The Meaning of Trauma
...treat the two as independent and coequal in the clinical picture. Address them via an integrated treatment plan.
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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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Rock n’ Roll Will Never Die
I’ve run into many clinicians who regard such clients as so disturbed and resistant to change as to be virtually immune to therapy.
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Is Cannabis Essential, Like Milk and Eggs?
Makes me wonder about the widespread practice of prescribing medical marijuana for mental health conditions such as PTSD.
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Drugs and the Homeless
…the problems we decide not to deal with at present go on to undermine treatment for the rest.
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Withdrawal Dilemma
The physician, meanwhile, depends on the information provided by medical science, usually in the form of materials from the pharma firm that markets the product.
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Opioid Disorders and Depression
The increased incidence of depression, anxiety, and other psychiatric symptoms linked to OUD may also help to account for high rates of relapse among patients, post-treatment, versus other substance 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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