Parenting Under The Influence
Children raised in such families are more likely to be exposed to violence, to initiate their own substance use at an earlier age, and to have mental health problems in childhood.
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Heavy Drinking vs Alcoholism
It isn’t nature vs. nurture. It’s both.
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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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Different Disorders?
Many of the differences in the experience of alcohol and heroin addiction are due to their respective status in the eyes of the law.
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Elder and Addicted
For many people, however, including helping professionals, it’s tempting to just give up
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“Addicted”? Or “dependent”?
But it’s still confusing for many people outside the field, since unlike psychiatry, they don’t revise their thinking every couple decades.
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Genetics of Heavy Drinking and Alcoholism
Many so-called “heavy drinkers” do in fact meet criteria for an AUD, but quite a few do not.
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Addicted to Pot
Here’s something else familiar: That preoccupation with obtaining and protecting the supply.
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Social Drinking? Problem Drinking?
Her definition of social drinking was any alcohol consumed in the company of other human beings.
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In the News: Sex Addiction Again…
A Federal judge once concluded in a famous lawsuit: It was clear that psychiatrists get together to define various disorders, and then every so often, get back together to redefine them.
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Diagnosing Cannabis Use Disorder: Updated
It certainly makes sense that if you suffer from a major mental illness, you should stay away from pot.
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Cross-Addiction
Newcomers had a tendency to focus their attention on the drug that brought them to treatment, ignoring others they happened to have been using.
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What is a Cannabis Use Disorder (CUD)?
Perhaps 20% of users will experience withdrawal– evidence of their dependence on the drug– regardless of whether they have other symptoms.
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