Advice on Addiction in Boomers, Part 2
It's really important to treat co-occurring issues along with the addiction, and we know that if you don't treat depression, anxiety, pain, emotional eating and other types of diseases and conditions together, the patient is more likely to relapse. A …
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New Treatments Target Prescription Addiction at Alcohol Treatment Elizabeth
Offering yoga, art, exercise, and many more options helps aid in recovery from substance abuse while exposing patients to new, healthy hobbies. Alcohol Treatment Elizabeth's new treatment programs make recovering from all types of addiction possible.
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How the Brain Remembers Pleasure
The molecular events that form such "reward memories" appear to differ from those created by drug addiction, despite the popular theory that addiction hijacks normal reward pathways. … "We believe reward memory may serve as a good model for …
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Snooty Malibu Waging War on Fancy Celebrity Rehab Centers
Boy, those snooty Malibuites hate everyone who's not from around there, huh? They've waged war on beachgoers and now they're going after pill-popping celebrities, of all things–the city has been doing battle with the fancy Passages Mailbu rehab for …
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Lindsay Lohan spotted smoking on balcony of Malibu rehab facility
LiLo is lying low. The troubled starlet, 26, was photographed this week for the first time since entering her mandatory 90-day stint in rehab. RELATED: LINDSAY LOHAN CHECKS OUT OF BETTY FORD FOR NEW REHAB. The "Mean Girls" actress appeared …
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Addiction Relapse Might Be Thwarted By Turning Off Brain Trigger
In the study, researchers were able to prevent the addicted animals from seeking alcohol and drinking it, the equivalent of relapse. “One of the main causes of relapse is craving, triggered by the memory by certain cues – like going into a bar, or the …
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Matthew Perry on drug and alcohol addiction during 'Friends' era: 'I was never …
He reflected on his routine alcohol abuse and a jet-ski accident in 1997, which led him to the use of prescription drugs. "Here, take this,'" the actor recalled of a physician telling him at the time. PHOTOS: CELEBRITIES IN REHAB. "I did and I felt …
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Prescription addiction
To alleviate this problem, public health programs must take addiction to drugs that have legitimate medical uses as seriously as the abuse of street drugs such as heroin, which affects the same pain receptors in the brain as painkillers do. Read more …
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Drug Addiction Treatment For Opioid Dependence, Zubsolv, Approved By FDA
Zubsolv, a menthol flavored pill that dissolves under the tongue, has been approved for the treatment of opioid addiction for patients in the U.S. Seventy-five percent of all drug overdoses from prescription medication has occurred from abuse of opioid …
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Officials urge community involvement to curb drug abuse
With a steady and determined voice, a 17-year-old high school senior stood at a podium on Wausau's 400 Block on Tuesday and read aloud a poem that described the horrors of heroin addiction and the suffering caused by drug abuse. “I destroy homes, I …
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Eminem opens up about drug use: 'My bottom was going to be death'
In the documentary "How to Make Money Selling Drugs," Eminem opens up about his struggle with prescription drug addiction. The rapper, 40, entered rehab for sleeping pill addiction in 2005. In the movie, Slim Shady gets candid about the drug abuse that …
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Alcohol and drug abuse may be genetic risk
The centres provide a stigma free venue to identify young people at risk of mental and substance abuse and can provide support, psychological care and drug and alcohol counselling, he says. "A lot of young people use drug and alcohol as a way of coping …
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No Link Seen Between Child Stimulant Use and Later Drug Abuse
An analysis published Wednesday by the American Medical Association said children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder who take stimulant medication do not have a lower risk over all for later substance abuse, contradicting the longstanding …
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Study Shows Pill Prevents HIV Among Drug Addicts
Drug-injecting addicts who took a daily antiretroviral pill were half as likely to become infected with H.I.V. as those who did not, a major new study has found, providing the final piece of evidence that such treatments can prevent AIDS in every group …
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Drug War Blocking Potential Treatments for Cancer, Alzheimer's, Journal Claims
In the U.S., the drug can only be legally obtained for study from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and requires a special review and FDA-approved protocols that are not needed to study legal drugs or most experimental compounds. In the U.K …
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Alcohol advertising: in the eye of the beer-holder
It was written by Charles Parry, director of the alcohol and drug abuse research unit at the Medical Research Council and an extraordinary professor in the department of psychiatry at Stellenbosch University; Nadine Harker Burnhams, a senior scientist …
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