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Life-saving opioid addiction treatments get a negative slant
Researchers analyzing media coverage of medications that treat opioid addiction find inaccurate and negatively slanted coverage, especially in states with high mortality rates for overdose. When the nation’s health is in peril, journalists play a vital role as reliable communicators of life-saving information. But when it comes to covering a public health emergency as complex […]
Why Not Start Addiction Treatment Right In The ER?
Like asthma or diabetes, opioid addiction is a chronic condition. Could treatment that begins when people show up in the ER get them on the right road faster?
How we treat pain currently may contribute to opioid addiction
The pain intensity scale is often used to monitor a person's pain. But focusing too much on pain intensity could be contributing to the opioid epidemic.
For Teenagers, Adult-Sized Opioid Addiction Treatment Doesn't Fit
Teenage brains are more susceptible to drug abuse, but it's often hard to find treatment. It's even harder to find evidence-based treatment designed for youth. But that's starting to change.
When Time Behind Bars Cuts Addiction Treatment Short
Most inmates lose access to medication-assisted treatment for addiction once they're incarcerated. Among prisons and jails that do offer such treatment, it's often restricted to pregnant women.
Gene May Help Guide Black Patients' Opioid Addiction Treatment
Researchers say they've found a genetic variant associated with opioid addiction, and it might lead to personalized treatment for the condition.
How to Avoid Opioid Addiction After Surgery
Following surgery, many patients head home with prescriptions for 30 or more opioid painkillers -- enough to trigger addiction, warns a leading group of anesthesiologists.
Why Women Need Trauma-Informed Addiction Treatment
Recent research indicates that addiction treatment addressing the specific needs of women is more effective for women than traditional programs.
This Addiction Treatment Works. Why Is It So Underused?
An approach called contingency management rewards drug users with money and prizes for staying abstinent. But few programs offer it, in part because of moral objections to the concept.
How Crossroads Treatment Center treats opioid addiction
"I think it could happen to anybody, I just didn't think it would happen to me."
Why Understanding Dopamine Is Crucial to Treating Opioid Addiction
Opioid substitution therapies like buprenorphine and methadone can raise dopamine to normal levels.
Why Addiction Treatment Can Be Intense and Scary
Beginning the recovery process takes courage and commitment. It's usually intense. Some aspects of recovery are painful and some can be downright scary.
How Alternative Addiction Treatment Leads to Lasting Sobriety
Learn how alternative addiction treatment methods can help lead to long-lasting sobriety & recovery. Call 866.374.0561 to learn about options today.
Debunking the Myths About Why Opioid Addictions Develop
The lack of immediate access to affordable treatment of addiction, and inadequately treated or undertreated chronic pain have caused and sustained the continuing drug crisis.
Why First Responders Need Specialized Addiction Treatment
First responders – police, firefighters, paramedics and corrections officers – protect and serve. Yet, first responders face higher rates of substance use disorder, mental illness and suicide than the general public. Like doctors, nurses and pilots, first responders require specialized addiction treatment that helps manage their disease and supports their safe return to work.
Why Men Are More Likely to Relapse After Addiction Treatment
Learn why men are more likely than women to relapse after addiction treatment and what unique reasons contribute to a higher rate of relapse for men.
Holistic Addiction Treatment and How it May Be Able To Help You
In holistic addiction treatment, the entire body, mind and spirit is treated. This is done in several ways including yoga, meditation, and many others.
How Dual Diagnosis Addiction Treatment Saves Addicts Lives
Dual Diagnosis Treatment is for persons with mood disorders like schizophrenia, depression or bipolar disorder and problems with alcohol or drug addiction.
What’s Gone Wrong with Addiction Treatment? And How We Can Fit It!
Over the past 30 years I have worked in and created nearly a dozen addiction, co-occurring disorder, and mental health hospitals, intensive outpatient programs, and residential treatment centers around the US and overseas. And guess what? Over the years...
How addiction treatment falls short, and what is being done about it
Failure to provide medication and inadequate help for mental illness are among the most glaring flaws.
What Addiction Treatment Really Needs
The field of addiction has to get it together. This modest proposal offers five places to start, from individualizing treatment to professionalizing treaters.
