At last a treatment for meth?
I'm curious as to whether the reductions in meth use could be expected to lead to eventual abstinence where meth was concerned. That's been the hope for other maintenance treatments, for the most part unrealized.
Category: Treatment
What works? For who? What doesn’t? Why? A complicated disease makes for complexities in treatment.
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Tapering off opioids
There appears to be good evidence for relying on an extended taper off opioids versus a more rapid process. Instead of fast cessation of use, the opioid is deliberately reduced on a preset schedule.
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In the Wilderness
I doubt ‘tough love’ was ever meant to be that tough. It’s all in how the programs interpret it.
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Getting Treatment: Who Decides?
On the other side of the equation, many in the insurance industry were unimpressed. Who’s supposed to pay for all that? they wanted to know. It won’t be us.
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A Bad Outcome– and Avoidable
It may be that psychotherapy itself needs greater definition. The National Institutes for Mental Health define it online as “a term for a variety of treatment techniques that aim to help a person identify and change troubling emotions, thoughts, and behavior.”
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A Tribe Deals with Addiction
It’s clear that in addition to all the helpful services and programs, the Lummi are also willing to make use of available leverage when necessary to gain compliance.
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Ketamine for AUD?
“How many fewer days?” was my question. Looks like about 10%.
So if the subject ordinarily drank every day, they eliminated one drinking day in ten?
TMS for alcoholism?
For me, it was encouraging to see how far science has come in its understanding of the neurological underpinnings of alcoholism.
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Happy in Rehab
You’d be surprised how much laughter occurs, mostly at oneself. People feel supported, instead of judged.
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MAT for Meth?
If Medicaid, for instance, expanded approval of naltrexone injections to include methamphetamine, that would make the combination more useful to addiction treatment.
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The Quality of Sobriety
Once the patient gained insight, the theory went, the drive to abuse drugs or alcohol gradually disappears.
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A Chronic Case
Risk goes up with advancing age and declining health, and this patient, a former star athlete still in his early 30’s, is a better candidate for surgery than many.
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Trauma and EMDR
You want to see what PTSD is really about? Do room checks on these wards at night. Nobody here ever gets a decent night’s sleep. It’s a succession of nightmares.
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