Posts Tagged ‘video game addiction’
4 Benefits of Helping an Addict Into Treatment
4 Benefits of Helping an Addict into Treatment
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Helping someone into treatment for addiction is a gift that yields a lifetime of returns for the individual struggling with chemical dependency, but its benefits extend much further than that. Loved ones, typically driven by unselfish motives to help …
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Former gambler sets up rehab centre to help others kick habit
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The centre offers a three-month rehabilitation programme where gamblers can stay at its branches in Seremban and Kluang and learn how to kick their addiction. Those who want the centre's help, can call its hotline at 017-238 1900. Pastor Thian Oon Kin, …
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Video Game Addiction Help from Fox 13 Tampa
Fox 13 anchor Lloyd Sowers speaks with Ryan G. Van Cleave, the author of UNPLUGGED: MY JOURNEY INTO THE DARK WORLD OF VIDEO GAME ADDICTION, about video games, digital culture, and addiction.
Gaming Addiction Treatment: Tory MPP McLeod Asks Ombudsman to Probe Provincial Gambling Plans
Tory MPP McLeod asks ombudsman to probe provincial gambling plans
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Nepean-Carleton MPP Lisa MacLeod says Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation has an 'incoherent plan' for adding new casinos, a plan that would threaten the jobs of 1,000 employees at Rideau Carleton Raceway if slot machines were transferred to a new …
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Litchfield Council Votes To Bring Down Buzzard's Roost
Filed under: gaming addiction treatment
Street then compared gambling to pornography and spoke on the ills of gaming, saying like the bath salts the city was trying to keep out of the gas stations, gambling was also an addiction. After Street's comments, Sisson made the point that once …
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Addiction Counseling: Parkridge Valley Counselor Receives Counselor of the Year Award
Parkridge Valley counselor receives Counselor of the Year Award
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Liz Gates, a Parkridge Valley counselor, recently received the Counselor of the Year Award from the Southeast Tennessee Association for Addiction Professionals. Gates was nominated by her fellow professionals in Southeast Tennessee, and she is actively …
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Online gaming addictions growing more serious
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Futoko Shien Center, a Nagoya-based association offering counseling services for truants, said it had received 327 individual requests for consultation for online game addiction from the beginning of this year to July. Zenkoku Web Counseling Kyogikai, …
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Genetic counseling benefits relatives of schizophrenia patients
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"To our knowledge, this is the first study that formally demonstrates the feasibility and worth of genetic counseling for schizophrenia in community mental health practice," write Anne Bassett (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario …
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Have Any of You Ever Felt Like You Were Being Punished for What Your Gf/bf Ex Did to Them?
Question by Jason: Have any of you ever felt like you were being punished for what your gf/bf ex did to them?
I feel like my ex gf wants to punish me and make my life uncomforable to get back at some of her past exes that cheated on her, were physically abusive, and one even ruined her financial credit with his gambling addiction.
Council Studies Internet Cafes
Council studies Internet cafes
Filed under: gaming addiction treatment
“They tell us — about 40 percent of them — that the kind of activity that goes on in these adult gaming parlors has contributed to their problems,” said Paul Coleman, president and CEO of Maryhaven, the addiction-treatment center on the South Side.
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Pro: Industry is regulated, won't contribute to crime
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A 2008 study published in the Psychological Medical magazine says the rate is between .01 percent and .06 percent. Prohibition does not reduce gambling addiction. Treatment, not prohibition, is the best method to treat problem gamblers. Will gaming …
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What Is Addiction? (This Is for All That Have Uneducated Comments to Make)?
Question by faith: What is Addiction? (this is for all that have uneducated comments to make)?
The term “addiction” is used in many contexts to describe an obsession, compulsion, or excessive psychological dependence, such as: drug addiction (e.g. alcoholism), video game addiction, crime, money, work addiction, compulsive overeating, problem gambling, computer addiction, nicotine addiction, pornography addiction, etc.
In medical terminology, an addiction is a chronic neurobiologic disorder that has genetic, psychosocial, and environmental dimensions and is characterized by one of the following: the continued use of a substance despite its detrimental effects, impaired control over the use of a drug (compulsive behavior), and preoccupation with a drug’s use for non-therapeutic purposes (i.e. craving the drug).[1] Addiction is often accompanied by the presence of deviant behaviors (for instance stealing money and forging prescriptions) that are used to obtain a drug.