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Topic: Addiction and Recovery

  

Attorney, Writer, Speaker

Steven L Hayes Steven L Hayes was born in Fort Smith, Arkansas, where, inspired partly by the fact that his father was the County Sheriff, he seemed destined to find his life’s work in helping and protecting others. ...READ»

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Are You Addicted To Being Addicted

This is the third and final part of this series of posts at www.TalkingSober.com where we have been looking at the phenomenon of becoming addicted to the idea of being addicted . I am suggesting this phenomenon is ...READ»

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Are You Addicted To Being Addicted

This is the third and final part of this series of posts at www.TalkingSober.com where we have been looking at the phenomenon of becoming addicted to the idea of being addicted . I am suggesting this phenomenon is an aspect of the ...READ»

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Verdict : Alcoholism is a Choice not a Disease

Some people say alcoholism as an addiction is a disease. Do you believe addiction is a disease? Do you believe addicted people have their addiction because of a genetic predisposition? If you answered 'yes' to either or both of these questions then the following article will surely challenge those beliefs.READ»

Prescription Drug Injuries or Death

It was a poor choice at best and a deadly choice at its worst. The switch the medical community made from prescribing Oxycontin to using methadone only added fuel to the fire of drug addiction.READ»

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A 12-Step Program for Job-Seekers

I joined the ranks of the so many people this past year when I gave up a very good position in a small health system in Ohio to pursue some new career interests.  My wife graduated with her second master's degree and was pursuing ...READ»

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Nanotech Invention May Be Golden Bullet for Controlling Drug Addiction

Scientists at the University of Buffalo have found a new use for nanotechnology--as an extremely precise way of delivering chemicals to the right part of the brain to combat drug addiction. And, pleasingly, the science really does ...READ»

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Don't Mess Up

There are 10 things that smart leaders do to help them cope -- but those very actions could mess up their companies, careers, and lives.READ»

CEOCast AND Michael Wachs

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kathryn wellman - therapeutic strategies

Kathryn Wellman After a parent dies, many children will act younger than they are. The child may temporarily become more infantile; demand food, attention and cuddling; and talk baby talk. Younger children frequently believe ...READ»

Success and Excess

People are reaching the top, using all of their means to get money, power, and glory - and then self-destructing. Perhaps they wanted success in the first place or didn't like what they saw when they finally achieved it.READ»

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Asus Debuts Yet Another Eee PC

Perhaps a little drunk on the wild success of its Eee PC notebook, Asus [TPE:2357] is releasing yet another iteration of the much-loved little machine called the Eee OC 904 HD. News junkies will recall that Asus announced more ...READ»

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Seven Signs of Our Times Online

This isn't your usual August. With enough political issues smoldering to fill a decade of American history, the vacation month has turned into a morass of issues that boggles the mind. Here are seven articles that went viral this ...READ»

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Hitting the Trail

After years of blurring its image, EMS is setting out to reestablish itself as the industry's premier outdoor retailer. Here's how it plans to make the trek.READ»

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GlaxoSmithKline Signs $540 Million Deal for Nicotine Vaccine

Four years ago, the startup Nabi Biopharmaceuticals began testing a promising nicotine vaccine called NicVax with the aid of $4.1 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health. Earlier today, the vaccine received a booster ...READ»

Beverage Marketers Have Created Idea Triggers Better Than Anyone.

They're so good that they're routinely co-opted for political purposes.READ»

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By Our Staff

Change or Die: The Three Keys to Change at Work and in Life By Alan Deutschman ReganBooks, January 2007 In Change or Die, Deutschman, a Fast Company senior writer, expands upon his popular May 2005 cover story, debunking myths ...READ»

Social Capitalists: Profiles

Rubicon Programs Inc. Founded: 1973 Richmond, California Rick Aubry, Executive Director www.rubiconpgms.org Entrepreneurship: A- Innovation: A- Social Impact: A+ Aspiration: B Sustainability: A- Bite into a Rubicon ...READ»

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In Your Jeans

Workplace fashion update! This week Friday, October 8, is National Denim Day, a business-related opportunity to support the fight against breast cancer. For the last eight years, corporate employees across the country have been ...READ»

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Ask the Experts

Dan Pink recommends online resources for free agents.READ»

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Shawn Baldwin from CMG with Nobel Laureate Dr. Gary S. Becker

Shawn Baldwin from CMG in Chicago with Dr. Gary Becker at the 2009 Milken Global ConferenceREAD»