Showing posts with label drug rehab. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drug rehab. Show all posts
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...
Thursday, February 28, 2013

Craving Relief

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Why is it so hard for addicts to say “enough?” One of the useful things that may yet come out of the much-derided DSM-5 manual of menta...
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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Sunday, May 8, 2011

Falling Down and Getting Up: Nic Sheff’s New Addiction Book

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  Sheff jumps back on the carousel, lives to tell about it. What would it be like to have written a drug memoir and an autobiography befo...
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Thursday, December 31, 2009

Treating Addictions [Guest Post]

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The ABCs of rehab. [Journalists like me tend to get immersed in the scientific and medical aspects of addiction. Not a bad thing, to be s...
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Friday, August 8, 2008

Why Don't They Just Say No?

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Are addicts at fault for refusing to get well? It often seems as if alcoholics and other drug addicts are at fault for perversely refusing t...
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Addiction Treatment: Who is the Client?

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The Overselling of Drug Rehab . Professor David Clark, who runs the Wired In recovery website in the U.K., recently posted several passages...
Friday, August 24, 2007

Book Review (Part Three): Women Under the Influence

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Rehab and the Working Mother According to Columbia University’s National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, more than 2.5 million wome...
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Wednesday, July 25, 2007

A View From the Other Side: What Disease?

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A psychiatrist takes issue with the semantics of addictive disease in SLATE . See "Medical Misnomer: Addiction isn't a brain diseas...
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 5, 2007

Neurobiology of Addiction

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Book Review By George F. Koob and Michel Le Moal. Academic Press (Elsevier), London, 2006. Over the past twenty-five years, the n...
Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Vaccinating Against Vices

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Developing a pill or a vaccine for a specific drug addiction has long been one of the tantalizing potential rewards of addiction research. N...
Friday, January 26, 2007

New Drug For Smokers

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First there was Wellbutrin, an antidepressant which helped cut down on the cravings and nicotine withdrawal symptoms for many addicted smoke...
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