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Holiday times are good times. Aren’t they? Nowadays, with air travel, the holiday season can be at any time of year. The good times don’t need to fade away into distant memory. We can have them again whenever we want. A holiday gathering can be a family gathering with any number of family members. Or […]
Some addicts are highly intelligent. They use this natural gift to ‘prove’ to themselves and others that they are not addicts. As with mediaeval monks discussing how many angels dance on the head of a pin, they argue over the precise nature of addiction until the cows come home. Intelligence doesn’t protect them from mental […]
Many people die before they hit rock bottom addiction. They think they can manage their ‘habit’, use sensibly, and have a bit of fun. Then one morning they wake up dead. Addiction isn’t a habit. For one in six of the population, it’s a compulsion, probably driven by faulty neurotransmission systems in the mood centres […]