Addiction Treatment

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John Hopkins researchers found that people who got treatment and recovery housing after detox were more than 10 times more likely to remain abstinent after a month than people who went through the detox without a treatment follow-up.

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• Research Breakthrough Might End The Anxiety of Alcohol Withdrawal

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Want to get and stay clean? If you’re a man, then you’d better work on minimizing your exposure to drug cues and if you’re a woman it’s stress that you’ve got to watch out for.

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By testing for your unconscious beliefs about the positive and negative consequences of drug use a newly develop screening test reveals how likely you are to benefit from addiction treatment.

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• New Gaming Courts in Nevada Offer Treatment to Gamblers

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Psychologists say that changing your physical environment can make it a lot easier to overcome addiction.

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Addiction treatment workers say that requests for treatment surge over the holidays as more people struggle with relapse and excessive drinking and drug use.

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Researchers in Pennsylvania say that text messages may be an effective delivery system for alcohol abuse interventions to heavy drinking young adults. Heavy drinking young adults drink substantially less when they get periodic text messages containing strategies to reduce consumption.

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• Brief Interventions: To Cut Down, Record Your Daily Drinks

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Spanish researchers say that using a common antipsychotic medication may help cocaine addicts manage cravings and quit using.

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The results from the first large-scale study of Suboxone treatment for prescription opiate abusers are in – the medication works very well while you use it, but once you taper off Suboxone, relapse rates get very high.

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• Teenagers: Dangers of the Family Medicine Cabinet

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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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• Binge Drinking: Teen See Little Danger in Binge Drinking
• Teen Depression: Bullying Increases Risk of Substance Abuse for Girls

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A Canadian Doctor talks about the nearly 200 people he’s treated with an Amazonian hallucinogen called ayahuasca.

• Ibogaine: Brooke Mueller to Get Ibogaine Treatment

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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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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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• Red Faced and Flushed after Drinking? New Medication May Help
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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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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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• Australian Researchers Say That Internet Therapy for Depression Works as Well as In-Person Counseling

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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.