Addiction and Recovery: Behavioral Addictions

The Delaware Council on Gambling Problems is a nonprofit health agency founded to provide programs and services for problem gamblers and their families. Provides Delaware 1-800-Helpline service as well as texting or online chat support.

A fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others recover from a gambling problem.

Debtors Anonymous is a non-profit organization based on the twelve-step principles of Alcoholics Anonymous with a purpose of helping its members to stop incurring unsecured debt. It also offers similar support for those who are self-employed or business owners.

A twelve step fellowship of men and women who have come together to help themselves and one another recover from underearning. While the most visible consequence is the inability to prove for one’s needs, including future needs, underearning is also about the inability to fully acknowledge and express our capabilities and competencies.

A non-profit organization in the US advocating on behalf of and supporting individuals and families affected by eating disorders.

Overeaters Anonymous is a twelve-step program for people with problems related to food including, but not limited to, compulsive overeaters, those with binge eating disorder, bulimics and anorexics.

CRC Health provides an overview of the risks associated with over-exercising.

An editorial on social networking addiction published in the Journal of Addiction Research & Therapy by Mark D. Griffiths, International Gaming Research Unit, Psychology Division, Nottingham Trent University, UK.

PsychGuides.com provides an overview of the symptoms, causes, and effects of computer and internet addiction, as well as suggesting treatment options. This web page may contain 3rd party advertising.

A self-administered likert-scale test created by Dr. Kimberly Young of the Center for Internet Addiction, designed to measure Internet use in terms of mild, moderate, to severe levels of addiction.