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Sexual Addictions
Sexual Addictions
Sexual addictions are no less damaging to one's personal and professional life than alcoholism or drug addictions. Consider the information provided in the following pages.
What is Sexual Addiction?
The following sites provide definitions for sexual addictions and other related words.
Do You Have a Sexual Addiction?
The following sites offer self-assessments to evaluate your sexual behaviour.
Treatment Centres & Resources
The following is a partial list of facilities providing information and treatment for sexual addictions.
- Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse (www.ccsa.ca)
CCSA is Canada's national addictions agency. It provides objective, evidence-based information and advice that will help reduce the health, social and economic harm associated with substance abuse and addictions.
- Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (www.camh.net)
This centre is a public hospital providing care for people with mental health and addiction problems. CAMH is Canada's leading teaching hospital and also offers community-based facilities offering health promotion and prevention services across the province.
- Emotions Anonymous (www.emotionsanonymous.org)
Emotions Anonymous is built on a twelve-step program, similar to Alcoholics Anonymous. It facilitates weekly meetings for the purpose of working toward recovery from emotional difficulties.
- Bellwood Health Centre (www.bellwood.ca)
This facility provides treatment to individuals from across Canada who have alcohol and drug addictions, eating disorders, gambling, sexual addictions and stress-related illnesses as well as a variety of compulsive or problematic behaviours.
- Homewood Health Centre (www.homewood.org)
This centre, located in Guelph, Ontario, provides a wide range of programs dealing with mental health and addictions.
- Addiction Resource Guide [US] (www.addictionresourceguide.com)
This site has a comprehensive directory of addiction treatment facilities.
- Del Amo Hospital [US] (www.delamohospital.com)
This is a private psychiatric hospital located in Southern California. It provides a wide-range of individually tailored programs such as crisis stabilization, trauma-based disorders, borderline personality disorders, eating disorders, sexual addictions, detox and mental illness.
- Dr. Koop [US] (www.drkoop.com)
Dr. Koop offers daily consumer-friendly advice about a variety of health and wellness issues.
- KeyStone Center Extended Care Unit [US] (www.keystonecenterecu.net)
The KeyStone Center is located in Philadelphia and has a 14-bed residential program facility for issues surrounding sexual compulsivity and trauma. The extended care unit treats multiple addictions including gambling based on a twelve-step program.
- Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers [US] (www.lcl.org)
This is a US based organization of attorneys and judges dedicated to assisting those in the legal profession who suffer due to various causes, including but not limited to alcohol and/or chemical addiction.
I want help now
OLAP (Ontario Lawyers Assistance Program) provides one-on-one ongoing
volunteer peer support and professional counselling to lawyers, judges and law students who suffer from alcohol, drug or other
addictions, eating disorders, stress, burnout or mental illness. They will assist with referrals for support, assessments and
counselling. If you, your partner or your spouse needs help, please call. All calls are strictly confidential.
To contact the Volunteer Executive Director, call John Starzynski 1-877-584-6227. Leota Embleton, Program Manager, can be reached
at 416-241-7983 or 1-877-576-6227. The OLAP 24-hour Helpline is 1-800-667-5722.
For more information on OLAP and other programs that offer assistance click here.
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