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Ten Tips for Tough Times

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

serenity Noah benShea, noted philosopher offers inspirational ideas for moving through difficulties.

1. Being broke is not the same as being broken, losing money is not the same as being lost, and finding your balance is not something you can do on a balance sheet.

2. Don’t confuse having less with being less, having more with being more, or what you have with who you are.
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Tags: Bearing Burdens, Foundations Recovery Network, la paloma, Noah Ben Shea, Noah benShea, Tough Times
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Infidelity in a New Age

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

infidelity The Internet has ushered in new ways to cheat and left us looking for new ways to define just what cheating is.

Technology has changed our world irrevocably. It’s also changed our definition of infidelity. It used to be that sexual contact with another partner was what we considered cheating. Now, the Internet has opened up a new world of porn, webcams and sexually-charged chatting. It’s made it necessary to redefine just what constitutes cheating. Does going to a strip club count? Looking at pictures? Exchanging fantasies online? Or does physical contact have to take place in order for it to be considered cheating?
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Tags: Infidelity, Internet, Internet Porn, Porn, Romance, Sex, Sex Addiction, Sex Chat, Strip Clubs, Treatment, Webcam
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Harold’s Blog: Ego Has to Go

Friday, May 22nd, 2009

egoblog There’s no room for ego in the recovery process.

Learning to leave your ego at the door is the step in recovery that separates the men from the boys. I like to think of ego as standing for “Edging God Out.” But it wasn’t easy for me.

I was an egomaniac with an inferiority complex. I could talk the talk, I never backed down from a fight, but I was also so fearful. I would only wear certain clothes because I wanted people to see me in a certain way. Ego played such a tremendous part in my life as an alcoholic.
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Tags: 12-step, Ego, Inferiority, Recovery
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Snorting Danger

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

hcv_w2001 New study shows that Hepatitis-C virus may be transmitted through the noses of drug users.

For someone who snorts their drugs, the main safety concern has been the drugs themselves, but it turns out there’s a new danger. For up to 20 percent of people contracting the Hepatitis-C virus, the method of transmission has been unknown, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). Now researchers believe that contaminated drug-sniffing implements may be the culprits for infecting a number of drug users.

The Infectious Research

The NIDA helped fund a trial that tested the hypothesis of nasal contraction of HCV. Investigators took samples of mucus and of straws used in typical drug use from 38 intranasal drug users with HCV infection. Blood was detected “in 74 percent of mucus samples and on eight percent of the straws used for sniffing. In addition, they detected HCV in 13 percent of mucus samples and on five percent of the straws. Only eight percent of the samples contained both HCV and trace amounts of blood.” (more…)

Tags: Drug Abuse, Drug Sniffing, Drug Use, HCV Infection, Hepatitis-C, Nasal Contraction, NIDA, Sniffing, Snorting, Transmission
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Sex Addicts and Celibacy

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

Smiling couple portrait. While treatment is important for those with sexual addictions, in this case abstinence is not the goal.

Overcoming addiction usually means sobriety. But for recovering sex addicts, sobriety rarely means celibacy as the long-term goal.

Sex addiction occurs when sexual behavior is compulsive and uncontrollable, and when it continues despite negative consequences and damage to relationships, others and the addict. This includes excessive engagement with cybersex, pornography, prostitution, sex with minors, unhealthy sexual activities, masturbation, S&M or other similar sexual behaviors.
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Tags: Addiction, Celibacy, Chemical Addiction, Process Addiction, Recovery, Sex Addicts, Sexual Addiction, Sobriety, Society for the Advancement of Sexual Health
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