Showing posts with label drug treatment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drug treatment. Show all posts
Sunday, July 20, 2014

Drugs and Disease: A Look Forward

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First published 2/18/2014. Former National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) director Alan Leshner has been vilified by many for referring...
Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Where Are All the New Anti-Craving Drugs?

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The dilemma of dwindling drug development. Drugs for the treatment of addiction are now a fact of life. For alcoholism alone, the medic...
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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, October 29, 2012

Looking For the Science Behind the Twelve Steps

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Transcendence, or nonsense? What is it with the Twelve Steps? How, in the age of neuromedicine, do we account for the enduring concept ...
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Thursday, December 8, 2011

Nothing Organic About Rodale’s New Book on Addiction

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Raw carrots won’t cut it. How times have changed. You’ve heard of Rodale, the outfit that kicked off organic gardening in America, and pu...
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Saturday, September 4, 2010

Why Drug Stigma Still Matters

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More sinned against than sinning?   “Psychological theories of illness are a powerful means of placing the blame on the ill. Patients who ...
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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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Sunday, October 11, 2009

The Rehab Scandal: Relapse Rates

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If 8 out of 10 addicts fail, is it really treatment? The British drug treatment and recovery community has been squabbling recently over ann...
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Thursday, September 3, 2009

National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month

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Obama's September proclamation. Recovery Month, an annual September observance highlighting the benefits of substance abuse treatment, k...
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Addiction Touches Almost Everyone

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75% of Americans know someone who is addicted. A new survey by Lake Research Partners , sponsored by George Soros’s Open Society Institute ...
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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...
Saturday, June 21, 2008

Battling Addiction with Exercise

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It helps you quit. Can it keep you from starting? We've all heard the claim: Physical exercise helps addicts who are working their way ...
Friday, June 13, 2008

Obama and McCain on Addiction Treatment

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Candidates differ on medical marijuana. A drug and alcohol policy group has released a study of positions on drug policy by the presidential...
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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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Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Drug Addiction and Dissociation

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Where does the “self” go during active addiction? Where does the everyday self go during active cycles of addiction? Addiction sometimes se...
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Saturday, March 8, 2008

Paul Wellstone’s legacy

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House passes Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act. I live in Minnesota, so it is with great pride that I report that the U.S. House of Rep...
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