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What is addiction and why do we become addicted?
Explanation of addiction and the abuse of substances or activities as a way of self-medicating against life.
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Addicted? Who? Me?
How many of us have said, ‘I’m addicted to my morning coffee’, ‘Got to get my news fix for the day,’ ‘Sex – just got to have it’? Our relationship with addiction has become a fashionable commodity; lets cut out the middle-man and get to what we are really craving.
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Video game addict
A personal account of the damaging effects of being addicted.
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Addictions
A brief description of addiction and an invitation to deepen your understanding that there is another way to live.
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When does sugar addiction begin?
Anyone who has gone cold turkey to give up sugar knows how difficult it can be and just how addictive sugar is. So when does our addiction to sugar begin?
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A personal account of addictions
Deborah McBride shares how she healed her drug and alcohol addiction. Why is that we reach out for something outside of us to dull ourselves from what life brings and we think we cannot cope with: why are alcohol and drugs such an enticing option and how do we kick addiction to the kerb?
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Addiction to pain killers, the rise of opioids
There is a world-wide epidemic that started under the guise of medicine. Prescription pain relievers – synthetic opioids such as fentanyl – play a big part in a serious international crisis that affects public health as well as social and economic welfare.
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The human face of sugar addiction
The human tragedy of sugar addiction – we are not just statistics. Do we hand over our responsibility for our health to marketing ploys and vested interests?
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Sweetness – the key to sugar addiction
Why do we succumb to sugar addiction and what can we do about it? Are there deeper underlying reasons as to why we are consuming so much sugar?
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Petrol stations laden with sugar fuelled snacks, bars and nibbles resemble drug dens for sugar addicts and ‘paradise’ for over-eaters.
Petrol stations – sugarcoated and sickly-sweet are not what they used to be
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Porn addiction – what are we missing out on?
It is difficult to talk about porn addiction without entering into a full moral debate about whether it is right or wrong. Could the way we talk about porn be stopping us from discovering the underlying truth behind its addiction?
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My Addiction to Marijuana
How did this woman stop smoking marijuana after being addicted to it for 33 years? When even the diagnosis of breast cancer and having two young children was not enough to get her to stop?
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Addicted to guitar – Michael Serafin
This honest and revealing interview with Michael Serafin gives an insight into life as a teenager, and why and how he isolated himself with music and an obsession with his guitar.
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Cocaine and Chocolate, kissing cousins?
Cocaine and Chocolate are both addictive substances activating the same chemicals and pleasures systems in your brain; yet one we can buy over the counter and is socially acceptable the other is a class A drug.
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Rat parks, obesity, food, behaviour and connection
The stunning trends of obesity expose the way we live and our lack of purpose and community connection.
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Internet porn – the ultimate educator for normalising abuse and violence in our relationships
As we determine what intimacy, love and connection means in our society, internet porn has become a global sex education and created a new ‘normal’. Do we want this abuse to infiltrate and influence our children’s lives?
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Brainwashing, supply and demand
Our Audio of the Month for November 2017 presents how through scientific evidence it has been proven there is no such thing as brainwashing – so what is really going on when we use that term?
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Exposé on the food industry: science of profit
Raw insight into the Food Industry with its use of media and advertising in raising profit margins. It would appear that the food industry’s biggest share is in our digestive tract and the dividends are sky-high.
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Pornography and the ‘theft’ of our true essence
What is the energy behind the addiction to pornography… and other addictions for that matter?
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The confusion of the food industry
Confused by all the contradictions of what healthy food is? We delve into nutrition facts and how to eat healthy.
