Physicians Need to Confront Addiction

April 23, 2012

In 2011, the National Institute of Drug Abuse began an Addiction Performance Project. The program was designed to educate primary care physicians about prescription drug addiction, screenings, and overcoming their resistance to addressing addiction with patients. The program begins with professional actors reading Act III of Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night followed by [...]

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Can Marijuana Create a Predisposition to Schizophrenia?

April 20, 2012

There has been much debate about the pros and cons of medicinal marijuana use. The arguments on each side tend to be extreme and may not clearly reflect the ambiguity related to marijuana’s legalization. People who advocate the legalization of marijuana cite that marijuana has been shown to help cancer patients deal with the side [...]

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Impaired Health Care Professionals Can Get Help for Addiction

April 18, 2012

You work hard. You studied hard. You always wanted to be a doctor, a nurse, a therapist, or any of the other health care professionals. But, you never planned on becoming an addict or an alcoholic. Did you know that at least 15% of all health care professionals will succumb to the disease of addiction [...]

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Cocaine Addiction Alters the Grey Matter in the Brain: Normal Decision Making is Altered

April 16, 2012

A new study released by the US Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory illustrates links between the amount of grey matter (part of the decision making, thought processing part of the brain) in healthy people and the structure and function of people with a cocaine addiction. The prefrontal cortex is involved in higher order executive [...]

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Physicians Need to Confront Addiction

April 12, 2012

In 2011, the National Institute of Drug Abuse began an Addiction Performance Project. The program was designed to educate primary care physicians about prescription drug addiction, screenings, and overcoming their resistance to addressing addiction with patients. The program begins with professional actors reading Act III of Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night followed by [...]

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Impaired Health Care Professionals Can Get Help for Addiction

April 9, 2012

You work hard. You studied hard. You always wanted to be a doctor, a nurse, a therapist, or any of the other health care professionals. But, you never planned on becoming an addict or an alcoholic. Did you know that at least 15% of all health care professionals will succumb to the disease of addiction [...]

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Seniors: A Plentiful Source for Prescription Drugs

April 6, 2012

In 2011, an Ohio state report on substance abuse found that seniors are now targeted by dealers and users for prescription pain killers.  This is occurring as soon as the elders leave the pharmacies. Sometimes dealers are offering to take seniors to the doctor to get a prescription and then to a pharmacy to have [...]

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Buprenorphine Misuse

March 30, 2012

In a March CESAR FAX report from the University of Maryland it was reported that researchers examined the results of prisoners in the Adult Offender Population Urine Screening Program. This low cost tool is used to assess emerging local drug trends. Individuals were tested for five or less drugs with samples sent to an independent [...]

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LSD’s Positive Effect on Alcoholism Treatment

March 15, 2012

A new article published in the March 2012 issue of the Journal of Psychopharmacology examined the clinical efficacy of LSD in treating alcoholism. A meta-analysis based upon six studies conducted during the 1960s and the 1970s examined the results of 536 participants. Reviewers found that looking at the results indicated positive outcomes for treating alcoholism [...]

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Prevention Program for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders

March 14, 2012

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) results in permanent birth defects due to the consumption of alcohol while pregnant. Alcohol passes through the umbilical cord directly to the growing fetus, influencing abnormalities in the unborn child’s development. In the United States, up to 6,000 babies are born every year with a form of a fetal alcohol [...]

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