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Have You Been Labelled CoDependent? Time Was You Might Have Been Saddled With Penis Envy

Dr. Peter Ferentzy | Posted 19.02.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Drug Addiction, Recovery, Enabling, Health, Alcoholism, Public Health, Gender Issues, Codependency, Medicine, Family, UK Lifestyle News
Dr. Peter Ferentzy

It's always easier to see through the foibles of past generations, and much harder to view one's own reality with the same critical acumen. So I ask the reader to make an effort: try to view today's codependency culture with the eyes of future generations.

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Another Look at the Robert Pickton Case: Enabling and Tough Love Revisited

Dr. Peter Ferentzy | Posted 09.01.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Drug Addiction, Tough Love, Social Justice, Recovery, Enabling, Health, Robert Pickton Case, Alcoholism, Public Health, War on Drugs, Medicine, Family, UK Politics News
Dr. Peter Ferentzy

A Canadian inquiry into the Robert Pickton case, involving the capture and murder of drug addicted sex trade workers in the lower east side of Vancouv...

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Don't Incarcerate Opponents of Drug Legalization and Harm Reduction - they need compassion and therapy

Dr. Peter Ferentzy | Posted 24.12.2011 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Psychiatry, Drug Addiction, Tough Love, UK Government, Social Justice, Recovery, Public Health, Harm Reduction, War on Drugs, Mental Illness, Enabling, Health, Alcoholism, Drug Policy, Medicine, Family, UK Lifestyle News
Dr. Peter Ferentzy

I urge every good citizen to take an enlightened, progressive view, and to support the caring professions in their heroic efforts to help all right-wing nutjobs to recover from their illness and become acceptable members of society.

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Tough Love is a Joke - Let's Start Enabling Drug Addicts Everywhere

Dr. Peter Ferentzy | Posted 09.12.2011 | UK Politics
Read More: Drug Addiction, Tough Love, Recovery, Health, Alcoholism, Public Health, Discrimination, War on Drugs, Enabling, Medicine, Social History. Social Justice, Family, UK Politics News
Dr. Peter Ferentzy

You've probably heard that alcoholics and drug addicts should not be "enabled". By now, most people have heard it so often that it isn't questioned. The issue is simply addressed like so: whether a certain form of assistance qualifies as enabling, and hence as misguided and harmful.

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