons values weight Source Type: news
Mile High Club Casino
Gambling has always been considered as a revenue generator for many different types of commercial enterprise. A number of airlines now have plans for in-flight casinos to be made available on long-haul flights for first and business class passengers. Is this something that we should be concerned about? Is it exploitative or just catering for what people want?read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - October 7, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Mark D. Griffiths, Ph.D. Tags: Addiction Airline casino Airline gambling alcohol use Boredom and gambling gambling addiction problem gambling social responsibility Source Type: news
Needy? 5 Tips to Stop Codependent People-pleasing
Excessive people-pleasing keeps you tied. You become codependent. REBT can help you begin to work on becoming self-directed.read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - October 6, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Pamela D. Garcy, Ph.D. Tags: Addiction Anxiety Eating Disorders Relationships people-pleasing; self-direction; self-assertion; healthy relationships REBT; codependency; codependence Source Type: news
Perverse US Drug Policies Promote Drug Addiction And Deaths
How can politicians face their consciences and constituents sitting back while drug companies cause more deaths than drug cartels?
read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - October 5, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Allen J. Frances, M.D. Tags: Addiction Ethics and Morality Law and Crime Psychiatry drug cartels drug companies drug deaths. drug policies drug overdoses legalizing drugs medical pot Source Type: news
Befriending at the Right Pace
Different timetables for different kinds of friendshipsread more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - October 5, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Peg O'Connor, Ph.D. Tags: Addiction Ethics and Morality Happiness character strengths and virtues friendship pleasure utility Source Type: news
The Sick Culture of the Recovery Industry
When confronted with information about errors in the training and testing materials for credentialing addictions counselors, an industry journal, Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Weekly, responds with defensiveness, lies, and distortion of the data. read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - October 4, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Kenneth Anderson, MA Tags: Addiction treatment Source Type: news
Why You Eat What You Eat Part 3
If you feel you have a food addiction that interferes with the quality of your life, there is help.read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - October 3, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Susan McQuillan, M.S., RDN Tags: Addiction Diet Eating Disorders Self-Help binge eating brain chemistry food addiction sugar weight Source Type: news
Is Your Smoking Habit Really Dead?
How would you know if you had truly left your cigarettes in the ashtray of history? Here's a way to find out. read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - October 2, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Meg Selig Tags: Addiction Happiness Health Self-Help 12-step groups addictions bad habits health costs leonard cohen maintenance stage non-smokers quit smoking quitting addiction self-image smoking habit stage of change temptation Termin Source Type: news
Feeling Conflicted?
An important idea in behavioral is that our behavior seems to be controlled by a narrow-minded “doers” who cares about immediate gratification and a farsighted “planner” who is concerned with the long-term satisfaction. read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - October 1, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Shahram Heshmat, Ph.D. Tags: Addiction Behavioral Economics Source Type: news
Struggling with Substance Abuse/Addiction during Pregnancy
Friends of mine who are mothers and addicts in recovery say that one of the most horrifying experiences of their lives was using during pregnancy. They knew what they were doing might hurt their unborn children, but they could not stop. read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - October 1, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Constance Scharff, Ph.D. Tags: Addiction Behavioral Economics Psychiatry drugs infertility pregnancy Source Type: news
How Long Until the California Legislature Gets It
Yet again, the California legislature makes a terrific blunder with SB1283, showing the electorate that they have no idea how to deal with the dangerous problem of synthetic drugs, in this case, synthetic marijuana and speed. Known as Spice, K2, or by a myriad of other names, synthetic marijuana has been a “legal” substitute to the real thing.read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - September 30, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Richard Taite Tags: Addiction Behavioral Economics Integrative Medicine Psychiatry marijuana sb1283 spice Source Type: news
Is addiction a "biopsychosocial" phenomenon?
Nobody likes people who say "I'm right and you're not." We've all learned to be diplomatic, so nobody's feelings get hurt. But science is different. It's about getting to the truth, not trying to find a way to include everybody's views.read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - September 29, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Lance Dodes, M.D. Tags: Addiction Eating Disorders Self-Help Therapy Source Type: news
Canadian Cannibal on Trial
Luka Magnotta's trial will be watched by millions - just as he wanted. Will compassion over his claim to mental illness move the jury past their disgust over his disturbing and egregious acts? read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - September 29, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Katherine Ramsland, Ph.D. Tags: Addiction Law and Crime Media Psychiatry cannibal dismemberment fame insanity Magnotta murder Source Type: news
Tracks Of The Trade
It has been claimed that problem gambling can be identified online by examining the patterns and behaviors of online gamblers. If this is true, it has implications for current problem gambling screens (e.g., DSM-5). This is because most criteria found in these screens are associated with the consequences of problem gambling rather than than actual gambling behavior itselfread more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - September 29, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Mark D. Griffiths, Ph.D. Tags: Addiction Behavioural tracking compulsive gambling Disordered gambling dsm criteria gambling addiction Online gambling Online gaming pathological gambling problem gambling Problem gambling identification Source Type: news
The Upcoming Revised NFL Drug Use Policy
The NFL is putting the final touches on a new drug policy. This new policy, which is the first major update since the last policy in 2010, is between the NFL Players Association and the NFL. read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - September 24, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Richard Taite Tags: Addiction Sport and Competition Therapy drug policy drug use Football NFL Source Type: news
