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Survived Hubby's Sex Addiction!: WHO AM I???

noreply@blogger.com (Recovered) — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 22:25:56 PST

Survived Hubby's Sex Addiction!: WHO AM I???: I am married to a SEX ADDICT. There it is . . . I said it and it feels great to finally say it OUT LOUD!!! This is really not something t...

Alarm at growing addiction problems among professionals | Society | The Observer

noreply@blogger.com (Recovered) — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 16:37:39 PST

Alarm at growing addiction problems among professionals | Society | The Observer

Alarm at growing addiction problems among professionals

Urgent action needed to tackle problems suffered by doctors, lawyers and people in other high-profile jobs, say healthcare experts

Doctors are three times more likely to develop cirrhosis of the liver than the general population. Photograph: joefoxphoto / Alamy/Alamy

Experts are calling for urgent action to tackle the "significant challenge" of rising levels of alcoholism and substance abuse among professionals including doctors, dentists and lawyers.

At the first international conference of its kind, in Ireland this weekend, there were calls for the UK government to help the silent mass of professionals who were "functioning alcoholics".

Full story @ Alarm at growing addiction problems among professionals | Society | The Observer

Binge drinking among women | The Manila Bulletin Newspaper Online

noreply@blogger.com (Recovered) — Tue, 10 May 2011 16:34:34 PDT

Binge drinking among women

By EDUARDO GONZALES, MD

May 10, 2011, 12:46pm

MANILA, Philippines -- Q: I’m 20 years old and I have a problem regarding drinking alcohol (beer, gin, tequila, etc.). Since I’m a female college student with lots of friends, sometimes I get invited to parties and gatherings. One time I drank tequila (I drank a lot) and that night my whole body became itchy. The itchiness lasted for a week. A month ago I attended a party where fruit juice laced with gin was served. I developed itchiness again. Am I allergic to alcohol? Does this mean I cannot socialize anymore? What if I find a job and my boss requires us to drink in gatherings? What advise can you give me? My friends drink a lot and get drunk every Friday night. What are the health risks of this practice? --Twinkle, Pampanga

Binge drinking among women | The Manila Bulletin Newspaper Online

No smoking policies may present challenges to treatment centers | Science Blog

noreply@blogger.com (Recovered) — Fri, 06 May 2011 04:17:31 PDT

Researchers found that the number of patients who completed a program at the women’s treatment center decreased 28 percentage points — from 70 to 42 percent — following the center’s implementation of a tobacco-free policy.

“Following the implementation of the new policy, clients were significantly less likely to complete treatment than they were prior to the adoption of tobacco-free policies,” said Thomas Gregoire, co-author of the study and associate professor of social work at Ohio State University.

No smoking policies may present challenges to treatment centers | Science Blog

Alcoholism is a family disease - Times-Standard Online

noreply@blogger.com (Recovered) — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:23:20 PDT

Alcoholism is a family disease - Times-Standard Online
Alcoholism can be a multi-generational disease, wherein family members from different generations develop and repeat dysfunctional family relationships over decades. The children of today's alcoholic parents may become the parents of tomorrow's alcoholic children. Breaking multi-generational patterns of co-dependency is difficult. This system is fiercely resistant to change. Family members seeking help may be exiled from the family. Or, their cry for help may be sabotaged by other family members seeking to maintain equilibrium in the family.

Nurses Often Silent About Physician Mistakes

noreply@blogger.com (Recovered) — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 14:17:17 PDT

Nurses Often Silent About Physician Mistakes

March 25, 2011 — Medical software can alert a nurse to a harmful drug interaction, but such a high-tech tool goes to waste if the nurse feels unsafe telling a physician or cannot make anyone listen.

Almost 60% of nurses report they have experienced this kind of scenario, and 17% say it happens several times a month, according to a new study by the American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACCN), the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN), and a training company called VitalSmarts. The study, aptly titled "The Silent Treatment," describes a hospital universe where more than 80% of nurses observe physicians and other clinicians taking shortcuts, such as not washing their hands long enough, exhibiting incompetence, and demonstrating disrespect that shuts down lines of communication.

Points To Consider When You Are Planning Heroin Addiction Treatment

noreply@blogger.com (Recovered) — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 04:52:03 PDT

Points To Consider When You Are Planning Heroin Addiction Treatment
Planning a heroin addiction treatment is not at all easy. This is one of the most serious kinds of addictions known to humankind. Heroin is an opioid. As soon as it is consumed by the person, it attacks specific areas of the central nervous system of the person. This causes the brain to release a hormone known as dopamine. Dopamine is responsible for creating the rush of pleasure in the person. That is the reason the person develops a craving to consume more and more of the substance. The brain keeps asking for more of heroin so that it can feel the rush of pleasure that it creates.

The Biology of Booze

noreply@blogger.com (Recovered) — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 04:49:11 PDT

One of the few reliable signs of early alcohol trouble is the classic “hollow leg.” Young drinkers with alcoholic tendencies tend to be really good at holding their liquor. “Normal” people can not, generally, drink everybody under the table, or smoke 20 or 30 cigarettes in an evening.

Help An Alcoholic?

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Medical Marijuana

noreply@blogger.com (Recovered) — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 21:26:48 PDT

American Society of Addiction Medicine

Public Policy Statement on Medical Marijuana

Background

In the last twenty years, both the scientific community and the public have become interested in the therapeutic potential of cannabis and cannabinoids. Scientific interest has been based in large part on the discovery and elucidation of the endocannabinoid receptor system. Popular interest has focused on state initiatives and other legislation decriminalizing the use of smoked cannabis for personal medical use. Because of this legislation, herbal cannabis in various forms is now being distributed by dispensaries to large numbers of individuals with a wide variety of medical conditions. This cannabis is not, in most cases, standardized or quality-controlled; the dosage forms (smoked, vaporized, baked goods, teas, elixirs, etc.) do not provide a known and reproducible dose; and data on efficacy and adverse events are not being collected in a reliable manner.

Cannabinoids are insoluble in water and subject to degradation by temperature and light; thus, optimal delivery systems or dosage forms are difficult to design. As a result, research into their medical applications is technologically challenging and has lagged behind that of the opioids and other modern medications. With improvements in technology and the development of research tools, such as high affinity agonists and antagonists, preclinical research has flourished. At present, however, only a few properly controlled clinical studies, of adequate size and duration, have investigated the use of cannabis or cannabinoid products in specific therapeutic contexts.

The pace of such clinical research is increasing. As corporate sponsors successfully resolve the regulatory and technological challenges, new products will enter the market. These products will be accompanied by extensive quality, pharmacological, toxicity, safety/tolerability, and efficacy data that will allow physicians knowledgeably to prescribe them, thereby making them available to appropriate patients. Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS) will reduce the likelihood of abuse and diversion by both patients and non-patients, including adolescents.

The FDA approval process ensures that a robust body of data accompanies a product when it becomes available to patients. The FDA has invited industry to develop botanically based products and has set forth the regulatory path that must be followed to ensure that such products meet the standards of modern medicine. It is feasible for cannabis-derived products to proceed down that path. Doing so will enable them to be recognized by the medical community as legitimate treatment options.

Under the current state distribution systems, physicians serve as the gatekeepers of patients’ access to cannabis, yet they lack both information on the quality/composition of the cannabis materials and data on their efficacy/safety. When specific cannabis-derived or cannabinoid medications have passed through conventional regulatory approval processes, and their risk/benefit profile in a particular medical condition is known, physicians can be confident that they are meeting the standard of care when advising patients about potential treatment choices.

“Cognitive dissonance” is a term that aptly describes the current approach to “medical marijuana.” Scientists recognize the public health harms of tobacco smoking and urge our young people to refrain from the practice, yet most cannabis consumers use smoking as their preferred delivery mechanism. The practice of medicine is increasingly evidence-based, yet some physicians are willing to consider “recommending” cannabis to their patients, despite the fact that they lack even the most rudimentary information about the material (composition, quality, and dose, and no controlled studies provide information on its benefit and safety of its use in chronic medical conditions). Pharmaceutical companies are responsible for the harms caused by contaminated or otherwise dangerous products and tobacco companies can be held accountable for harms caused by cigarettes, yet, dispensaries distribute cannabis products about which very little are known, including their source. Efforts are being made to stem the epidemic of prescription drug abuse, including FDA-mandated risk management plans required for prescription medications, yet cannabis distribution sites proliferate in many states, virtually without regulation.

In order to think clearly about “medical marijuana,” one must distinguish first between 1) the therapeutic potentials of specific chemicals found in marijuana that are delivered in controlled doses by nontoxic delivery systems, and 2) smoked marijuana.

Second, one must consider the drug approval process in the context of public health, not just for medical marijuana but also for all medicines and especially for controlled substances. Controlled substances are drugs that have recognized abuse potential. Marijuana is high on that list because it is widely abused and a major cause of drug dependence in the United States and around the world. When physicians recommend use of scheduled substances, they must exercise great care. The current pattern of “medical marijuana” use in the United States is far from that standard.

If any components of marijuana are ever shown to be beneficial to treat any illness then those components can and should be delivered by nontoxic routes of administration in controlled doses just all other medicines are in the U.S.

In order for physicians to fulfill their professional obligations to patients, and in order for patients to be offered the high standard of medical care that we have come to expect in the United States, cannabis-based products must meet the same exacting standards that we apply to other prescription medicines. Members of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) are physicians first and experts in addiction medicine with knowledge specific to the risks associated with the use of substances with high abuse potential. ASAM must stand strongly behind the standard that any clinical use of a controlled substance must meet high standards to protect the patient and the public; the approval of “medical marijuana” does not meet this standard.

Recommendations

1. ASAM asserts that cannabis, cannabis-based products, and cannabis delivery devices should be subject to the same standards that are applicable to other prescription medications and medical devices and that these products should not be distributed or otherwise provided to patients unless and until such products or devices have received marketing approval from the Food and Drug Administration.

2. ASAM rejects smoking as a means of drug delivery since it is not safe.

3. ASAM recognizes the supremacy of federal regulatory standards for drug approval and distribution. ASAM recognizes that states can enact limitations that are more restrictive but rejects the concept that states could enact more permissive regulatory standards. ASAM discourages state interference in the federal medication approval process.

4. ASAM rejects a process whereby State and local ballot initiatives approve medicines because these initiatives are being decided by individuals not qualified to make such decisions (based upon a careful science-based review of safety and efficacy, standardization and formulation for dosing, or provide a means for a regulated, closed system of distribution for marijuana which is a CNS drug with abuse potential).

5. ASAM recommends its members and other physician organizations and their members reject responsibility for providing access to cannabis and cannabis-based products until such time that these materials receive marketing approval from the Food and Drug Administration.

6. ASAM asserts that physician organizations operating in states where physicians are placed in the gate-keeping role have an obligation to help licensing authorities assure that physicians who choose to discuss the medical use of cannabis and cannabis-based products with patients:
• Adhere to the established professional tenets of proper patient care, including
o History and good faith examination of the patient;
o Development of a treatment plan with objectives;
o Provision of informed consent, including discussion of side effects;
o Periodic review of the treatment’s efficacy;
o Consultation, as necessary; and
o Proper record keeping that supports the decision to recommend the use of cannabis
• Have a bona fide physician-patient relationship with the patient, i.e., should have a pre-existing and ongoing relationship with the patient as a treating physician;

• Ensure that the issuance of “recommendations” is not a disproportionately large (or even exclusive) aspect of their practice;

• Not issue a recommendation unless the physician has adequate information regarding the composition and dose of the cannabis product;

• Have adequate training in identifying substance abuse and addiction .

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AA Online Chat Groups

noreply@blogger.com (Recovered) — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 08:53:00 PST

Online AA Offers Digital Assistance for Recovery

Many things can prevent people in early recovery from attending Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meetings in person, from disability to lack of transportation to a sheer case of the nerves. Now, those unable to attend face-to-face AA meetings can do so virtually, thanks to computer technology and the Internet, the Canadian Press reported June 10.

Daily online chats and weekly discussion groups are part of the web of AA Internet services. "I can no longer cope with noise, people, pressure, stress, anxiety, fatigue, speaking to more than one person at a time," said Carol O., a 53-year-old Ottawa resident now in recovery from alcoholism. "I don’t know how I would be coping if I didn’t have AA available online."

AA organizer David T. said that many types of people are going online for support, including those who are housebound, bedridden, deaf, caregivers, shift-workers, rural residents, or have social anxieties. David himself recalled struggling to stay sober while overseas with the Canadian military. "I knew of other people over there who were on a vacation from AA, drinking while they were there, figuring they could stop when they went back home because no one would know," he said.

It’s not just AA online: Vancouver social worker Pat Roles charges $20 per e-mail to counsel people. "I’m finding your average person who wouldn’t normally go for counselling ... who is maybe a bit embarrassed, they’re a professional in a community," he said.

"It’s perhaps a little easier on the Internet because you’re anonymous -- totally anonymous -- you don’t see the other person’s face," said David, who added that while some people may contact AA online while still drinking, the extra layer of anonymity also may encourage people with addictions to seek help earlier than they might have otherwise.

Still, users like Carol say that the face-to-face meetings offer a warmth and human touch that virtual AA meetings can’t match. "Online people can just read a posting and not respond -- you can’t see them and see if they are troubled -- online you only know what people tell you in words. Some communicate better in writing than others," she said.

Denial Makes the World Go Round :Recovery Is Sexy.com

noreply@blogger.com (Recovered) — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:14:18 PST

Everyone is in denial about something; just try denying it and watch friends make a list.
Varieties of denial include inattention, passive acknowledgment, reframing and willful blindness.
For Sigmund Freud, denial was a defense against external realities that threaten the ego, and many psychologists today would argue that it can be a protective defense in the face of unbearable news, like a cancer or addictive diagnosis.
D - Don’t
E - Even
N – Notice
I – I
A – Am
L – Lying
In the modern vernacular, to say someone is “in denial” is to deliver a savage combination punch: one shot to the belly for the cheating or drinking or bad behavior, and another slap to the head for the cowardly self-deception of pretending it’s not a problem.
Yet recent studies from fields as diverse as psychology and anthropology suggest that the ability to look the other way, while potentially destructive, is also critically important to forming and nourishing close relationships.
The psychological tricks that people use to ignore a festering problem in their own households are the same ones that they need to live with everyday human dishonesty and betrayal, their own and others’.
And it is these highly evolved abilities, research suggests, that provide the foundation for that most disarming of all human invitations, forgiveness.
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Portugal's drug policy pays off; US eyes lessons

noreply@blogger.com (Recovered) — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 16:18:44 PST

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LISBON, Portugal – These days, Casal Ventoso is an ordinary blue-collar community — mothers push baby strollers, men smoke outside cafes, buses chug up and down the cobbled main street. Ten years ago, the Lisbon neighborhood was a hellhole, a "drug supermarket" where some 5,000 users lined up every day to buy heroin and sneak into a hillside honeycomb of derelict housing to shoot up. In dark, stinking corners, addicts — some with maggots squirming under track marks — staggered between the occasional corpse, scavenging used, bloody needles. At that time, Portugal, like the junkies of Casal Ventoso, had hit rock bottom: An estimated 100,000 people — an astonishing 1 percent of its population — were addicted to illegal drugs. So, like anyone with little to lose, the Portuguese took a risky leap: They decriminalized the use of all drugs in a groundbreaking law in 2000. Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/12/26/portugals-drug-policy-pays-eyes-lesso...

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Twelve Step Sponsorship

noreply@blogger.com (Recovered) — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 07:23:00 PST

Twelve Step Sponsorship

Passing it on is a key concept in the Twelve Step community and many of the traditions and knowledge of the Twelve Step recovery program have been passed down by word-of-mouth from one generation of sponsors to the next.

Twelve Step Sponsorship effectively takes this knowledge and tradition and applies it to a working manual for sponsors, guiding them through their role in reaching out and helping new program members.

Designed as a "how-to" program for sponsors, Twelve Step Sponsorship offers:

reading assignments
common questions that sponsors face
procedural suggestions for leading a newcomer through the Twelve Steps
general guidelines for becoming an effective sponsor

Twelve Step Sponsorship offers sponsors the first complete handbook for working with a newcomer -- from the first meeting through the Twelfth Step and into the years that follow.

Buy today >> Twelve Step Sponsorship

AA Speaker Tapes - MP3

noreply@blogger.com (Recovered) — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 07:19:00 PST

A new collection of Speaker Tapes has been found in America.

The collection of MP3 tracks includes;

Alcoholics Anonymous
AA Founders
AA Pioneers
Big Book Authors
Al-anon
Narcotics Anonymous

This library of tapes is estimated at 50,000 on wire recordings, reel-to-reel tapes, cassettes and dates back to the 1940's. Collected by Bill and Arbutus O'Neal of Texas.

This collection is progressively being converted to MP3 however there are currently several hundred available for free down load.

These AA speaker tapes are mostly American but there are talks from Australia, Britain, Germany and Tokyo.

Go to; Recovery Speakers
Donations to the project are welcome

Recovery Prayer Books

noreply@blogger.com (Recovered) — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 03:44:05 PST

Prayer is an effective part of recovery for most people. These prayer books may help guide or inspire. -

The Worrywart's Prayer Book A best-selling author validates our anxieties (over everything from jobs to wrinkles and the return of polyester), and shows us how to enlist God's help in pinpointing and dispelling them.	12 Step Prayer Book A second edition (with 44 new prayers) of the best-selling book of prayers and inspirations for those seeking just the right words for conversing with their Higher Power or for expressing their innermost thoughts and feelings.	The 12 Step Prayer Book With words of wisdom and inspiration gleaned from Twelve Step meetings and adapted from common prayers and devotional readings, members of all Twelve Step fellowships will find abundant insight and gentle encouragement for their spiritual progress in this
Sought Through Prayer and Meditation An inspiring collection of meditations, prayers, and insights designed to facilitate the weekly practice of the Eleventh Step, heightening our conscious contact with God as we understand Him.

Online Community for People in Recovery

noreply@blogger.com (Recovered) — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 08:53:00 PDT

Hazelden: New 'Sober24' Online Community for People in Recovery.

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Finding God When You Don't Believe in God

noreply@blogger.com (Recovered) — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 08:26:00 PDT

Finding God When You Don't Believe in God

Here is an opportunity to listen in on fascinating conversations with people who found God when they didn't really want to and weren't even looking.

Through a series of deeply personal interviews with individuals from different walks of life, the authors conduct a captivating discourse on discovering a "higher power."

The interview subjects are not proselytizers, nor are they interested in comparing spiritual states. Their stories are neither tidy nor definitive. What they offer, however, is a remarkable, refreshing, and ultimately satisfying mosaic on the meaning and manifestation of God.

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Combination of Bipolar Disorder and Substance Abuse Ups Risk for Violent Crime

noreply@blogger.com (Recovered) — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 11:57:10 PDT

Combination of Bipolar Disorder and Substance Abuse Ups Risk for Violent Crime

Acamprosate May Be Helpful to Treat Alcohol Dependence

noreply@blogger.com (Recovered) — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 11:56:07 PDT

Acamprosate May Be Helpful to Treat Alcohol Dependence

Marijuana Use Main Driver of Increase in Rates of Substance Use

noreply@blogger.com (Recovered) — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 11:55:07 PDT

Marijuana Use Main Driver of Increase in Rates of Substance Use

Marijuana Anonymous :Recovery Is Sexy.com

noreply@blogger.com (Recovered) — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:41:53 PDT

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Overview of Marijuana Anonymous

Marijuana Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share our experience, strength, and hope with each other that we may solve our common problem and help others to recover from marijuana addiction.

The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop using marijuana. There are no dues or fees for membership. We are self-supporting through our own contributions. MA is not affiliated with any religious or secular institution or organization and has no opinion on any outside controversies or causes. Our primary purpose is to stay free of marijuana and to help the marijuana addict who still suffers achieve the same freedom. We can do this by practicing our suggested twelve steps of recovery and by being guided as a group by our twelve traditions.

Marijuana Anonymous uses the basic 12 Steps of Recovery founded by Alcoholics Anonymous, because it has been proven that the 12 Step Recovery program works!

The Twelve Steps of Marijuana Anonymous

The practice of rigorous honesty, of opening our hearts and minds, and the willingness to go to any lengths to have a spiritual awakening are essential to our recovery.

Our old ideas and ways of life no longer work for us. Our suffering shows us that we need to let go absolutely. We surrender ourselves to a Power greater than ourselves.

Here are the steps we take which are suggested for recovery:

We admitted we were powerless over marijuana, that our lives had become unmanageable.

Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God, as we understood God.

Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings.

Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.

Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.

Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood God, praying only for knowledge of God’s will for us and the power to carry that out.

Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to marijuana addicts and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

Do not be discouraged; none of us are saints. Our program is not easy, but it is simple. We strive for progress, not perfection. Our experiences, before and after we entered recovery, teach us three important ideas:

That we are marijuana addicts and cannot manage our own lives;

That probably no human power can relieve our addiction; and

That our Higher Power can and will if sought.

See also

Marijuana Anonymous

Addiction & Recovery Books

Mindfulness for Recovery

What is Relapse?

Chicken Soup for the Recovering Soul

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Cougar Women’s Sexuality :Recovery Is Sexy.com

noreply@blogger.com (Recovered) — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 00:53:24 PDT

As Women Age Their Libido, Fantasies, Sexual Experimentation and Activity Increases

As more women wait until their 30s and 40s to have children, they are more willing to engage in a variety of sexual activities to capitalize on their remaining childbearing years, according to new research by psychologists at The University of Texas at Austin.

Such "reproduction expediting" includes one-night stands and adventurous bedroom behavior, the research shows.

In a paper published in the July 2010 edition of Personality and Individual Differences, psychology researchers found that women age 27-45 have a heightened sex drive in response to their dwindling fertility.

In the study the researchers split 827 women into three groups: high fertility (ages18-26), low fertility (ages 27-45), and menopausal (ages 46 and up). The women answered an online questionnaire about their sexual attitudes and behavior.

Compared with the other groups, women with low fertility were more likely to experience:

Frequent sexual fantasies

Thoughts about sexual activities

More intense sexual fantasies than their younger counterparts

A more active sex life and willingness to have a one-night stand

A willingness to have casual sex

Contrary to their predictions, the researchers found that when comparing low and high fertility women who were in relationships, the older, less fertile group did not fantasize more about someone other than their current romantic partners. Instead they fantasized equally about their significant others and other romantic partners.

With more women having children past their peak childbearing years, Easton says she believes the research will have implications on reproductive and sexual health issues, such as fertility, sexual dysfunction and marital development.

"Our findings suggest that women don’t need to necessarily go ‘baby crazy’ in their 30s or go around thinking they’re supposed to be having a ‘sexual peak,’" Easton said. "Our results suggest there is nothing special about the 30s, but that instead these behaviors manifest in all women with declining fertility. It may be more difficult to conceive past the age of 35, but our research suggests women’s psychology will continue to motivate them to try until menopause."

The study outlines for the first time the changes in women’s reproductive behavior across the life cycle from an evolutionary standpoint. The researchers attribute these differences to ingrained psychological mechanisms rooted in each gender’s adaptive responses over millennia of human evolution.

From a press release of the University of Texas at Austin.

Suggested reading

Sex for Grownups – Mature peoples Sexuality

Anatomy of Pleasure – an Audible MP3 book

Bedtime Stories for Grown-Ups

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Prayer Cuts Dinking - Research Proof; Recovery Is Sexy.com

noreply@blogger.com (Recovered) — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 00:54:41 PDT

Does Prayer Decrease Alcohol Consumption?

Four research studies involving 1,758 people show that prayer frequency cuts alcohol consumption.

In Study 1 of 824 people, we used a cross-sectional design and found that higher prayer frequency was related to lower alcohol consumption and problematic drinking behavior.

Study 2 of 702 people used a longitudinal design and found that more frequent prayer predicted less alcohol consumption and problematic drinking behavior at a later date, and this relationship held when controlling for baseline levels of drinking and prayer.

In Study 3 of 117 people, we used an experimental design to test for a causal relationship between prayer frequency and alcohol consumption. Participants assigned to pray every day (either an undirected prayer or a prayer for a relationship partner) for 4 weeks drank about half as much alcohol at the conclusion of the study.

Study 4 of 115 people replicated the findings of Study 3, as prayer again reduced drinking by about half.

Research; Nathaniel M. Lambert, Frank D. Fincham, Loren D. Marks and Tyler F. Stillman; Psychology of Addictive Behaviors; Volume 24, Issue 2, June 2010, Pages 209-219; Invocations and Intoxication: Does Prayer Decrease Alcohol Consumption?

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Sought Through Prayer and Meditation – A Recovery Book

Prayer Steps to Serenity The Twelve Steps Journey: New Serenity Prayer Edition by L. G. Parkhurst Jr.

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Female Heavy Drinkers have Smaller Brains

noreply@blogger.com (Recovered) — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 00:55:18 PDT

Female Heavy Drinkers have Smaller Brains

Female drinkers lose brain volume more quickly than men,

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