Former Nurse Writes About Struggle With Addiction
Former nurse writes about struggle with addiction
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A former emergency room nurse who became a drug addict and a convicted criminal has written a book about his experiences to help others who might be headed down a similar path to addiction. Ben Cox, originally from St. Anthony, self-published a book …
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George McGovern's Addiction Legacy
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In the book, he described the family's many unsuccessful attempts to help, and expressed guilt over feeling that he failed his daughter due to the demands of his political career. “That just about killed me,” he told the New York Times in 2005. “I had …
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Erin D'Amelio '13 Helps Level the Playing Field
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Entranced, D'Amelio couldn't help but get hooked on books. It's an addiction she's certain has shaped her as a person and contributed to her success as a student. “It's just one of those things that I could not live without,” she says. “And being able …
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Book has power to heal, change lives
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The book is not just her story, however. It is a guide that shows how Black completely overcame her past and her addiction and potentially how others can do so as well. She lays out the steps that helped her in order to help readers overcome their own …
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How can I stop my behavioral addiction on my own? – The answer to what your first step in stopping your behavioral addiction should be lies in the addiction itself. What is it all about? As we’ve spoken about before, the first thing I would recommend is, without shame, without blame, and without putting yourself down, stand back, get out a spreadsheet or a piece of graph paper and start to just graph how often and the frequency of when you engage in this particular behavior. Beyond that, there’s a substantial amount that you might do. That is, figure out what times you typically engage in the behavior. If you look at an addict, generally speaking, they engage in their destructive behavior in a slice of hours. Let’s say 5:00 to 7:00, or early in the morning, or something like that. Those are the hours that the body has been taught (sort of like muscle memory) to go and to engage in these sort of behaviors, and the individual should try to find activities that are inconsistent with the destructive addictive behavior. Another sort of strategy: they may go to the self-help book section at their local library or bookstore, they might go on the Internet and try to get some basic knowledge about what might be going on, they can consult a professional; a psychologist or a physician who is specializing in addiction. Let’s just be frank. Most physicians have no idea about addictions. They have a very pessimistic view on being able to cure an addiction. So, you need to seek out somebody who really knows something about it, and don’t …
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