When we talk about mental health and addiction, “recovery” is often a part of that conversation. Recovery is the ultimate goal for a person who is battling a substance use or mental health disorder. However, what does recovery mean, exactly? Recovery does not just mean sobriety or abstinenc...
“That is a complete fallacy,” says Dr. Zanotti. “The hymen is a vaginal remnant that’s there from development. It’s something that’s broken through when a woman [first] has intercourse or maybe uses a tampon. That tissue does not regrow. It cannot close up.” ...
There is one policy that does work – drug courts. There are two such courts in Auckland (known as the AODTC or Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Court). Between 2012 and 2018, the AODTC was evaluated more extensively than any other justice related intervention in New Zealand history. The ...
studies. Despite one of the foci of the meta-analysis being on the association between participant characteristics and intervention efficacy, the authors did not include sexual orientation or participation in same-gender sexual behavior as one of the participant characteristics reported. They did, ho...
1) How does the brain change with aging? 2) How might drug abuse affect the aging processes of the brain 3) What is the impact of drug abuse on co-morbid conditions in the elderly and vice versa? 4) What unique issues arise with the misuse of prescription drugs in the elderly? Aging...
In using this approach, Fos imaging primarily gives an on/off signal and does not provide information about the magnitude of expression within a cell. Thus, if experimental manipulations result in the same number of neurons being activated, but Fos levels within the cell change, the effect will...
I mean, what would you do with that?’ There’s nothing you can do with that, other than be amused. Which I am. It makes me giggle.” He goes on. “It’s fun, but I’m old enough to realize it’s not to be taken seriously. But it does make me twinkle.” ...
The difference explains why “y” is only “sometimes” a vowel. Depending on which word “y” is being used in, it can represent different sounds. In words like “myth” or “hymn,” the letter takes on a sound like a short “i” and the mouth and throat don’t close when the ...
Moreover, we must bear in mind that the normalization of basal mood does not ensure control over heroin relapse, once the revolving door phase has been entered. Mood stabilization may be decisive in avoiding relapses in the honeymoon phase, or in subjects who can stay persistently abstinent ...
Sleep deprivation and daytime sleepiness may contribute to the abstinent smokers being less able to cope with everyday obligations making them more vulnerable to relapse. The effect of smoking cessation in OSA is less clear. The effect of NRTs on OSA was evaluated only in small studies that ...