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What Are the First Steps in Controlling My Food Addiction?

Question by NINTENDO: What are the first steps in controlling my food addiction?
I have food addiction. It started when I was a child . My mother would feed me fatty food as a reward for finishing my studies.
As I grew up , anytime I did something related to working hard or studying, I would eat like crazy . Yesterday I had a shrimp basket with fried sweet plantains and chicken with rice from the street vendor .
That’s just yesterday. I been eating junk food for the past 3-4 weeks . Let me put it this way. Whenever I finish a hard project, I have to have Junk Food.

Brazil : The Drama of Codependency

Brazil : The drama of codependency

Filed under: prescription drug addiction treatment

PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil – Behind every drug addict, at least four other people need treatment, according to Brazil's Federação de Amor-Exigente (FEAE), which brings together 920 support groups for the relatives of drug users in Brazil and its neighboring …
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The Record: Letters, Monday, July 15

Filed under: prescription drug addiction treatment

Every day, it seems, newspaper articles in New Jersey describe the escalating use and abuse of illegal and prescription drugs across the state. It's being called a public … Many overdoses can be treated with swift medical intervention. It's critical …
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Indian River County Support Groups: July 10, 2013

Indian River County support groups: July 10, 2013

Filed under: christian drug rehab treatment centers

Register: 772-562-3185; verochurch. com. new Jan. 14, 2013-Jan. 13, 2014 Celebrate Recovery: 7 p.m. Vero Beach Church of Christ, 3306 20th St. 772-567-2465; verobeachchurchofchrist.org. Narcotics Anonymous: For meetings on the … of recovery and their …
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The Mining Journal

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Superiorland Breakfast Kiwanis – meets 7-8 a.m. Thursdays, Pioneer Room A of University Center at Northern Michigan University. Meetings are open to the public. 12-Step Recovery Groups – offered daily at the Alano Club, 1202 S. Front St., Marquette …
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How Do I Help My Friend Who Confided in Me That She Is a Cocaine Addict?

Question by casey308: How do I help my friend who confided in me that she is a cocaine addict?
I know very little about cocaine addiction. I want to help her,but need some advice.

Best answer:

Answer by Katie W
Basically, you can’t.

You can be supportive –encourage her to quit, or go to police to turn in her dealer, or to go to rehab, drive her to support groups, etc — but YOU CANNOT TAKE RESPONSIBLITY FOR HER PROBLEM, even if she tries to give it to you. It’s handy for addicts to hand off the problem to someone else, so many try to give away the responsibility to a friend or family. This doesn’t work. This absolves them of failing, and gives them no responsibility/investment in success.

Is There Anything I Can Do BESIDES Alcoholics Anonymous?

Question by jgurl45: is there anything i can do BESIDES alcoholics anonymous?
i’ve been to AA but it just made me feel worse because someone would bring up something at every meeting that really bothered me and i would leave crying every time.

i REALLY have to stop. it got me in trouble with school and my parents are gonna find out and i just really need to stop.

and i do anything i can get my hands on. booze, weed, loritab, codeine, ANYTHING

Support Groups and Community Services That Can Help for Drugs?

Question by remo_M: support groups and community services that can help for drugs?
What are the support groups and communty services that can help for substance use and abuse
other than kids help line

Best answer:

Answer by Ed
Gosh, there are hundreds of different support groups.
WHO SEEKS the help for themselves (the abuser, a son/daughter, a parent, or a friend, an adult son/daughter still living with bad memories and ways of thinking from growing up with a drug abuser in the same family, or ?)?
Is THE DRUG ABUSER a kid, an adult, a father/mother, a physician, nurse, or ?
Do you know WHAT TYPE OF DRUG is the person abusing? Marijuana, Cocaine, Pills, or ?
Such info would be key to checking on the availability of a local support group helpline.