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The Science of Substance Abuse

Dirk Hanson

Articles and health studies about drugs, addiction and alcoholism, including the most recent scientific and medical findings.

Showing posts with label naltrexone. Show all posts

Showing posts with label naltrexone. Show all posts

Monday, February 16, 2015

Troubling Link Between Shoplifting and Suicide

Compulsive theft can lead to tragic results. In the fall of 2011, 71-year old Julia Grodinsky of London was convicted of shoplifting...

Monday, November 12, 2012

Short Subjects

Brief news on drugs and addiction. The editorial staff at Addiction Inbox (see photo), occasionally finds itself overwhelmed with news...

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Broken Treatment: How the Addiction Industry is Failing its Clients

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

Monday, June 8, 2009

A Drug for Kleptomania?

Naltrexone curbs shoplifting . It seems like such an unlikely finding: In a University of Minnesota study of kleptomania—the compulsion to s...

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Anti-Craving Drug Eases Pain of Fibromyalgia

Naltrexone being studied for immune-related disorders. A drug frequently used to treat heroin and alcohol addiction also eased the pain of w...

Monday, July 21, 2008

Drugs for Alcoholism

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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