| 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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| 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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| Guideline for Physicians Working in California Opioid Treatment Programs
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| 2006-10-01 |
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The physician in an opioid treatment program (OTP) practices in a uniquely challenging medical environment, responding to a diverse array of medical, psychiatric, and social problems in a largely indigent population with limited access to health care. This document, intended for California physicians, includes numerous practice standards that can be used anywhere for dealing with patients in a medication assisted treatment environment. |
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| Listening To Music Can Reduce Chronic Pain And Depression By Up To A Quarter
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| 2006-05-30 |
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Addiction Medicine | Clinicians Corner | Treatment Populations
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Listening to music can reduce chronic pain by up to 21 per cent and depression by up to 25 per cent, according to a paper in the latest UK-based Journal of Advanced Nursing. It can also make people feel more in control of their pain and less disabled by their condition. |
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| FDA Approves Monthly Injection for Alcohol Dependence
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| 2006-05-06 |
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"Vivitrol is the first once-a-month medication for alcohol dependence that ensures patients get the benefit of medication over the entire month," said Richard Rosenthal, M.D., chairman, of psychiatry at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York, in the companies' statement.
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| Educational Information from NAABT
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| 2006-04-17 |
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An excellent website with up-to-date information on opioids, addiction, stereotypes, existing treatments, and some basic pharmacology. It also includes an extensive glossary. |
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| Methadone and the Anti-medication Bias in Addiction Treatment
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| 2006-02-23 |
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There is a deeply entrenched anti-medication bias within the field of addiction treatment. This bias is historically rooted in the iatrogenic insults that have resulted from attempts to treat drug addiction with drugs. The most notorious of these professional practices includes: coaching alcoholics to substitute wine and beer for distilled spirits, treating alcoholism and morphine addiction with cocaine and cannabis, switching alcoholics from alcohol to morphine, failing repeatedly to find an alcoholism vaccine, employing aversive agents that linked alcohol or morphine to the experience of suffocation, and treating alcoholism with drugs that later emerged as problems in their own right, e.g., barbiturates, amphetamines, tranquilizers, and LSD. |
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| Veterans and Opiate Addiction
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| 2006-02-19 |
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Our Veteran population is faced with many issues that make dealing with opiate dependency even tougher in some ways than with the rest of the population. Many Veterans are dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and refractory depression, as well as those with severe medical issues with chronic pain related to their service. We need to address these issues. |
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| Overcoming addiction, step by step
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| 2006-01-13 |
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It's known as contingency management, and it works by giving patients a series of immediate rewards to encourage small steps towards recovery. Now a new study, one of the largest ever done to examine the role of motivational incentives in drug users, has convinced many in New York's clinics that contingency management works.
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| Overcoming addiction, step by step
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| 2005-10-28 |
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'Contingency management' study rekindles interest in a deceptively low-tech treatment for heroin users. Before Rockefeller's Scott Kellogg got involved, many of the clinics that treat New York City's 200,000 heroin addicts were struggling to come up with better ways to motivate their patients. |
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