Nearly all of the veterans who participated met the criteria for chronic homelessness and 78percentt of them had a diagnosis of a mental health or addiction condition.
A center for treating addictions, psychological conditions and compulsive behaviors.
Rather, it underscores the complexity and depth of the demon called addiction, a condition for which approximately 10percentt of us are vulnerable.
In other words, if punishment worked to fight addiction, the condition itself couldn't exist.
A Christian man suffering from what he described as Internet "sex addiction"—a condition he felt was ruining his marriage was recently prescribed oral naltrexone to control his urges (Bostwick and Bucci 2008).
Analogous to other chronic medical conditions, addiction, and mental health problems require ongoing, long-term treatment and case management services.
Individual differences in resting brain functional connectivity may predict therapeutic outcomes in nicotine addiction and other conditions associated with cognitive impairments.
A deeper understanding of the basic neurobiology of mood states will facilitate the development of well-tolerated medications that treat and prevent addiction and other conditions (e.g., mood disorders) associated with dysregulation of brain motivation systems.
The plaintiff, Stephanie Watson, is a nurse with an opiate addiction whose bond conditions forbid her from taking any medications that would be prescribed by her doctor to treat her addiction, such as Suboxone, Methadone or Vivitrol.
Research being conducted on ayahuasca -- a potent hallucinogen, derived from the compound DMT, which has been used as a healing tool in Amazonian shamanism for hundreds of years -- is being studied as a potential treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder, addiction and other conditions.
