Addiction Treatment Articles
- Are You Addicted to Caffeine?
Caffeine addictions are easy to obtain but hard to beat. more...
- Exercise Promotes Good Mental Health in Employees
One of the benefits of exercise, along with burning calories and improving heart health, is the reduction of stress. Many people use exercise to combat stress and its related problems like symptoms of anxiety and depression. more...
- Drug Abuse Information at Your Finger Tips
Making information readily available and clearer to individuals struggling with literacy is the reason behind a new website designed to educate about drug abuse and its side effects. more...
- Anti-smoking Drug Shows Promise in Alcohol and Cocaine Treatments
People using Chantix to quit smoking noticed that the drug not only decreased their pleasure from cigarettes, it also made them enjoy alcohol less. more...
- 1 in 5 Americans Taking Psychiatric Drugs
Now, with tendencies to blame every disease on genetics or biochemical factors, there's been a rush to fix them with medication. more...
- Victims of Depression Often Experience Late Night Negative Thoughts
Rumination is a condition where individuals who have depression often experience negative thoughts they cannot control. Rumination is often found as a major symptom among depression patients. more...
- Recurring Work Leave Episodes More Frequent for Mental Health Disability
People who request leave for mental health reasons usually request a second leave two years down the rode versus employees who leave for physical health reasons and don't seek a second leave until an average of four years later. more...
- Domestic Violence, Addiction, and Trauma: Breaking the Cycle
Children see and hear the whole cycle: the loss of self-control when drinking or using, and the loss of self-control when tempers flare. Many abusers and victims report growing up in households like this. How can we break the cycle, even if it is what is familiar? more...
- Behavioral Management Could Help Parolees From Relapsing
Without the proper treatment, parolees with substance abuse problems face big problems when they assimilate in society. With more than 700,000 inmates reentering cities and towns across the country, it is critical that these men and women learn appropriate ways to cope with their addictions. more...
- NATO-led Drug Force Deals Huge Blow to Finances of Taliban-Led Insurgents
Taliban-led insurgents in Afghanistan were presented with a large crimp to their finances recently as Nato-led forces there confiscated large amounts of drugs. more...
- Southern California Latinos Targeted by Mexican Drug Cartels
Activist Pedro Rios, of the American Friends Service Committee, says the problem is especially prevalent in the southern county high schools in San Diego. Over 5,000 youth are currently confined in the city's correctional facilities and Rios believes this increase is because of Bill Clinton's Operation Guardian program that was intended to seal off the Mexican border. more...
- Texas High School Addresses Teen Psychological Stress from Mexican Drug War
A new curriculum offered at Texas high schools is taking a close look at a sometimes overlooked element of drug traffic: the ways the emotional stress impacts teens who live near the Mexican border and have frequently experienced associated trauma and violence. Experts suggest the stress for some teens is similar to the stress of soldiers who return from combat, including symptoms like post traumatic stress disorder. more...
- Treating Substance Abuse Among African-Americans
There are many different approaches to treating substance abuse. Through outpatient or residential programs, patients are treated using various forms of therapy. Often treatment includes medication to aid in overcoming addiction. more...
- Chronic Pain with Addiction Calls for Structured, Multi-Faceted Treatment
In the U.S., at least 50 million people are in chronic pain daily, leading to expensive hospital visits, serious losses of work time and numerous other expenses that add up to at least $100 billion annually. For patients with chronic pain and an addiction to substances such as opioids or alcohol, recent articles address the delicate balance that must be reached in terms of both pain treatment and addiction management. more...
- Locked-in By Addiction to Smoking: New Program to Stop Arizona Youth from Smoking
Imagine being locked in a room for 24 hours with 200 other youths and being bombarded with messages, facts, presentations and powerful personal stories about the perils of smoking addiction. more...
