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Treatment & Detox Guide
Impulsivity Linked to Cocaine Addiction
Call it the chicken-and-egg debate of the addiction world: Cocaine addicts are known for being frenetic, but which came first, the behavior or the habit? New research indicates that, at least in rats, it’s the behavior that begets addiction. What’s more, the study has pinpointed the character trait–impulsiveness–that is responsible for developing true drug dependence…..
Growing problem of prescription drug abuse
Prescription painkiller abuse is a rapidly growing and widespread problem, recently coming into full view due to high profile stories and tragic celebrity deaths. Conflicting messaging and the degradation associated with addiction often mislead people from understanding it as a disease, caused by an imbalance of receptors in the brain. American Board of Addiction Medicine….
How Residential Drug Treatment Centers Help You Stay Sober
As a lifestyle of its own, drug addiction leaves many a person at the mercy of their drug of choice. What starts out as a recreationalpursuit becomes a series of inescapable urges to use no matter what the consequences may be. The decision to live drug-free takes a considerable amount of courage and insight, and….
Effects of Cognitive Therapy in Treatment Centers
Treatment centers focus much of the time that addicts spend in recovery on helping them to heal psychologically. Psychological counseling in treatment centers takes many forms but for most, it is this counseling that is most effective at helping individuals to really overcome addiction and make a full recovery. Cognitive therapy is one of the….
Alcoholism remains a taboo issue
He seems to have it all. A tenured university professor in the Kansai region, fluent in English and partially conversant in Chinese, he is consulted by senior local business leaders seeking advice on doing business in the United States and Europe and has served on local government committees promoting international exchanges. But the professor, who….