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Event: Pornography Addiction: Biology, Demography, and Political Correctness

October 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment

SA Lifeline Foundation

Presents a Community Educational Event with

 Guest Speaker Donald L. Hilton Jr., MD

Saturday Oct 29, 2011 7:00pm to 8:00pm

Rose Room  Thanksgiving Point Lehi, Utah

 There is no charge to attend this event .  Refreshment will be served

Church and civic leaders as well as the general public are invited to attend

Topic:  Pornography Addiction: Biology, Demography, and Political Correctness

Dr. Hilton addresses the topic of pornography addiction and provides important information to all who are seeking to know more about pornography addiction and its impact on individuals, families and society. He addresses components of the problem including information on research about how exposure to pornography negatively affects the brain. He explores the hope for recovery and the healing process.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Donald L. Hilton Jr., MD is the author of “He Restoreth My Soul”, one of the most informative and helpful books written to date on the subject of sexual/pornography addiction. This is a must read book by all who have been afflicted by pornography, which is clearly the “plague of this generation”. The book will be available at a discount at the event.

Dr. Hilton has practiced medicine for sixteen years in San Antonio, Texas, specializing in neurological surgery. Dr. Hilton graduated from Lamar University with highest honors, and from medical school at the University of Texas Medical School at Galveston with honors, where he was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha National Medical Honor Society. He completed his neurosurgical training at the University of Tennessee at Memphis in 1994, is board certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgeons, and is a diplomat of the American College of Surgeons. He has been named to Best Doctors in America.

A pioneer in the field of minimally invasive spinal surgery, he has published books and journal articles with original contributions in this field, and lectures nationally and internationally. He teaches courses on this topic at the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and at the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, and is currently a Clinical Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Texas Medical School at San Antonio.

Dr. Hilton and his wife, Jana, currently serve as LDS Family Services program coordinators in San Antonio for those who struggle with pornography and sexual addiction, as well as their spouses. He and his wife are the parents of five children and have two grandchildren.

 

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Can pornography use become an actual brain addiction?

September 21, 2010 By 6 Comments

Donald L. Hilton, Jr. MD, FACS
Clinical Associate Professor
Department of Neurosurgery
University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio

The human brain is programmed to incentivize behaviors that contribute to survival.  The mesolimbic dopaminergic system rewards eating and sexuality with powerful pleasure incentives.  Cocaine, opioids, alcohol, and other drugs subvert, or hijack, these pleasure systems, and cause the brain to think a drug high is necessary to survive.  Evidence is now strong that natural rewards such as food and sex affect the reward systems in the same way drugs affect them, thus the current interest in ‘natural addiction.’  Addiction, whether to cocaine, food, or sex occurs when these activities cease to contribute to a state of homeostasis, and instead cause adverse consequences.  For instance, when eating causes morbid obesity few will argue that the organism is in healthy balance.  Similarly, pornography causes harm when it impairs or destroys a person’s ability to develop emotional intimacy. [Read more...]

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Donald L. Hilton speaks to Youth and Parents about Pornography.

September 8, 2010 By 5 Comments

Donald L. Hilton Jr., MD author of “He Restoreth my Soul” speaks to a wide audience on the impacts of Pornography on the Brain. Dr. Hilton is a leading neurosurgeon, and uses his practical knowledge to explain why Pornography is so addicting. This video has been published by SA Lifeline Foundation.

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Porn is a drug!

June 14, 2010 By 5 Comments
Donald L. Hilton article on Pornography

SALVO Porn is a Drug

SLAVE MASTER
How Pornography Drugs & Changes Your Brain
by Donald L. Hilton Jr., MD
While some have avoided using the term “addiction” in the context of natural compulsions such as uncontrolled sexuality, overeating, or gambling, let us consider current scientific evidence regarding the brain and addiction.

This article will seek to answer two questions: (1) Biologically, is the brain affected by pornography and other sexual addictions? (2) If so, and if such addictions are widespread, can they have a societal effect as well?

The Story of the Gypsy Moth

Let’s begin with a seeming digression. In 1869 the gypsy moth was brought to America to attempt to jumpstart a silk industry. Rarely have good intentions gone so wrong, as the unforeseen appetite of the moth for deciduous trees such as oaks, maples, and elms has devastated forests for 150 years. [Read more...]

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Donald L. Hilton DVD – Introduction

May 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment

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Understanding the Addictive Nature of Pornography

April 2, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Donald L. Hilton, Jr., MD the author of “He Restoreth my Soul” was asked to provide insight into  Pornography Addiction for a new LDS website called Combating Pornography. We found these comments very useful and informative. I have included an excerpt of the article below, as well as a link to the entire article.  Please take time to read this important information.

“Like a computer, the brain stores memories on a “hard drive.” This part of the brain is called the cerebral cortex, which also generates cognition and thought and initiates motor function. It may be called the “thinking” part of the brain. Under the cortex is a relay station called the thalamus, which is integrated into an area under it termed the brainstem. The thalamus and brainstem, among other important functions, regulate pleasure and pain and reward activities such as eating and sexuality, which are important in the survival of the individual and species. [Read more...]

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Is Pornography a problem?

August 4, 2009 By 1 Comment

We received the following comment from a recent visitor to our site.  We asked Don Hilton JR, MD a leading neurosurgeon and author of “He Restoreth My Soul” to provide his input and feedback.  Many in the world share the same attitude and belief towards Pornography / Sexual Addiction as our recent visitor.

Please feel to comment.  We are happy to help in anyway that we can.

Visitor:

Greetings,

The assertion of this website is that pornography and the addiction that it causes, creates great havoc. In what way?   Removing religion and long held beliefs regarding marriage and sexuality (neither of which are in accordance with our nature), I don’t understand how pornography in any way harms sexually healthy adults. Drugs by definition will take a perfectly healthy person and kill them, or at best seriously damage their bodies. I have not found evidence that pornography does this in any way. I believe that what I am seeing is a way to make money off of people who don’t really need treatment or providing marginal benefits to someone who should be seeing a psychiatrist for serious psychological issues that manifest themselves through sexual “addiction”. Like treating the symptom instead of the cause, it is of marginal value. Much of your funding could come from churches and right wing moralists if it doesn’t already. “Financial tip of the day.”

Don Hilton’s response:


Your questions and assertions require more space and time than a simple blog permit, but I provide references for you to explore if you truly desire to learn more about this. [Read more...]

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Thank you Don Hilton, JR

June 29, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Dear Don Hilton;
I have been taking classes for 8 years on Domestic Violence and Addiction(s). I have been so frustrated with bits and pieces of the puzzle and up until I attended your seminar at Thanksgiving Point in May I kept saying, “I just can’t connect the dots.” I had been taught spirituality was part of recovery but that was it. Now I just cry every time I read a chapter in this book, “HE RESTORETH MY SOUL“.

Thank you, Don Hilton JR. He restoreth my soul.

Thank you, Don Hilton JR. He restoreth my soul.

I started studying about domestic violence and addiction because I have been a victim  of that since childhood. It has been such a destructive thing in my life. My descendants and clients are plagued with addictions. I have struggled to get an education and use this knowledge to help others. Every client I have is a product of DV and Addiction(s) and I see children suffer and suffer because parents are blinded or without the necessary skills and education. [Read more...]

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He Restoreth My Soul by Donald L. Hilton Jr., MD

April 14, 2009 By 9 Comments

Click here to puchase He Restoreth my Soul

Donald L. Hilton Jr., MD in his new book He Restoreth My Soul, provides important information to all who are seeking information and help relating to pornography addiction. He addresses components of the problem including information on research about how the use of pornography changes the brain. He explores the hope for recovery and the healing process.

He Restoreth my Soul, is one of the most informative and helpful books written to date on the subject of sexual  / pornography addiction. This is a must read by all who have been afflicted by pornography, the “plague of this generation”.

Below you will find an Excerpt from his Donald L. Hilton’s book, “He restoreth My Soul”

“Most, if not all, families will be affected by pornography. If you are a man, you must first safeguard yourself. If you are secretly involved, hopefully this work will convince you there will never be peace for you until you are healed. [Read more...]

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