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2. Drug detoxification - Wikipedia

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   Drug detoxification (informally, detox) is variously construed or interpreted as a type of "medical" intervention or technique in regards to a physical dependence mediated by a drug; as well as the process and experience of a withdrawal syndrome or any of the treatments for acute drug overdose (toxidrome).

3. Detoxification - Wikipedia

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   Alcohol detoxification is a process by which a heavy drinker's system is brought back to normal after being habituated to having alcohol in the body continuously for an extended period of substance abuse. Serious alcohol addiction results in a downregulation of GABA neurotransmitter receptors. Precipitous withdrawal from long-term alcohol ...

4. Drug rehabilitation - Wikipedia

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   The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) recommends detoxification followed by both medication (where applicable) and behavioral therapy, followed by relapse prevention. According to NIDA, effective treatment must address medical and mental health services as well as follow-up options, such as community or family-based recovery support ...

5. Alcohol detoxification - Wikipedia

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   Alcohol detoxification (also known as detox) is the abrupt cessation of alcohol intake in individuals that have alcohol use disorder. This process is often coupled with substitution of drugs that have effects similar to the effects of alcohol in order to lessen the symptoms of alcohol withdrawal .

6. History Exposes the Flaw in RFK Jr.'s Drug Treatment Plan - AOL

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   The process was known as “Medicated detox” At the time, abstinence-based therapy was the name of the game — the goal was to get all Narco patients off all opioids.

7. Treatment and management of addiction - Wikipedia

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   Treatment of substance use disorders can start with detoxification if needed, to manage physical and psychological health when severe withdrawal symptoms are expected to occur. [2] Common addiction treatment therapies are counseling , cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) , medication-assisted treatment , twelve-step programs and other types of ...

8. State takes steps to fill gaps in mental health care - AOL

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   Apr. 8—It wasn't long ago when Travis Bye was deep in a fentanyl addiction, an opioid habit developed over years after a 2012 surgery to treat a mixed martial arts injury. "I was smoking, like ...

9. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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   A 2012 study conducted by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University concluded that the U.S. treatment system is in need of a “significant overhaul” and questioned whether the country’s “low levels of care that addiction patients usually do receive constitutes a form of medical malpractice.”