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Can Amy Winehouse Beat Addiction and Still Say No,no,no to Rehab?

Reports surfaced recently in the news that Amy Winewhouse’s parents are shocked at their daughter’s drug problem! Claiming they always knew Amy was a smoker, but had no idea whatsoever that she was hooked on cocaine, heroin, pain killers, and other drugs. It’s also been reported that a close friend of Amy’s actually witnessed her informing her parents on several occasions that she had an addiction. The same source also reported that Amy had actually pulled out a joint and smoked it in front of her mom, at a family wedding. The next day, she offered her father a hit from her crack pipe, to which he declined!

Dr. Stanton Peele discusses the nature of addictive behavior, and the viability of the “disease model”.
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Stress, addiction, de-addiction trauma: a vicious circle

A vicious circle is a never ending chain of events. It keeps on rotating, until broken from outside force. This stress can be caused by various external factors. Dealing with which can be very difficult though. Thus many of us surrender to various addictions. I would like to put an excerpt of an article here, with due gratitude, about how the external substances like drugs and alcohol can help people deal with the stress and traumatic incidents. It is as follows: After a traumatic event, people often report using alcohol to relieve their symptoms of anxiety, irritability, and depression. Alcohol may relieve these symptoms because drinking compensates for deficiencies in endorphin activity following a traumatic experience. Within moments of experiencing a traumatic incident, there is an increase in the level of endorphins in the brain.

Is Sex Addiction Real?

Unlike for alcohol or drug addiction, there is no formal diagnosis for Sex Addiction in the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic Statistic Manual (DSM IV).   According to Chester Schmidt, chair of the DSM-IV Sexual Disorder Work Group, there is “no scientific data to support a concept of sexual behavior that can be considered addictive. (1)”  Schmidt believed that what is called sex addiction is more likely a symptom of other psychological problems like depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, or bipolar disorder.  

According to Benoit Denizet-Lewis (2), “Believers in a sex-addiction diagnosis point out that for many years, doctors and psychiatrists similarly dismissed alcoholism, refusing to accept that it was a serious problem in itself, not merely a symptom of something else.”  Many of practitioners in the sexual addiction field are hopeful that the DSM V, which is due out in 2012, will include expanded diagnostic choices for process addictions, including sex, gambling, spending, eating, and/or religion addictions.  According to Elizabeth Hartney, “a working group of professionals has recently suggested diagnostic criteria which may be considered for the next edition of the manual, due to be published in 2012.”

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