Chemically dependent nurses are susceptible to the scrutiny of boards of authority if their addiction affects the workplace.Therefore, those in authority should understand the disease of addiction and use an effective, compassionate approach that will benefit both the addicted nurse and nursing as a ...
The disease of chemical dependency can be traced to neural pathways in the brain predating a diagnosis of addiction. A genetic predisposition alone is not enough to predict addiction. Typically, psychological and social influences drive the person to use the addicting substances, and the combination...
Addictive behaviors beg for an informed explanation to guide patients, families, students, and clinicians through the maddening and often incomprehensible nature of the addictions. Too often addiction is perceived to be merely a moral weakness or purely a brain disease, ignoring the deep personal pain...
The United States is stuck in its drug abuse metaphors and in polarized arguments about them. Everyone has an opinion. One side insists that we must control supply, the other that we must reduce demand. People see addiction as either a disease or as a failure of will. None of this bumper...
Effective treatment requires a multidisciplinary team with capacity to access a range of services related to housing, addiction, vocational rehabilitation, and social services, in addition to formal mental health care (Hean et al., 2010; Scott et al., 2013). This can be improved through cross-...
Informed by unparalleled neuroscientific insight and written with his usual flare, Marc Lewis’s The Biology of Desire effectively refutes the medical view of addiction as a brain disease. A bracing and informative corrective to the muddle that now characterizes public and professional discourse on ...
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Increases in the prevalence of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), particularly cardiometabolic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, stroke and diabetes, and their major risk factors have not been uniform across settings: for example, cardiovascular disease mortality has declined over recent decades in hig...
Reliability of the timeline followback for cocaine, cannabis, and cigarette use. Psychol Addict. Behav. 2014;28:154. Article Google Scholar Sobell L, Sobell M. Timeline follow back: a calendar method for assessing alcohol and drug use (User’s Guide). Toronto, ON: Canada Addiction Research...
Canada legalized recreational cannabis in 2018, and one of the primary objectives of the Cannabis Act was to protect youth by reducing their access to cannabis and providing public education. Canada has the highest prevalence of cannabis use worldwide, p