In this article published in the Annals of the New York Academy of Science, Rajita Sinha of Yale University takes a deep dive into the connection between stress and addiction....
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Chronic Stress and Addiction
Dr. Shahram Heshmat addressed the relationship between stress and addiction. High stress coupled with poor coping skills contributes to the onset of addiction and to the risk of relapse. This is one reason why childhood trauma and later life trauma that results in post-traumatic stress are risk factors for addiction.
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Ground-Breaking News: Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder Classified in the ICD-11
For years there was an ongoing debate about the legitimacy of sex addiction. For those of us in the field working with those devastated by this addiction or in recovery ourselves, there was no question that this addiction was valid. For us, this belief was much more than blind faith. There was a growing body of evidence that...
