Showing posts with label drug abuse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drug abuse. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Addressing Criticisms of the Disease Model

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Volkow, Koob, and McLellan on the neurobiology of addiction. The New England Journal of Medicine recently published a review articl...
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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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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 29, 2012

Addiction Doctors Pick Top Ten Journal Articles

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A screen for problem gambling, medications for insomniac alcoholics, and more. A group of addiction doctors presented a Top Ten Lis...
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Sunday, April 8, 2012

From Their Mouth to Your Ear: Researchers Talk Drugs

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A collection of five-question interviews. I’ll be away from the Addiction Inbox office this week, attending the big TEDMED health ...
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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Tuesday, April 28, 2009

NIDA'S Updated Guide Book Emphasizes Science

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Drug addiction treatment trends. Favoring objective medicine over moral exhortation, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has updated...
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Thursday, November 15, 2007

The CYP2D6 Factor

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Enzymes And Drug Abuse Different drugs effect different people differently. Drugs are broken down into their constituent waste products by s...
Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Fearing Medicine

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By Dirk Hanson Have Americans become afraid of their doctors? Once upon a time, Americans went to their doctors to get pills. Doctors compla...
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Thursday, June 21, 2007

Drug Rehab in China

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After two years of a nationwide “people’s war” against drug addiction in China, government authorities are claiming major accomplishments—b...
Thursday, April 12, 2007

Speed Causing Strokes?

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During the cocaine boom of the 1980s, addiction researchers learned that cocaine was sometimes capable of setting off serious seizures in us...