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Robert Mittiga
Join Date:
2011-10-03
Blogs Owned
1. AddictionAustralia
Australia's premier private addiction treatment and recovery program. Specialising in alcohol and drug addictions, gambling addictions, sex addictions, love and relationship addictions, food addictions and eating...
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2. Is Addiction a DIsease
Drugs of abuse, whether uppers or downers, strong or weak, legal or illegal, all have one common property: they cause the rapid release of dopamine in the midbrain.
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Latest Blog Posts
- EATING DISORDERS TREATMENT: Common myths about Eating DisordersEating disorders of all kinds – anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge-eating disorder – are occurring with greater frequency worldwide? Did you also know that eating disorders have a 15% incidence rate in people between their teens and twen...
- ADDICTION Treatment Canberra ACT: For Canberra ResidentsGATS BROCHURE click here for full brochureAustralia's Leading Luxury Rehab located in one of the most beautiful locations in South Australia. The GATS Progam is celebrating 10 years of cutting edge Addiction and Co-dependency treatment and recovery s...
- ADDICTION REHAB Doesn’t Have to Ruin Your Professional ReputationGATS Progam Brochure The most common reason that people give for not wanting to go through drug or alcohol rehab is that they are afraid of the social or professional ramifications. Specifically, they are most afraid that entering any type of rehabil...
- ADDICTION and FEELINGS: The LINKADDICTIONS AND FEELINGSReal addiction is not about the drug, but to the high. The real addiction is not physical, but emotional, the psychological dependency, the belief in the need and continued use in spite of harmful consequences. Anything that re...
- Alcoholic LIVER DISEASE: A serious consequence of ALCOHOLISMThe liver is one of the largest and most complex organs in the body. It stores vital energy and nutrients, manufactures proteins and enzymes necessary for good health, protects the body from disease, and breaks down (or metabolizes) and helps remove...
- ADDICTION Treatment / REHAB forThe NORTHERN TERRITORY Residents in Adelaide.WELCOME to Australia's Leading Luxury Rehab located in one of the most beautiful locations in Australia. The GATS Progam is celebrating 10 years of cutting edge Addiction and Co-dependency treatment and recovery services with this outstanding new loc...
- Robert Mittiga on Asian Gambling Addiction: Asia TV 101 EastRobert Mittiga was invited on Asian TV to discuss and debate the issue of Gambling Addiction and The Explosion of Gambling in Asia.Asian Gambling Part 1Part 2If you or someone you love is in the grips of GAMBLING ADICTION call us Today for help. The...
- FOOD ADDICTION AUSTRALIA: A disease just like Drug AddictionOur government and food industry both encourage more "personal responsibility" when it comes to battling the obesity epidemic and its associated diseases. They say people should exercise more self-control, make better choices, avoid overeating, and r...
- BULIMIA is an Addiction: Treatment and Rehab in AustraliaMost people have heard the expression binge and purge and recognize that it refers to bulimia nervosa. Whereas bulimia is characterized by this binge-purge cycle, it is so much more than eating and vomiting. True, a woman or adolescent with bulimia w...
- BINGE DRINKING and The IMMUNE SYSTEM: The DAMAGEA Loyola University Health System study has found another reason to not binge drink alcohol.Binge drinking, researchers found, could change the body’s immune system response to orthopaedic injury. “This tremendously complicates the trauma care of...
- TEEN ADDICTION AUSTRALIA: Rehab and recovery AustraliaFigures obtained by 7News indicate that the number of teenagers addicted to drugs and alcohol has risen dramatically.Over the last three years, the number of those addicted have jumped by up to 300 percent.The most common addictions are alcohol, meth...
- ADDICTION: What does it mean to YOU? Addiction AustraliaWhat does addiction mean to you?Will you stop, reflect, be honest and trueAbout how this word has impacted your lifeAnd caused you pain, suffering and strife?Have you had enough? Is it time to let goOf what holds you back and keeps you low?For the ti...
- Alcoholism 5 SUBTYPES: Alcoholism Treatment AustraliaResearchers Identify Five Alcoholism SubtypesAnalyses of a national USA sample of individuals with alcohol dependence (alcoholism) reveal five distinct subtypes of the disease, according to a study by scientists at the US National Institute on Alcoho...
- Alcoholism is A DISEASE: Myths about Alcoholism5 Alcoholism MythsMyth & mysteryThese myths would be of interest to anyone involved with alcoholism – wives, partners, parents, children, adult children (co-dependents) and of course the alcoholic.Myth 1: An alcoholic is the falling-down drunk on s...
- Depression can lead to Addiction: Depression and Addiction AustraliaIf you have depression, you should know that you may be more at risk for Addiction. A lot of people who are depressed look for something that will make them feel better and more like their old self again. There are prescription medications that can h...
- Bullying and Addiction AUSTRALIA: Understanding Addiction AustraliaMost drug and alcohol addicts start using at a young age, generally 12 to 18 years old, from that point it is generally the catalyst for a long binge of substance abuse and addiction. Many adolescents suffering from depression find risk taking behavi...
- Alcoholics Have Trouble Identifying Emotions: Understanding Alcoholism AustraliaDissociation and alexithymia among men with alcoholismAim: The aim of the present study was to evaluate the relationship between alexithymia (The Inability to label or identify emotions) and dissociation (See below) among men with alcoholism.Methods:...