David Crosby’s Genes
Besides, it’s probably a vulnerability to addiction that’s in the genes, rather than the disease itself, and that crosses generations.
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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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Is Relapse a Crime?
But if a community treats a correctional institution as a kind of locked flophouse, what else we can expect?
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Functioning on Heroin?
They qualify for the diagnosis, but have not yet experienced the sort of problems that are usually required to motivate a serious attempt to abandon drug use.
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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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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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Spontaneous Remission?
The experience of addiction routinely includes periods of reduced substance use, or abstinence.
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The Struggle to Maintain
For many, only age and health issues, or an unanticipated dip in that protective tolerance, were enough to finally motivate them to seek help.
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Do You Know What (Drugs) Your Kids Are Doing?
It is vital that your teen feels able to talk to you about drugs; if they are using but are afraid of the consequences of telling you it will only lead to more deception.
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DSM-5 versus DSM-IV
Craving has finally been added to the symptom list. I was never entirely clear on why it wasn’t included in DSM-IV, since there’s an impressive body of research on craving measurement.
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The War Within
It was never really about the job, or an article in Time, or anything except his own fervent desire to keep drinking and prove everyone else wrong.
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Hidden Withdrawal
In the early and middle stages of addiction, addicts may experience mild to moderate withdrawal symptoms without recognizing them.
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