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Connections Between Stress and Substance Cravings Continue to Emerge

Connections Between Stress and Substance Cravings Continue to Emerge

Posted on November 4, 2010 in Recovery

Recovery from drug or alcohol addiction is a step by step process, often marked by success and then a relapse. Experts are studying the role of stress on cravings, and how cravings can trigger a relapse, in hopes of finding ways patients can manage the underlying factors that set them up for a fall as they are working toward recovery. Findings are pointing toward stress as the primary factor in relapse, and may even link biological processes related to stress to substance cravings.

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Teen Heroin Addiction Growing Rapidly in Seattle

Teen Heroin Addiction Growing Rapidly in Seattle

Posted on November 4, 2010 in Research & News

Parents with teens in high school are generally focused on making sure their child is performing properly in class and meeting expectations in order to graduate and move forward with future plans. For parents of students of Stanwood High School outside of Seattle, the bigger battle is against an addiction to heroin.

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-10-31

Posted on October 31, 2010 in Addiction in the Media

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Most Teenagers Deny Their Drug Use, Even When Undergoing Drug Testing

Posted on October 27, 2010 in Research & News

Most national reports on teenage drug use are based on data gathered from either self-reports or confidential reports conducted on high school students. Even though the latest studies on at-risk youth from urban areas have indicated a rise in substance abuse, teenagers still may not be admitting to the whole truth. A new study by researchers at the Wayne State University (WSU) in Detroit and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has found that teens grossly underreport their actual drug use in confidential self-reports, even when they are aware that they will undergo a subsequent drug test.

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-10-24

Posted on October 24, 2010 in Addiction in the Media
  • Heads up parents: synthetic marijuana, aka K2, Spice, Genie or legal weed is still available in Green Bay & other cities http://ow.ly/2WW18 #

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Prescription Drug Addiction Crosses all Classes, Demographics

Prescription Drug Addiction Crosses all Classes, Demographics

Posted on October 20, 2010 in Prescription Drug Addiction

Drug addiction has gotten a makeover during the past decade. It now looks like the teen who raids the medicine cabinet at home before school. It looks like the mother of two who is popping pain medications before community functions. In some cases, it even looks like the medical professional who checks into rehab after months of abusing prescription drugs.

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How to Get the Most Out of Psychotherapy in Treatment

Posted on October 18, 2010 in Drug Addiction Treatment

Going for treatment to overcome problems with substance abuse or other dependencies involves a number of different phases, one of which usually includes psychotherapy. For many individuals beginning the active treatment stage, this is a big unknown and a process that may fill the person with trepidation. It shouldn’t. In fact, this is the time when you’ll be coming to grips with a great many aspects of your life, past and present, that may have strongly influenced your current substance abuse behavior. Don’t let fear of psychotherapy get in the way of healing. Here’s how to get the most out of psychotherapy in treatment.
 

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Killer Meth: America’s Greatest Drug Threat

Killer Meth: America’s Greatest Drug Threat

Posted on October 18, 2010 in Featured

Five years is a long time in the evolution of drug use. In August 2005, Newsweek magazine published a story claiming that meth was “America’s Most Dangerous Drug.” A lot has changed in the drug landscape in America since then, and it’s gotten to the point where many experts believe that killer meth is America’s greatest drug threat.

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New Study Helps Explain Why Cocaine Is So Addictive

Posted on October 17, 2010 in Cocaine

Researchers from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine have become the first to find a link between specific neurons and alterations in the “reward” people feel after taking cocaine. Mary Kay Lobo, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Neuroscience at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and first author of the study, said that they found that the two main neurons in the nucleus accumbens (an important part of the brain’s reward center) have opposite effects on cocaine reward.

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-10-17

Posted on October 17, 2010 in Research & News

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