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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Addict"”.
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Addicted to the Addict: Hollywood's Sinuous Relationship With the Drug-Addict in the 1970s
… explores how the representation of the drug-addict in Hollywood cinema has changed due to governmental and studio policy change, social shifts of opinion, and economic structure. This discussion and exploration primarily focuses upon narrative Hollywood film as this industry has a long and …
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Confessions of an American Ginseng Addict
<p>Confessions of an American Ginseng Addict uses the Lazy Branch Holler in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky as a setting for a creative nonfiction work, which uses history, confession, remembrances, and digressions to tell the story of a man dealing with loss, mental health issues, environmental …
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Learning to be a cocaine addict: behavioral, pharmacological, and molecular characterization of individual differences in initial learning of cocaine-environment associations
Cocaine addiction is a chronic, relapsing disease affecting millions of Americans, and differences between individuals modulate the progression from cocaine use to addiction. Learned associations between cocaine and environmental stimuli develop in the subset of patients who become addicted, and …
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Towards National Identity: Addiction, Subjectivity, and American Literary Culture
… examines literary and cultural narratives of addiction in order to show how addict-subjects have been defined according to American beliefs about willpower, productivity, morality, racial and economic disparity, and social health. In the contemporary world of American consumerism and late …
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Addiction as Archetype: storytelling in drug addiction and recovery. Bad Glue for Broken Bones: an addiction memoir.
… of storytelling's relationship with the drug addicted individual and their recovery from addiction. It reflects on how social narratives about addiction have shaped the treatment of addicted individuals, and the addicted individual's view of their self and their condition. The thesis argues …
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Queering Addiction
<p>Much has been written about the subject of addiction, but very little has been written from a queer feminist standpoint. Most of the work available concerning addiction is aimed primarily at a clinical audience, those interested in treating people with addictions. Most non-clinical work is aimed …
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Men who identify as sex addicts – an IPA study
Sex addiction is the subject of much debate, as it was considered and then refused as an entry in the DSM5. Despite being referred to by different nomenclature, the most accepted definition is that it is characterized by a persistent pattern of failure to control intense, repetitive sexual impulses …
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Drop
… that examines the transformation of the addicts’ mindset through thelens of the superhero’s alter ego whilst looking at the impact of responsibility on their future. This examination comes from the question of “who is the real you” when looking at personality changes in the addict, as …
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Dee: A Feature Length Drama
<p>“DEE” is a feature length drama about a young addict who pursues a career in music in an attempt to keep her brother’s memory alive after his untimely death tears her family apart. The story explores how the characters deal with drug abuse, loss, broken families, toxic relationships, and …
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Codependence: A Novel in Essays
… with her boyfriend Ryan, an opiate addict who initiates Amy's drug use. Years after the couple breaks up, Amy's childhood headaches return as migraines and transform into chronic daily headaches, which she relieves with oxycodone (and sometimes other drugs). The narrative chronicles …
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Paranormal Orgy
… Other point of views explored include that of an addict, an estranged daughter, a strict grandmother, and an uncle haunted by unrequited love. Throughout this work, the idea of what it means to be human in the face of ghosts and monsters is illuminated.</p>
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Untitled Memoir
… past and possibly bright future. Having a drug addict as a mother who was either abusive or absent causes tension in Tara’s life when she finds out she is pregnant with twins. Tara must learn how to be a mother without having a good example or someone to turn to for motherly advice.</p> …
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Hometown
… meeting his dealer at the park, one-month-clean addict Will Colman runs into Robbie Fowler, his old high-school classmate tasked to help Will maintain his sobriety through the vessel of the church, run by Robbie's father. Will continues to feel a pull toward Robbie, the crush he thought gone …
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Patient participation, encounter, and methadone-reinforcement in the treatment of heroin addicts
… (and others) that was conducted with heroin addicts and drug abusers undergoing behavioral and pharmacological therapy at Stockton State Hospital, Stockton, California.</p> <p>From June 1970 to December 1970 the Research Department of Stockton State Hospital, in conjunction with the Drug …
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Paydazed and a Song for Shenandoah
… I have growing up with a parent who was an addict, and how I came to realize my bitter feelings of abandonment were not the total summation of the relationship I had with my father.</p>
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Dreams, desire and addiction : an archetypal analysis
… severing of body from soul that is so linked to addiction. Thus the thesis proposes that dream analysis is a key means to access one's spirituality, not, simply a psychoanalytic technique. It draws on a range of disciplines and discourses, located in a Jungian and ecofeminist framework, to …
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Wager
… perceived failures as a woman, as a recovering addict, as a daughter to a devoted Catholic mother, as a non-traditional academic and as a sexual and damaged body. Wager features the oppression of the female body and importantly exposes how that body can be an agent of its own demise. Mothers and …
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The Lived Experiences of Evangelical Christian Men Who Self-Identify as Sexual Addicts
Issues of sexual addiction have swept the evangelical movement, and ongoing concerns in the evangelical community are evidenced by its self-help literature, men's movements, and sex manuals. The purpose of this investigation was to examine the lived experiences of evangelical Christian men who …
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A qualitative exploration of the movement disorder experience
… they often look at you like you’re some drug addict or smack head”: Social attitudes to difference; “I just couldn’t do it anymore”: The restrictive nature of ET and “You’ve got to cope; you’ve got to learn to fight different ways”: Rescuing some normality amid physical deterioration. The …
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