The Love Addict on Screen

The Love Addict On Screen

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I'm sitting in the back of the pitch black Quad Cinema in the West Village for one reason: to watch Love Addict, a documentary by Pernille Rose Grønkjær. And the reason I'm watching? I was interviewed, along with my “person of addiction,” for it … Read more on TheFix.com

 


Opioids for Chronic Pain: Addiction is NOT Rare – Prescribers and the public have been misinformed about the risk of addiction when chronic pain is treated with opioids. This has led to overprescribing of opioids and the worst drug epidemic in US history. Even when taken as directed, patients receiving long-term opioid therapy for chronic pain can become addicted.

 

Social media can lead to internet addiction

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Just about all girls diagnosed with the addiction trace their problems to social networking sites, says Bernd Werner, from the German Foundation for Media and Online Addiction. "They're always thinking about what's going on right now in the network … Read more on Health24.com

 

Is sex addiction real?

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In recent years, media reports of celebrities – usually men – citing "sex addiction" as the reason they've been unfaithful have made headlines. But is what's known to psychologists as "hypersexual disorder" a real pathology or just a lame excuse for … Read more on Health24.com