Showing posts with label addiction and recovery news. Show all posts
Showing posts with label addiction and recovery news. Show all posts
Friday, March 2, 2018

Researchers: Supervised Methadone and Buprenorphine Dosing Adds Little Therapeutic Benefit

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Methadone, the full agonist synthetic opioid, is one of the most tightly regulated medications on the planet - at least, that is, when it...
Tuesday, June 3, 2014

A Sad State of Affairs: Psychostimulant Addiction Treatment Leaves Much to be Desired

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The authors of a new paper , published ahead of a special issue of Neuropharmacology , give the reader a good look at the current state of p...
Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Who Benefits from Additional Drug Counseling among Prescription Opioid Dependent Patients on Suboxone?

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In a secondary analysis of the Prescription Opioid Addiction Treatment Study (POATS), the original study's author, Roger Weiss, and col...
Monday, March 31, 2014

Study: Are Drug Screens Sufficient for Adolescent Treatment?

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Could it be that we are missing something when it comes to treating adolescents with a substance use disorder? According to a study in the m...
Monday, March 17, 2014

Is Addiction Always Permanent?

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Recently, a colleague challenged what he perceived to be my "insistence that addiction is permanent." Here is my reply: Dear Jo...
Friday, February 21, 2014

Researchers Take a Novel Approach to Vivitrol Induction

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Researchers and clinicians at Duke University performed a small, open label study to test a new induction protocol for opioid detoxification...
Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Study: Burden of Disease Associated with Alcohol-use Disorders Higher Than Previously Thought

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In a paper published online last week in the journal, Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research , a group of international researcher...
Thursday, January 9, 2014

Vermont Governor Devotes Entire State of the State Address to Drug Addiction

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From yesterday's NY Times: In Annual Speech, Vermont Governor Shifts Focus to Drug Abuse In a sign of how drastic the epidemic of d...