The College in New Brunswick was reluctant to arbitrarily select one approach over the other, even granting the similarities. It was felt appropriate to allow physicians to adopt one of these established approaches to guide them. They could then modify their approach as they gain experience. That said, for the sake of some consistency, the College can point to the most recent guidelines from No...

AIMS Temperament and impulsivity are powerful predictors of addiction treatment outcomes. However, a comprehensive assessment of these features has not been examined in relation to smoking cessation outcomes. METHODS Naturalistic prospective study. Treatment-seeking smokers (n = 140) were recruited as they engaged in an occupational health clinic providing smoking cessation treatment between ...

background: understanding the motives and reasons for drug treatment is very important. this study aimed to develop a psychometric evaluation to determine the reasons for addiction treatment among outpatients referred to addiction treatment clinics. methods: this cross-sectional validation study included five phases (i) item generation (ii) making an initial questionnaire (iii) content validity...

BACKGROUND Vancouver, Canada has a pilot supervised injecting facility (SIF), where individuals can inject pre-obtained drugs under the supervision of medical staff. There has been concern that the program may facilitate ongoing drug use and delay entry into addiction treatment. METHODS We used Cox regression to examine factors associated with the time to the cessation of injecting, for a min...

AIMS To evaluate the efficacy and safety of methadone versus buprenorphine treatment in pregnant opioid-dependent women. DESIGN Randomized, double-dummy, double-blind, flexible-dosing comparison study. SETTING Addiction Clinic at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria. PARTICIPANTS Eighteen women were assigned randomly to receive either methadone (n = 9) or buprenorphine (n = 9) during...

BACKGROUND Many Thai people experiencing alcohol addiction do not seek help, and those who do often have inadequate access to treatment. There are few research studies focusing on alcohol addiction treatment in Thailand. OBJECTIVE The purpose of the current study was to identify barriers to the treatment of alcohol addiction and to collect experts' suggestions for improving treatment in Thail...

Psychoanalytic treatment of addiction is often ineffective because therapists fail to recognize addiction as a discrete disorder. The author reviews psychoanalytic theories of addiction and presents an alternative concept comprising biological, behavioral, and psychological characteristics. She compares the structural similarities between addiction and perversion and describes the use of the ad...

patients and methods this was a historical cohort study. a total of 1396 patients admitted between march 2011 and march 2012 in 16 mmt clinics (13 private and 3 state clinics) in rafsanjan, entered the study and their retention rate was examined for one year. the patients’ data abstracted from their medical records using checklists and collected by clinics’ staff. data analyses were performed u...

BACKGROUND Two stimulant medications, modafinil and d-amphetamine, when tested individually, have shown safety and efficacy for treatment of cocaine addiction. We hypothesized that the combination of modafinil and d-amphetamine, at low doses, would show equivalent or greater benefit in reducing cocaine use compared to higher doses of each individual medication or placebo. METHODS Sixteen week...