Background The Affordable Care Act (2010) brings an opportunity to increase the integration of addiction treatment into the health-care system. With the anticipated expansion of addiction care services in primary care, challenges, such as workforce training, can be expected. This presentation discusses challenges and opportunities for addiction medicine training of primary care professionals in...

This study provides new evidence regarding the relation of coerced care to posttreatment substance use and addiction severity while controlling for two important factors: readiness to change and addiction severity at admission to treatment. The initial study sample consisted of 289 people who agreed to participate in a prospective study of substance abuse treatment outcomes in five large outpat...

Despite substantial advances in our understanding of addiction and the technology and therapeutic approaches used to fight this disease, addiction still remains a major issue in the anesthesia workplace, and outcomes have not appreciably changed. Although alcoholism and other forms of impairment, such as addiction to other substances and mental illness, impact anesthesiologists at rates similar...

Author Affiliations: The Treatment Research Insti­tute, Philadelphia, Pa (DrMcLellan); The Penn/VA cen­ter for Studies of Addiction at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center and the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (Drs McLellan and O'Brien); The Brown University Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Providence, RI (Dr Lewis); and The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at...

Addiction is a hindrance in the long term treatment of complex regional pain syndrome(CRPS) because addiction in itself aggravates CRPS, causes stress in the sympathetic nervous system resulting in more severe sympathetic dysfunction, and results in perpetual presence of rebound (withdrawal) pain. Descriptors. addiction, competition, destruction, complex regional pain syndrome(CRPS), rebound ph...

INTRODUCTION The elderly are the biggest consumers of Benzodiazepines (BZD) and/or BZD equivalents. However, the risks of developing addiction in this age group are often underestimated. METHOD This study describes the nature and extent of addiction in the elderly using DSM IV items. RESULTS We noted a high prevalence of addiction in our population and identified a two-factor profile in sub...

The issue of addictions and treatment has been increasingly prioritized by policy-makers in recent years, yet the meaning concept remains ambiguous. Throughout 22 chapters his book Addiction Counseling Today, Kevin G. Alderson weaves together most salient theories, research, therapies from field addiction contemporary developments policy practice. examines what tenets recovery mean terms not on...

Substance use disorders are increasingly viewed as chronic conditions, and addiction treatment services are beginning to adopt models that were developed to address other chronic conditions. These models address the impact of disease and services on the patient's overall well-being. From this perspective, treatment for addiction aims for the broad goal of recovery, which is defined as abstinenc...

Investigations over the past two years have indicated that there is an upward trend in drug addiction and that the increase is predominantly among the younger members of society. Addiction has been compared to a contagious disease and the more our attitude toward addiction approximates our attitude toward contagious disease, the better will be our understanding and control of addiction. Physici...