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It follows the life of hip hop producer J-Swift, formerly of The Pharcyde, from homelessness and crack addiction to his mission to win back his life and music career.

Adam Gontier

In 2005, he went into rehabilitation at the CAMH (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health) in Toronto, where he wrote many of the songs for One-X, including "Never Too Late", which was co written by Adam's wife, Naomi Faith Brewer.

Addiction psychiatry

Moreover, addiction psychiatrists recommend the benefits of 12-Step programs such as Narcotics Anonymous and Alcoholics Anonymous and often encourage patients to seek external support.

Affective neuroscience

Individuals with addictions experience increased activity in this area when they encounter the object of their addiction.

Assistance in Recovery

Assistance in Recovery (AiR) follows in line with the philosophy and practice of Dr. Vernon Johnson, the creator of the Johnson Model of intervention, which stresses the need to break through the denial harbored by most who suffer from addiction.

Beyond Recognition

During the recording of Beyond Recognition vocalist Steev Esquivel temporarily left the band due to lack of focus due to drug addiction.

Binaural beats

Alpha-theta brainwave training has also been used successfully for the treatment of addictions.

Bruce K. Alexander

Alexander and SFU colleagues conducted a series of experiments into drug addiction known as the Rat Park experiments.

Center for BrainHealth

All contributions support the cause of brain health and the Center’s many research focus areas-Alzheimer's disease, traumatic brain injury (TBI), autism, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), stroke, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Addiction, BrainHealth Physical, Dementia, Exercise and the Brain, Healthy Brain Aging, and Virtual Brain Training.

Charles Whitfield

Whitfield has taught at Rutgers University and is a best-selling author known for his books on the topics of general childhood trauma, childhood sexual abuse, and addiction recovery, including Healing The Child Within and Memory and Abuse: Remembering and Healing the Effects of Trauma.

Daniel and Lily

An obstacle written into the couple's story was Daniel's addiction to Internet pornography.

Deandra Reynolds

In the season 2 episode Dennis and Dee Go on Welfare she and Dennis develop an addiction to Crack cocaine which is brought up a few times in later episodes.

Dopamine: My Life on My Back

According to Jesse Boykins III, "I was inspired to name the album Dopamine: My Life On My Back based on the series of songs I was writing. They all put me in a mood that I knew could be explained. I researched love, chemical love, and addiction and the word Dopamine was the end result. Dopamine is an endorphine in your body that makes you feel 'in Love'. It is also released when your addicted to something. Addicted ... to Love."

Earth-One

Green Lantern (vol. 2) #85 (1971): "Snowbirds Don't Fly" A story focusing on drug addiction, showing Green Arrow's ward Roy Harper addicted to heroin.

EXIT Theatre

In 2002 EXIT Theatre founded DIVAfest and premieres have included Last of the Red Hot Dadas by Kerry Reid with a soundscape by Pamela Z (based on Dada artist Baroness Elsa von Fretag Loringhoven); E.O. 9066 by Liebe Wetzel (a found object play based on the Executive Order 9066 that interned Japanese Americans during WWII); and Crystal Daze by Deborah Eubanks (dealing with mothers, daughters and methamphetamine addiction).

Five Thieves

The group of five evils comprises Kam (lust), Krodh (rage), Lobh (greed), Moh (attachment) and Ahankar (ego) in Sanskrit; translated into English these words mean lust/addiction, wrath/rage/anger, materialistic greed, attachment/worldly infatuation and ego/pride respectively.

Foundationism

Stephen Franklin: In 2260, following an addiction to stims and the realisation that he did not know who he was when he was not being a doctor and decided to go walkabout.

Gentle Path

It is based on the work of Patrick Carnes, namely his "Thirty Task mode" for sex addiction recovery.

Gridlock'd

Entertainment Weekly gave the film "B" rating and Owen Gleiberman wrote, "Gridlock'd doesn't have the imaginative vision of a movie like Trainspotting, yet it's more literally true to the haphazard torpor of the junkie life than anything we've seen on screen since Drugstore Cowboy... Curtis Hall has caught the bottom-feeder enervation of heroin addiction".

Health in Bolivia

Addiction to coca paste, a cocaine by-product in the form of a cigarette called 'pitillo', was spreading rapidly among city youths.

Internet addiction disorder

According to Maressa Orzack, director of the Computer Addiction Study at Harvard University's McLean Hospital, between 5% and 10% of Web surfers suffer some form of Web dependency.

Jo the Waiter

Like many Numan songs from this period, it evokes a Burroughsian world of addiction, homosexuality and failed relationships, predating the writer's fascination with science fiction that took hold on the next and last Tubeway Army album, Replicas (1979).

Joe Matt

In his autobiographical comic Peepshow, Joe Matt examines his inadequate social skills, his addiction to pornography, his cantankerous relationship with his then-girlfriend Trish, and the lingering effects of his Catholic upbringing.

John Pringle Nichol

He recorded an account of his drug-addiction illness and its cure by hydrotherapy at the Ben Rhydding Hydro in his book Memorials from Ben Rhydding (1852).

Karen Freeman-Wilson

While there she helped get a trial of Prometa, a treatment for methamphetamine addiction, launched in the Gary drug court.

Lee Robins

Robins received numerous honors and awards in her career, including being named as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Society for the Study of Addiction to Alcohol and Other Drugs.

Lynda Hull

During the next ten years she struggled with heroin addiction on and off and lived in many places including various Chinatowns following a marriage to an immigrant from Shanghai.

Margaret McKenna

In 1989, McKenna moved to the Fox Chase neighborhood in Northeast Philadelphia, witnessing the impact of drug addiction on the lives of the residents.

Markus Amm

He has shown work internationally in exhibitions including Finding Neverland at Patricia Low Contemporary in Gstaad, Alles in einer Nacht at Tanya Bonakdar in New York, The Addiction at Gagosian Gallery in Berlin and New Party at The Breeder Projects in Athens.

Melicious

In it, Lefton is depicted as an already-famous musician who rose to fame as a pop star only to succumb to an IV addiction to SunnyD.

Michael VerMeulen

In the same year he became engaged to an Australian author named Antonella Gambotto-Burke, who left him because of his drug addiction.

Models of abnormality

However they can also have consequences, whether biology is responsible or not, as drugs always have a chance of causing allergic reactions or addiction.

Mukuro Rokudo

Also, his and Kyoya Hibari's character CD entitled "Sakura addiction", peaked at seventh place on the Oricon charts.

New Addiction

New Addiction is the debut EP released by English hard rock band Liberty Lies.

New Democratic Party of Manitoba candidates, 2003 Manitoba provincial election

Ballingal Scotten has worked as a counsellor at the Youville Centre and St. Raphael Centre in Winnipeg (Winnipeg Free Press, 4 May 1998), and has specialized in treatment for sexual addiction (WFP, 29 September 2001).

Nyswander

Marie Nyswander, psychiatrist, expert on addiction, and daughter of Dorothy

Paul Steinbroner

In 1983, he founded CNS Productions, a publishing and distribution company specializing in topics related to addiction, neuropharmacology, and brain chemistry.

Recovery coaching

William L. White used the term "recovery coach" in his 2006 paper Sponsor, Recovery Coach, Addiction Counselor but later changed adopted the term "Peer Recovery Support Specialist" to emphasize a community-based peer model of addiction support.

Sal Pace

In 2011, Pace led opposition to the proposed Fiscal Year 2011-2012 state budget, which included $250 million in cuts to education, closing the Fort Lyon Correctional Facility and eliminating an addiction recovery program at the Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo.

Savoy Truffle

Harrison wrote the song as a tribute to his friend Eric Clapton's chocolate addiction, and indeed he derived the title and many of the lyrics from a box of Mackintosh's Good News chocolates.

Sexaholics Anonymous

A psychologist involved in sexual addiction treatment, Patrick Carnes, encourages self-defined sobriety in his writings, saying that a no-masturbation definition of sobriety is only appropriate for some sex addicts and that bottom lines can in fact be modified over time.

Shais Taub

He has compared his work to that of Abraham J. Twerski, another Hasidic rabbi who has written extensively on addiction and who is also a Milwaukee transplant to Pittsburgh.

Stanton Peele

Creation of the Annual Stanton Peele Lecture, 1998, by the Addiction Studies Program, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia.

Talking cure

Diane Keaton attributes her recovery from bulimia to the talking cure: "All those disjointed words and half-sentences, all those complaining, awkward phrases...made the difference. It was the talking cure; the talking cure that gave me a way out of addiction; the damn talking cure".

Tata Esteban

At his wake, former DILG Secretary, former Laguna Governor, former Senator and former NAPOLCOM Chief Joey Lina shared that he and Tata were to due to discuss the production of an anti-drug abuse campaign using the Bible as the most potent weapon against addiction.

The Motel Life

He has a terrible gambling addiction and, in desperation, gets Frank to wager heavily on the Tyson-Holyfield fight in an attempt to erase a $2,000 gambling debt.

Xi'an Incident

Thus, on 14 December 1936, Madam Chiang sent her Australian adviser, William Henry Donald, who had previously been Zhang’s adviser (and had helped him overcome opium addiction), to Xi'an for negotiation.


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