Substance Matters

The internet's voice for professional, scientifically-based treatment of alcohol and other substance use disorders.

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Can Suboxone Induction Be Done at Home?

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This recent article investigated whether heroin addicts could make the transition from heroin to buprenorphine at home, rather than in the ...
Monday, December 24, 2012

Do relapse rates rise around the holidays?

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Many people assume that the time between Thansksgiving and the winter solstice holidays are the most difficult time of the year for people i...
Friday, December 21, 2012

Gender Specific Treatment Reduces Recidivism by 67%

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Here's the abstract from a new study that used random assignment in prison (a nearly impossible task in itself) and found that trauma-in...
Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Why Don't We Have New Treatments for Addiction?

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I just got back from a meeting of the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry, and one of the most striking things was the lack of anything...
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Monday, December 3, 2012

Potential New Treatment for Cocaine Addiction?

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In a recent article, Mariani and colleagues reported on a pilot study of a combination of mixed amphetamine salts (MAS; most commonly known ...
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Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Health Care Changes Important to Addiction Treatment

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Among the various things I do, I work about half time for a large health care organization (HCO) in Minnesota called Allina Health. Currentl...
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Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Change: Continuous and Discontinuous

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Recently I have several patients who have made remarkable progress in a short time. I would call this discontinuous change.  That is, there ...
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