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2016 American Presidential Hopefuls Are All Talking About Addiction.

March 28, 2016

Years ago, politicians would not dare discussing addiction; Admitting that politicians relatives suffered from addiction would have been frowned upon.  Now in 2016 everybody from Donald Trump to Jeb Bush is addressing Addiction with personal tales of drug-addicted family members. 

Addiction in AmericaThe attention addiction has received has suddenly risen to the top of the list with almost all of the presidential candidates recalling and sharing their experiences. This is not about parties now because every candidate in both parties has had to speak about addiction one way or the other. What Americans are saying, however is, why is this happening now? Years ago, politicians would not even spend a minute talking about addiction let alone having them talk about how it has affected their relatives. It would have been frowned upon. All of a sudden in 2016, the song is now about it.

It first started with Jeb Bush who spoke about how his daughter recovered from addiction. Her name is Carly Fiorina and he recalled having to beg a judge not to send her daughter back to jail. Then Carly Fiorina had to recount her own struggles with families that had gone through addiction. Then it was New Jersey Governor Chris Christie who also spoke about how a close friend had an overdose of drugs and died. All these stories, as they come out, tend to strike chords that are powerful on drug abuse which had caused policy reviews and influx of proposals on how to combat the subtle but deadly epidemic.

Now that addiction has received the attention of the lawmakers and the powerful, what is going to be done about it? Stories will be fine but that’s not going to change anything. As a matter of fact, there will be more stories to tell if nothing concrete is done. Patrick Kennedy, a former US representative blurted out to the politicians “you are running to be storyteller-in-chief”. That is to say, it’s not about the stories, it’s about how we change the way addiction is treated in the health care system.

Governor Christie was firm enough to let everyone realize that addiction is a disease and should be seen as such. It is an epidemic and it is spreading. Advocates are of the opinion that more money needs to be put into combating addiction and this should also include monies for treatment and research on what best can be done to reduce the rate at which people get exposed to addiction.

The Democrats don’t really seem to have plans or maybe their plans are too weak. Last year December, in a debate in Manchester, New Hampshire, Senator Sanders iterated that addiction should be treated as a disease and not a criminal activity. But despite the outcry, he was not able to tell how he is going to combat the disease of addiction. So, talk is cheap.

Presidential candidate Hilary Clinton is the only one who seem to have a plan that comes with a price. She was at New Hampshire Union Leader in September and proposed a $10 billion plan to combat addiction. Even though she is the only one who seems to have a plan, some advocates don’t seem to take her 5-point agenda as very serious. Governor Christie is known for her infrequent visits to New Hampshire recovery centers when she was campaigning. One of her manifestos if she becomes president is that she will create drug courts in all 93 federal court districts. These courts will grant treatment instead of imprisonment to non-violent offenders. She said something that made a lot of sense. She said the money that would be saved by keeping more people out of prison can be diverted into researching into better addiction treatment plans. Her statement was however not without criticism as some of her critics say Christie has not been effective so far in treating addiction since she was a governor. Reports said since she took over office in 2010, there has been less investment in treatments in the state of New Jersey. Further, the reports said about three-quarters of drug addiction who needed help never got treatment in 2013 because the treatment centers were either full or shut down.

All these tends to point to one thing, these politicians don’t really know exactly what is to be done to really combat addiction. Yes, they now agree that it’s a problem that needs to be tackled but how they are going to tackle it is the issue. As for any result to come out of this, I believe they will have to work together. The past is past; the future has to be faced. It is not time to be witch-hunting one another. If a candidate has a good idea, let’s use it rather than tarnish their image like some are doing to Christie. Whether its Hilary’s plan, lets follow it and if it’s Christie’s, as long as it yields the required results. The most important thing is, addiction has destroyed too many lives in the US, and it’s time to put a stop to it.

 

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What is hypersexual disorder and its symptoms?

March 16, 2016

Signs that you have hypersexual disorder

Hypersexual DisorderThe National Council on Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity has defined hypersexual disorder alternatively and casually called sexual addiction as “engaging in persistent and escalating patterns of sexual behavior acted out despite increasing negative consequences to self and others. Hypersexual disorder is a psychological disorder, and these individuals who suffer this, should not be looked down upon. There is a dire need of understanding how things for them, only the perverse acts should be hated but not the individuals. As the severity of disorder increases so is their frustration.  About 71 percent of child molesters are sex addicts. For many, their problems are so severe that imprisonment is the only way to ensure society’s safety against them.

There are a number of symptoms hypersexual individual suffer, most of them have to do with a recurrent and insatiable desire to get involved in sexual activities, fantasies, urges and many more. The extent to which an addict shows signs and symptoms is greatly affected by individual’s personality, environment, culture, religious beliefs and the severity of disorder. Most of the times a person remains disconnected to the outer world and remain submerged in planning sexual acts and look at majority of individuals around him/her in a sexual way. Their minds get plagued by the foolish rewards system they have developed over a period of time that gives them a false sense of euphoria and enchantment once they engage in a sexual activity. Secondly they get easily driven by their desire of more and more such encounters as they start considering this euphoria as a basic human need without which their survival isn’t possible.

When a person suffers hypersexual disorder, their majority of time is spent in planning activities and fantasies and perfect sexual scenarios that might never occur. They start looking at everyone with the same eye. This could result in them committing sexual crimes. Not all of the sex addicts get engaged in sexual crimes as they can manage their desired by possessing multiple partners, prostitutes, phone sex an online dating services. But when the disorder takes a toll with high levels of frustration building in an individual, it becomes difficult for the addict to contain these wicked thoughts to themselves.

An addict mostly have very low self-esteem, self-loathing and self-shamming are two very basic symptoms of hypersexual disorder. They consider themselves as un-lovable entities and often have this issue of objectifying their potential sexual partners that creates an atmosphere of distress and disdain. They often become mysterious and lack common sense of boundaries. They can’t differentiate between normal and healthy sexual needs and perverse wicked needs for excessive sex.

These individuals engage in these activities in result of many factors and happenings around them, mostly their sexual fantasies are a perfect way of running away from stressful event of their lives. What they are unable to understand is that their ventures are not going to solve their problem, rather they will intensify them. The quick gain of false euphoria makes it impossible for them to avoid these encounters again and again. They repetitively try to refrain from these activities and stay unsuccessful in controlling their desires. With time and severity of disease, they completely start disregarding the emotional harm cause by these urges to themselves and others as well. They will anything that satisfied them for a while without considering the consequences

The person experiences clinically noteworthy personal distress or impairment in social, occupational or other important areas of functioning associated with the frequency and intensity of these sexual fantasies, urges, and behavior. These people becomes isolated as they are so absorbed in their own thoughts that they severely feel a lack of connection with the outer world, a sense of no understanding prevails in almost all of sex addicts. Even though they will loathe themselves for their acts but usually they will not accept it to another person, majority of these do not reach out for help, they get so addicted and dependent that it becomes really difficult to even think about the idea of surviving without their own world of perversion.

The people suffering hypersexual disorder also get engaged in other forms of addiction as substance abuse and alcohol; this does not help them in any way rather than making them more miserable. It’s important to note that none of the above mentioned symptoms are due to the direct physiological effects of drugs or medication or manic episodes. They find drugs as a suitable alternative to their sexual euphoria and to find escape from a distressful life they have built for themselves yet again this worsens the situation rather than making it better.

They excessively get involved in masturbation, pornography, sexual Behavior with Consenting or non-consenting individuals, cybersex, telephone Sex and strip Clubs. It is considered normal for people engaging in these activities once in a while but excess of everything is bad and that’s the only underlying reason for sex addiction. These individuals would go to any lengths or escalating frequency of sexual activity to achieve the desired effect, such as more frequent visits to prostitutes or more sex partners.

It is a cry for help if you or any of your loved ones possess these above mentioned symptoms of hypersexual disorder, it’s understandable and painful to see your loved ones suffer but these individuals do no seek help, it’s a good way to get them to a conference where they can learn a lot about sexual and other kinds of addiction and their available treatment options without feeling any kind of shame. Our aim to organize Integrated Addiction Conference is to help people understand multiple aspects of addiction through extensive lectures and researches done by the scientist from all over the world. If you are looking forward to understand addiction in more detail or you have something valuable to share with the community, now is the chance to get registered with us on the link below and get innumerous benefits along with this conference. The link to registration is http://www.awaremednetwork.com/integrativeaddictionconference/.

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Serotonin complications And Drug Addiction

February 28, 2016

Serotonin complications And Drug Addiction: What You Should Know

Did you know that you were a potential addict even before you decided to grab that bottle of beer? Well, this might be confusing to you especially, if you are an addict fond of blaming others for your problems. Have you ever asked yourself why you can’t control your addiction? Clearly, addiction and slavery are two things you can’t easily separate. Once you become an addict, you can’t come out of it. This is because, you don’t even have a clue what might happen if you stop smoking, drinking or even stop having sex. Even as we progress into the discussion we will be looking at serotonin complications and drug addiction and help you appreciate the need to keep healthy.

Serotonin complications And Drug Addiction: The Truth Behind Addiction

Several studies in the past made it quite clear that various neurochemicals had a big impact on drug addiction. According to recent studies, Serotonin complications has proven to be a worthy candidate in finding a better solution to drug addiction. The studies showed that not everyone who continuously uses a drug becomes an addict. It was also realized that the rate of addiction varied between individuals for examples, there are those who became addicted earlier than others. The most disturbing question was, why others became addicted while others didn’t. It was realized that it was possible for that lower serotonin levels in the brain was the cause of addiction. To get a clear understanding what this means here is a brief overview of why Serotonin complications are a vital factor to consider when dealing with addiction and recovery.

Serotonin

What exactly is serotonin?

Serotonin is simply one of the vital compounds created in the body. It exists in serum and blood and mainly functions as a neurotransmitter. Serotonin has seven receptors that include a total of 14 subtypes that perform several functions in ensuring that your body functions as it should. Below are the subtypes

 

Serotonin sub-types

HTR1A: Addiction, Aggression, Anxiety, Appetite, Autoreceptor, Blood

Pressure, Cardiovascular Function, Emesis, Heart Rate, Impulsivity, Memory, Mood, Nausea, Nociception, Penile Erection, Pupil Dilation, Respiration, Sexual Behaviour and Sleep

  1. HTR1B: Addiction (potentially modulating), Anxiety, Appetite, Cognition,

Imagination, Learning, Memory, Mood, Perception, Sexual Behaviour, Sleep, Thermoregulation, Vasoconstriction.

  • HTR1D: Anxiety, Autoreceptor, Locomotion and Vasoconstriction
  1. HTR1E:
  2. HTR1F: Migraine
  3. HTR2A: Addiction (potentially modulating), anxiety, appetite, cognition,

imagination, learning, memory, Mood, perception, sexual behaviour, sleep, thermoregulation and Vasoconstriction

  • HTR2B: Anxiety, Appetite, cardiovascular function, GI motility, Sleep and

vasoconstriction.

  • HTR2C: Blood vessels, CNS, GI tract, Platelets, PNS, Smooth Muscle
  1. HTR3A: HTR3B, HTR3C, HTR3D, HTR3E: Addiction, Anxiety, Emesis, Gi

Motility, learning, memory and Nausea.

  1. HTR4: Anxiety, Appetite, Gi Motility, Learning, Memory, Mood and

Respiration.

  1. HTR5A: Autoreceptor, Locomotion and Sleep.
  • HTR5BP:
  • HTR6: Anxiety, Cognition, learning, memory and Mood.
  • HTR7: Anxiety, autoreceptor, memory, mood, respiration, sleep,

Thermoregulation, and vasoconstriction.

Serotonin sub-types can also be found in several supplements manufactured to treat various complications. What makes these subtypes important in drug addiction is the fact that their level in the body during the first phase of drug use is a greater determinant of whether the person using the drug will become an addict or not. It was discovered that lower levels of serotonin at the initial stages of drug use will trigger an addiction. It was also realized that high levels of serotonin could reduce chances of addiction. In addition, it was noted that Serotonin complications effect on addiction reduces as the drug use becomes frequent. Apart from impacting addiction directly, Serotonin has also proven to be a good remedy when dealing with the pre and post effects of drug addiction in several ways.

Serotonin complications And Drug Addiction: Benefit to drug addicts

Drug use, drug addiction and drug recovery are all determined by human behaviour. Most of the times, recovery from addiction becomes a problem when the addict isn’t in control of his or her behaviours. These behaviours are characterized by mood swings, anxiety, emotions and more. It was discovered that Serotonin plays a major role determining human behavioural and physiological processes, especially when under stress. These processes include changes in appetite, response to pain infliction, sexual behaviour, breathing, focus and more. Here are some of its benefits to addiction recovery.

Serotonin complications

Finding solutions to serotonin complications

Reduce anxiety: According to several studies, it was noted that anxiety is one of the things to watch out for when trying to do away with drug addiction especially for those who are recovering. Anxiety is one of the major causes of relapse that most recovered addicts fight to prevent. Serotonin is proven to play an important role in improving sleep, appetite, mood and lastly, anxiety that is also important when fighting relapse.

Serotonin as a mood booster: Another relapse trigger to watch out for when trying to recover from addiction is mood swings. If you aren’t in control of you moods then chances that you’ll try and save the situation by going back to drug abuse are high. This will automatically interfere with your addiction recovery progress. Serotonin plays a major role in ensuring that you have good moods and, as a result, helps in preventing relapse.

Helps you relax: Several studies showed that relaxation therapy played an important role in relapse prevention. Most people prefer doing what makes them feel happy when they are under stress with an aim of trying to relax. Drug addicts find drug use convenient and end up using it with an aim of dealing with stress. Serotonin has proven to stimulate relaxation that is vital to drug addiction recovery.

In summary, serotonin is one of the most vital neurotransmitters that works best in ensuring that human brain functions as it should. By doing this, Serotonin ensures that all the relapse triggers such as anxiety, impatience and any other thing that might invite relapse are out of the way hence vital for drug addiction recovery.

More on drug addiction recovery will take place at integrated addiction conference. If you are an addict or just interested in the subject matter, you are highly advised to attend the conference as it will cover almost everything you need to know about drug addiction that is currently affecting the whole world and how to recover from it. For more information visit the link below.

http://regenerativepotential.com/integrativeaddictionconference/

 

 

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Impact Of Female Sexuality

February 11, 2016

The Different Impacts Of Female Sexuality

 The impact of female sexuality is of crucial importance to a woman.  The first reason for this is that a woman’s sexuality affects her whole life.  It can turn that life into something worthwhile, or it can turn it into something that is not worth while at all. A woman’s sexuality defines who she is in a primary sense, just as a man’s sexuality defines his identity. 

This gender, or sexual, identification starts at birth.  The first thing the doctor announces is “it’s a boy!” or “you have a girl”. This is the first thing that matters, because it’s the first building block in the edifice that people will someday call “man” or “woman”.  Everything else matters, but is secondary to sexuality. 

Psychological impact 

The sex of a woman is vital to her psychology, as it is vital to the psychological development of a man.  It’s importance to a woman is her identity—to a man, it helps him to define himself as something “other” than a woman.  Since it is so very important, the woman needs to see her sexuality as something to accept and celebrate—it is her foundation as a person.  To a man, it is something to accept, because one of the ways he defines himself is in contrast to a woman.  It is also something to perhaps feel superior about, because as a man, he is gifted with more strength than a woman has.  He has a heavier bone structure than she does; he has more muscle mass than she does. He can protect himself in ways that she cannot.  However, the fact remains that she has something he does not—she has the ability to conceive and create a new human being.  He can contribute to that new human, but she has the ultimate power to say this child will/will not be born.  

Sociological 

A woman’s sexuality is the reason society exists.  Even in the most primitive societies, the responsibility of a man is to protect and nurture his woman.  This is because every man must recognize on some level that if women were not sexual, society would not exist.  That being said, one of the commonalities of every culture is to limit the expression of sexuality. This applies to both males and females, but because of their weaker anatomy, it was more often the female’s sexuality that was limited and defined by men.

 

One of the major ways that this happened was the development of societal “norms” which defined men’s and women’s roles. These norms stated that women did certain things and women did other things.   Since we have come into a time where physical anatomy doesn’t matter as much, women’s roles have been changing changed.  The major ways that this is so are:

  • women have more legal rights
  • women are allowed to have more/different occupations
  • women are accorded a greater stature in society

 

Legal

 

The thing is the legal system was originally meant to protect women. The reason it was important for a man to accumulate wealth was to ensure that his children had something to start life out with.  Who provided the children?–Not his buddies.  No, it was his wife. So in order to assure his children of a proper inheritance he had to take care of his wife.

 

Cultural

 

Again, without female sexuality there would be no culture. After all, what is culture? Culture is the way we live. A large part of the way we live is men trying to impress the women so they would have access to her sexuality, so the men could have sons who they could train to carry on after they were gone. So men do everything they can to impress a woman so she will allow him to live with her.

 

Political

 

This is another way that men sought the approval of a woman, inviting her to live with him and bear his children. This would not have happened if the woman were not a sexual being, and if sex were not gratifying to both men and women.

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Spiritual

 

The earliest religions were those which worshiped women because of their ability to create life. Primitive people still do this.  In that way, spirituality and women’s sexuality are connected.  And according to some US studies, spirituality is also connected to a woman’s sexuality in that women who are more spiritual enjoy sex more and so are more likely to have sex. So men are more likely to espouse spirituality in order to have sex more often.

 

Religious

 

One of the ways in which women’s sexuality has impacted religion is because of an apparent contradiction.  Women who are spiritual have sex more often and enjoy it more.  Men who are spiritual have sex less often. So religion, which places limits on both the woman’s sexual experience and the male sexual experience, was born out of the male sexual experience and serves to restrict and limit the sexual experience of both genders.

 

Female sexuality has greatly impacted our society in many ways.  From serving as the identity touchstone to influencing the ways we think, play, argue, and worship, female sexuality has touched the lives of every female and male alive in a myriad of ways.  This article barely skimmed the surface.

The Different Impacts Of Female Sexuality

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The Biblical View of Sexuality

February 10, 2016

Understanding Biblical sexuality

When one reads across the Bible, a wide range of topics are presented throughout is chapters. It primarily contains teachings that guide the human race on how to morally live. One human fundamental topic that has been explored throughout the scriptures book is sexuality. The Bible gives teachings on how human can exist morally as far as sexuality is concerned. There are those scriptures citing that talk of sexuality in great details. According to the Bible, sex as a practice is mainly viewed as a reproductive practice through which God, on the creation time intended for man to use to feel the Earth. Apart from reproduction, sex was also a manifestation of love between two married individuals and was sacred.  Here down is how the Bible views sexuality.

According to the Bible, Genesis, sex was supposed to be practiced by married individuals, who after becoming husband and wife, became one flesh. This infusion into one flesh or soul was enabled through making love. Gen 2:24, 25 reads, “A man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh”. Sex, as portrayed in the Bible, is, therefore, a tool for bonding a husband and wife into a lasting relationship.

Sexuality in the Bible is also viewed as a manifestation of marriage. Couples, according to the Bible, become married through an act of making love to each other. In the book of Exodus, the Bible says that having sex is in its self a form of marriage. It says, in the book of Exodus 22: 16, 17, “If a man seduces a virgin who is not pledged to be married and sleeps with her, he must pay the bride-price, and she shall be his wife. If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he must still pay the bride-price for virgins. So the bible’s view on sexuality does differ greatly with the view taken by the contemporary world.

The Bible also portrays sex as a Godly gift that should be treasured and shared between two individuals who love each other and most importantly, husband and wife. Genesis talks of making love as a show of a man’s love to his wife, and the joy the two get as a result of doing the act. Gen 24: 67 say, “Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah, and her married Rebekah. So she became his wife, and he loved her, and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.”

Biblical sexuality

The Bible, therefore, emphasizes the purity of people and should therefore only be practiced when and only if one is married. Meaning that pre-marital sexual activities is not encouraged by the bible. And even those who get married are allowed by the Bible to practice fidelity in marriage. So married couple should only have sex with their marriage partners. Sex, therefore, had two purposes mainly, having children and for pleasure in marriage.

Sexual vices such as rape are also talked about in the bible. The Bible condemn such acts and just like in the contemporary society, the scriptures also provide for penalties subjected to those commit such offenses. In the ancient society, rape was punishable by death. The book of Deuteronomy clearly spells out the penalty. In Deuteronomy 22: 25, 27 we are told that, “But if out in the country a man happens to meet a girl pledged to be married and rapes her, only the man who has done this shall die, for the man found the girl out in the country, and though the betrothed girl screamed, there was no-one to rescue her.” The book also in different chapters, speaks strongly against other sexual immoralities such as pre-marital sex, and cheating among the married.

Prostitution is also condemned very strongly in the Bible. Viewing sex as a sacred gift given to man by God purposely for pleasure and reproduction after marriage, the bible is against prostitution as a practice. In the book of Leviticus, God gives Moses set of rules to help the Israelites live with high morals. One of the immoralities they are warned against is prostitution. In Leviticus 19: 29, it reads, “Do not degrade your daughter by making her a prostitute or the land will turn to prostitution and be filled with wickedness.”

Sexual immorality is also advised against in the Bible. In the book of first Thessalonians, the Bible advice humanity to desist from sexual immorality. 1 Thessalonian 4: 3-5 says that ” It is God’s will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality; that each of you should learn to control his own body in a way that is holy and honorable, not in passionate lust like the heathen, who do not know God.” This sums up sexuality as viewed by the Bible.

Understanding Biblical sexuality

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