Depression Update
Patients with severe substance disorders may experience depression as a result of the cumulative effects of their substance use.
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Author: C. Scott McMillin
In the News: Big Pharma’s Addiction Profits
We watch and listen to Big Pharma execs on television and find ourselves thinking, are these guys so different from a street corner drug dealer?
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Searching for a Substitute
If addiction really is a brain disorder based in complex adaptations to a substance, then who’s to say those adaptations won’t occur with a different drug?
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Naltrexone versus Opioids
Not surprisingly, the vast majority of patients who drop out or otherwise leave maintenance programs return to heroin at rates of 80% or higher.
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Anonymity Dilemma
…struggles can actually serve as a disincentive to someone who knows you and is now beginning to peer uncertainly up their own long and bumpy road of life change.
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