Boomers Are at Higher Risk for Opioid Addiction: Here’s How to Protect Yourself
If you’d like to see upfront-and-personal the face of the fastest-growing group of people at risk for opioid addiction and abuse, look in your bathroom mirror. While it may be comforting to believe that drug addiction affects mostly people…
Read MoreJust What the Doctor Ordered – How Women Over 60 Are at Highest Risk for Prescription Drug Addiction
Sally was noticing changes in her 73-year-old mother in-law Emily. As Sally became Emily’s primary caregiver, she noticed Emily seemed a great deal anxious most of the time. She’d also become more withdrawn. And, because Sally often ran errands for Emily…
Read MoreWhat’s the Difference Between Emotional Eating, Eating Addiction and Food Addiction?
Food is not just fuel for our bodies; it often serves as a source of comfort, pleasure, and even emotional support. However, when our relationship with food becomes problematic, it can lead to various concerns such as emotional eating, eating addiction…
Read MoreSmartphone Addiction – Six Practical Tips for Less Screen Time
The beginning of the year is a ripe time to take stock of behaviors we want to change in our life. These days, many people are using their phones to a level that arguably rises to unhealthy…
Read MoreFacing Alcohol Addiction After 60
In her late 70s, Becky, felt out of place during the Covid-19 crisis. She was finally coming to grips with her alcohol addiction. The problem was exacerbated by her use of prescribed medications – medications she needed to navigate aging…
Read MoreHas Your Retail Therapy Become a Shopping Addiction
In her early 40s, Mary divorced her multi-millionaire husband who had been successful building a mortgage industry empire across 22 states. Her alimony of $15,000 plus $8,000 a month in child support, a fortune for some, had been barely enough…
Read MoreOnline Video Gaming for Seniors – A Game Changer or an Addiction Gateway?
I have raised 3 children from Generation Y, including one who is a stereotypical millennial guy sitting on the couch in his apartment playing the video game World of Warcraft into the wee hours of the morning. It seems to have the makings of an addiction…
Read MoreSenior with a Sex Addiction? What You Should Know
It’s not so shocking to realize that there are women approaching or in their senior years who struggle with sex addiction. Take the true-life drama of former Real Housewives of New Jersey reality TV star, Danielle Staub, as just one well known example…
Read MoreThe Rise in Addiction Amongst Seniors During the Pandemic
For months now social distancing, sheltering in place and my personal post-it checklist of Covid Rules To Live By continues to challenge every aspect of what feels like a somewhat surreal sanitary existence (for this author, at least). Of far greater significance than my current state of mind is the condition influencing almost everyone on […]
Read MoreFrom Puffy Eyes to the Public Eye: Jamie Lee Curtis’ Journey from Addiction to Recovery
Her story will resonate with any woman who’s been found wanting by an impossible beauty standard. And if this ad from the July, 1939 issue of Glamour magazine is any indication, we’ve been found wanting for a long…
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