Don't Treat Heroin and Opioid Addiction as Short-Term Conditions: Paper
Don't treat heroin and opioid addiction as short-term conditions: paper
One of the paper's authors, Bohdan Nosyk of the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, said treatment programs that focus on abstinence as the end goal represent “the most damaging” aspect of opioid treatment in North America. “This is a chronic …
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Report calls for expanded treatment for drugs like heroin
Researchers say there needs to be more effective treatment programs, such as methadone substitution. The authors also say the use of ineffective and potentially-harmful short-term detox treatments need to be discouraged. There are up to 125,000 …
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Cri-Help: Turning Fear and Loathing Into Sobriety and Redemption
The idea of in-house drug treatment for addicts was a new one back then. “In those days there was no detox. You could go to a psych hospital. Olive View had a psych ward where you could detox and they did have methadone. But really there wasn't …
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'Recovery Court': New state facility to provide substance abuse treatment
Doug Varney never thought he would see the day when narcotics would pass alcohol as Tennessee's number one substance abuse problem. But that day has come, and Varney — the state's mental health commissioner … The newly established program will allow …
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