Combination Strategy to Treat Alcohol Dependence
New combination of treatments is effective for alcohol dependence McLean Hospital researchers, along with colleagues from 11 other study sites nationwide, report that the medication naltrexone and up...
View ArticleResearch on the Brain and Behavior on Addiction
New research on the brain and behavior clarifies the mysteries of addiction by Craig Lambert, Harvard Magazine, March 2000. Early experiences with drugs, whether in the womb or as an adult, have...
View ArticleResults of 4 Year Study of Women in Drug Treatment
A detailed study of women in treatment for drug addition in England shows a 19 percent fall in the number of adult females under 30 entering heroin programmes over the last five years – 1,000 fewer...
View ArticleDrug Treatment Funding Can More Than Pay For Itself With Reduced Crime Costs
Some interesting details and data from Texas government web site. Drug users constitute a large and growing proportion of the criminal justice population. Drug users not only commit a substantial...
View ArticlePrescription Painkillers Kill More Every Year in USA than Heroin and Cocaine...
Overdose deaths from prescription painkillers have skyrocketed in the past decade. Every year, nearly 15,000 people die from overdoses involving these drugs—more than those who die from heroin and...
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The Success Rate of AA is Only 5-10%
The treatment of drug addiction continues to be difficult. Even finding data on success rates is hard. And analyzing that data is difficult (the data is not straight forward and leaves open many...
View ArticleFunding Drug Addiction Treatment Would Cost 1/7 the Cost of the Current...
Treatment: Effective (But Unpopular) Weapon Against Drugs Paying for treatment of hard-core drug users is a bone in the throat of middle class taxpayers–and small wonder. Drug abusers are not an...
View ArticleThe War on Drugs has been a Huge Failure with Massive Unintended Consequences
This webcast takes a look at our experience with the so-called “war on drugs.” The war on drugs has been a huge failure with massive unintended consequences. Policy needs to take into account results....
View ArticleCreating Conditions That Reduce the Likelihood That Teenagers Will Abuse Drugs
Treating people with drug and alcohol addition is very difficult. Preventing many of them from becoming addicted in the first place is a good way to avoid many of the problems caused by drug and...
View ArticleFentanyl and Heroin are Killing Increasing Numbers of People
Fentanyl Surpasses Heroin As Drug Most Often Involved In Deadly Overdoses Researchers found that the rate of drug overdose deaths involving fentanyl (or one of its analogs) doubled each year from 2013...
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