Addiction treatment sorely lacking

Addiction treatment sorely lacking
Vancouver Sun
The four pillars contributed to a public health approach to drug addiction and enabled the creation of innovative HIV treatment and overdose prevention programs, such as the Insite supervised injecting facility. Thanks to these measures, the number of ...

The Meaning of Addiction Has Changed -- Addiction is Not a Characteristic of ...
Huffington Post
He implies that pharmaceuticals aren't addictive ("Everybody I know takes psychoactive drugs, except maybe some Mormons, Seventh-Day Adventists, and the like"), but then maybe he hasn't read I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can (tranquilizer addiction) or hasn ...

Drug Use: Group Habits and Individual Learning
PLoS Blogs (blog)
Bridging the gap between learning, habit, and reinforcement (psychological theories) and social dynamics and relations is a major problem facing a better science of addiction. During the last two weeks of my graduate class in neuroanthropology, we've ...

Prescription drug abuse back in the spotlight
Nashua Telegraph
When The Telegraph embarked on its “Rx Addiction Epidemic” series this summer, we did so to raise public awareness of prescription drug abuse in America and to initiate a conversation closer to home on what can be done about it. So we've taken great ...

New Milford Woman in Court on Charges of Theft of Nearly $50000 Worth of ...
Housatonic Times
BANTAM — Facing accusations that she had stolen nearly $50,000 in jewelry from her relatives, a New Milford woman reportedly decided to come clean — while getting clean from her own prescription drug addiction. Brittany Reynolds, 25, of 33 Glen Ridge ...

Rehab helps 130 Emiratis overcome drug addiction in 9 months
The National
Rehabilitation programmes initiated by the Dubai Police have helped 130 Emiratis overcome theirdrug addictions so far this year, with 183 more expected to "completely heal" in the near future, anti-narcotics officials said yesterday. "Cured Emiratis ...

'Treatment Works' Recovering addicts share stories of hope, survival
The Times and Democrat
Alcohol and drug addiction took two Orangeburg residents down a hard road that led to job loss, family abandonment, declining health and, ultimately, loss of dignity. But Jason and Amanda — whose last names are not being used to protect their ...

Prostitute was a drug addict at time of alleged rape
Stuff.co.nz
A prostitute who says she was raped by a threatening client has admitted in court that she was adrug addict at the time. She told of her addiction when she was being cross-examined at the trial of the client, 21-year-old Rufus Joseph, on charges of ...

Researchers: Chocolate Locks You Into Loop of Addiction, Joy, and Despair
DailyTech
A new study by University of Michigan neuroscience student Alexandra DiFeliceantonio chronicles how chocolate locks the rodent brain into a cycle of addiction, joy, and despair, much like otherdrugs. She found that during consumption of M&Ms rats ...