Higher and Higher
Not completely unexpectedly, the research team found that using the more potent forms substantially increased the risk for cannabis use disorders (CUDs in the US), as well as anxiety disorders.
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Trauma and Memory
In fact, it’s often difficult to convince the trauma patient to seek treatment, in part because of fear of having to re-experience the event.
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Tapering off Anti-Depressants
In the absence of complaints, the prescriber can be tempted to assume things are going well, when in fact they aren’t.
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Addictive Delusions
A reasonably good rule of thumb for differentiating results of substance addiction from other illnesses: When the substance use stops for an extended period, the symptoms improve dramatically or go away entirely.
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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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Opioids and Mental Health Diagnoses
This goes back to a problem in assessing pain. There’s no physical test for what is essentially a subjective experience.
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Cannabis as an Opioid Addiction Treatment
It usually comes back to the assumption that another problem ‘underlies’ addiction, and therefore will respond to treatment with the “right” drug, if we can figure out what it is.
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In the News: Adderall Angst
“I probably would have taken them anyway. I was really hoping for a chemical fix.”
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What is Trauma?
The practitioner’s job is to tease apart the clinical picture to identify likely contributors to focus on in treatment.
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Counseling Clients With Complex Disorders
…progress is the measuring stick. You want your patient to know the joy of a structured, purposeful life.
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A Better Diagnostic Understanding of Addiction
While it may have similarities to other disorders, the emotional dysregulation that characterizes addiction is not the same.
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The Natural History of Recovery: CoDisorders
There’s plenty of evidence that treatment for depression works, and that people with co-occurring disorders can and do get a whole lot better.
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Mental Illness: The Dilemma of Diagnosis
In spite of the advances, science still struggles to understand the disease process that underlies most disorders.
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