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Blog / February 2012

Sex Addiction & Recovery

By Therapy Team, 29 Feb 2012

Sexual Dependency Love Porn Addiction What is sex addiction? How is it caused? Who gets it? What feelings do they experience? Our Senior Therapist Richard Scanlan takes you through an insightful examination of sex addiction, with the confessions of a real-life case study who recovered.

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Are Women More Prone to Shame & Guilt than Men?

By Therapy Team, 13 Feb 2012

Shame guilt addiction alcohol drugs Audrey Grant came to work in Castle Craig from the Mediterranean island of Malta. She now runs the Woman's Group at Castle Craig, an activity that helps women in treatment to open up, identify with each other and accept their past and move on.

Damian Thompson - The Fix

By d.mccann, 13 Feb 2012

Writing in his Daily Telegraph blog about the death of Whitney Houston, Damian Thompson notes that crack cocaine addiction destroyed her career and it was unlikely that she would have been able to recover from this serious addiction.

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Can Cannabis Cause Schizophrenia?

By Victoria McCann, 7 Feb 2012

If you logged in to the front page of The Huffington Post today you might have seen an article by Rupert Wolfe Murray entitled Can Cannabis make you Crazy? Rupert asked his readers to consider the other side of the legalisation argument, not the one that is advocated by Richard Branson.

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Cocaine: The Invisible Addiction

By Anonymous, 6 Feb 2012

Cocaine drugs at work private rehab Employers are not aware of the dangers of excessive cocaine use by their workers. By denying the growing problem of cocaine abuse at work, the business world will face considerable damage through risky decision-making, gambling and poor performance. Article translated from Dutch in NRC Het Brein, 12 January 2012

Could Siblings Help in Addiction Treatment?

By Rupert Wolfe Murray, 3 Feb 2012

New research from the University of Cambridge suggests that addiction is a “disorder of the brain” and that non-addicted siblings of addicts can help their brothers and sisters recover. This is an exciting new development into addiction treatment.