addiction medicine

Asean's 2015 DrugFree Target 'Unrealistic'

Asean's 2015 DrugFree Target 'Unrealistic'
Authorities then herd thousands of drug users into compulsory treatment centres, ignoring evidence-based approaches, and despite a joint UN statement in 2012 calling for the closure of such centers, which are deemed costly… Continue reading

Effect of Cognitive Behavioural Interventions on the Quality of Life in Chinese Heroin-Dependent Individuals in Detoxification: A Randomised Controlled Trial.

Effect of cognitive behavioural interventions on the quality of life in Chinese heroin-dependent individuals in detoxification: a randomised controlled trial.

J Clin Nurs. 2013 Jul 12;
Zhuang SM, An SH, Zhao Y

To determine whether cognitive behavioural interventions would… Continue reading

[Pharmacological Treatment in Alcohol-, Drug- and Benzodiazepine-Dependent Patients – the Significance of Trazodone.]

[Pharmacological treatment in alcohol-, drug- and benzodiazepine-dependent patients – the significance of trazodone.]

Neuropsychopharmacol Hung. 2013 Jun; 15(2): 85-93
Funk S

Currently detoxification of drug and alcohol dependent patients is pharmacologically unresolved, and long-term treatment following the acute phase… Continue reading

Acetaldehyde as a Drug of Abuse: Insight Into AM281 Administration on Operant-Conflict Paradigm in Rats.

Acetaldehyde as a drug of abuse: insight into AM281 administration on operant-conflict paradigm in rats.

Front Behav Neurosci. 2013; 7: 64
Plescia F, Brancato A, Marino RA, Cannizzaro C

Increasing evidence focuses on acetaldehyde (ACD) as the mediator of… Continue reading

Improving the Cost-Effectiveness of a Healthcare System for Depressive Disorders by Implementing Telemedicine: A Health Economic Modeling Study.

Improving the Cost-Effectiveness of a Healthcare System for Depressive Disorders by Implementing Telemedicine: A Health Economic Modeling Study.

Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2013 Jun 4;
Lokkerbol J, Adema D, Cuijpers P, Reynolds CF, Schulz R, Weehuizen R, Smit F… Continue reading

Training Addiction Counselors to Implement an Evidence-Based Intervention: Strategies for Increasing Organizational and Provider Acceptance.

Training Addiction Counselors to Implement an Evidence-Based Intervention: Strategies for Increasing Organizational and Provider Acceptance.

Cogn Behav Pract. 2013 May 1; 20(2): 232-244
Woo SM, Hepner KA, Gilbert EA, Osilla KC, Hunter SB, Muñoz RF, Watkins KE

One barrier… Continue reading

Is Your Prescribing Serving a Hidden Addiction?

Is your prescribing serving a hidden addiction?

S Afr Med J. 2013; 103(6): 359-361
Bateman C

Addiction to prescription and over-the-counter (OTC) medicines is a hidden, little-researched chronic illness – which could be significantly countered by destigmatisation, ‘up-scheduling’ certain… Continue reading

Drug Rehab Centers in Colorado | Colorado Drug Rehabilitation Centers


 

Drug Rehab Centers in Colorado | Colorado Drug Rehabilitation Centers – http://alcoholtreatmentcolorado.org Alcohol, drug, and pharmaceuticals abuse rehabilitation at Drug Rehab Centers in Colorado includes detoxification, counse…

 

Microsoft manager becomes marijauna mogul planning to turn his business into… Continue reading

Sugar Addiction: Pushing the Drug-Sugar Analogy to the Limit.

Sugar addiction: pushing the drug-sugar analogy to the limit.

Curr Opin Clin Nutr Metab Care. 2013 May 27;
Ahmed SH, Guillem K, Vandaele Y

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: To review research by testing the validity of the analogy between addictive… Continue reading

[Training in Addiction Medicine].

[Training in addiction medicine].

Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd. 2013; 157(22): A5751
de Jong CA, Luycks L, Delicat JW

The treatment of addiction is a skill. It not only requires the necessary specialist medical knowledge but a wide range of communication… Continue reading