Treatment for opioid addiction often involves both psychotherapy and medication. Learn about your options to determine which approach is right for your recovery.
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For the first time, a medication regime has been found effective for some patients with meth addiction in a large, placebo-controlled trial. ; It's welcome news for those working with the growing number of people struggling with meth addiction. ; "It's progress and it's quite significant," says Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Addiction, which funded the two-year clinical trial involving roughly 400 patients.
Medication Treatment for Addiction Is Shorter for Black and Hispanic Patients, Study Finds The analysis of 15 years of prescription data showed that the racial disparities are widening....
There are several types of treatment for porn addiction. The most common are psychotherapy, medication assisted treatments, and support groups.
Can addiction be treated successfully? ; While relapse is a normal part of recovery, for some drugs, it can be very dangerous—even deadly. If a person uses as much of the drug as they did before quitting, they can easily overdose because their bodies are no longer adapted to their previous level of drug exposure. An overdose happens when the person uses enough of a drug to produce uncomfortable feelings, life-threatening symptoms, or death. Research shows that when treating addictions to opioi...
3-Minute Listen ; When President Trump declared the opioid epidemic a public health emergency, it came with a regulatory change intended to make it easier for people to get care. The declaration allows for doctors to prescribe addiction medicine virtually, without ever seeing the patient in person. In Indiana, this kind of virtual visit has been legal since early 2017. So I called about a dozen addiction specialists in Indiana to find out how it was going. But no one had heard of doctors using t...
The need for additional treatments for opioid addiction is urgent. In 2020, during the pandemic, drug overdose deaths spiked to record levels of more than 93,000, according to data from the...
Dependence is deeply connected with subconscious causes and motivations, making hypnosis for addiction an effective solution for people experiencing the effects of substance misuse and...
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