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Addiction medicine
About: Addiction medicine is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1070 publications have been published within this topic receiving 23685 citations.
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01 Jan 2009
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TL;DR: In this paper, sexual addiction may be defined as sexual behaviour that is "compulsive and yet continues despite adverse consequences" and sexual addiction is defined as "sexual behavior that is 'compulsive' and yet "continues despite negative consequences". But knowledge and understanding of sexual addiction has been impaired by the use of drugs.
Abstract: Sexual addiction may be defined as sexual behaviour that is “compulsive and yet continues despite adverse consequences”. Knowledge and understanding of sexual addiction has been impaired by the use...
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TL;DR: For instance, this paper argued that addiction aligns with diagnostic categories of substance use disorders that do not rely on tolerance and withdrawal as defining characteristics, and that addiction needs to acknowledge the complex interactions of brain circuits, genetics, environmental factors, and individual life experiences.
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TL;DR: Select abstracts from the 2019 ISAM Annual Meeting in New Delhi, India are presented, with a theme of “Addiction in a Rapidly Changing World.”
Abstract: The journal Substance Abuse has a long history of collaboration with the International Society of Addiction Medicine (ISAM). The journal is thus proud of presenting selected abstracts from ...
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01 Apr 2007
TL;DR: The empirical evidence that addiction is for many a chronic condition is summarized, risk factors for such chronicity are identified, and the consequences of treating chronic addiction in the context of an acute care model are highlighted.
Abstract: In 2001, Dr. Lonnie Shavelson published Hooked, a provocative study of the lives of five individuals whose addictions propelled them through multiple episodes of addiction treatment and encounters with a host of other community institutions. Shavelson’s ethnography of addiction was in part an expose of a treatment system that failed to comprehend and respond to the chronic and complex nature of addiction and recovery. This article summarizes the empirical evidence that addiction is for many a chronic condition, identifies risk factors for such chronicity, highlights the consequences of treating chronic addiction in the context of an acute care model, and notes the emergence of sustained recovery management models as well as the clinical implications of such models.
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