Showing posts with label alcohol treatment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label alcohol treatment. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Another Look at Acamprosate

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The most popular pharmaceutical treatment for alcoholism, explained. (First published February 17, 2014) “Occasionally,” reads t...
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Friday, June 27, 2014

Gone in June

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Alcohol takes a friend. What good does it do: You write about addiction, research it, think about it, formulate new ideas about it. Y...
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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 ...
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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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Broken Treatment: How the Addiction Industry is Failing its Clients

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It’s not medical. It's not psychiatric. What is it? 1. Most clinicians who treat addicted patients are counselors, not physicians; thu...
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Saturday, July 21, 2012

John Berryman and the Poetry of “Irresistible Descent”

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“The penal colony’s prime scribe.” “Will power is nothing. Morals is nothing. Lord, this is illness.” —John Berryman, 1971 A year befo...
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Sunday, September 20, 2009

Kudzu for Alcoholism?

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Common vine extract may inhibit drinking. Score one for traditional Chinese folk medicine. A compound called daidzin, found in kudzu vine, a...
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Thursday, January 1, 2009

Recovery in 2009

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Some resolutions for the New Year. The SoberRecovery site has put up a forum entitled: "Anybody up for New Year Resolutions?" You ...
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Saturday, August 16, 2008

Nothing Beats Booze

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Annual survey ranks alcohol as #1 problem . Drugs may make headlines, but alcohol is the elephant sitting in the corner of the room, accordi...
Monday, July 21, 2008

Drugs for Alcoholism

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Different meds for different drinkers Although there are still only three drugs officially approved by the FDA for the treatment of alcohol...
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Thursday, May 29, 2008

Annals of Addiction: Richard Lewis

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From The Harder They Fall "It's hard to know exactly when I became an alcoholic. What I do know is that growing up I felt misunders...
Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Annals of Addiction: Grace Slick

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From The Harder They Fall "There's a whole bunch of alcoholics on both sides of my family, but they function in the sense that ever...
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Monday, May 26, 2008

Annals of Addiction: Malcolm McDowell

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From The Harder They Fall "My father was an alcoholic, so I never really drank much. I kept away from it, but I didn't realize that...
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Saturday, May 3, 2008

Ten Things to Know about Addiction

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From "Rethinking Substance Abuse. " In the closing chapter of their 2006 book, " Rethinking Substance Abuse,” editors Willia...
Friday, March 14, 2008

Drug That Blocks Stress Receptor May Curb Alcohol Craving

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Anxiety, drugs, and the brain’s “fear center.” A brain receptor for a neurotransmitter involved in stress and anxiety has become a primary ...
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Friday, February 15, 2008

Soros Funds Addiction Initiative

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Urges insurance companies to close “treatment gap.” In a move designed to jump-start a reluctant insurance industry, philanthropist George ...