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Addiction Experts Weigh in on Tiger’s Sex Addiction
Posted under Sex Addiction in the News on Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
When asked if Tiger Woods is really a sex addict, E! Online’s Leslie Gornstein talked to addiction treatment specialists to get the low-down. "Probably 75 percent of the people who come in for treatment come because they’re being forced to," says Dr. Howard Samuels of Wonderland Treatment Center in Los Angeles.
"Whether it’s drug, alcohol, or sex addiction they’re coming in for, it’s usually because of family or the courts or massive outside pressure forcing this person to change,” he continued.
"The chemicals that are released in the brain when people are acting out with sex dependency are every bit as powerful as any substance they could be putting into their body," says Dr. Shari Corbitt, senior executive director at Promises Treatment Centers in West Los Angeles, which also treats sex addiction when paired with substance abuse.
Reports have indicated that Woods’ wife Elin Nordegren has been visiting him in sex rehab at a program called "Gentle Path" at the Pine Grove Behavioral Health & Addiction Services treatment center in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Addiction experts say that spouses are usually very involved in an addiction recovery process.
"Couples therapy is a huge part of the treatment," says Corbitt. "It would actually be odd if she weren’t visiting."
Addiction experts say it’s likely that the Woods’ sessions are going for anywhere from 90 minutes apiece to two and a half hours or even longer. Tiger may be asked to spill exactly how many affairs he’s had so that the healing process can begin.
