Addiction According to the World Health Organization (June, 2005), “obesity has reached epidemic proportions globally, with more than 1 billion adults overweight - at least 300 million of them clinically obese - and is a major contributor to the global burden of chronic disease and disability. This article purports that the poor prognosis in treating patients with obesity may possibly be due to not diagnosing and treating thier other poly-behavioral addictions simultaneously. This systematic underdiagnostic standard in the field of addictions could be due to a lack of diagnostic tools and resources that are presently incapable of resolving the complexity of assessing and treating a patient with multiple behavioral and substance abuse addictions. The Addictions Recovery Measurement System (ARMS) is proposed as a first step in fighting this global War on Poly-behavioral Addictions.

Experts in the field of addictions are presently purporting that between 3 and 6 percent of the world’s population (193 to 386 million people) are presently affected by a sexual dependency or compulsivity (Carnes, 2005). Sexual dependency is a diagnosable and treatable disease, which today is generally, regarded in about the same way that alcoholism and drug addiction (chemical dependency) was regarded 40 years ago. Even so, there still exists a wide range of understandable misunderstandings about compulsive sexual acting out, created out of ignorance about the nature of sexual addiction, and supported and perpetuated by the multibillion dollar pornography industry. This article proposes a new diagnosis and theory for patients with multiple addictions along with a multidimensional and integrative assessment, treatment planning, treatment progress, and treatment outcome measurement tracking system that facilitates rapid and accurate recognition and evaluation of an individual’s comprehensive life-functioning progress dimensions.

Drug addiction has claimed many a lives until today and will continue to claim more if we fail to take steps to deal with it before its too late. Drug addiction was once regarded as a moral flaw in the past and incarceration, church-guided prayer, and sending addicts to asylums were the most prevalent forms of treatment then. However times have changed and so have perceptions of the general public and drug addicts are being considered as just patients that need immediate treatment and moral support.

Drug addiction is a complicated disorder which may involve practically every aspect of an individual's life in the family, at work, and amongst friends. It is actually a brain disease as the abuse of drugs leads to changes in the structure and the functioning of the individual's brain. Drug addiction costs taxpayers millions of dollars each year and is a major public health concern for all of us, as it is a chronic relapsing disorder, which means that it lasts a long time and individuals who are trying to quit are apt to start using drugs again.

Actual story of a couple who openly faced the sexual addiction and secret use of pornography by the husband with the help of a professional therapist who helped them save their marriage. The names were changed to protect their confidentiality, while allowing for graphic details of what really helped them recover their lost marital intimacy. Counseling strategies from a faith based perspective were the key for this couple. Their secrets are contained in this article.