In contrast to patients without chemical dependence/abuse diagnoses, patients with these diagnoses had shorter lengths of stay, a greater number of psychiatric diagnoses, and were more likely to show personality disorder. Inception and implementation of the staff awareness program was associated with ...
You may not think of these as drugs. Buttobaccohas a chemical called nicotine that gives you a little rush of pleasure and energy. The effect can wear off fast and leave you wanting more. You can abuse and get addicted to the nicotine in cigarettes, just like other drugs. ...
Yet I am just one person, operating one substance abuse treatment program, in one small city, in a huge country where 35,000,000 are suffering from chemical dependency. Only 5-6% of them will ever walk into a drug and alcohol rehab center for help, and so I wondered, “if they won’...
Abuse in adult children of substance dependents: Effects and treatment. Special Issue: Aggression, family violence and chemical dependency parents' history of substance abuse, their level of perceived parental self-efficacy, and their perceived level of involvement in their children's education... S ...
Research shows that substance abuse needs to be treated on both the physical and psychological levels as people can experience different kinds of dependence. Learn more about the differences between physical and psychological substance dependencies as well as the impact of developing a tolerance to a ...
Anyone who has worked with a strong addiction - compulsive eating, compulsive sex, abuse of substances, explosive anger, or any other behavior that's out of control - knows that when the urge comes on it's irresistible. The seduction is too strong. So we train again and again in less hi...
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Acupuncture: New perspective in chemical dependency treatment Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 10 (1993), pp. 35-43 View in ScopusGoogle Scholar Bullock et al., 1989 M. Bullock, A. Umen, P. Culliton, R. Olander Controlled trial of acupuncture for severe recidivist alcoholism The Lancet,...
Participants (N = 286) were recruited from a 2-site private, nonprofit chemical dependency treatment agency offering medically supervised detoxification, inpatient treatment, intensive outpatient treatment, and standard aftercare (Figure). Patients at the agency typically attend approximately 1 year of...
32 Finally, misunderstanding and misuse of the terms addiction, drug abuse, physical dependence, psychologic dependence, tolerance, and withdrawal, and ignorance and misconception of concepts relating to pain, efficacy, responsiveness, and not understanding that opioid analgesics do not have a ceiling ...