Addiction Treatment Around The World
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NIDA's Blending Initiative
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It is a known fact that of the many individuals in the United States who suffer from substance use disorders and addiction are not receiving treatment for their addictions.
There are those who believe that this is the result of a flawed health care system, in which health insurance in unavailable to a large number of individuals...Read
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Research is steadily advancing our understanding of substance use disorders, and is spawning ever more effective treatments; however, it often takes several years for therapies with demonstrated efficacy to enter clinical practice (Lamb, Greenlick & McCarty, 1998). As a result, patients are slow to experience the benefits of cutting-edge addiction research. This delay is due largely to the many challenges involved in moving new technologies from the research lab into widespread use...Read
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Trauma in the Addicted Family
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Neurofeedback in Treatment of Substance Abuse
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Janette, a 46-year-old woman who was recently divorced from her third husband, walked into a community mental health center with slurred speech, unable to make decisions, exhibiting extremely poor self-care and diminished expectations. All of her husbands were drug addicts; and the last one also was a sex addict (a term that was not readily used in the therapeutic process at the time)...Read
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Over the last two decades a new research and clinical approach—neurofeedback—has shown promise in the treatment of substance abuse. This article addresses how it works, what makes it so effective, why it is a potentially important tool in addiction, the neurophysiological issues it might address, the existing promising research and, most importantly, that neurofeedback can be a significant adjunct to the therapeutic and...Read
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Re-building Lives: Helping Women Recover from Opiod Addiction During Pregnancy
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The Science of Refined Food Addiction
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Clinicians face many challenges daily in attempting to develop and implement a treatment program for a pregnant woman suffering from opioid dependence. This article uses a specific case study that is illustrative of the type of situations encountered by clinicians who are treating opioid-dependent pregnant patients, in order to answer some common questions and...Read
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It seems Fields was an early observer of the sugar-alcohol connection. Is it possible that one can be as addictive as the other? Do refined carbohydrates trigger the addictive process? The term food addiction implies there is a physiological, biochemical condition of the body that creates craving for refined carbohydrates. We have come to understand that this craving and its underlying biochemistry is comparable to...Read
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Trauma and Substance Abuse: Guidelines for Treating Returning Veterans
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The Integrative Services Project: Fostering Collaboration between Domestic Violence Programs and Substance Abuse Agencies
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About 1.6 million men and women have served in Iraq and Afghanistan since the start of military operations in 2001. One-third of deployed soldiers have served at least two tours of duty; 70,000 have been deployed three times; and 20,000 have been deployed at least five times. The more times soldiers are deployed, the greater the likelihood of mental disorders. Multiple deployments are...Read
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Several studies have found that a majority of women seeking services from domestic violence advocacy programs and substance abuse treatment agencies have experienced both issues, and are best viewed as substance abusing battered women. However, there have been few attempts to integrate services for women with dual issues across the two agencies (Bennett & Lawson, 1994)....Read
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