Upcoming events at Victory Addiction Recovery Center
Victory Addiction Recovery Center would like to announce some upcoming events this week aimed at educating and bettering our community. On Wednesday, April 28th at 6:00 p.m., counselor, writer, and speaker Roy Petitfils will present "Bored, Addicted, …
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The Seedy Underbelly of Rehab Centers' Online Marketing
Lack of scientific evidence aside, residential treatment centers (also known as addiction recovery centers or rehab centers) purport to offer a safe, supportive treatment environment for a person to detox from their addiction, typically for up to 30 …
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Technology addiction
She has founded netaddiction.com and the Center for Internet Addiction Recovery. She compares online addiction to drugs or alcohol, because the Internet provides addicts with the same kind of 'high' and they become dependent on it to feel normal. How …
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Question by ThatOneGirl: Internet Addiction? (7 years)?
I am 16 and I have not gone more than 6 months of my life, since the third grade, without being enthralled in some sort of virtual internet community. From Club Penguin to IMVU, I’ve gone everywhere and done everything.
I’m not sure if this is an addiction but it is starting to scare me because I recently reflected on the situation and realized that after 6 months of being internet-sober, I go right back in like clockwork without even thinking about it.
Is this healthy? Should I get help? I really, REALLY, don’t want this to transcend into my adulthood.
Thanks!

Best answer:

Answer by A perverted taco
I wish u were addicted to me

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Question by bill: Video Game Addiction – Help!?
I have played a game called King of Kings 3 for a little more than a year now. This game has really had a bad impact on my life. I have become addicted to spending real money to make my character better. Overall, I probably spent $ 2,000 on the game. I played it for 6+ hours a day, and hardly see my wife anymore. Today I found myself paying $ 50 into the game and asked myself why. I now see that I am wasting my money. Money that I need for bills, money that could have been spent to have a wonderful dinner with my wife. Money that if nothing more, could have been saved.

I am at the starting line of ending my addiction. I gave away all my items on the game and told all of my friends that I am quitting. I uninstalled the game and want to find new activities that don’t ruin my real life. It was sad, people in the game said how they would miss me, but I have to do this for myself.

I need to fix my life, how can I make sure that I don’t fail and fall back into wasting my life on pointless video games? Are there any support groups in the USA? Should I see a psychologist? I don’t want to fail by going back to this game. I have wasted probably more than a thousand hours on this game, I am hurting because I had to say goodbye, but I can’t live a normal life with this video game.

I’ve had other addictions too. I played halo reach just as much and it impacted me almost as badly. Now my brother wants me to buy Diablo III. I know I can’t do that. How can I make sure not to fall into this trap again? How do I get my wife to end her own internet addiction? How do I take control back of our relationship? I want to have the relationship I used to have with my wife and my family.

Best answer:

Answer by Good looking Murphy
stop playing it, well definitively stop spending so much on it. play a cheap game like diablo or world of warcraft

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Selena Gomez: Justin Bieber, drug and alcohol addiction drove me to rehab
Selena Gomez spent two weeks in rehab in January to treat an addiction to alcohol, pot and the prescription sleep medication Ambien, TMZ reported. Gomez's camp blamed Selena's drug and alcohol addiction on her ex-boyfriend, Justin Bieber, who was …
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Demi Lovato Talks Addiction and "Amazing" Friend Selena Gomez After Her …
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Deprogramming China's Youth
Welcome to the Internet Addiction Treatment Center in Daxing, a suburb of Beijing, China. Established in 2004, its aim is to deprogram Chinese teenagers—mostly boys—who suffer from an “Internet addiction.” China was one of the first countries to …
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China's Web Junkies
The Internet Addiction Treatment Center, in Daxing, a suburb of Beijing, was established in 2004. It was one of the first of its kind – and there are now hundreds of treatment programs throughout China and South Korea. (The first inpatient Internet …
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Law is one way of forcing addicts into treatment
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Treating China's Internet addicts
Treatment for Internet addiction is now available in the U.S. Last September, the country's first inpatient treatment program for Internet addiction opened in Pennsylvania. The program features 10-day treatments beginning with a two-day "digital detox …
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The War Within: Portraits of Vietnam Veterans Fighting Heroin Addiction
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Grants Go A Long Way When It Comes To Addiction Treatment
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Jan. 21, 2014 — /PRNewswire/ — In its second year as a non-profit organization, Runwell: The Linda Quirk Foundation awarded 10 grants to addiction treatment programs in the U.S. and abroad. Runwell's grant program supports …
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Treatment for Addiction
The most effective treatment for opioid addiction entails the use of medications, specifically, methadone or buprenorphine. While New York City has many methadone programs and buprenorphine prescribers, medication-assisted treatment remains …
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