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Addiction: Gambling
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These conditions are the by-product of addiction. The addict lies to everyone, things start missing around the house, and the dishonesty conveyed is proportionate to the severity of the addiction. These things are apparent to those living with an addict.
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Sometimes there is just a hint or two of addiction, that something is not quite right. It becomes far more painful if you wait till later, when you are desperate to stop and don't know how to. It is equally as painful to watch someone close sink into the degradation which accompanies full-blown addiction. On the way, everyone will have suffered increasing damage from rages, arguments, financial difficulties, social embarrassments, stress, unpredictability, accidents and injuries, and emotional and physical illnesses.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Legacy Foundation surveyed smokers this week in New York City about their addiction to cigarettes and their intentions to quit. The survey found that the majority of the city's smokers (71 percent) would like to stop smoking, and 40 percent plan on making quitting smoking one of their New Year's resolutions.
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The habit model proposed by Thomas Szasz questions the very concept of "addiction." He argues that addiction is a metaphor, and that the only reason to make the distinction between habit and addiction "is to persecute somebody." (Szasz, 1973). Cf ... the life-process model of addiction.
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StopSmokingConnection.com, one of The HealthCentral Network's newest sites, is dedicated to helping smokers and former smokers on their quest to overcome addiction. The site ... provides targeted information on COPD, one of the top health risks associated with smoking.
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In a well-designed randomized clinical trial, Norwegian researchers compared buprenorphine and methadone maintenance therapies for opioid addiction. The following is excerpted from commentary on an English translation of the study report by Dr. Andrew Byrne MB, BS, Redfern, New South Wales, Australia.
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