BACKGROUND Men are overrepresented with regard to alcohol addiction and in terms of alcohol treatment worldwide. In Thailand, alcohol consumption continues to rise, but few of those afflicted with alcohol addiction attend alcohol treatment programs, even though there is universal care for all. No comprehensive studies have been done on men's experiences with addiction and alcohol treatment prog...

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is highly prevalent among adults with addictive disorders, but little is known about addiction patterns associated with ADHD diagnosis. This study examined addiction severity in patients with co-occurring addictive disorders and ADHD controlling for the potential influence of associated psychiatric comorbidity. Data were collected in French outpat...

Links: [1] https://www.buppractice.com/node/103 [2] http://dpt.samhsa.gov/pdf/HepC_draft_monograph_5-8-2006.pdf [3] https://www.buppractice.com/taxonomy/term/28 [4] https://www.buppractice.com/taxonomy/term/116 [5] https://www.buppractice.com/taxonomy/term/50 [6] https://www.buppractice.com/taxonomy/term/52 [7] https://www.buppractice.com/taxonomy/term/61 [8] https://www.buppractice.com/taxonom...

The contemporary understanding of addiction is expanding rapidly as emerging research across multidisciplinary fields informs treatment and intervention techniques. Current prevention efforts work from the well-accepted biopsychosocial model and are aimed at identifying the underlying causes of addiction and attempting to block them from manifesting, primarily through educational methods. Howev...

People who use drugs are at higher risk of HIV: directly through the sharing of injecting equipment, indirectly through associated risk behavior, and physiologically through the substances' impact on the immune system. Drug users, especially people who inject drugs (PWID) are a bridge to the general population. The treatment of drug addiction and provision of harm reduction interventions have i...

0

BACKGROUND Moral philosophers have debated the extent to which persons are individually responsible for the onset of and recovery from addiction. Empirical investigators have begun to explore counselors' attitudes on these questions. Meanwhile, a separate literature has investigated counselors' negative attitudes towards naltrexone, an important element of medication-assisted treatment for alco...

AIMS The clinical practice and science of addiction are increasingly active fields, which are attracting professionals from diverse disciplines such as psychology and neurobiology. Our scientific knowledge of the pathophysiology of addiction is rapidly growing, along with the variety of effective treatments available to clinicians. Yet, we believe that the medical specialties of addiction medic...

1. Volkow N. D., Li T. K. Drug addiction: the neurobiology of behaviour gone awry. Nat Rev Neurosci 2004; 5: 963–70. 2. Kalant H. What neurobiology cannot tell us about addiction. Addiction 2010; 105: 780–9. 3. Hall W. D. Avoiding potential misuses of addiction brain science. Addiction 2006; 101: 1529–32. 4. Midanik L. Biomedicalization of Alcohol Studies: Methodological Shifts and Institutiona...