Addiction Treatment
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Tamara van Molken
Trying to stay clean? Maybe you should get out and lend a hand to someone in need - Researchers at Case Western Reserve University say that teens who get involved with helping others during substance abuse treatment experience fewer cravings for drugs and alcohol than their less altruistic peers.
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Leoffreitas
A Canadian Doctor talks about the nearly 200 people he’s treated with an Amazonian hallucinogen called ayahuasca.
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Syre.O
Trying to quit cocaine? You might want to consider ditching cigarettes at the same time. New research suggests that nicotine amplifies cocaine’s effects and addictiveness…just remember not to use nicotine replacement products, such as nicotine gum or the patch, as these too increase cocaine’s effects.
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Mctrent
Researchers at UCLA say that about 50% of Asians have a genetic variation that makes naltrexone especially effective as a treatment for alcoholism.
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EpSos.de
There wasn’t anywhere in the UK where people addicted to club drugs and legal high drugs could go to get the help they needed, until now. The Club Drug Rehab is an NHS funded project designed to meet the needs of people not addicted to more conventional drugs of abuse.
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Phil Strahl
After following a group of rehab graduates who used an online continuing care program for 18 months, researchers say that web-based aftercare works well.
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HUS0
Under Rio De Janeiro’s controversial new drug treatment program for street youth, if police and social workers find you on the street in high drug use areas and you can’t prove you’ve got a home to go to – you are heading to 3 months of locked in drug treatment; whether you want it or not.
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Waldo Jaquith
Although the total number of people seeking addiction treatment changed very little between 1998 and 2008, the substances these people sought help for did change quite a bit, with alcohol admissions down considerably and drug addiction admissions, particularly opiate pain pills and marijuana addiction admissions, considerably up.
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Ben Mills
Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical Center think they’re on to something big – a vaccine that could help cocaine addicts kick a notoriously difficult addiction.
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Deadly Sirius
Knowing that prisons are often full of drugs and offer a nefarious higher education for young criminals, Calgary’s police chief is calling for the creation of a different kind of jail/detox to lock away those who commit crimes only to feed an addiction.
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babelglyph
A Scientology minister in Australia’s Northern Territories has been targeting drug and alcohol addicted aborigines, handing out information pamphlets that contain detoxing advice that health officials say could easily prove fatal to people with kidney disease.
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Josh Liba
Is your teen son or daughter always texting or on a social networking site? If yes then be careful, as research suggests that teens spending the most time daily engaged in texting and social networking are also the most likely to drink alcohol, smoke cigarettes and have sex with multiple partners.
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Ashley Rose
Opiate users involved in opiate substitution programs (methadone or buprenorphine) for longer than 12 months are 85% less likely to die in any given period than opiate users not involved in such treatment programs.
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WillWhiteDC
Patrick Kennedy will retire after 8 terms in Congress to write the story of his battles with depression and drug and alcohol addictions.
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Wanderinghome
US Navy Invests $3.25 million to provide sailors on deployment with access to an online addiction recovery program
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