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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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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DSM5 – The Great Debaters
In a sense we’re just describing disorders that we only partly understand.
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More on Mental Illness: Genetics
As a general rule, the better the causes of a disease are understood, the more effective the treatments will be.
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Recover to Live: Kick Any Habit, Manage Any Addiction
One aspect of Lawford’s book that makes it unique and a must read is its careful and powerful weaving of the author’s personal recovery experience with the most up-to-date scientific evidence
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