Question: Addictions

Severe addictions are devastating to a person and his or her social systems. Our co-dependencies are destructive to us as well. We contain our addictions and they seldom consciously rise in our prayer. The classic addictions are to alcohol, narcotics and other drugs, including cigarette smoking. Much research has recently been done of addictions to sex and love. Within the past two decades we have also seen great addictions to technology, which includes addictions to email and more insidiously to internet pornography. In what ways are you doing your own research so you can help yourself and others understand the nature of addictions better?