| New Alcohol Screening Test
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| 2008-12-08 |
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The RAPS4 alcohol screening test is a four-question quiz designed for busy clinical healthcare offices that has been shown to be effective in detecting alcohol dependence in the past 12 months. The RAPS4 test has been found to be highly effective in detecting alcohol dependence in the past year across gender and ethnic groups -- white, black and Hispanic.
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| New Evidence On Addiction To Medicines: Diazepam Has Effect On Nerve Cells In The Brain Reward System
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| 2008-08-27 |
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Addictions to medicines and drugs are thought to develop over a relatively long period of time. The process involves both structural and functional changes in brain nerve cells that are still poorly understood. However, a single drug or alcohol dose is sufficient to generate an initial stage of addiction. |
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| Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Appears More Effective Than Sleep Medication For Treating Insomnia
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| 2007-11-27 |
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Patients with insomnia who implemented cognitive behavioral therapy interventions such as relaxation techniques had greater improvement in their sleep than patients who received the sleep medication zopiclone, according to a study in the June 28 2006 issue of JAMA. This site includes a reprint of the article from JAMA and also TOP 10 foods for a good nights sleep.
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| Why Quit.com
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| 2007-07-31 |
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According to the World Health Organization, if current smoking patterns persist, more than one billion smokers will smoke themselves to death prior to the end of this century. Sadly, most knew how to quit smoking. The lesson they failed to master was how to stay quit. It is called the "Law of Addiction" and not self-discovering or being taught this law is a horrible reason to die.
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| Find a Physician for Opioid Dependence
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| 2007-06-15 |
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Physicians qualified to treat opioid dependence in their office may elect to be on a National list available to the public. This list originates at The US Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment - HHS, SAMHSA, CSAT. NAABT utilizes this public data in the "Find a Certified Physician" search engine that sorts physicians in geographic proximity of a zip code entered.
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| Abstinence and Non-abstinence Goals in Treatment: A Case Study in the Sociology of Knowledge
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| 2007-06-09 |
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It is unfortunate that the issues involved in treatment goals for alcoholics often seem to have been argued in terms of simplistic assertions. The dogmatic assertion that no alcoholic can control his or her drinking precludes the possibility that spontaneous remissions may occur in alcoholism as they do in other diseases. Moreover, the assertion ignores the many formal and informal observations of periods of moderate alcohol consumption that occur routinely in the lives of persons considered to be alcoholic. An equally simplistic assertion is the statement that some (number of) alcoholics can control their drinking. |
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| Regulation of the Medical Use of Psychedelics and Marijuana
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| 2007-06-05 |
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The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) is a membership-based, IRS-approved 501 (c) (3) non-profit research and educational organization. We assist scientists to design, fund, obtain approval for and report on studies into the risks and benefits of MDMA, psychedelic drugs and marijuana.
MAPS' mission is to sponsor scientific research designed to develop psychedelics and marijuana into FDA-approved prescription medicines, and to educate the public honestly about the risks and benefits of these drugs. |
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| Professional Perspectives On Addiction Medicine: Understanding Opioid Addiction and the Function of Methadone Treatment
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| 2007-04-11 |
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It's not difficult to obtain a variety of opinions about methadone, and chances are that should you do so, many of them would be quite negative and unfounded. It is our hope that anyone who reads through this book will gain an increased awareness about methadone treatment, its foundation in evidence-based science and its effectiveness in treating opioid addiction within a variety of patient populations. |
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| Pregnant smokers raise their child's risk of stroke, heart attack
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| 2007-03-07 |
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Smoking during pregnancy can result in intrauterine growth retardation and low birth weight. Active and passive smoking in young adults also is associated with cardiovascular disease. But until the Dutch study, researchers were unsure whether this is due to a cumulative effect of smoke or whether children are vulnerable at specific periods, such as during gestation. |
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| Greater deficits in emotional facial expression recognition can indicate more severe alcoholism
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| 2007-03-04 |
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Recognition of emotional facial expressions ( EFEs) is a key form of non-verbal communication that has a huge influence on an individual's social-interaction skills. Alcoholics tend to have impaired EFE decoding abilities. A new study has found that not only do EFE decoding deficits continue despite three months of abstinence, but those individuals with the worst deficits also had the worst prognosis for treatment success. |
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