Showing posts with label addiction treatment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label addiction treatment. Show all posts
Monday, June 20, 2016

Addiction Treatment Industry at the Crossroads

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How unethical treatment shills hunt down patients. Check this account at Huffington Post by Ryan Grim: " Addiction Treatment Indus...
Monday, February 17, 2014

Acamprosate For Alcohol: Why the Research Might Be Wrong

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Calcium may be curbing the urge to drink. “Occasionally,” reads the opening sentence of a commentary published online last month in ...
Monday, February 3, 2014

The Anthropology of Addiction

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Can we ever integrate neuroscience and social science? Bielefeld, Germany— The last in a series of posts about a recent conference, Ne...
Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Going Deep: Surgery For Addiction?

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Controversial DBS technique shows early promise for Parkinson’s, Tourette’s. Bielefeld, Germany— The third in an irregular series ...
Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Drug Craving, or How to Be Your Own Worst Enemy

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Plus the disease model, warts and all. Bielefeld, Germany— The second in an irregular series of posts about a recent conference, N...
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Wednesday, December 18, 2013

What Mark Kleiman Wants You To Know About Drugs

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The public policy guru guiding state legalization efforts. Mark A. R. Kleiman is the Professor of Public Policy at UCLA, editor of the ...
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Sunday, September 22, 2013

Do Addicts Benefit From Chronic Care Management?

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Controversial JAMA study questions orthodox addiction treatment.  What is the best way to treat addiction? The conventional wisdom h...
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Monday, April 22, 2013

Let the Light Shine In: Addiction and Optogenetics

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Study says laser light can turn cocaine addiction on and off in rats. Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Healt...
Sunday, March 24, 2013

More Hard Facts About Addiction Treatment

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“Yes, we take your insurance.” Recent reportage, such as Anne Fletcher’s book, Inside Rehab , has documented the mediocre application o...
Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Addiction Rehab: Everything is Broken

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Down the rabbit hole in search of effective treatment. When I first began researching drugs and addiction years ago, a Seattle doctor t...
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Monday, July 2, 2012

Supreme Court Decision: A Clear Win For Addiction Treatment?

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A roundup of expert opinion. Dr. Tom McLellan , chief executive officer of the Treatment Research Institute, who served on President Obam...
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Thursday, June 14, 2012

Random Notes from the College on Problems of Drug Dependence

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Opening day addresses at the annual meeting. (These are notes on research in progress, not findings written in stone). --NIDA director ...
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Sunday, April 15, 2012

Ivan Oransky on the Disease Model at TEDMED 2012

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What we think about when we think about “disease.” It’s a safe bet that the number of M.D.s who have made a mid-career switch to journali...
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Interview with Deni Carise, Chief Clinical Officer of Phoenix House

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Why addiction treatment works—if you let it. This time around, our “ Five-Question Interview” series features clinical psychologist Deni ...
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