I received so much positive feed back and questions from my last article “Our Addictive Society” that I was encouraged by readers to write a follow up. In this second installment my focus is on what I call the “Neo-Opium Wars” that is taking place right now, here on...
Thirty-years ago I was as blind to addiction as nearly everyone else walking down the street. It never occurred to me that I might be addicted to anything. Like everyone else I got up in the morning and went to work. I was productive at my job and provided my family...
Motivation comes in many forms. For me, it was the pain of watching my son deal with addiction. He over-doesd twice before he was old enough to drive and then tried to hang himself. Watching a son try to end his life is enough to break any father. But instead, I used...
The hell like conditions of combat has a wide range of both physical and psychological effects on even the most prepared soldier. Today’s accepted symptoms of Post-Trauma Stress Disorder were first described by a doctor during the Civil War. Shell shock was a term...
In March 2013 I was invited to be a keynote speaker at the 1st International Conference on Behavioral Addictions, held this week in Budapest, Hungary. The purpose of the conference was to gather the world’s leading experts on process addictions to discuss their...