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She has an appointment with the same doctor in Colorado. She’d developed an addiction to the prescription opioid painkillers she took for migraines. She cleans houses, and she started taking the pills after being offered some by a client’s daughter. The addiction blossomed and then flourished, one illicit pill, then one prescription at a time.
This is part of a series of stories about the fentanyl crisis in Stanislaus County.. The New Hope Recovery House in Modesto used to treat heroin addicts, including people who first got hooked on ...
Under the current methadone rules, this money can only go so far. None of us would accept a status quo for cancer or heart disease in which arcane regulations bar patients from the most effective ...
Johnson has received honors for his research, including a 2001 award from Hazelden, a Minnesota-based drug and alcohol treatment provider that helped to popularize the 12-step method, for having furthered “the scientific knowledge of addiction recovery.” In a recent interview, he called conventional 12-step treatments by themselves ...
Just over 28 million adults in the U.S. have alcohol addiction, according to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Only three medicines, however, are approved to treat it.
Substance dependence, also known as drug dependence, is a biopsychological situation whereby an individual's functionality is dependent on the necessitated re-consumption of a psychoactive substance because of an adaptive state that has developed within the individual from psychoactive substance consumption that results in the experience of withdrawal and that necessitates the re-consumption ...
The Yale Food Addiction Scale (YFAS), version 2.0, is the current standard measure for assessing whether an individual exhibits signs and symptoms of food addiction. [ 39 ] [ 9 ] [ 34 ] It was developed in 2009 at Yale University on the hypothesis that foods high in fat, sugar, and salt have addictive-like effects which contribute to ...
In the DSM-5, the term drug addiction is synonymous with severe substance use disorder. [ 34 ] [ 39 ] The quantity of criteria met offer a rough gauge on the severity of illness, but licensed professionals will also take into account a more holistic view when assessing severity which includes specific consequences and behavioral patterns ...