Addicted.com provides addiction recovery resources and tools for addicts, family members and friends throughout the Internet community. We provide help to our visitors through online tools such as our Zip Code Locator, which can locate help nearby, including addiction treatment centers, counselors, doctors and psychologists.

Originally designed as an addiction treatment referral service, Addicted.com now provides many other features including online forums, social networking and professional advice through Q&A's. Our goal is to maintain a well-known site for people to visit when they need advice, answers, assistance or just someone to talk with. Common addictions our visitors deal with include drugs, alcohol, gambling, sex, over-eating, gaming and shopping.

We have also realized the need for an online "Aftercare" program. Commonly, addicts are sent to a 15 to 30 day treatment center for rehabilitation. After their stay, they often find themselves back home in the same environment – with the same temptations. We have designed, what we call, our Online Aftercare Program that allows the recovering addicts to logon to our site and chat in real-time with the alumni and counselors from their previous treatment stay. This gives them instant access to help that they are familiar with – from the comfort of their own home. We are offering a place where anyone can logon and find help 24 hours a day.

John S. Shegerian

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John Shegerian is the Chairman and CEO of Electronic Recyclers International® (ERI). Established in 2002, ERI is an electronic waste collector and recycler specializing in the environmentally safe and socially responsible dismantling of electronic items such as computers, televisions, monitors and other electronic items. Under Shegerian’s leadership, ERI has fast become the leading recycler of electronics in North America.

Prior to his founding of ERI, Shegerian was also the co-founder and CMO of FinancialAid.com, one of the most successful student loan companies in the country. While at FinancialAid.com, John created RateYourCampus.com (a college student polling and feedback community) which then led to the creation of CampusDirt.com (which evolved into the most relevant and trafficked college search engine). Last but not least, CampusClix.com was created and became one of the first college social networking properties on the web. In October 2004, Shegerian and his partners sold financialaid.com and all the aforementioned affiliated properties to Education Lending Group, which was purchased for $400M in February 2005 by CIT (NYSE: CIT). Shegerian went on to found Addicted.com, a comprehensive, interactive website dedicated to helping those struggling with the disease of addiction.

For his work with ERI, Shegerian was named the Clean Tech Entrepreneur of the Year for Northern California by Ernst & Young in 2008 and placed into the prestigious Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Hall of Fame.

Beyond his successes in the realm of hi-tech ventures, Shegerian is driven by his commitment to innovate and develop companies that benefit and inspire others and are socially responsible. Shegerian has a 25 year track record of quickly converting start-ups into large, highly successful business enterprises.

Shegerian serves alongside Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger as a member of the California Commission for Jobs and Economic Growth and was recently appointed to serve on the Governor's Gang Advisory Committee, focused on providing the State's top legislators with guidance pertaining to policies geared toward the reduction of gang and youth violence. In 1993, he co-founded Homeboy Tortillas and Homeboy Industries, which continues to serve as a paradigm for urban renewal in America and was awarded the New York Stock Exchange "Building for the Future" Award for creating new jobs and opportunities for gang-impacted youth in post-riot Los Angeles. John is also the recipient of the prestigious "Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Award," presented by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Unity Committee to businessmen working to provide compassionate solutions for society's problems. Believing in “recycling lives” by providing second chances to the formerly incarcerated (Shegerian has hired more than fifty formerly incarcerated individuals at ERI), Shegerian speaks passionately on the subject at forums across the country and presently serves as a member of the Increasing Employment Opportunities Advisory Board to the Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice.

Passionately espousing his trademarked mantra that "Green is Good," Shegerian serves as an executive board member of the Alliance Toward Harnessing Global Opportunities, as a board member of the Coalition for Clean Air, as a corporate board member of the Environmental Media Association, as a corporate representative to the California Resource Recovery Association and as a board member on the VerdeXchange for Innovations and Developments in the Green Economy. John is the Central Valley’s Founding Member of E2 (Environmental Entrepreneurs), the Independent Business Voice for the Environment and serves on the Media Relations steering committee for the State of California's Integrated Waste Management Board. He also serves on the Fundraising Committee and as an Ambassador of Education at California State University at Fresno and the Board of the Boys and Girls Club of Fresno.

Eric Rawn

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Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Addicted.com. The technology infrastructure of Addicted.com was designed and is currently overseen by Eric. With more than 10 years of experience in business technology, Eric oversaw the creation and development of Addicted.com's front and back end.

In 1996, Eric founded BCT Consulting, Inc., one of California's most advanced network consulting firms. BCT Consulting provides technology services for hundreds of firms, government agencies, agricultural facilities and businesses throughout the state. Eric has a degree in Business Administration – Information Technology from California State University, Fresno.

Christopher Rawn

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Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer of Addicted.com. Chris was instrumental in the development of the corporate relations and marketing strategies for Addicted.com. Chris has implemented ethical and moral practices in which Addicted.com has based their business model and goals.

Christopher graduated from California State University, Fresno with his degree in Business Management.