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Addiction

What is Porn Addiction?

What is Porn Addiction?

The sudden easy access to internet pornography has shifted so much of our cultural and emotional landscape. Research varies, but it’s estimated that anywhere from 86 to 96 percent of men are regular porn consumers. One popular porn site logs about 40 billion visits...

How Substance Abuse Affects Parenting

How Substance Abuse Affects Parenting

One of the sacred responsibilities of being a caregiver—especially a parent—is the commitment to protecting children. However, a parent addicted to drugs or alcohol cannot fulfill this promise. Children need love and support, but addiction sabotages that dynamic. In...

How Substance Abuse Affects Parenting

How Substance Abuse Affects Parenting

Substance abuse and addiction have the potential to run or destroy lives. This is hardly breaking news. But it bears repeating that substance abuse affects far more than the life of the user. If you are a parent and you are addicted to drugs or alcohol, every move you...

5 Ways Addiction is a Family Disease

5 Ways Addiction is a Family Disease

Families are made up of individuals. Collectively, these individuals make up a system of sorts—a family system. Family members interact with each other in very specific, unique ways. It creates a rhythm that consists of behaviors, words, expectations, personalities,...

Does Your Partner Have An Addiction? Couples Therapy May Help.

Does Your Partner Have An Addiction? Couples Therapy May Help.

About 20 million American adults struggle with some kind of addiction. Of that number, almost three-quarters of them are battling an alcohol use disorder. Therefore, it’s not unlikely to imagine having a partner with an addiction. Unfortunately, this situation is all...