Mama Mia – The Feel Good Movie for Our Times
Posted on | August 8, 2008 | No Comments
During the Great Depression Hollywood turned out a lot of fluffy, feel good, happy ending movies with champagne for everyone. Mama Mia is that movie for out tough times.
Feel better now????
If they’re hitting you on the head – it must be the drugs!
Posted on | July 13, 2008 | No Comments
So you think taking drugs is only hurting you!! What do you know!!
Violence towards friends and partners is rising – and most of it has to do with drug use and abuse. The bad effects can be as simple as physical injuries but includes fear, post-traumatic stress and depression which for a victim can lead to homicide, suicide or a continuation of the violence (Archer, 2000, Hines, Malley-Morrison, 2001).
Category: Addiction, Religious and Spiritual
Tags: depression > partner > Public Enemy > stress > suicide > violence
Tags: depression > partner > Public Enemy > stress > suicide > violence
Why are we so addicted?
Posted on | April 21, 2008 | No Comments
Back From Addiction, and Sharing the Lessons
By LAURIE BESDEN; As Told to PATRICIA R. OLSEN Published: March 23, 2008, New York Times But I was addicted to Vicodin, a prescription medication for pain relief, and was taking up to 50 pills a day. In feeding my habit I broke the law and went to jail and had my law license suspended. For the last three years, I’ve been working my way back, thanks to two law partners who have given me a chance. I hope to have my license to practice law in Pennsylvania reinstated one day. I think I had addictive tendencies even as a child. When I would get codeine pills for tooth pain, I’d save a few for a rainy day. I even asked my dentist for laughing gas for a cleaning. A month before I was to graduate from law school, I found some Vicodin at the house of a friend whose father was in the medical field and took a few sample packs. No one even noticed they were missing.
Studies Find Genetic Link To Smoking
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: April 3, 2008 Scientists say they have pinpointed a genetic link that makes people more likely to become hooked on tobacco, causing them to smoke more cigarettes, making it harder to quit and leading more often to deadly lung cancer. The discovery by three separate teams of scientists makes the strongest case so far for the biological underpinnings of the addiction of smoking and sheds light on how genetics and cigarettes join forces to cause cancer, experts said. The findings also lay the groundwork for more tailored treatments to quit smoking. ''This is kind of a double-whammy gene,'' said Christopher Amos, a professor of epidemiology at the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and author of one of the studies. ''It also makes you more likely to be dependent on smoking and less.
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Back From Addiction, and Sharing the Lessons
By LAURIE BESDEN; As Told to PATRICIA R. OLSEN
Published: March 23, 2008, New York Times
But I was addicted to Vicodin, a prescription medication for pain relief, and was taking up to 50 pills a day. In feeding my habit I broke the law and went to jail and had my law license suspended. For the last three years, I’ve been working my way back, thanks to two law partners who have given me a chance. I hope to have my license to practice law in Pennsylvania reinstated one day.
I think I had addictive tendencies even as a child. When I would get codeine pills for tooth pain, I’d save a few for a rainy day. I even asked my dentist for laughing gas for a cleaning. A month before I was to graduate from law school, I found some Vicodin at the house of a friend whose father was in the medical field and took a few sample packs. No one even noticed they were missing.
Studies Find Genetic Link To Smoking
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: April 3, 2008
Scientists say they have pinpointed a genetic link that makes people more likely to become hooked on tobacco, causing them to smoke more cigarettes, making it harder to quit and leading more often to deadly lung cancer.
The discovery by three separate teams of scientists makes the strongest case so far for the biological underpinnings of the addiction of smoking and sheds light on how genetics and cigarettes join forces to cause cancer, experts said. The findings also lay the groundwork for more tailored treatments to quit smoking.
''This is kind of a double-whammy gene,'' said Christopher Amos, a professor of epidemiology at the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and author of one of the studies. ''It also makes you more likely to be dependent on smoking and less.
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How do we find comfort when the world is a cold place?
Posted on | April 19, 2008 | No Comments
You feel ALONE. Many people feel alone. Can this a sign of the times? People
may reach out in inappropriate ways or allow themselves to be USED by others who exploit this loneliness. How do we keep ourselves safe?Because each individual is unique, we all tend to feel lonely under different conditions. For example, some of us will feel lonely when we are excluded from group activities, others, when we are deprived of building close one-to-one relationships.
Loneliness means to feel:
- Excluded from a group.
- Unloved by those around you.
- Alienated from your surroundings.
- There is no one with whom to share your personal concerns and experiences.
- That you are alone and have no other choice. You find it difficult to make friends and go beyond mere acquaintance.
Courtesy of Student Affairs-University of Buffalo. 
about. While some people panic at the thought--others delight at the thought. If you believe that you can take care of your own needs well and be happy even if you are alone, then being alone is nothing to fear. If you believe that you need others to take care of you and "make" you happy, then you are too dependent on others and their absence is something to "panic" about.
Courtesy of csulb.edu/~tstevens.
Category: Religious and Spiritual
Tags: depression > help > involvement > lonely > partner > search > song
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