As a recovering alcoholic, married to a recovering alcoholic, also the daughter of alcoholics I don’t believe that alcoholism/addiction can be cured alone. We all need help especially with issues relating to denial. Growing up surrounded by alcoholics and drug addicts meant that my teenage years were plagued with unmanageability and chaos. The abnormal became [...]
Erin Fitzpatrick, Office Intern Across a war-torn Afghanistan civilians find themselves frantically searching for subsistence and the fortitude to make it through the long days. Unfortunately, the lack of food and money has, throughout the years, contributed to the desperate lifestyle that many Afghanis currently live. The most prominent and troublesome solution to malnutrition and [...]
Sex Addiction? Really? Society may have become more accepting of the concept of addiction in areas other than drugs and alcohol – gambling and shoplifting, for example – but the idea of sex addiction is often treated with a heavy dose of scepticism. In part this may be a reaction to the media’s cynical insinuation [...]
