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- Drug Free Australia’s Substack – How Harm Reduction devastated Australia
- Structural brain differences in adolescents may play a role in early initiation of substance use
- Rising Trend of Substance Abuse Among Older Adults: A Review Focusing on Screening and Management
- How should we view the national decline in drug-overdose deaths?
- Improving community engagement in addiction science – NIDA
- Tackling the global drug crisis
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- Fatal overdoses often happen when users are alone. Hotlines, sensors can save lives.
- White House Drug Policy Director Statement on Latest Drug Overdose Death Data
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- European Drug Report 2024: Trends and Developments
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- Policy News Roundup: July 25, 2024
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- The Tragic Toll of Cannabis-Induced Psychosis: Stories of Loss and Awareness
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- ‘invest in prevention’
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- There’s no hope of fixing drug crisis through harm reduction
- ‘Dead people don’t recover’: MSU panel discusses drug epidemic, solutions in America
- Understanding and Overcoming Substance Abuse Relapse
- Problems Of Drug Dependence, 1986 : Proceedings Of The 48th Annual Scientific Meeting, The Committee On Problems Of Drug Dependence
- INTERVIEW WITH U.S. DRUG CZAR JOHN WALTERS
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- Teen Drug Use Habits Are Changing, For the Good. With Caveats.
- Addiction Treatment Can Work Even When It’s Not Voluntary
- The Connection Between Stress and Alcoholism
- Drug addiction – How It Hijacks Our Cognition & Consciousness
- I Was One Of The Top Doctors In My Field. I Was Also An Opioid Addict.
- Why Are Habits So Hard To Break?
- Development Of An Integrated Cognitive Behavioral Therapy For Anxiety And Opioid Use Disorder: Study Protocol And Methods
- Technology-Based Interventions For Substance Use And Comorbid Disorders: An Examination Of The Emerging Literature
- Emergency Department–Initiated Buprenorphine/Naloxone Treatment Or Opioid Dependence A Randomized Clinical Trial
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- AMA Position Statement: Cannabis Use And Health (2014)
- How China Is Using Virtual Reality To Help Drug Addicts Turn Their Lives Around
- How To Move On With Your Life During Addiction Recovery
- Beyond Supply: How We Must Tackle The Opioid Epidemic
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- Drug Court – Giving Families A Chance To Break The Cycle Of Opioid Use
- Treatment For Cannabis Use Disorders: A Case Report
- Changes In Cannabis Potency And First-Time Admissions To Drug Treatment: A 16-Year Study In The Netherlands
- Ask The Expert: Dr. Thomas Kosten Discusses Anti-Drug Vaccines
- Ask The Expert: Dr. Stacy Seikel And Opioid Addiction
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- Breaking The Stigma Of Recovery
- ‘A Program In Maine Promotes Using Marijuana And Kratom To Cure Opiate Addition.’
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- How a brain gets hooked on opioids
- New Opioid Tool Kit introduced to address U.S. Drug Epidemic
- What Drug and Alcohol Treatment Should Look Like: An Interview With Dr. Robert Schwebel
- There’s a highly successful treatment for opioid addiction. But stigma is holding it back.
- Opioid users complete residential at higher rates than other patients
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- My View: Addiction is a public health issue; treatment works
- Number of young heroin addicts in England down 79% over last decade
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- Effective treatments for cannabis use hampered by “benign” image – conference told
- Treatment of adolescents with a cannabis use disorder: Main findings of a randomized controlled trial comparing multidimensional family therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy in The Netherlands.
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- Study finds 2 million students need rehab
- Examining the profile of high-potency cannabis and its association with severity of cannabis dependence
- Shatter is a potent and highly addictive new form of marijuana
- NEUROSCIENCE OF RECOVERY: THE BRAIN IN RECOVERY
- Club Drug ‘Molly’ Causes Hospitalizations at Wesleyan
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- Link Between Marijuana Use and Mania
- New data shows Indiana high school seniors are trying marijuana more often than alcohol and cigarettes.
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- Reducing stigma attached to addiction
- Research Review Prompts NIDA Warning About Marijuana Use.
- ITV documentary looks into impact of drinking while pregnant on babies and their families
- Best Starting Points in Addiction Recovery Treatment
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- Neil McKeganey: Expert drug advisers turn a blind eye to the dire failings of the methadone programme
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- AIDS drugs halve HIV risk for intravenous drug users in study
- How to tell if you are an addict.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, the 12-Step Fellowship: A Modern Miracle (Op-Ed)
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- A new paradigm for long-term recovery
- Cannabinoid Hyperemesis: A Case Series of 98 Patients
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- ‘We would end up with a problem of a similar scale to the one that we have with alcohol’
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- How does cognitive behaviour therapy work with opioid-dependent clients? Results of the UKCBTMM study.
- Implementation of evidence-based substance use disorder continuing care interventions.
- New research ‘makes the case’ for investment in young people’s drug and alcohol treatment
- Heroin vaccine works for lab rats
- Treating heavy smokers in primary care with the nicotine nasal spray: randomized placebo-controlled trial
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- Promising Treatment for Heroin Dependency
- Study Reveals New Strategy for Reducing Alcohol Craving
- Methadone treatment 97% ineffective.
- Alcohol treatment aids wives and children too
- Teenage therapy ‘reduces binge drinking’
- Glasgow study reveals addiction recovery factors
- Experimental Treatments for Cocaine Addiction May Prevent Relapse
- Studies Demonstrate Analgesic Properties Of Synthetic Cannabinoid
- Tiny RNA Molecule Could Prevent Cocaine Addiction
- Counselor skill influences outcomes of brief motivational interventions.
- Translating effective web-based self-help for problem drinking into the real world.
- Drugs Figures Paint Incorrect Pictures Of Misuse
- Cannabinoid Hyperemesis: High on the Differential for Intractable Vomiting
- Cannabis health woes for older users
- Research Offers Hope For Alcoholics
- Readiness for change and drug use outcomes after treatment
- 12-Step Treatment More Effective than Alternative, Study Says
- Brief skills training is effective to curb college drinking
- Calif. Tobacco Prevention Program Credited with Cutting Smoking
- Adolescent Brains Not Ready to Avoid Risks, Study Says
- Plant extract may block cannabis addiction
- Drug Blocks THC Effects, Study Says
- NHS to prescribe pill that eases smokers’ cravings
- Drug habits see a ‘major shift’
- Can the Government stay in denial any longer? by Kathy Gyngell
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- Electrical Brain Stimulation Shows Promise for Cocaine Treatment,
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- Enhancement of cocaine’s abuse liability in methadone maintenance patients
- Evaluation of the biochemical mechanisms involved in methadone failure in vivo.
- Review of heroin-blocking implant urged
- Once-a-month Naltrexone Successfully Used To Treat Alcohol Dependence
- Homeless youth need more than drug rehab
- Family History Of Alcoholism Affects Response To Drug Used To Treat Heavy Drinking
- Once-a-month Naltrexone Successfully Used To Treat Alcohol Dependence
- Gene Variant Predicts Medication Response In Patients With Alcohol Dependence
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- Breakthrough For Heroin Addiction Treatment
- Study: Substance-abuse funding skimps on prevention
- A Drug for Kleptomania? – Naltrexone curbs shoplifting.
- Anti Craving Drug Speeds Toward Market
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- Behavioral couples therapy (BCT) for alcohol and drug use disorders: a meta-analysis.
- Site For Alcohol’s Action In The Brain Discovered
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- Pharmaceutical Advances on Alcohol Addiction
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- Treating Cocaine Addiction with Viruses
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- Study Compares Prison and Non-Prison Treatment
- Buprenorphine
- European Studies on Burenorphine
- Research leads to more effective methods of treating drug addictions
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- Family Treatment Shows Promise in Stopping Chain of Addiction
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- Brain Reprogramming, Vaccines Among Future Addiction Cures
- Buprenorphine – Fewer Side Effects than Methadone
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- Kudzu: The Weed that Fights Alcoholism
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- Snacks Used to Ease Recovery
- Study Looks at Tranquilizers Used to Ease Withdrawal
- AA: Attend Early and Often
- Cash Rewards for Quitting Meth
- AA Attendance and Abstinence
- Cannabis therapy ‘may be harmful’
- Comparison of Voluntary and Enforced Treatment
- Drug Addiction Treatment Sees Drop In Success Rate
- Largely Unnoticed Agent May Be Effective Smoking Deterrent
- Natural Remission and Relapse
- New Genetic Study May Provide New Tools for Alcohol Prevention and Treatment
- New medication appears effective in helping smokers kick the habit
- Seeking Help Could Quadruple the Likelihood of Abstinence
- Social messaging make women harder to treat
- The Economic Benefits of Drug Treatment: A Critical Review of the Evidence for Policy Makers
- Drug that curbs Nicotine Craving may do same for Cocaine
- Vaccine Against Effects Of Cocaine Nearly Ready For Clinical Trials
- More Teens Treated for Addiction Study Finds
- Exposure-Response Therapy Showing Positive Results
- Snippets from SAMHSA
- Methadone substitution for heroin addiction is not the only effective treatment
- Animals exposed to Marijuana’s active component will self-administer the drug
- Young Marijuana Smokers at Highest Addiction Risk
- Drug Courts Pay Off
- Cocaine Addiction Could Be All In Your Genes
- Cannabis pain relief without the high
- Cocaine addiction and drug counselling reduce use and significantly decrease HIV
- The Drug Abuse Warning Network tracks emergency department and drug mortality statistics in the United States
- Report Shows More People in Treatment Started Using Drugs at an Earlier Age
- Methadone substitution for heroin addiction is not the only effective treatment
- Meth abuse causes more emergency room visits than all other drugs
- Genetics Plays Role In Relapse Of Illicit Drug-seeking Behavior
- Cannabis ‘linked to aggression’
- Smoking and depression
- Genetics Plays A Role In The Relapse Of Drug-seeking Behaviour In Humans
- Cocaine’s chemical ‘switch’ stays turned on
- Long-term alcohol abstinence reverses some brain structural changes
- Prisoners Complain About Drug Treatment Programmes
- Update on the profile and circumstances of today’s drug-use fatality
- Methadone Maintenance as Treatment for Heroin Addiction
- Methadone dose increase, and abstinence reinforcement, for treatment of continued use during methadone maintenance
- Genetic Links
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