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However, taking large amounts of any drug, prescription or illicit, can result in a fatal overdose or spur a long-term substance use disorder which may require rehab. Despite these dangers, illicit substance abuse is a major issue in America. ...
This Resource Is a Drug War Chronicle article about the 'bad science' promulgated by the Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University in NYC. 'And once again, CASA head Joseph Califano and his team of researchers appear to be playing games with the numbers in order...
Rosenberg H, Philips K: Acceptability and availability of harm-reduction interventions for drug abuse in American substance abuse treatment agencies. Psych Addict Behav. 2003, 17 (3): 203-210. Article Google Scholar Toward the Heart: British Columbia Harm Reduction Strategies and Services Committee...
At the conclusion of any drug treatment you hope that the addiction is beaten. However, sometimes drug treatment helps those addicted reduce drug abuse and Read More Alcohol Stats and Effects This alcohol stats and effects article has information on the statistics of alcohol use and abuse and the...
I recently read that Oregon has the 2nd highest untreated addiction rate in the country and we ranked 50th for providing addiction treatment access! Drug overdoses are responsible for killing two Oregonians a day! But funding from Measure 110 aims to change those stats, by funneling cannabis tax...
I chose to write about drugs because the responsible drug users are the mainstream, not the fringe. Yet in this ‘man bites dog‘ journalism climate, the only stories that get reported are those of overdoses and addictions. I don’t want to dismiss these sad stories: they are tragedies. ...
P. Brown 48Accesses Abstract Prescription drug misuse (PDM), or using medications in ways other than prescribed, or for the purposes of getting high, is one of the most common forms of drug abuse in the USA and other parts of the world. Behind marijuana, prescription drugs are the second...
In his view, "mania" effectively implied the presence of some sort of 'pathology' in an individual, and, when used by psychiatrists in their clinical research, the term "narkomania" invoked the image of a psychotic patient with the underlying problem of "poisonous" substance abuse. These '...
use of the negative binomial regression model with a population offset. Year and country-level fixed effects negative binomial regression models investigated the association between years of implementation of methadone maintenance therapy (MMT), OST in prison, and high dose buprenorphine treatment (HDBT...