What I've learned to do is arrest my addiction -- arrest it myself, so I don't get arrested.
But I sense that my addiction to the realtime stream is only making room for the consumption of a faster stream.
Sometimes, to break my addiction to the tube, I spent the night in a derelict shed with mushrooms growing from the rafter boards.
But Dr. Ameisen, author of The End of My Addiction: How One Man Cured Himself of Alcoholism, says that baclofen, used off-label and in high doses, can cure all addictions, including alcohol, cocaine, heroin, smoking, bulimia and anorexia, compulsive shopping and gambling.
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TLC's latest offerings include "Freaky Eaters, " about people with bizarre eating disorders and food addiction, and "My Strange Addiction, " which features those who battled obsessive behaviors like eating cleanser and sleeping with a blow-dryer.
But not surprising, given that Oxygen is the home to such fare as My Shopping Addiction, The Bad Girls Club, and every possible incarnation of Tori Spelling and her husband.
It just breaks my heart what addiction continues to take from this life.
"It breaks my heart what addiction continues to take from this life, " singer Wynonna Judd wrote in a series of tweets.
So did I become codependent because of glimpses of addiction in my own home, or in spite of it?
Specifically, I discussed at great length my completely imaginary kayaking addiction.
The Shoe Library is sure to drive my friend with the shoe addiction to new levels of Louboutin madness.
Those personal style articles on addiction and poverty are my means of talking it out.
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And in that brief remembrance of fights past can be found my saving grace where would-be gambling addiction is concerned.
This year, thanks to a serious caffeine addiction, I felt like I was owed my daily Starbucks until I denied myself it for a month and had to make coffee at home.
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"I've had some of my naysayers from other programs who say you've taken one addiction and replaced it for another, " Crandell said.
Indeed, in my experience many anxious patients who would benefit from benzodiazepine treatment are so worried about addiction and other problems that they deny themselves an important potential pathway to well-being.
Since I am not an expert on addiction or the impact of drug addiction on pregnancy, I thought it would be best to bring in my fellow CNNHealth contributors to help answer this question in three parts.
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