Craig Fabrikant, a clinical psychologist at Hackensack University Medical Center, says that he doesn't believe that sex addiction exists in the same way that alcohol or cocaine addiction does.
It's like alcoholism - you've got to address the addiction to alcohol itself as well as why people are drinking.
Although the troubled star is free from his former alcohol addiction, he has suffered a relapse of the mental health problems which plagued him after his showbiz career slumped.
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The Duchess of Cambridge has launched a counselling programme aimed at reducing the impact of drug and alcohol addiction on children in Manchester.
Kerouac, who had struggled with fame and alcohol addiction since the success of On the Road, ventured to Big Sur seeking solitude and a place to dry out.
Release also suggested greater government intervention was needed, similar to the approach taken with alcohol and cigarette addiction.
It debilitates otherwise healthy people and may well prove the ultimate cause of drug and alcohol addiction, obesity and many industrial and auto accidents.
Public shock at Gascoigne's condition at the event on 31 January prompted his admission to a clinic in the United States for treatment for alcohol addiction.
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Other Comic Relief plans include a broadcast from the Give It Up For Comic Relief concert, the brainchild of Russell Brand, raising money for people in the UK affected by drug and alcohol addiction, on 6 March.
Bob Probert was one of the most feared enforcers in the game, playing 16 seasons in the NHL despite struggles with alcohol and drug addiction.
The temptation is to self-diagnose, says Dr Guy Ratcliffe, head of the Medical Council on Alcohol - a group set up in the 1960s to tackle medics with addiction problems.
The National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism is watching new human trials of the antiseizure drug topiramate (Topamax) to study the effectiveness of dual treatment for alcohol and cocaine addiction.
At its most extreme, people like Masellis will do just about anything to satisfy a hunger that can gnaw at the will just as hard as an addiction to alcohol, drugs or gambling.
Whereas alcohol and substance abuse has a chemical addiction, the buzz from gambling is a mental state of mind which is desirable.
The two drugs are naltrexone, used to treat alcohol and cocaine addiction, and bupropion (known mainly as Wellbutrin), an antidepressant, which also helps people quit smoking.
Dr Griffiths and his colleagues argue that the mood-lifting effects of hallucinogens might be used to treat drug and alcohol addiction.
The campaign seeks to re-educate Americans to the view that addiction is a brain disease and presents convincing evidence that drug and alcohol abuse causes neurological changes that can be seen in brain imaging studies.
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And the range of drug therapies will grow, he believes, as new genes associated with drug and alcohol addiction are found.
Speaking about the programme at the time, Prime Minister David Cameron referred to 120, 000 families who were plagued by drug addiction, alcohol dependency and crime.
Following two weeks in the Abbeycare residential alcohol treatment centre in Ayrshire in 2005, she gave up alcohol completely and now works as an addiction support worker for Abbeycare.
Hours after the hearing, Millicent Tidwell, acting deputy director of licensing and certification for the California Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs said Morningside is not licensed to perform residential in-patient rehab or addiction treatment and lacked the appropriate license to provide residential treatment or recovery programs.
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