Depression Treatment and Adolescent Drug Abuse

Depression Treatment and Adolescent Drug Abuse – Treating adolescents for major depression can also reduce their chances of abusing drugs later on, a secondary benefit found in a five-year study of nearly 2…

Editorial: Tobacco is a problem to be tackled, not dodged

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Of the 200,000-plus children who take up smoking each year, about half will become lifelong addicts. Of these, half will die … In fact, the effects of smoking are so appalling that even a small statistical reduction can save many lives. Even if …
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Why Did Pain Therapeutics Increase Over 25%?

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A major study published in the November 2012 issue of the Journal of Pain reported the results of a sentinel surveillance sample of 140,496 individuals assessed for substance abuse treatment at 357 treatment assessment centers across the United States …
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Group pushes for 'decompression'

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… multiple run-ins with the law, an eventual Post Traumatic Stress Disorder diagnosis, therapy and rehabilitation. Eventually, he found a new life in Carbondale after going through the residential substance abuse treatment program at the Jaywalker Lodge.
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Lindner Center of HOPE Opens Intensive Outpatient Program for Substance …

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Statistics indicate that 35 to 56 percent of persons with psychiatric disorders also exhibit a drug/alcohol use disorder. To overcome addiction, the pain and loss that is caused by addiction must be replaced by lasting sobriety … The Intensive …
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