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Addiction
Campuses hits enabling behaviors head-on
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The
Addiction Campuses treatment organization has released a hard-hitting
infographic that takes a direct attack on what it calls the number one cause
of death in addiction: enabling.
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Counselor
education embracing broader base of learning
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 The
addiction treatment community increasingly acknowledges the many diverse
paths to illness and recovery, but is the academic world keeping up in the
way it educates and trains the clinicians of the future? Please
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New York college
students perceive minimal harms from marijuana
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A survey of New York
college students indicates that these young adults generally
see marijuana as less harmful than alcohol, and that they overwhelmingly
support its legalization. Please click here to continue
reading.
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Happy
Hour Whenever You Want It
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Like
many New Yorkers, Jay Reno likes to meet up with friends after work for a few
drinks. But Reno - like the 92 percent of U.S. full-time workers who put in
40-plus hours a week - found that his late work hours meant he was missing
out on happy hour deals. So he helped create an app, Happy Any Hour, a sort
of happy-hour-on-demand option for drinking in NYC. Click
here for more.
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Addicts Quit with Paid
Work and Near-Daily Drug Tests
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Drug addicts often have
trouble holding down a job. Yet many experts believe that having a steady
income is key to helping addicts quit. To that end, psychiatrist Kenneth
Silverman of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and his
colleagues created "therapeutic workplaces." The technique features
frequent drug tests, unlimited second chances and cash bonuses to addicts who
keep clean. Research in recent years has suggested that Silverman has indeed
homed in on a winning strategy. Click
here to read more.
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Where Are the
Mental-Health Providers?
As more patients seek help,
advocates scramble to expand providers' ranks
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Millions
of Americans with mental illness are hearing a loud and clear message: Get
help. There's still one question: Who is going to treat them? Please
click here to continue reading.
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How pot gives
people the munchies
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Greasy
burgers, oily pizza, raw cookie dough -- anything's fair game for someone
with the munchies, the insatiable hunger that strikes marijuana users. Now
scientists have identified a surprising new brain circuit behind those
pot-fueled snack attacks.The munchies are triggered in part by brain cells
that normally turn down appetite, according to a new study in this week's
Nature. Under the influence of pot, these circuits switch from signaling
"Don't eat" to "Eat!" even if the body doesn't need any
food. Continue
reading here.
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The Sham Of Drug
Testing For Benefits: Walker, Scott And Political Pandering
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Faux
tough guys Scott Walker and Rick Scott bluster with bravado about being tough
on crime and on drugs. Who benefits from drug testing, besides them and their
cronies? Walker, who can't decide his position on evolution, comes down
strongly against the science on the issue of drug testing, having just
proposed it as a condition for receiving public benefits, such as food
stamps, and even unemployment benefits.T continue
reading please click here.
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Same-Day Delivery
Resurges, Adding Alcohol
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There are many bodies in
the delivery graveyard. Webvan, Kozmo and Urbanfetch were all seen as the
next big thing before crashing spectacularly. But same-day delivery is
making a comeback, with large Internet players like Amazon and eBay entering
the mix. And in that resurgence are small start-ups focused on a niche
product: alcohol. Click
here to continue reading.
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The Terrifying
Faces of Alcohol Inhalation
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In
a 2006 video demonstrating AWOL (Alcohol Without Liquid), a machine that
mixes ethanol with oxygen and delivers the resulting mist through a tube, a
British guy sucking on "The Ultimate Party Tool" exclaims, "In
10 years' time, I can see everybody doing this." Although AWOL still has
another year to catch on, by now it is fair to say that prediction was overly
optimistic. Click
here to continue reading.
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Methamphetamine
May be More Harmful to Teen Brains
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Long-term use of
methamphetamine causes more brain damage in teens than adults, a new study
finds. Researchers conducted MRI brain scans of 51 teen and 54 adult chronic
methamphetamine abusers. They compared those scans to those of 60 teens and
60 adults who didn't use the drug. The study participants were all from South
Korea. Click here to continue
reading.
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Should We Say
Goodbye to Addiction Treatment Graduations - or Rebrand?
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If
they really told you what it was going to be like when you went in, you'd
never go to rehab because ninety percent of what you drank over is still
there with you when you get home - the issues that caused you to drink are
still there. You go home, and your family is waiting for you to be fixed, and
you have twenty more questions than you had." This is what one
articulate woman told me of her first experience at a high-end residential
rehab. Click
here to continue reading.
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