New Insights into the Brain’s Role in Drug Addiction
New animal research is enabling a deeper understanding of the neurobiology of drug addiction in humans, and this knowledge may lead to more effective treatment options to weaken the powerful cravings...
View ArticleMoral Reconation Therapy Helps Inmates with Drug Addiction
When Jeff Smith was 17, he was already an alcoholic and tried heroin for the first time. “It used to take me three hours to get high when I drank. I could do the heroin and be there in three minutes,”...
View ArticleTreating Alcoholism: Can Abstinence Be Replaced with a Pill?
Time magazine poses an important question this week regarding alcoholism treatment: Can a pill replace abstinence? Maia Szalavitz writes that alcoholics who take an anticraving medication called...
View ArticleDrug Czar Looks to Baltimore’s Drug Court for Inspiration
Gil Kerlikowske, America’s drug czar, is looking to Baltimore’s 15-year-old drug treatment court to help set the nation’s strategy of emphasizing treatment over incarceration. The Baltimore Sun reports...
View ArticleMother Hiding Heroin in Her Body Is Spared Jail
A 23-year-old Wales mother who was caught with heroin hidden inside her body avoided jail yesterday when the judge gave her a chance to change her ways. Samantha Davies faced up to four years in jail....
View ArticleMethamphetamine and Pregnancy
In Hawaii, at least 50 percent of methamphetamine abusers and addicts are women. It’s believed that the drug’s side effects, which include reduced hunger and weight loss, helps explain why so many...
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