A Pill for Everything – Including your Addiction – Chemically-assisted detox, replacement therapy, recovery-pharmocotherapy are current buzzwords in addiction treatment. Five years ago these would have been viewed as oxymoronic. Today, our understanding of the brain has advanced the development of more drugs to treat addiction then almost any other health problem. We as a society believe there is a pill for whatever ails you – including being addicted to pills. Dr Inaba explores this trend, its impacts and the conflicts with more traditional approaches (12-step, peer counseling) in recovery treatment.
Road to Recovery transports cancer patients to their treatments
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“Through the (American Cancer Society's) Road to Recovery Program, patients who have no other transportation available to them are able to successfully complete treatments without interruption due to missing appointments, thus increasing their chances … Read more on Gainesville Times
Venezuela's Chavez “Entering New Phase” of Recovery
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… with the latest official communication describing the Venezuelan president's recovery as “favourable”. Yesterday, Vice President Maduro announced that Chavez was “leaving the post-operatory [phase] and is going to enter into a new phase of … Read more on Venezuelanalysis.com
New treatment offered for DUI offenders
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A little more than a year ago, the department received a $ 30,440 grant from the Wisconsin Bureau of Prevention, Treatment and Recovery that allows selected offenders to be treated medically for alcoholism, receive counseling, and sometimes be given … Read more on Ashland DAily Press
Some With Autism Diagnosis Can Overcome Symptoms, Study Finds
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The debate over whether recovery is possible has simmered for decades and peaked in 1987, when the pioneering autism researcher O. Ivar Lovaas reported that 47 percent of children with the diagnosis showed full recovery after undergoing a therapy he … Read more on New York Times