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This addiction has gone too far?
I'm a girl and I am feeling quite bored these days because I cant seem to fullfill a certain addiction I have. I put my charms into action and try to get guys to fall for my looks. I don't do it directly but in a subtle way because I've been told I have quite attractive features. They usualy fall completely in love with me. After I complete my chase with a catch, they no longer interest me so I break it off with even before they have a chance to get into a relationship with them because I know they still want me from the gestures and comments they make. So, in other sense, I'm being a tease. In this process, one even threatened to kill me when I told him I am not interested in him. And there was a stalker as well who still keeps calling me. Well, the thing is, I've been bored the couple of days since I have too much time on my hands. I've been tempted to go back to my addiction but I can't find any suitable guys that I would get a thrill following my addictive actions with. I don't want to seem needy with guys either. Why am I like this and how can I get over this? I'm in my 20s

Ramadan: How can I stop my addiction?
Salam,Chocolate has ruined my life and brain I'll end up eating and murdering them too, then thats me in prison for life... and huanted... by chocolate Jinns...

Do you support methadone treatment (for addiction)?
Do you support treating opiate addicts addicts to drugs like oxycontin, vicodin, and heroin with methadone? Why or why not? Also, would you be okay with a methadone clinic opening up in your neighborhood?

My boyfriend has a porn addiction, what I should do?
Hello, we are together for 2 years already, and from beginning we was all the time fighting about his addiction to porn. He can spend 3 4 days with me without having sex, but when he's alone he can't stop himself, and doing it like 2 times a day. That is really hurting me. I was trying to tallk nice with him about it, I was angry tried a lot off things. Nothing helped. He finally admited that he have a problem, it is good. But now I don't know what to do. The only thing witch I didn't tried yet is to stop sleeping with him and leaving him just with porn, hopping that one day he will understand that real is better and then he would have enought power to overcome his problem. Do you think my decision is right? I will be greatfull for every answer..

Which is worse, Drug addiction or Religious fundamentalism?
What do you think is worse for society, drug addiction or christian islamic judaic.... ok basically abrahmic religious fundamentalism?

Is your family embarrassed by your R&S addiction?


Christians, will sins/addictions prevent me from being saved? Please help!!?
I've been a christian since i was born. I thank god for everything i have and for making me the person i am today. I believe in god with all my heart and i trust and rely on him. I watch Joel Osteen on T.V and he said that we all have the favor factor and gods gracious hand is on us. I strongly believe that and i accept god as my savior and master. I go to the adult ministry in my church even though im supposed to go to the youth ministry. I really want to deepen my relationship with god. But, ive been doing a sin lately over and over again, and im ashamed. Im tired and sick of it and i just want to break out of the sin. I rely on gods strength to help me and open this cage that i am in. But ive been feeling so guilty and i feel like i will be left behind when god decends into earth. Please, if you can give me any advice or tell me whether or not ill be saved, i would very much appreciate it. Thank you all and may god bless you.Oops sorry about " ive been a christian since i was born." yeah, i didnt mean that but what i really mean is that my parents were in the worship band in a church when i was around 5 6 years old. So when they had practices, i had to stay there and listen and learn more about god within the songs lyrics. I honestly learned through the songs lyrics and know the songs by heart now. i wish i could pick you all for best answers but i dont know how to. Lol. Anyways thanks for your supportive answers and i pray to see you in heaven when the time comes. God bless and take care P.S the " favor factor" is a term he used to describe the favor gifts he has for us. Therefore, we shall accept and use it.

Since I freed myself from addiction on my own, does that make me stronger then people who needed religion?
Wow I rock I'm even more proud of myself then I was before since I did something some say is impossible to do without God.I beat alcohol, cigarettes, opiates, coke, speed, and whatever else came along all on my own without any kind of help whatsoever Not to downgrade your own struggle if you're an addict but I'm way totally awesome

What board game most overwhelmed you w/ "addiction" before adulthood?
I remember playing games of " Risk" that would last for weeks. We would engage in mammoth dice rolling sessions just to gain control of one country. We devised markers that represented 100 men. I think they were golf tees.

Spiritually speaking, can you cure your addiction to drugs by turning addict to chocolates?


What can you do about a bf that has an addiction to porn and talking with women online?
I have caught my bf of 3 years making several email accounts and talking to other women. He says it is because he has low self esteem and needs reassurance. Most of the time he deletes the email accounts before I get a chance to read what he says to them. I know he has been joining dating sites and all that jazz too. He swears that he loves me. I have asked him several times not to watch porn in front of me. But he don't care. Just the other night after we got done doing the deed he was watching it on his phone. I have voiced my feelings on this matter. Hell I even chose porn over the other women, but you would think that I am asking him to cut off a limb or something. He is very defensive about it. He swears he has never cheated, but he tried to. He has an excuse for everything. I am torn. I love this man, my kids love this man. It is not easy just to up and walk away when everything else is perfect. What in the heck am I to do? He swears that he is not doing it any more but I don't know. That gut feeling is back. The same one I got when he was doing it in the past....Deacon I know that he still watches it. Because on the rare occasion that he don't delete his history from his phone browser it is there. I honestly don't care if he watches it. I just don't want him to do it around me. I would prefer not to see that. It is just a combination of the 2 that has me suspicious and losing trust in him. It is real easy for someone to say " leave him" or " dump him" . I know this man loves me and my kids. He has proven that. He has an addiction and I am looking for ways to help him, so in turn it will help us.

How do I beat my forum addiction?
There is only one forum which i'm attracted to and its negative and depressing and there is always drama but somehow im always on there and i have nothing else to do and NOTHING interests me. Im at my wits end on how to stop being obsessed with this site.

How is addiction a spiritual problem?
i've heard it said that all addiction has its roots in spirituality. can someone please explain this to me? thankyou

Is there a American College of Addiction Medicine and a National Library of Addictions?
Yes , on paper , the American College of Addiction Medicine and the National Library of Addictions has never existed anywhere in Massachusetts or the United States . Punyamurtula Kishore aka MAD DOG Millionaire is a Fraud .According to the attorney general, Dr. Kishore paid $2,500 a month to the president of the Fresh Start Recovery Coalition, a Malden company that ran sober houses across the state. In return, the company s president, Damion Smith, allegedly sent residents to Kishore for drug testing. The purported scheme involved $597,000 in claims billed to MassHealth, the state s Medicaid program. The attorney general calls it fraud.Each drug screen cost $100 to 200. Carviello, who did the testing for Kishore, says the president of those halfway houses was testing crazy five or six times a week. That was crazy, Carviello and her co workers thought, because opiates remain in the body for three to four days. Even ordering three tests a week should have been too much.Kishore never received a state license from the Department of Public Health to run addiction treatment programs. You re not going to learn anything new on Tuesday that you didn t know on Monday, Carviello said, unless they used that very night before. And if they did, there s no sense testing on Wednesday because it s still in your system. Others, too, question the need for so many tests. Joanne Peterson runs Learn To Cope, a support group for families of drug addicts on the South Shore. She says she became suspicious the first time she heard Dr. Kishore pitching his treatment plans to parents.People would say What do we do? How do we afford it? Peterson said. He was like, Have them come see me, I can get anyone on MassHealth anyone. Don t worry about it. And I was like Oh my God. Red flag. That was 2004.By June of this year, MassHealth began withholding reimbursements for Kishore s chain of clinics a criminal investigation had begun. At the Woburn office, supervisors told the staffers it was merely an audit when they asked for 500 charts and lab work. But when she got the list of the names her supervisors needed to provide the state, Carviello saw the light. The top of the paper said Subpoena, so, that wasn t very bright, Carviello said, laughing.The joke turned out to be on both the employees and the patients.Patients Without ClinicsStarved of the state reimbursements, Kishore started closing clinics without notice over the summer. At those that remained open, he stopped paying his employees. When he was arrested last week, the last of his clinics shut down, as did the supply of the anti addiction drug Vivitrol.So why, with a potential crisis on its hands and knowing Kishore s clinics were collapsing, didn t the state step in sooner to avert the coming crisis for addicts who were about to be cut off from treatment?That was the question posed Monday to the state secretary of Health and Human Services, Dr. JudyAnn Bigby. I can t comment because of the investigation of a fraud that s going on and the other agencies that are involved in the investigation, Bigby said.If Bigby was suggesting the attorney general s office was tying her hands, a spokesman for the attorney general had another position. We worked cooperatively with MassHealth, the spokesman said, to ensure they were aware of our investigation well in advance of last week s legal action. The state says it s trying to find and coordinate alternative treatment for Kishore s patients. And, WBUR has learned that Dr. Kishore never got a state license from the state Department of Public Health to run addiction treatment programs.Meanwhile, at Kishore s businesses in Brookline Tuesday, eviction notices were posted on closed doors.His lawyer didn t return phone calls requesting comment and at his home, no one answered. The dry cleaning sat out front in stenciled packaging that read We love our customers.