National data show that 23.2 million Americans struggle with addiction, and of those only 10 percent are receiving help.
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Hence the second argument: legalisation offers the opportunity to deal with addiction properly.
More than 23 million people over the age of 12 in the U.S. are struggling with addiction and need treatment.
An intervention is a carefully planned process involving family and friends and others who care about a person struggling with addiction.
Brand, who has admitted his own problems with addiction in the past, thinks his own experiences may have helped him with his portrayal.
Today he says that the core issues with addiction for most people come from long held and erroneous beliefs about oneself that begin in childhood.
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At one point in the proceedings, the harsh portrayal of Jackson's struggle with addiction led one juror to lean forward and stare at the floor for several moments.
Tessina estimates 25 percent of the couples she sees for overspending are grappling with addiction issues, which can often cause a person's life to spin out of control.
The singer struggled with addiction and mental illness, often publicly.
Number one, the United States can focus on drug treatment and prevention, and helping people deal with addiction, making sure that young people are not getting hooked on drugs.
And both Gil Scott and Esther Phillips - especially Esther Phillips whose whole, sort of, life story and career is actually quite tragic because of her problem with addiction.
Speaking about his own struggle with addiction, which lasted 20 years, he told BBC Arts correspondent Rebecca Jones last year he felt "lucky" to be "here to talk about it".
The temptation is to self-diagnose, says Dr Guy Ratcliffe, head of the Medical Council on Alcohol - a group set up in the 1960s to tackle medics with addiction problems.
Second, everyone knows someone who has struggled with addiction.
She struggled, often publicly, with addiction and mental illness.
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Pritzker, a Harvard Law school graduate with an addiction to tax-deflecting trusts.
"If a man this accomplished is still struggling with this addiction, it speaks volumes regarding how powerful this addiction truly is, " he said.
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The scheme, which has close links with local addiction services and the health authority, also hopes to cut crime rates by beating the addiction as early as possible.
When people with internet addiction were taught how to apply CBT to their internet use problems, they reported improved well being and less of the offending behavior, internet use.
Some studies have found that people with internet addiction have fewer dopamine receptors in certain areas of the brain, and others have suggested additional ways in which dopamine function might be impaired.
But despite the prospect of not playing rugby for two years, the South Africa-born prop insists that, having come to terms with his addiction, he has been happier over the past five weeks than he has been in years.
New director awards went to Canada's Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais for his dark comedy, Whitewash about a man trying to survive a harsh Canadian winter, and American Sean Dunne for Oxyana, set in a rural coal mining town riddled with an addiction to pain relief medication.
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Like those dealing with serious addiction, one can take a path to detoxification which would rid the body of its ills at the price of a horrible physical experience, or one can keep feeding an addiction, perhaps in moderately reduced doses, in order to avert the pain.
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Christopher Owens, one of the co-leaders of the operation, was a talented songwriter and a made-to-order rock star: he had been raised in the Children of God cult, whose refusal to accept modern medicine contributed to the death of his brother, and he had spent his teens struggling with drug addiction.
Ford, who died in 2011, is remembered for her candor in sharing her struggles with cancer and addiction.
Dopamine is a chemical messenger between nerve cells that is associated with reward and addiction, among other things.
The Shoe Library is sure to drive my friend with the shoe addiction to new levels of Louboutin madness.
They provide mental health services, programs for people living with HIV, addiction recovery programs, computer training, wellness and nutrition classes.
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