'This Place Saves Lives'

'This place saves lives'

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Nestled a few miles north of Fort Collins is the place Jack MacDonald finally shook off his title as a “closet drunk” hiding his addiction under the cloak of a professional career as an addiction and treatment counselor. It's the place he and the …
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Is texting while driving an addiction or compulsion? New research could help

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Most current studies look at the problem as an addiction but he thinks something else is driving us to this behavior and new research may show us the motivation and the fix for this growing but dangerous phenomenon. Linda Hurtado is taking action for …
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Hotline offers help to Swedish sex addicts

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… as have relatives with concerns about family members' behaviour. "These are people who have comprehensive and uncontrollable sex addiction," Katarina Öberg, a psychologist at Karolinska University Hospital, told the Dagens Nyheter (DN) newspaper.
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