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Posted on May 17, 2013 at 12:27 am by Sparrow

Painkiller abuse
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Painkiller abuse Painkiller
abuse continues to grow;
new treatments offer hope
Increasingly, drug abusers
are getting their next fix
from their medicine
cabinets, instead of from
drug dealers. More than 6
million Americans abuse
prescription drugs,
according to the U.S. Drug
Enforcement
Administration. One in 10
teenagers admits to
abusing painkillers, such as
Vicodin and Oxycontin.
Painkillers cause more
overdoses than cocaine
and heroin combined.
“Access to prescription
painkillers has never been
easier,” says addictions
psychiatrist Donna Yi, MD,
associate chief of staff and
clinical director for The
Menninger Clinic and
assistant professor in the
Menninger Department of
Psychiatry & Behavioral
Sciences at Baylor College
of Medicine

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Posted on May 11, 2013 at 11:43 pm by Sparrow

Predictors of help-seeking in drinkers
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Predictors of help-seeking
and the temporal
relationship of help to
recovery among treated
and untreated recovered
problem drinkers. This
study investigated
variables predicting
different help-seeking
patterns (no treatment, AA
participation only, or
treatment plus AA
participation) by problem
drinkers who had
maintained stable
abstinence (n = 57).
Collaterals verified
subjects’; help-
seeking and drinking
status. Help-seeking was
predicted by greater
alcohol-related psycho-
social problems, especially
in interpersonal
relationships, but was not
associated with heavier
drinking practices or
demographic
characteristics.
Subjects’; belief that
they could solve their own
problem deterred help-
seeking, whereas
relationship problems and
being unable to quit on
one’;s own
facilitated help-seeking.
Additional incentives
specific to AA were its

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Posted on May 8, 2013 at 10:57 pm by Sparrow

Attendance at Meetings and Abstinence

Do 12 step meeting attendance trajectories over 9 years predict abstinence? This study grouped treatment-seeking individuals (n = 1825) by common patterns of 12-step attendance using 5 waves of data (75% interviewed Year 9) to isolate unique characteristics and use-related outcomes distinguishing each class profile. The “high” class reported the highest attendance and abstention. The …∞

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Posted on May 3, 2013 at 10:39 pm by Sparrow

Female Victims of Child Abuse
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Coping Strategies of Female Victims of Child Abuse in Treatment for Substance Abuse Relapse: Their Advice to Other Women and Healthcare Professionals, Abstract This study was a part of a larger qualitative descriptive study designed to explore chronic sorrow as a relapse trigger among female victims of child abuse who were currently enrolled in substance …∞

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Posted on April 25, 2013 at 9:03 pm by Sparrow

The Experiences of Alcohol Dependence
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Experiences of alcohol dependence: a qualitative study INTRODUCTION AND AIMS OF THE STUDY: Despite the increasing incidence of alcohol misuse and the costs it incurs, British society continues to hold equivocal and ambiguous attitudes towards drinking, and understanding of the nature of alcohol dependence and related issues is limited. This qualitative study aimed to investigate …∞

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Posted on April 22, 2013 at 8:27 pm by Sparrow

Alcohol Brief Intervention in Primary Practice
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Are Brief Alcohol Interventions Likely to be Effective in Routine Primary Care Practice? A number of meta-analyses have demonstrated the modest efficacy of brief interventions (BI) for nondependent unhealthy alcohol use in primary care settings. Whether this level of efficacy can be expected when BIs are delivered outside of research studies in not known. This …∞

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Posted on April 20, 2013 at 8:13 pm by Sparrow

AA and Spirituality
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Spirituality plays an important role in the rehabilitation of many substance-dependent people

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Posted on April 19, 2013 at 8:09 pm by Sparrow

Abstinence Seekers More Ready to Change
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What They Want: Motivation and Treatment Choice in Non-treatment-Seeking Substance Abusers Although a variety of therapies exist for the treatment of substance use disorders, little emphasis is placed on allowing individuals to choose their own treatment trajectories. Considering the preference of a person for the type of substance abuse treatment; he or she would want …∞

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Posted on April 17, 2013 at 7:45 pm by Sparrow

Five Alcoholism Subtypes
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Researchers Identify
Alcoholism Subtypes
Analyses of a national
sample of individuals with
alcohol dependence
(alcoholism) reveal five
distinct subtypes of the
disease, according to a
new study by scientists at
the National Institute on
Alcohol Abuse and
Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of
the National Institutes of
Health (NIH). “Our findings
should help dispel the
popular notion of the
‘typical alcoholic,’;” notes
first author Howard B.
Moss, M.D., NIAAA
Associate Director for
Clinical and Translational
Research. “We find that
young adults comprise the
largest group of alcoholics
in this country, and nearly
20 percent of alcoholics are
highly functional and well-
educated with good
incomes. More than half of
the alcoholics

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Posted on April 15, 2013 at 7:37 pm by Sparrow

AA Membership
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Results suggest stability in the representation of women and minorities among the AA membership

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