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Health Care for Victoria’s Most Vulnerable Housing shortages, substance use and increasing mental health issues impact every citizen and business in the region. The Access Health Centre addresses these issues by delivering one-stop comprehensive services to the Capital Region’s most impoverished citizens. Access is a partnership between the Victoria Cool Aid Society and AIDS Vancouver Island. Both organizations have a long history and understanding of the obstacles facing people who are poor, homeless, addicted, living with chronic illness or other challenges in their life. Information: www.AccessHealthCentre.ca or www.CoolAid.org/health or www.avi.org This story provided courtesy Shaw TV Victoria.

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Question by : I need to end an argument with my wife: Does having a Facebook account and being addicted to it ruin marriages?
My wife and I are a relatively young couple. 10 years of marriage and she just turned 30 years old (I am 29). We have a 9 year old and a 5 year old. My wife works, I’m the at home parent because I am disabled. My wife works 9 to 5 but works an hour away from home so it’s more like 8 to 6. When she gets home, she eats dinner with us as a family, then she plays on Facebook from 7pm to 10pm or later. When she’s on the computer, you can’t interrupt her because she is “winding down from a hard day”. I told her that I’d rather she drank wine to “wind down” or locked herself in the room and had alone time; but she said this is what she enjoys doing to relax… At bed time, she rarely helps putting the kids to bed; but if she does, it’s so stressful that she has to get BACK onto the computer or play on her phone (which also has internet)… When she and I go to bed, she is SOOOO stimulated from all of the internet use (and the obsessing of what she’s missing while working – which isn’t much cuz her friends work too) that she needs a 1 hour backrub to “settle down” for bed… In the morning, she will get on the computer for an hour (after spending 3-4 hours the night before) and then she will be crabby that she has to get off and go to work… She has expressed that she would like to be home with the kids instead of me like it used to be; but when I was working (before I became disabled and lost my job) she couldn’t handle cleaning the house and doing responsible things like paying bills on time. I ran a log on the router to track traffic and she would clock 7 hours or more on the computer during my 12 hour shifts (most of it was on Facebook and other social networking sites)….. So what’s your thoughts, does having an internet based social life (primarily on Facebook and through texts but NOT on the phone or in person) cause a marriage/family to fail??? It’s clear to me that she has an internet addiction, but like most addicts, she refuses to see it as a problem and I’m just “being a baby” when I complain about her use. The kids are being neglected, I’m being neglected, and HER NEEDS are being neglected (she complains that there isn’t enough time to read, do crafts, see her friends, watch movies, or anything – obvious symptoms of an addiction that she can’t control)… I don’t want to come off as a controlling husband so I have NOT taken these matters in my own hands, but the family needs a mother/wife and not a teenager who can’t let go of her dreams of being popular…. Feel free to answer the question above, and/or offer me advice – please no smartass comments like “divorce her” or “see counseling” because I think this can be corrected without those venues…
@Andrea — She clicks peoples lame links and will spend hours on picture sites that people posted (like people of wallmart) and she does play games on there (Sims Social and CastleVille). But she is a part of a group of women who are equally addicted to the internet; so when one of them posts something online, it’s like a new topic was opened and she can watch the drama/gossip unfold…

Question by Brad: If anti-drug commercials told the truth, would they resemble prescription drug ads?
Obviously, smoking pot, snorting coke, or otherwise using drugs is bad. However, using many prescription drugs is equally bad, but somehow socially acceptable.

The War on Drugs is not really a war on all drugs, but rather just a war on specific drugs that the drug-dealing corporations cannot make a profit on. Of course, people who go to see a “psychiatrist” (a pretend-doctor) and get put on a “medication” (a dangerous addictive drug) for some imaginary “disorder” that the psychiatric organization made up by majority vote (such as ADHD) are not “drug addicts” and it is an awful thing if they break free of their addiction. However, people who choose to smoke pot (which is certainly safer than using Ritalin) are demonized and, if they are of the “wrong” class, tossed into a jail cell.

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Coffee… Addiction in Law School

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Probably the worst addiction to have is hobnobbing. In law school, it's good to network with professors and practitioners because they'll be able to help you start your career, but sometimes networking goes too far. You know those business cards Career …
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Addiction to growth has left water authority in financial straits

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The Politicians probably knew it would come to this BUT they also surely knew that failure to silently go along would result in an end to their careers. Anyway when one is supposedly getting well paid for each suicidal vote it seemed the right thing to …
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Question by CCG: As a 17 year old do I legally have to go to “therapy” if my parents force me to?
Im 17 years old and living in california.
the reason why i put therapy in quotes is because its not really therapy. Im gay and my parents don’t like it. So they are taking me to this church organization, New Creations, to un-gay me.

Ive been there once and its a waste of time and money but my parents are all gun ho for it?

can i refuse this treatment even though I’m underage? Even though its not really a treatment for something curable or like an addiction… do i legally HAVE to go as a minor?

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NCUF Grantee Equipping CUs in Montana with Financial Counseling Knowledge
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Combining the lower cost and convenience of the Credit Union National Association's self-study Credit Union Financial Counseling Certification Program (FiCEP) enhanced with webinars and local in-person training and networking, the training enables …
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SUNY Canton Unveils New Bachelor of Science in Applied Psychology Degree
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"In these settings, employees need counseling skills and need to recognize intervention and adaptive strategies." Courses in the program include developmental psychology, abnormal psychology, intervention strategies in human services, and professional …
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