Joel and Arianne’s Story – Stories of Heroin Survival – My Treatment My Choice

Joel and Arianne’s story – Stories of Heroin Survival – My Treatment My Choice – Joel was stuck in a destructive cycle of heroin treatment and relapse, until a crisis point in his relationship with Arianne led him to seek help from a spec…

Company key to overcoming addiction

Filed under: addiction dependence

Putting to one side any issues of physical withdrawal, which only serve to compound the problem, the addict or dependent faces two significant losses. One is obviously loss of the substance of addiction or dependence and with it, the good feelings it …
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China's dangerous credit addiction

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In particular, critics point to China's increasing addiction to cheap credit, which began when Beijing unleashed its large-scale monetary stimulus at the height of the financial crisis. Between 2008 and 2012, China's total debt as a proportion of gross …
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