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2. Addiction medicine - Wikipedia

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   Addiction medicine is a medical subspecialty that deals with the diagnosis, prevention, evaluation, treatment, and recovery of persons with addiction, of those with substance-related and addictive disorders, and of people who show unhealthy use of substances including alcohol, nicotine, prescription medicine and other illicit and licit drugs. [3]

3. Addiction psychiatry - Wikipedia

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   Addiction psychiatry is a medical subspecialty within psychiatry that focuses on the evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of people who have one or more disorders related to addiction. This may include disorders involving legal and illegal drugs, gambling, sex, food, and other impulse control disorders. Addiction psychiatrists are substance use ...

4. Peer support specialist - Wikipedia

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   Peer support specialist. A peer support specialist is a person with "lived experience" who has been trained to support those who struggle with mental health, psychological trauma, or substance use. Their personal experience of these challenges provide peer support specialists with expertise that professional training cannot replicate.

5. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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   New York City had 420 heroin overdose deaths in 2013 — the most in a decade. A year ago, Vermont’s governor devoted his entire State of the State speech to heroin’s resurgence. The public began paying attention the following month, when Philip Seymour Hoffman died from an overdose of heroin and other drugs.

6. ‘I'm An Alcohol Addiction Specialist—This Is the One Type of ...

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   AUD can be mild, moderate or severe. Your risk for the condition is increased by a family history of AUD, trauma or mental health conditions and starting drinking before age 15. Drinking too much ...

7. List of addiction and substance abuse organizations - Wikipedia

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   Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) is Canada's largest addictions teaching hospital and a world-leading research center. CAMH is fully affiliated with the University of Toronto, in the province of Ontario, Canada, and is a Pan American Health Organization and World Health Organization ...