The threat of disintegration and collapse in this family and to a certain extent the heroic struggle of the central character in overcoming the problems that beset her is real. It's real, you know? It's not the stuff of losers, it's the stuff of ordinary families, ordinary suburban families. Not the working class poor, not the silly rich, it's the stuff of every single family I know. There is a family member, there is a beloved friend who is beset by the life and death struggle to do with drug addiction and getting free of it.
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We've seen an acknowledgement that they do have an addiction to spending. That's the first step to recovery.
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Regardless of who you are, if you have this addiction, you've got to deal with it, or something's going to happen to you.
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He's a very honest guy and said, 'I've got some issues. I've got an addiction problem, and I don't know what to do about it.'
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I've seen cases of parents with bad credit that use their kid's name to get utilities. Other cases involved friends with addiction or gambling problems that steal your personal information to open credit card accounts.
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If you believe our president, a former oil businessman, is going to end our addiction to oil, shame on all of us.
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She's relaxing more. She laid off Healthy Addiction and pounced.
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Sexual addiction is the fastest-growing addiction in the United States. It's based in part on the fact that obtaining sexual literature, pornography, is so convenient today. It's more readily available. It is there at the click of a finger.
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If there is a silver lining in this awful cloud, it's that it's reminded Americans how vulnerable we are and why we have to end our dangerous addiction to foreign oil.
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(With) a lot of these new technologies, there's this element of addiction whether it's cell phones or checking your e-mail or blog. Last year, everywhere I went, like cafes and wireless nodes, everyone was checking their Facebook, posting in their Facebook groups and e-mailing.
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When I went to the Maine State Lottery Commission as part of my investigation, they knew Mr. Dyer by name. Mr. Dyer told me he had a gambling addiction.
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These new standards build on California's world leadership in clean air and clean energy solutions. We will create a clean technology boom in California that breaks our addiction to fossil fuels and protects our health and economy from the effects of global warming. Innovation will stimulate business investments in advanced energy alternatives and generate new 'clean-tech' jobs.
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Fighting America's oil addiction with these standards is like fighting lung cancer by smoking 49 cigarettes a day instead of 50.
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The vaccine works by producing antibodies that specifically bind to nicotine, and thereby prevent much of the nicotine from entering the brain. This process potentially reduces the pleasurable effects from smoking and reduces the addiction to nicotine.
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It's such a novel way of treating an addiction because it's not targeting any part of the brain. It's targeting the molecule itself.
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Nicotine addiction is such a powerful force that even the heartbreak of watching a family member die of lung cancer often isn't enough to convince smokers to quit.
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Children over 12 years of age who have fetal alcohol syndrome develop an array of devastating problems. These include mental health problems, disruptive school experiences, trouble with the law, inappropriate sexual behavior and alcohol and drug addiction.
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With political resolve and strong public health partnerships, Maine has set an example for all states. The result will be lives saved from the death and disease caused by tobacco use and addiction.
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Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.
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So when you're dealing with one addict, you're dealing with 8 to 10 other people that get affected because of the addiction. We have to look at public policy, the government, the people who are leaders and rely on them to do better public policy when it comes to a very, very addictive product.
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Our goal in smoking-related research is to detect those who are susceptible to nicotine, identify the best ways to prevent these persons from beginning to smoke and, if they do, determine how best to break the nicotine addiction that can result.
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This is the first sign of President Bush's commitment to addressing our oil addiction.
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Our study provides a fundamentally new level of analysis by which we can better understand the actions of cocaine in brain-reward regions at the molecular level. It also points to new potential treatments for addiction.
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One of the cardinal features of addiction is how long-lived it is,.. A key question in the field has been: By what mechanisms do drugs of abuse cause changes in the brain that last this long?
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That would make addiction more inheritable than diseases we commonly think of as genetic, such as adult onset diabetes or common hypertension
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