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Posted on May 14, 2013 at 9:54 pm by

TARGET POPULATIONS
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TSF TARGET POPULATIONS Clients Best Suited for This Counseling Approach TSF has been utilized in controlled outcome studies with alcohol abusers and alcoholics and with persons who have concurrent alcohol-cocaine abuse and dependency. It has been used with clients of diverse socioeconomic, educational, and cultural backgrounds and a range of maladjustment. Clients Poorly Suited for …∞

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Posted on May 13, 2013 at 9:48 pm by Lakeside

Alcoholics & Addicts Can’t ‘Just Say No’
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Brain research shows why long-term drug users just can’t say no Groundbreaking research from the University of Melbourne has shed new light on why long term drug users find it hard to say no, despite dire consequences to their health. A study into the frontal cortex, the key region of the brain involved in decision …∞

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Posted on May 10, 2013 at 9:29 pm by

Sleep problems affect alcoholism recovery
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Sleep problems – real and perceived – get in the way of alcoholism recovery Doctors and patients should discuss and address sleep issues as part of recovery The first few months of recovery from an alcohol problem are hard enough. But they’re often made worse by serious sleep problems, caused by the loss of alcohol’s …∞

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Posted on May 9, 2013 at 9:24 pm by Lakeside

Popular Articles
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12-Step Recovery Theory And Application AA And Al-Anon AA And The Disease Concept Of Alcoholism Adolescent Children Of Alcoholics Al-Anon Offers New Life Alcohol Consumption In Patients Pancreatitis Alcohol Metabolization Alcohol Related Brain Injury Alcoholic Brain Damage And Thiamine Alcoholic Jealousy Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Can Benefit From Al-Anon Alcoholism And Personality Disorders Alcoholism Is Also …∞

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Posted on April 29, 2013 at 7:27 pm by Lakeside

Dual Diagnosis Alcoholics Treatment
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Treatment response of bipolar and unipolar alcoholics to an inpatient dual diagnosis program BACKGROUND: Depressed and bipolar alcoholics represent a significant affective subgroup that has a poorer prognosis than either diagnosis alone. To date few systematic treatment programs have been developed to treat dual diagnosis. METHODS: An inpatient treatment program was developed at St Patrick’s …∞

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Posted on April 26, 2013 at 6:56 pm by Lakeside

More 12-Step meetings predict abstinence
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More 12-Step meetings
predict abstinence A
NATURALISTIC
COMPARISON OF
OUTCOMES AT SOCIAL
AND CLINICAL MODEL
SUBSTANCE ABUSE
TREATMENT PROGRAMS.
Abstract: Since the 1970s,
much of the public
treatment system in
California has been based
on a social model
orientation to recovery for
alcoholics, but there has
been minimal research on
program outcomes. This
article reports on follow-up
interviews conducted with
a representative sample of
722 people who had
entered treatment about a
year earlier in public and
private programs, including
publicly-funded social
model detoxification and
residential programs, and
clinical model programs in
hospitals and HMO clinics.
Social model clients came to
treatment with more
severe legal and
employment problems,
whereas those seeking
treatment

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Posted on April 25, 2013 at 6:47 pm by Lakeside

Mental Illness or Behavioral Disorder?
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  Alcohol and Drug Dependence Is Not a Mental Illness or Behavioral Disorder This policy position paper from the Alcohol and Drug Problems Association of North America discusses alcohol and drug dependence as a primary disease entity distinct from mental disorders. The organizations position is that it should not be trivialized as a behavioral problem …∞

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Posted on April 23, 2013 at 6:29 pm by Lakeside

Prescription Drug Overdose Becomes Big Killer
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  Washington residents are dying from unintended drug poisoning in numbers beginning to approach deaths in car crashes, and overdose deaths blamed on legal drugs now exceed fatal overdoses caused by illicit drugs, the Spokane Spokesman-Review reported Feb. 4th 2008. Prescription-drug overdoses have increased 800 percent in Washington between 1995, when 45 overdose deaths were …∞

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Posted on April 18, 2013 at 5:37 pm by Lakeside

How can I stop smoking?
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How can I stop smoking?
The Cochrane Library has
evidence that can help
Acupuncture? Nicotine
patches? Telephone
therapy? Antidepressants?
Cognitive behavioural
therapy? Which work?
Which have no effect?
Which are dangerous?
Confused? Over 40
Cochrane reviews analyse
the evidence. For example,
one systematic review
(CD000146) shows how
nicotine patches can
double the odds of
successful quitting.
Another (CD000031)
concludes that the
antidepressants bupropion
and nortriptyline aid long-
term smoking cessation,
but selective serotonin
reuptake inhibitors (e.g.
fluoxetine) do not. Yet
another (CD006103)
revealed that varenicline
(recently approved in the
UK by NICE), increased the
odds of successful long-
term smoking cessation
more than threefold
compared

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Posted on April 9, 2013 at 3:52 pm by Lakeside

Antidepressant Induced Mania
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Antidepressant Induced Mania (ADM) Among People with Co-Occurring substance use Disorders

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